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Hey guys, I'm having an issue with my "Canon PowerShot SX120 IS" camera on LMDE. When I had Ubuntu, Mint 9 and Sabayon, the camera would instantly be detected and mount.

If I were to use Ubuntu, I'd plug the camera in via USB port and turn it on. That would bring up a window asking me to import to F-Spot. On LMDE, I plug it in but when I turn it on, the camera just turns on as normal.

It's not a big issue yet, but in time it will be required. I really don't want to need to dual boot/virtualize/get rid of LMDE. I love this distro

I'm having the same issues with my camera. Have you found a solution yet?

I solved my problem. I simply added myself to the plugdev group.

didn't work with mine on LMDE

Same with me and my Canon IXUS 400...

Plug-in, switch-on (in playback mode), but LM doesn't react at all...

Any clues?

Mike.

I had this problem on an Arch install; here's what I learned ( not much!):
- sometimes pcmanfm would "see" sd cards when thunar didn't; neither saw the camera. Perhaps try both.
- when nothing saw the camera, check out gphoto:
# gphoto2 --list-ports
# gphoto2 --auto-detect # shows USB address that needs to be e.g. "chmod o+w /dev/bus/usb/001/003"
# gphoto2 --summary
# gphoto2 --list-files
# gphoto2 --get-all-files

So I used these two:

$ gphoto2 --list-files (show all files on the camera (in all directories).
$ gphoto2 --get-all-files (copy all the files to current directory)

It's primitive but might work if nothing else does.