M5 connection to Sierra

[gt4e]

My Canon EOS M5 doesn't connect to my iMac (MacOS Sierra v. 10.12.2). I would appreciate some help or advice. Thanks!

[kvbarkley]

How are you connecting? USB? If so turn off the wireless.

[gt4e]

I use the USB that Canon shipped with the M5. SO I am going to turn off the WIFi. Are you talking about the wifi in the camera or the wifi in my iMac? wnat to make sure before I try! Thanks

[Waddizzle]

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@gt4e wrote:

I use the USB that Canon shipped with the M5. SO I am going to turn off the WIFi. Are you talking about the wifi in the camera or the wifi in my iMac? wnat to make sure before I try! Thanks

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???  Disable Wi-Fi in the camera, for sure. 

I would hope that the iMac can figure out on its' own that something is plugged into one of its' ports.  Speaking of which, what type of port are you using on your iMac?  Don't you need an adapter to connect to your iMac?  What type are you using?

[kvbarkley]

Most iMacs still have standard USB ports.

[gt4e]

This is the solution to resolve the lack of connectivity between the Canon M5 to the iMac through the USB cable supplied by Canon.

Just use the Image Capture app, found in the iMac Applications folder. This was suggested by other people. I just tried it. It worked perfectly, though a little slow. But it successfully transfered 120 RAW files from my camera to the iMac.

Until the software issues between the Mac Sierra ver 10.12.2 and the Canon camera are resolved (hopefully soon), this is the way to go. Thank you all for your help!

[gt4e]

standard USB 2.0; no I don't need any adapter to connect to the Mac, just the Canon supplied USB cable. All my Canon cameras used to connect the same way to the same Mac. But it seems the latest Apple software between the Mac Sierra and the Canon M 5 is not communicating. btw I have spent a couple of hours talking to the Canon support people, and they never mentioned that the Sierra and Canon connections are not working, a fact I discovered after reading the messages here.