[X4U] Pop-up thumbnails on photo card insertion

[Richard Gilmore]

People just pull and yank out drives on PCs like the floppy (A) or Flash
drives (F-or whatever letter it is) but you are supposed to use the "Safely
Remove Hardware" button on XP (very very small green arrow bottom left)
which is analogous to dragging the icon on the trash and for the same reason
to guard against data loss and device damage. I think this was introduced
with XP??? It's probably about time because I don't know how many floppies
I've seen go bad (and users often in tears) all using PCs by people just
popping them out whether the computer had finished writing to them or not.
At least on a Mac you couldn't "just pop" the floppy out until the machine
was done writing to it, much safer. Now Windows has finally seen the light.

As for the second part he should use Image Capture in Applications if he
doesn't like iPhoto. It lets you see each image /before/ you download from
the card and also lets you download each image individually instead of
downloading the entire card. If he wants this instead of iPhoto he can
change the preferences to have Image Capture open automatically whenever a
card is inserted. This is similar to (I think) Photo Import Wizard on XP.

Richard



On 13/5/06 9:23 PM, "Daly Jessup" <jessup at san.rr.com> wrote:

> At 8:32 PM -0400 5/13/06, David R.Boag wrote:
>> A colleague of mine just switched over to a MacBook Pro. He's got
>> Windoze and OS X running, and loves it. However, he has one thing
>> that irks him. (OK, actually 2 things.) I was wondering if anyone
>> has a workaround or two to make his transition a little easier. When
>> he says PC card, I believe he is referring to a photo card, like a
>> compact flash or smartcard.
>> 
>> His post:
>> 
>>> I am used to inserting a pc card and having it automatically open
>>> up into a thumbnail view. This isn't possible on a Mac without
>>> going thru some extra steps. (if there is a way, some please tell
>>> me.) Then when you want to remove the card, you have to eject the
>>> card to avoid getting a error message! Heck, with my pc, I just
>>> remove the card and I am done!
> 
> Actually, I don't know what he's talking about. On the PC at work, I
> have to click an icon in the toolbar at the bottom, and go through a
> couple of other clicks to eject an external. With the Mac, hyou just
> drag it to the trash. What's he doing?
> 
> I don't know about automatically opening in Thumbnail view. I can't
> imagine why he would want that anyway. But maybe someone else knows
> how to set that as a preference?
> 
> Daly
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