My SX700HS happily transferred Pictures to my Dell Windows 7 machine. Now it won't.

[deadbeatdave]

My SX700HS happily transferred pictures to my Dell Windows 7 machine.  How it won't.  The camera shop have checked that the camera and cable are working, but there is no link shown on "My Computer".  On the devices and printer screen it asks what action I should take - from "no action" to open with Windows, Explorer etc. 

How do I reestablish a link?

[ScottyP]

I don't know how to solve whatever has gone awry in that chain of camera software, computer software, cables and preference settings, etc., but that kind of frustratingly opaque mystery problem is exactly why I stopped letting the camera and the computer do what they want with my image imports. 

It it is much simpler and 100% reliable to just take the card out of the camera and plug the card into a card reader. Either one built into your computer or a cheap usb connecting card reader.  You just make a file for every cardfull of images (I name with the date plus short description like 2015-11-16; pumpkin patch) and then drag and drop the images from card to file. 

This also means you don't run your camera charge down during a download through a cable. 

It it is also a faster download. 

[deadbeatdave · Accepted solution]

Sounds a good idea.  I'll try when I see my friend with the card reader.  Many thanks for such a quick and probably very helpful solution

[deadbeatdave]

Brilliant. Worked perfectly. Very grateful. Many thanks