Image Transfer Utility 2 - Wifi too slow - Missing cable option

[BjarneDuelund]

I just bought the Canon G7X Mark III as replacement for my original G7X, which was lost.
A new utility for transferring images was introduced, "Image Transfer Utility 2" (the original utility for G7X do not work with this newer camera model).

Unfortunately, this newer utility only support transfer via Wifi, not through cable.
Transfer via Wifi is too slow and do not giva a clear overview of how many items to tranfer and on how many is missing. It is just working 'endlessly' and suddenly stops.

I would wish the original utility also worked with "Mark III" camera - or "Utility 2" could have a cable connection option added. I prefer using a utility like this, because it can automatically order the images in folders after date.

I have always wondered why different Canon cameras need diffferent transfer utilities, my EOS camera use the "EOS Utility 2" which is not working with non EOS cameras. Why can't a single utility work with all Canon cameras, for both cable and Wifi.

[shadowsports]

Greetings,

The camera has a digital terminal on the right side of the body near the top. It can be used to transfer images to a computer and to print via cable.  I recommend you review the user guide for your product.  Page 302.  

https://www.usa.canon.com/support/p/powershot-g7-x-mark-iii#idReference%3Dmanuals

Since hardware and operating systems change, Canon like any vendor has to update the applications software and Apps it's products use.  

[BjarneDuelund]

It is true you can connect an USB cable, but you can not use the new Image Transfer utility with cable connection, it only works with Wifi. So if using the cable connection, you will have to self identify images not yet transferred and have to self create and name the folders on the computer after the images date.

That is why I want the Canon utility to also support cable connection, just like the version 1 of the utility for "G7X" and "G7X Mark II" did - but version 1 is not working with "G7X Mark III", it requires utility version 2 which do not support cable connection, only Wifi.

[normadel]

You don't NEED a utility to transfer images via USB cable. The camera should appear on the computer as a drive, which you open, go to the DCIM folder, and move the files by hand to computer.

[BjarneDuelund]

True, but as I mentioned, then I will have to self identify which images has not yet been transferred and also have to self create folders with names after the date the picture is taken, both is something the utility carry out. I just want it to also work with cable conenction, not only on Wifi.

[BjarneDuelund · Accepted solution]

I have made a PowerShell script to do it. It creates folders after the date the images are created, and copy the images to the corresponding folders.

Like the Transfer Utility should do.