Can't transfer Photos Installing and Upgrading Vista Discuss Can't transfer Photos in the Windows Vista forums; I have several programs that I use for transferring Photos. I have checked and they are all Vista compatible/certified, etc. (ACDSee, Photoshop, Bridge, BackUp & Burn, PowerDesk). Whenever I ...

[linco]

I have several programs that I use for transferring Photos. I have checked and they are all Vista compatible/certified, etc. (ACDSee, Photoshop, Bridge, BackUp & Burn, PowerDesk). Whenever I try to transfer photos from my card to my PC, I get an error message: Incorrect Function, Not accessible. I can transfer using Windows Photo Gallery so I suspect that it is a setting in my Registry which is barring other programs from doing the transfers. Anyone know what it is and how to fix it?

Lin

[felix8406]

I personally don't believe that a registry setting is the issue, but someone here may suggest a registry setting. I suspect there's a driver issue. Although Windows Photo Gallery can read from the card reader, Vista is having difficulties using the driver command to communicate with the the other photo programs.

[crabby]

Try and run the programs as administrator and post if it still occurs.

crabby

[Snuffy]

Every program I use to transfer or send photos required that I REMOVE the XP drivers, and install Vista Drivers... basically I found that I only needed one Vista driver that delt with 3rd party programs to make them all work.
I used the KODAK Vista driver... (note: during Vista Beta, manytimes simply upgrading XP drivers to Vista drivers failed... REMOVEAL of XP drivers and then Installing Vista Drivers solved all the problems...).

Hope this helps...

[linco]

Running the programs as an Administrator did not solve it.

The card reader is a Firewire one and quite old. I tried updating the drivers but it said the one it was using was the best.

So, I tried another card reader. This one is USB and it worked fine. Now, I prefer the speed of the Firewire. Most card readers do not come with drivers; they use the Windows native drivers so if I buy a newer Reader, won't it still use the same driver and therefore, I'll have the same problem?

[felix8406]

Most card readers do not come with drivers; they use the Windows native drivers so if I buy a newer Reader, won't it still use the same driver and therefore, I'll have the same problem?[/quote]
Not necesarily...usually a newer card reader or hardware, comes with better written and compatible drivers.

[Snuffy]

http://www.vistababble.com/forums/vi...light=firewire

Firewire and Vista many times do not see EYE to EYE...

There are many Firewire - Vista problems. The links I have found on Not working with NO SOLUTIONS are GROSS..