[Discuss] camera files

[jdm at moylan.us (dan moylan)]

nathan meyers wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:54:51AM -0400, dan moylan wrote:
>>
>> in yesteryear, when i plugged a camera into my computer, the
>> camera files would show up under /mnt, then later under
>> /media, then under ~/.gvfs.  now, however, they show up in
>> one of those "drag and drop" windows (whatever they're
>> called), but where are they?  i see NIKON... at the top of
>> the window and a directory DCIM in the window.
>>
>> "find / -name DCIM" produces nothing.
>>
>> ok -- so exactly where is DCIM?

> I don't think it's mounted in a filesystem namespace (although perhaps
> could be with the right incantations). If you navigate into DCIM through
> the GUI, though, you'll find your images. You can use menus in the GUI to
> open another window into your filesystem, giving you a useful drag/drop
> destination for images you want to copy onto your filesystem.

thanks, got that, i had already imported the files via drag
and drop (cumbersome).  what i really would like are the
right incantations.  there ought to be some way just to
mount the camera memory (the way i used to be done).  i know
there's someone out there thinking they're making it easy,
but i have a hard time not saying bad words.

bill ricker writes:
> find may avoid crossing filesys.
> do
>   df
> or
>   mount
> before and after to see where it's mounting.

did both -- no differences except for a 4K size increase
in /run.

ole dan

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