old thread here - but this thread gets top google ranking so my 2 cents for old vixia users.... Any time you have internal video memory with deleted scene(s) it mucks up everything. before doing the cable thing, or if you have issues even copying to your card consider this.....
if you have a deleted scene(s) that leaves a grey icon with white question mark ... delete it manually in the camera. Having deleted scenes either stalls the camera or stops the camera from connecting via USB to your computer ... and it throws an error when trying to copy to your card. USB connect hangs and stalls, transfer to card throws error. Delete the deleted scenes and things work.
I don't know why the camera leaves these empty icon scenes like this, what purpose do they serve?
What happens is you shoot a bunch of stuff and start running out of memory... so you go in a delete a few scenes manually to gain memory .. and this leaves a bunch of empty scenes that are grey with white question marks. after you delete the scenes go in and delete the left over empty icons manually, in essence you have to delete them twice... and try to download via USB or tranfer to your card.
works for me.
