Windows 10 and camera not speaking

[Willy Nilly]

Hello PH photography gods.

I have recently downloaded Windows 10 and would like to put the pictures I have on my MKI Sony RX100 onto my laptop. In the past, once the camera was plugged into the laptop, the little Sony window would appear, and I'd ask it to download my new pictures, now this doesn't happen.

Windows 8 would fire up the photo section bit when I connected either my Cannon Ixus or Astak Action Pro 3 and ask if I wanted to down load new images, Widows 10 isn't even doing this with the Sony either.

Any help would be appreciated

[Simpo Two]

Can you browse your way to the relevant folders? In other words, go to whatever they call 'My Computer' these days, find the drive letter that represents the disk in the camera, then copy and paste the files into a suitable folder on your hard drive.

I've done it that way since 2004.

[Willy Nilly]

There is a photo section where is give an option to download for D drive, I've clicked on this and it wants to download the lot, rather than the new ones, then gets fed up after a few hundred pictures and seems to stop downloading. It may well be something I am doing wrong.

[Simpo Two]

I'd abandon the camera software and go in direct, as above.

[rich888]

As above, eject the SD card from the camera and plug the card into the SD card reader on your PC. If you don't have a SD card reader then go buy an external one from PC World, Tesco or any other supermarket for that matter, they are dirt cheap and work wonders. This advice for anyone who owns a PC or Mac.

I have an RX100 MK1 and use Google Picasa to import all the pics off the SD card, just ensure you select 'Exclude Duplicates' at the Import Page. I don't bother with all of the cloud stuff they offer, all I require is saving to my HD in a logical order.

Picasa can also scan all the folders on your HD and present everything in a flat format so no matter how deep the pics are buried it will display them in a chronological order. Best bit is that it doesn't actually touch the original images.

[Willy Nilly]

The Sony software window isn't opening, but the Windows 10 picture department had decided to start importing pictures now. Thanks.