Arkay wrote:
> Yves
> Thank you for your thorough reply. But I am afraid I didn't make my problem
> clear. Let me try again:
> On my desktop there is an icon called Shortcut to Portable Media. I don't
> know where it came from, I never noticed it befor, may be it was part of the
> camera software I downloaded for my new Fuji camera. Anyway, when I connect
> the camera or a card reader to a USB2 port the picture files go to that
> Portable Media location and do not show under My Computer. This wouldn't be
> too bad except when you try to open the file, a message says that the file
> must be copied to another folder to open it.
> I would rather the files be uploaded to My Computer. For one thing, I would
> like to use Autoplay, which is not available at the Portable Media location.
>
> My question is; how do I get the camera or card reader to open in My Computer?

The shortcut *is* your camera. Just open the shortcut to the camera
"folder" and drag and drop the pictures to a folder on your hard disk.

You can easily select all of the pictures, then drag them to the desired
folder and they will all be copied.

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