Firewire/USB connection not working right?

[Swampy]

So I've got my new S2. Took a couple of test pictures and plugged the camera into my PC via Firewire. My win2k machine found the camera and gave it a drive letter and I copied the files off, no problems.

Then I unplugged the camera and installed the shooting software. It see's the camera no problem via firewire. Take some test pictures that way. Go to transfer them to my hard drive and the camera drive letter doesn't exist anymore. How come I can't see the drive letter anymore or, is there some way of transfering the pictures through the Fuji software that I couldn't figure out?

If I plug the USB cable in, a drive letter pops up and I can transfer that way, but, well, you know. It's slow. :) Any ideas?

Wierd also that that I plugged the camera into my WinXP laptop and it couldn't recognize the camera at all until I installed the shooting software. Again, can only transfer files via USB on there as well.

[Swampy]

OK, skip the above question/problem. I found the problem. Dumb user doesn't know how to read the book/forgot about flipping past a setting in the camera....

Had the camera set for PC Shooting instead of PC Downloading.

Let me go shoot myself in the back of the head now.

Well, I would if I could hold the camera back there. :)

[RChan]

I used to meet Firewire connection problem by connecting my S2Pro with Fujitsu Lifebook C6631 , intermittent problem in 50%
of my connection but no problem in using USB port . By transferring huge size of pictures (over 4Mb each) , Firewire is much more faster than USB , That's why I prefer to connect my camera with my Desktop computer by Firewire without any problem at all .

RChan

Originally posted by swampy101
So I've got my new S2. Took a couple of test pictures and plugged the camera into my PC via Firewire. My win2k machine found the camera and gave it a drive letter and I copied the files off, no problems.

Then I unplugged the camera and installed the shooting software. It see's the camera no problem via firewire. Take some test pictures that way. Go to transfer them to my hard drive and the camera drive letter doesn't exist anymore. How come I can't see the drive letter anymore or, is there some way of transfering the pictures through the Fuji software that I couldn't figure out?

If I plug the USB cable in, a drive letter pops up and I can transfer that way, but, well, you know. It's slow. :) Any ideas?

Wierd also that that I plugged the camera into my WinXP laptop and it couldn't recognize the camera at all until I installed the shooting software. Again, can only transfer files via USB on there as well.

[ali]

It is not any user's fault if they do not know or forget to set the 1394 mode. It is basically Fuji's fault because they made their camera's firmware so stupid.