EOS UTILITY PROBLEM RE: 'PHOTOS' on a 400D

I had the Canon EOS Utility working fine for about four days and today it wouldn't work.

It would boot up okay and recognise the camera but wouldn't download pics. Won't.

The only thing different I can see is this 'photos' thing that pops up. I'm on win10. I think it must be an MS app with win10 maybe? It is just called 'photos' and it wants to import from the camera.

In fact it is doing it now - importing right now it's up to about 250 pics from 636 or so.

So maybe it is what is screwing up the canon utility?

Anyone know anything about this?

The Photos app has a mind of its own to take control of all things photo on your computer and the kindest thing you can do for yourself is remove the app and then check whether you've got a duplicate of all the photos which Photos has made for you.

abrogard1 wrote:

It has found 742 on the card is what I'd think. Not 742 new. Now that's bad programming right there.

No, it's not. If this is the first time Photos has imported pictures, it doesn't know which ones you imported with another program already.

That's also not good, is it? Looks to me like an incomplete piece of software being beta tested on the unsuspecting public.

Photos is not new, it's been around since the beginning of Win10 and is not "beta".

So I've tried to uninstall it with the command I found on the web. It completed without any messages so I don't know as yet if it's been successful.

Get-AppxPackage *photo* | Remove-AppxPackage

Removing it is fine, but all you really needed to do is disable it from "importing" photos. Can't remember the exact location in the Windows settings, but I believe it's where yo specify what program runs when you insert removable media.

There's nothing really wrong with Photos, granted I'd never use it, but I supposed it would be fine for some. What likely happened is an update was installed and it changed the default setting to allow Photos to import - now THAT's something to complain about!