Windows not recognizing camera connected via USB? (Check pix number on your card.)

My laptop sort of died and I had to reinstall Windows 10. It's a shitload of job to get things together but I thought, "Alright, everything was finally set."

Then, this demonic problem happened. I tried to download photos from my SDHC Card and realized that I had to reinstall the Canon utilities for my camera.

All was installed but programs wouldn't go and my princess laptop insisted to refuse recognize my princes camera--even when the Canon installation DVD was running the setup program.

Sure, as House might tell you, there might be different etiology for the manifestation of the same symptoms. No doubt following are some of the probable causes of the recognition problem:
1. Cable connecting the camera and computer
2. USB port
3. Windows 10 64 bit OS compatibility issues
4. Driver issue for my Canon PowerShot camera
5. Other hardware or OS issue since I did bring this baby laptop back from the RIP state.

I, of course, went through one forum after another. People had similar problems but no place, not even those hosted by Microsoft or Canon.

I skipped the keyword "communication error" since I didn't see the term on either the computer or the camera screen. So I thought.

Except, when I restarted the camera a few times later, I finally noticed the "communication error" flashing at the bottom of the camera viewer like ships passing in the dark sea.

The error code shortly led me to the plausible cause, whose existence I still do not believe.

You can't connect a camera to the computer if you have more than something like 1000 pictures on it.

I switched my SDHC Card to one with fewer number of pictures on.

Voila. That damn princess laptop finally recognized the princess camera.

1000 or else number of photos? What kind of issue is that to cause recognition failure independent of the versions of MS OS and brands of cameras? (Based on what I gather from all discussion forums.)

OMG and hope it helps someone.

Canon PowerShot Communication Error?

Tried to connect my PowerShot SX280 HS to the computer and saw this error message at the bottom of the screen: "Communication Error."

Apparently, when it happens, it's because there are more than 1000 pictures on (the disk of) your camera. What you have to do to get the pictures downloaded is to either using a card reader to get the pictures off or making sure there are less than 1000 pictures.

An issue known by Canon.

Canon SX280 HS video files not downloaded! 8-O

After the Turkey Day, I finally got my grandpa canon its replacement... the Canon SX280 HS with 20x optical zooming capacity!

Though I have been roaming around like a road runner, who can run not, taking pictures and video clips using the new kid in town, Canon SX280 HS, my work got my too tight up to even check the pictures that I have taken.

After making the section section of my book public yesterday afternoon, I looked outside of the window and realized that it snowed.  Finding it quite synchronous an event, I decided to take a video clip of the snow... that's how I identified an issue I otherwise would not have been able to find out for God knows how much longer a time... none of the video files were downloaded.

Ended up, what happened was that instead of upgrading to ImageBrowser EX, which didn't work too well on this machine in the sense that it took forever to launch the program, I continued to use ZoomBrowser EX program (and the affiliated media downloading components).

Unfortunately, ZoomBrowser EX seemed to have problem seeing the video files recorded using Canon SX280 HS. It might have something to do with the fact that Canon SX280 HS, by default, saves the video clips as mp4 file instead of avi files, like what Grandpa Canon did.  Not quite sure but don't really have to time to figure out what the exact reason might be for you.

One thing I know is that after I got the ImageBrowser EX installed, the video files were also downloaded successfully!

Granted, there might be different ways to get the issue resolved such as using different means to get the digital files downloaded.  It's just one way I use to get the issue of incomplete file download addressed.

Regardless, I just want you to make sure all files are downloaded if you have a newer generation camera and decide to continue using ZoomBrowser EX.

Presented to you... nothing fancy... the first video clip I downloaded successfully!