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By: Victor

Victor — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 07:00:45 +0000

Windows Vista picture import is stupid. I want the Windows XP one back. In that one you can choose which pictures to import. This crap in Vista makes you import everything on your camera and then it names it all the same. HELLO!!!! I might have a memory card full from several consecutive trips and I don’t want to tag/name the entire load of pictures the same. Come on Microsoft, do you even do any type of customer feedback with real people before releasing this SHIT!

By: daniel

daniel — Tue, 20 May 2008 15:39:51 +0000

I’m using Vista’s photo downloader right now, and I’m a little dissapointed. I have 5 separate events captured on my card— my last day in college, meeting up with old friends, aquarium photos, some random stuff, and florida. I would definately prefer to download this separately without having to get new software. The compromise i had to make was naming all of my pictures A&M Mike Florida and forever they’ll have the wrong tag unless i want to change the name on the individual files.

All I would like is separate downloads, the ability to format the date without the dashes (at least they put it yyyy-mm-dd), and add the date to the picture files. 3 easy fixes that won’t confuse a novice user

By: Dean

Dean — Fri, 16 May 2008 01:52:05 +0000

Ok, I’ve found a halfway decent solution, unfortunately it involves installling ANOTHER microcrap product – Windows Live Photo Gallery.
Just install it (and not all the other crap they try to get you to install at the same time). Then use it as you Import Wizard. When it pops up you can choose to select what photos you want to import, and it kind of organizes them.
So you can finally PICK THE PHOTOS YOU WANT!!!
yeah. :)
I still wish I could just use the regular old XP way. :(

By: George G

George G — Fri, 09 May 2008 02:08:00 +0000

Vista is such a throwback I can not believe it when it comes to photos. One other thing I can not believe adding to all of the other valid complaints is how does one delete photos on the SD card after you finally got the photos off of it? The “Delete” function is grayed out in Windows Explorer to do a simple delete function. Are you kidding me???????Microsoft, what are you doing? I can do this in XP no problem. Why is Vista protecting me from myself when I am soooo absolutely sure I want to delete the images I put on the HD and backed it up to CD as well. Microsoft, stop over controlling this relatively simple process. Give me control again, I’m not an idiot!!!!!

By: Allen

Allen — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:45:21 +0000

So, do anyone have a work around program? A third party program that works exactly the way that the Scanner and Camera Wizard worked?

By: Frank Bennett

Frank Bennett — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:19:08 +0000

I have the same problem. Before I would attach my camera and the system would import only the new pictures. Now it imports all the pictures on the chip even though they have been imported before. I guess I will just have to go back to finepix. I like the catalogging qualities of Vista better, but I hat to keep having to delete duplicate photos I didn’t want imported again.

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 12:40:29 +0000

Vista is a horrible mess. It came bundled with my new laptop and it feels like I’m back with ‘98. I’ll be upgrading from Vista to XP just as soon as I have some spare hours. The photo import wizard is a disaster. Instead of improving a (too) basic tool that at least worked, they have imposed an unusable mess on us. I’m estimating this will take me 4-8 hours to fix finding/installing/learning third party software – already spent an hour on the FinePixViewer (mainly cos I needed to download a 50+MB Vista updated version!!) only to find it can’t batch name photos. MS – you really should spend a tiny piece of your budget on someone with a brain. Not fixing something that isn’t broken REALLY is not rocket science, it’s lazy, abusive, profit-lead marketing.

By: Brian P

Brian P — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 15:49:14 +0000

I have to agree with alot of the people above. Who ever at Microsoft decided to “enhance” our features by removing our abiltiy to choose how we import photos is a complete tool! I used to just plug in my digital camer and whamo -presto the photo import window detected and impoted the photos into a folder on my choosing, no problems. Now when I connect nothing happens at all. I have to manually go into the My Computer directory seach out the connected camera and go into the camera dn find the photos and then drag and paste them into a folder on my computer. What idiot at MS thought this was a better approach to down loading photos? I am so annoyed that I have to do this now. Hey Microsoft…pay attention to these complaints, fix your “tool” so that you have the option to choose where to load them to, and also so that the photo wizrd opens and allows you to reach inside the camera and down load the photos. This was a stupid move on Microsofts part. With my Canon camera I got some software called Zoom Browser, which I never used, but I will try to load that on the computer and use than from now on. Thanks Microsoft, thanks for the “big improvement and enhancement” to Vista’s Photo wizard…idiots….

Brian

By: Dean

Dean — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:56:00 +0000

Ahhhhhh – I finally got Vista – and now I discovered this too!!!

Isn’t there SOME WAY to do this (import certain pics, name the files, and name the directory)… its just so simple (or WAS simple).

Anyone have any software that can do this? (hopefully free software)????

HELP!!!!

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 08:50:04 +0000

Vista won’t even recognise my Ricoh Caplio R2 and it’s impossible to find a driver update in case that might force the issue. Upgrade costs for the PC are sufficient so now I also have to upgrade my camera (by buying a new one)? It sux.

By: Steven B

Steven B — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 16:55:31 +0000

I am glad to know I am not alone! What was Microsoft thinking? The Vista import wizard is absolutely terrible. For years I had a smooth system to import and sort photos. The new TAG and DATE method is cumbersome and, as one poster has already noted, frankly dictatorial.

To make matters worse, the new version of MS Office for Vista is similarly convoluted if you wish to add photos to a document. Microsoft has eliminated the easy INSERT –> PICTURE –> FROM SCANNER or CAMERA option. Now users have to quit the Office application, run a separate program, scan or import the photo to their hard drive, save it as a file, return to the Office application, and then insert the image from the file’s location. Who in their right mind has the time to do that?

I’ve been working around the various other bugs in Vista and the new office for three months now. At this point, though, I am unwilling to live with the new picture and scanner issues. First chance I get, I’m reformatting the hard drive and reinstalling XP. Good grief.

By: Larry

Larry — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 13:10:09 +0000

I agree with the complaints Vista Import wizard is a BIG step backwards than the XP version. I hope they fix it in SP1! XP was so simple it’s the only thing I used to import my pictures this Vista version STINKS.

By: Sean

Sean — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 21:00:25 +0000

I’m going to agree here. I have four years of imported photos from the Windows XP camera import. I loved how it would create a folder and name all the photos the same name with a sequence number. For example, I name all my photos with the year, then the topic. So I have folders/files named “2007 Family”. Ever since I got my new Vista PC, I haven’t found a program that does the same thing the same way. My memory card is now full because I want to keep the same organizational methods that I’ve kept for the past four years.

Vista’s import routine is a HUGE step backwards!

Anyone have suggestions for replacement software?

By: janet d

janet d — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:19:23 +0000

Windows Scanner and Camera Wizard gone!!!!!!! It was so simple to use and I am lost now. I used to scan up to 9 images at a time then upload and name singly. I am desperate to find a way to do this. I also cannot import my pictures into software I have been using for 3 years. Simple is best left that way, when it works.