importing from a digital camera

[Corey Bettenhausen]

Ben Miller wrote:
> I've been trying to import photos from my camera for the first time, 
> running Hoary 5.04. I'm prompted to import photos and gthumb starts with 
> no problem. However, as Linux starts polling my camera I get this 
> message: 'The filesystem doesn't support getting file information' and 
> nothing else seems to happen, save for a persistent 'getting data' message.
> 
> Any clues?
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> Ben
> 

You might want to try the following command on the commandline:
gphoto2 --auto-detect --get-all-files

What's the output?  Any obvious errors?  What camera are you using?
-Corey