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There is a known problem with no obvious solution that i can find, when Windows does some of its automatic updates.

Going to transfer photos from the card in my camera, it does download them, but then refuses to transfer them to my preferred and familiar editing program, Nikon view NX2.

A message pops up "Transfer denied because you do not have access priveleges"

It used to be possible to dump the microsoft updates and reset the computer to an early time.
That does not work now.
Rebooting, or dumping the Nikon software and re-installing does not work.

If you are not familiar with the problem, don't bother guessing - there are multiple pages on Google, and several in the Nikon-supposedly-help center. Some may have useful information that i don't understand. Most of it is just morons speculating : "If you don't have access privledges, then get them" "Log in as Admin" (great - how?) "Use a different editing prgram" etc.

real step by step help by someone who has solved the problem would be appreciated.
This is in woodworking because that is what the camera is used to take pictures of.

smt
 
Odd

Have you opened the card as a folder, transferred the files to, say a new file folder in photos, removed the card, then opened the software and looked in that folder?
 
I used to use that Nikon software with Windows XP. That was the only reason for keeping XP.

Solution: Linux applications---> shotwell, gphoto, gthumb.

Sincerely,

Fellow Moron.
 
I used to use that Nikon software with Windows XP. That was the only reason for keeping XP.

Solution: Linux applications---> shotwell, gphoto, gthumb.

Sincerely,

Fellow Moron.

If you are going to suggest solutions he COULD use but almost certainly would rather NOT have to make a heavy spend on and then ALSO be forced to change over the REST of his environment, just to implement?

May as well get that s**t over and done with:

OpenBSD, Unix in general:

- insert CF card.

- as "root": mount -t msdos /dev/sd1 /mnt

- mv /mnt/DCIM/100NIKON/*.JPG photos

- umount /mnt ...and put the card back into the Nikon.

- chown <logged in username>:<group> photos/*.JPG

Open "photos" folder in XFE, select file, defaults to XFV, resize, rotate if need be, save a screenshot to skin down to a .png file PM can actually digest as max size upload.

PITA, but takes less time to do than think about.

======

Macbook Pro, OSX:

- insert CF card.

- click open the files wanted into "Preview" from auto-mounted CF_RAM, under DCIM/100NIKON

- resize, rotate, and again skin them down to PM max by use of a "screenshot"

- "eject" CF_RAM, put the card back into the Nikon.

Recent WinWOES? Havn't a klew. Last one I even supported was Winserver 2003, and we simply virtualized it, FreeBSD heavy-lifter server mothership, Macau gaming & entertainment industry client, streaming live singing and dancing, video magazine portal.

When it WORKS? All about the App and stable OS and config under it. Or not.

Windows "normally" requires no more effort from a WinLuser than Mac does from a Codling Moth larvae.

BF diff is Mac only mildly annoys now and then.

WinWOES has periodic episodes of temporary suicidal insanity.

No other word for it, and it may not always remain temporary.

Hire it fixed. Yet again. Not your fault. Nothing personal. Third-party job-security is simply their core business model and first line of prison guards against escape.
 
If you are going to suggest solution he COULD use but almost certainly would rather NOT have to make a heavy spend on and the ALSO be forced to change of the REST of his environment, just to implement?

May as well get that s**t over and done with:

OpenBSD:

- insert CF card.

- as "root": mount -t msdos /dev/sd1 /mnt

- mv /mnt/DCIM/100NIKON/*JPG photos

- chown <logged in username>:<group> photos/*.JPG

Open in XFE, defaults to XFV, resize, rotate if need be, save a screenshot to skin down to a .png PM can actually digest as max size upload.

PITA, but takes less time to do than think about.

======

Macbook Pro, OSX:

- insert CF card.

- Ignore ELSE "QUIT" the auto annoyingly opened "Photos" app you keep forgetting to rip TF off the box as redundant goods. NOP to Rons.

- click open the files wanted into "Preview" from auto-mounted CF_RAM, under DKIM/100NIKON

- resize, rotate, and again skin them down to PM max by use of a "screenshot"

When it WORKS?

Windows requires no more effort from a WinLuser than Mac does from a fruit-moth larvae.

BF diff is Mac only mildly annoys now and then.

WinWOES has periodic episodes of temporary (or so they hope!) suicidal insanity. No other word for it.

:)

A dual boot computer with Linux and Biinndoows is not going to cost snything. Besides NX@ is not supported.

In closing:

Fuck you and your commentaries.
 
Bill -

Looks promising, now you have to speak slower, hold my hand, and use kindergarten level words. :)

"Open BSD" "BSD" = ?

Insert CF card - that one i can handle.

This results in a menu, my preferred option being:

"Import file using Nikon 2"

Clicking that brings up a (Program?) by Nikon, offering to transfer the pictures to Primary Destination: C:\Users\SThomas\Pictures\Nikon Transfer 2

While simultaneously downloading the pictures from the card onto that app.
Here i can sort and remove the ones i don't want to keep, then click on a button that says "transfer" and it all goes to my familiar editing app (Nikon) in a familiar folder and format, that keeps them in a place I can usually find and manipulate them, say for posting on PM.

What it does now when pressed, is give the "you don't have permission" message with no options.

So, where do I look for or enter the rest of the code you provided?

Thanks!
smt
 
Rons - I sense that you provided a simple solution for going forward - maybe? However Bill described my current sentiments - I like the system I have been using, it works well for my needs, why does microsoft or anyone else need to take it away? Figure out how to permanently get past the access denied to a program I paid for on my own computer, and life will continue to be simple for me until I perceive a need to change for other reasons.

smt
 
Bill -

Looks promising, now you have to speak slower, hold my hand, and use kindergarten level words. :)

"Open BSD" "BSD" = ?

Insert CF card - that one i can handle.

This results in a menu, my preferred option being:

"Import file using Nikon 2"

Clicking that brings up a (Program?) by Nikon, offering to transfer the pictures to Primary Destination: C:\Users\SThomas\Pictures\Nikon Transfer 2

While simultaneously downloading the pictures from the card onto that app.
Here i can sort and remove the ones i don't want to keep, then click on a button that says "transfer" and it all goes to my familiar editing app (Nikon) in a familiar folder and format, that keeps them in a place I can usually find and manipulate them, say for posting on PM.

What it does now when pressed, is give the "you don't have permission" message with no options.

So, where do I look for or enter the rest of the code you provided?

Thanks!
smt

You won't have that code unless on a Unix. It pipes keyboard through a "Command Line Interface" ... let's just say "to where it needs to go", and my preferred means of smacking sense into a box of dirty beach sand, ASR 33 TTY onward. You can faggedabbouddit as if it were a unicycle with an Earthmover tire.

The Mac actually automagically opens an app called "Photos" that came already ON it, as soon as the CF_RAM is inserted. Good as Nikons' one? Pass. Better is more likely. Mac software nearly always is.

Macs aren't targeted at the dummy who "cannot". Nor the dick-swinger as wants to debate it.

Far from it.

They are sold, rather, to above the average up to VERY bright folks easily capable of mastering arcane details if/as/when they MUST. Now and then even the odd "five nines" IQ.

All of those good folks, school kid to PhD, happen to recognize their CHOSEN activities and busy schedule with far higher callings as their REAL priority in life. They can afford, but CHOOSE to not tolerate the carrying of unpredictably hostile 'puters about on their back, budget, or hours of their lives as parasites instead of servants.

FAILED the Bill Gates universal gullibility test, if ever even they had paid it any mind atall.

IOW, a Mac is tailored and KEPT THAT WAY for use by those who really, really don't even want to be BOTHERED by the whisper of other people's 'puter masturbations, let alone get actual sticky stuff flung at their own screen as a distraction.

That isn't a technical issue at all.

Life itself's very values and priorities, rather!

And Mac's are cheaper, too.

Only a modest initial purchase premium. Even a negative one. They simply need less.

Lots of useful utility and application software already on-box, bundled with that price.
Able to use tens of thousands of "F/LOSS" applications just as a *BSD or Linux can.

Near-zero cost of automatic upgrades that Do Ask Permission, and every damned time. Then do not gratuitously break shit as they do their damned job.

Hardly any wasted user time. Cheaper Apps when they ARE "bought in".

Over even one year? I did say "cheaper", did I not? Then it gets better, even so.

Their hardware also lasts longer than average. That's nice too, as old ones are still nimble. Even good-looking.

No wasting CPU cycles shoveling WinManure from one horse stall to the next, then back again until random time arrives to drop it on the head of the poor WinLuser when he least expects that.

:)

Mind.. I don't "love" Macs. GUI almost as FUBAR as WinWOES has had me shouting "G-D APPLE!" several times a day 'til I fixed the CPU fan on the AMD-64 OpenBSD box.

I use something far better. But I did have to do a bit more than just ticking of boxes to bring it onto the screen.
 
Odd

Have you opened the card as a folder, transferred the files to, say a new file folder in photos, removed the card, then opened the software and looked in that folder?

Try this for a start and let us know how it goes. Then we can go from there.

The card in the camera might be considered a shoebox containing photo prints. You want to move them to your bigger shoebox in the computer. See if you can make that much work. It would be similar to moving files from a CD or USB drive onto the hard drive of the computer. If we are sure you have that part done, then lets start diagnosing why the photos won’t load into the Nikon application.

Ignore thermite for now.
 
Try this for a start and let us know how it goes. Then we can go from there.

The card in the camera might be considered a shoebox containing photo prints. You want to move them to your bigger shoebox in the computer. See if you can make that much work. It would be similar to moving files from a CD or USB drive onto the hard drive of the computer. If we are sure you have that part done, then lets start diagnosing why the photos won’t load into the Nikon application.

Ignore thermite for now.

ROFL!

Surely good advice. Given he's the one has solutions not problems.

Just can't HAVE that can we?

Might put several hundred "shoebox" fiddle-*****s out of work and crash the whole damned economy!

:D
 
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There is a known problem with no obvious solution that i can find, when Windows does some of its automatic updates.

Going to transfer photos from the card in my camera, it does download them, but then refuses to transfer them to my preferred and familiar editing program, Nikon view NX2.

A message pops up "Transfer denied because you do not have access priveleges"

It used to be possible to dump the microsoft updates and reset the computer to an early time.
That does not work now.
Rebooting, or dumping the Nikon software and re-installing does not work.

If you are not familiar with the problem, don't bother guessing - there are multiple pages on Google, and several in the Nikon-supposedly-help center. Some may have useful information that i don't understand. Most of it is just morons speculating : "If you don't have access privledges, then get them" "Log in as Admin" (great - how?) "Use a different editing prgram" etc.

real step by step help by someone who has solved the problem would be appreciated.
This is in woodworking because that is what the camera is used to take pictures of.

smt

No foul.

Depending on age of your NX2 install, a "system" update may have corrected what a security guru several thousand miles away considered risky.

When, for example, an application has been reported as one that is faulty, or that can be compromised as a malware vector?

It should be expected that an update would attempt to reduce its ability to do harm by restricting its rights.

This has, on-the-record, happened at least once before to Nikon NX2. One of the tools it uses was the culprit:

https://www.nikonimgsupport.com/na/NSG_article?articleNo=000026942&configured=1&lang=en_SG

There may be NEWER problems. It may not be Windows "overall" as has changed, or needs changed. If it has altered a win-component? NX2 may not have gotten that memo, and may be unable to be fully-functional with the replacement.

If WinWOES "did that"? There will be an entry covering it in the logs. And yes, even Windows has logs.

May need a patch. May need an NX2 fresh install, most-recent release.

Bill and-it-IS-my-"REAL NAME"-dammit!-Hacker

:)
 
Henrya-

When I stick the card in the computer port, a menu of options for downloadint the images on the card comes up.
My preference has always been Nikon2. It downloads the photos and holds them there. If you don't hit the button at the bottom of the page that says "start transfer" the photos will disappear when you shut the computer down, or close the Nikon download program.

If "start Transfer" is actuated, the photos go to a file which becomes the next in sequence in a directory, & are immediately accessible in the Nikon 2 editing program.

Per several peoples notes, I tried clicking on another option on the menu "picasa 3" this morning (maybe 5-6 hours ago) just to see what came up. Now "Picasa3" has taken over the computer and seems to be duplicating every file in it - photos, scans, documents, all of it. It's up to 23%.

I changed the pop-up menu that inserting the card initiates, to "only do this action" (transfer with Nikon 2)
Now the menu no longer comes up, I don't know how to find it separately, and inserting a card no longer causes any action, prompts, or menu.

I did download Bill's find, the security patch.
But again, after above mentioned actions, inserting a card no longer does anything (before or after the patch)

Suppose I'm going to have to get a tech guru to assist at this point.

smt
 
If you simply copy the picture files over to a directory on the hard drive of the computer, you have accomplished the first step. They won’t go away when you shut down the computer. They will be there next time you start it and all subsequent times as well. Step 2 is to get each file to open in your viewing or editing program. In your case I think you want to use the Nikon provided software to do that.

The problem is often that the viewing or editing program is trying to handle the move and then place the files moved into a directory on your hard drive in a place created by the program. Its mostly a problem of the “automatic shit” not doing its job.

Seriously, do an internet search on “file transfer (name of your operating system)”. This will lead to examples of how to perform this basic task. (we hope) once they are copied onto the machine (your computer) open them by using the “File” menu, navigating to the location on your machine where the picture files reside. This is using the basic function of the machine to do what you want. If Nikon2 (whatever) is broken as to its copying and organizing features you just worked around them. You took all the “automatic magic” over and did it yourself. At least as much as using the graphical user interface of the machine is basic. You avoided a layer of broken shit from Nikon.

Again, ignore thermite until he sobers up or stops the wild roving discourse.
 
If you simply copy the picture files over to a directory on the hard drive of the computer, you have accomplished the first step. They won’t go away when you shut down the computer. They will be there next time you start it and all subsequent times as well. Step 2 is to get each file to open in your viewing or editing program. In your case I think you want to use the Nikon provided software to do that.

The problem is often that the viewing or editing program is trying to handle the move and then place the files moved into a directory on your hard drive in a place created by the program. Its mostly a problem of the “automatic shit” not doing its job.

Seriously, do an internet search on “file transfer (name of your operating system)”. This will lead to examples of how to perform this basic task. (we hope) once they are copied onto the machine (your computer) open them by using the “File” menu, navigating to the location on your machine where the picture files reside. This is using the basic function of the machine to do what you want. If Nikon2 (whatever) is broken as to its copying and organizing features you just worked around them. You took all the “automatic magic” over and did it yourself. At least as much as using the graphical user interface of the machine is basic. You avoided a layer of broken shit from Nikon.

Again, ignore thermite until he sobers up or stops the wild roving discourse.

LOL!

I LOVE it when I find someone who actually DESERVES Windows!

:D
 
it does download them, but then refuses to transfer them to my preferred and familiar editing program, Nikon view NX2.

Try this - as a very simple test of rights & privileges:

You've have gotten newer files transferred. You have older files. Nikon makes .JPG files. Browsers render .JPG files.

See if you get an access denial if you attempt to open one of each, old and new, with your browser.

Goal is to try to ascertain where the barrier lies, and when it arose.

The general Windows environment? Updated.

Or the Nikon editing toolset specifically (and perhaps even "only")?
As appears to be the case on evidence so far presented.

One Nikon reinstall was done before you even asked for help, one patch since?

Fault resolution may be as simple as trying that again with newer Nikon software and a different patch.

ELSE some OTHER photo editor equally user-friendly instead. There are many.

Probably NOT Picasso, though!

:)
 
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That is mighty harsh, my good man.
:cryin:

No fear. Y'see.. I'm not about "Windows Expertise".

Fault isolation, rather. It is, after all, a science as well as an art.

Clearly ID the fault, its nature and flavour? THEN narrower specialists can sort it.

Work around it? No fault resolution. Ever.
Or if so, only by fortuitous accident not even clearly explainable. Rather a familiar event, Win-World, no?

Meanwhile, just one more straw amongst a large and growing haystack that a poor suffering camel - or a WinSerf - has to carry going forward.

Forever.

Or until he cheats.

Simply rolls over.. and sheds the entire parasitical load...

...for a simpler and happier life doing OTHER things that actually matter.

Rather than carrying all-too-much of the IS/IT world's f**k-ups - no fault of his own - on HIS weary back.

"Nothing to lose but your chains" sound familiar? There are reasons for that.

Becoming "expert" at managing those chains is self-delusional. A band-aid. If even that.

Simplify life instead, and go enjoy what is left of it.

Hacker's First Law Applies:

Life is too DAMNED short to drink bad wine, use slow computers, or sleep with bitchy bed-partners.

And I one doesn't realize just how slow Windows is? You've not counted a lifetime of f**k-with diversions and their endless discussion into the averages.

Never mind that near any other choice is also faster on the same damned hardware. It is the b****y human overhead that drains the energy out of a life.

:(
 
Try this for a start and let us know how it goes. Then we can go from there.

The card in the camera might be considered a shoebox containing photo prints. You want to move them to your bigger shoebox in the computer. See if you can make that much work. It would be similar to moving files from a CD or USB drive onto the hard drive of the computer. If we are sure you have that part done, then lets start diagnosing why the photos won’t load into the Nikon application.

Ignore thermite for now.

I have that Nikon application installed on Windows XP. It will not install on Windows XP-64.

The Nikon application is shipped with Nikon cameras. I remember the load and view parts are in the same application. Is named camera a Nikon?

I mentioned shotwell because it works with a TON of different cameras
 
I have that Nikon application installed on Windows XP. It will not install on Windows XP-64.

The Nikon application is shipped with Nikon cameras. I remember the load and view parts are in the same application. Is named camera a Nikon?

I mentioned shotwell because it works with a TON of different cameras

Shotwell ain't half bad. I've used it on Unix, scanners as well as cameras.

Lest we forget. ST came in PM's front door already with plenty of experience with the NX2 app on Windows.

Experience enough to have previously backed-out problematic updates.

Experience enough to have reinstalled it, to have tested and reported ability to import/transfer, just NOT EDIT, but not crash, either.

All that before he came here.

He then went on to install a patch, and try again.

Windows may not be his religion, a fetish, his favourite topic for war-stories, nor dick-swinging, and certainly not his number-one priority in life, but neither is this even CLOSE to his first rodeo.

He did "nearly all" of the right things. A higher level of f**k-with to trouble-shoot and correct glitches isn't for all users.

Even if it were, it is more effective to have that done by someone who does it OFTEN, and with hands on the physical machine, not by a committee of remote hands dribbling out bits and pieces and over the wire.

And... ST even TOLD US, again right up front, Post 1, that he did not WANT that sort of airy-fairy speculation.

HE got it right. All of that.

WE got it wrong. MOST of that.

Let us one and severally re-read Post 1, and just 'fess up to that.

I am going first! Age & decrepitude privilege, same as boarding an airliner.

:)

A side note, since we don't seem to HAVE any other kind in-thread, is that the funny part is that Linux HAS come to "rule".

And it wasn't desktops.

Handhelds, rather.

Android, Chrome, and several others are Linux derivatives.

Apple runs bastardized hybrids with a good deal of their roots in BSD Unix.

Both of those tribes do at least try to not shit the bed.

Not as often, nor as badly, as WinWOES, where it is so chronic that more than one human generation of folks just take it for granted.

By "device count" Microsoft has been gradually fading in the handheld/comms/ubiquitous "tool of all work" market, and for some years now.

CAD/CAM and a slew of other "Line of Business" applications? I can see those still being heavily WinCentric. Still challenging to migrate away from, if even one wants to do. That may be the case for a long while yet. Just not "forever."

BFD. That isn't the issue here. At all.

Photo editing? That was never a Microsoft monopoly to begin with!
 








 
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