EasyShare software Version 4.0 now available via download

[Bill Jackson190395]

I know that a bunch of people on this forum have asked me in the past to notify them when the new version of EasyShare software becomes available. We released on our web site this morning Kodak EasyShare software V4.0.

What's included:

• much tighter integration with Ofoto including a new express upload feature that allows you to upload entire albums from EasyShare and to keep track of changes on the desktop that can then be propagated to the Ofoto service with the touch of a button. If you add pictures to an album that has been uploaded, the next time you update the album only those picutres that have been added will be uploaded. Your Ofoto username and password are remembered so you only need to supply it once and all subsequent interaction with ofoto is seamless (where ofoto service is available)

• Ofoto powered email - instead of sending your photos as attachments, your recipients will now get an invitation to view your pictures on a secure location on Ofoto. This eliminates the worries about email not getting through due to ISP email limits and allows your recipients with dialup connections to not have to download all of the pictures to view them. (where Ofoto service is available)

• increased support for Burn CD through the integration of Sonic's burn engine. Many more CD-R/RW drives will be supported with this release.

• Much more "album centric" in the design of the software

• Windows standard selection mechanisms for selecting single and multiple images

• drag and drop support from EasyShare to other applications

• the ability to re-arrangephotos within an album

And of course, a littany of bugs that have been reported here and elsewhere have been fixed.

As always, this is a free download from Kodak.com. If you have the automatic updater service enalbed, Kodak will start spooling updates on the 17th of this month.

go here to get it:

http://www.kodak.com/go/easysharesw

--
Disclaimer: I am an employee of Eastman Kodak Company

 

[SheltieDog]

Thank you for posting! I have upgraded to V. 4 on my wife's computer. Seemed like a painless upgrade!

Bill Jackson wrote:
I know that a bunch of people on this forum have asked me in the
past to notify them when the new version of EasyShare software
becomes available. We released on our web site this morning Kodak
EasyShare software V4.0.

What's included:

• much tighter integration with Ofoto including a new express

upload feature that allows you to upload entire albums from
EasyShare and to keep track of changes on the desktop that can then
be propagated to the Ofoto service with the touch of a button. If
you add pictures to an album that has been uploaded, the next time
you update the album only those picutres that have been added will
be uploaded. Your Ofoto username and password are remembered so
you only need to supply it once and all subsequent interaction with
ofoto is seamless (where ofoto service is available)

• Ofoto powered email - instead of sending your photos as

attachments, your recipients will now get an invitation to view
your pictures on a secure location on Ofoto. This eliminates the
worries about email not getting through due to ISP email limits and
allows your recipients with dialup connections to not have to
download all of the pictures to view them. (where Ofoto service is
available)

• increased support for Burn CD through the integration of Sonic's

burn engine. Many more CD-R/RW drives will be supported with this
release.

• Much more "album centric" in the design of the software

• Windows standard selection mechanisms for selecting single and

multiple images

• drag and drop support from EasyShare to other applications

• the ability to re-arrangephotos within an album

And of course, a littany of bugs that have been reported here and
elsewhere have been fixed.

As always, this is a free download from Kodak.com. If you have the
automatic updater service enalbed, Kodak will start spooling
updates on the 17th of this month.

go here to get it:

http://www.kodak.com/go/easysharesw

--
Disclaimer: I am an employee of Eastman Kodak Company

 

[Jean Pugh]

Very nice! I like the feature that finds missing pictures and lets you reconnect them.

 

[DBirdsong]

I know that a bunch of people on this forum have asked me in the
past to notify them when the new version of EasyShare software
becomes available. We released on our web site this morning Kodak
EasyShare software V4.0.

What's included:

• much tighter integration with Ofoto including a new express

upload feature that allows you to upload entire albums from
EasyShare and to keep track of changes on the desktop that can then
be propagated to the Ofoto service with the touch of a button. If
you add pictures to an album that has been uploaded, the next time
you update the album only those picutres that have been added will
be uploaded. Your Ofoto username and password are remembered so
you only need to supply it once and all subsequent interaction with
ofoto is seamless (where ofoto service is available)

• Ofoto powered email - instead of sending your photos as

attachments, your recipients will now get an invitation to view
your pictures on a secure location on Ofoto. This eliminates the
worries about email not getting through due to ISP email limits and
allows your recipients with dialup connections to not have to
download all of the pictures to view them. (where Ofoto service is
available)

• increased support for Burn CD through the integration of Sonic's

burn engine. Many more CD-R/RW drives will be supported with this
release.

• Much more "album centric" in the design of the software

• Windows standard selection mechanisms for selecting single and

multiple images

• drag and drop support from EasyShare to other applications

• the ability to re-arrangephotos within an album

And of course, a littany of bugs that have been reported here and
elsewhere have been fixed.

Hi Bill

Easyshare 4.0 for the mac is pretty cool, except that there are no One Touch to Better Pictures drivers for the Mac yet. How soon will they be available?

--
Dave
Just say no to Date/Time Stamping your picture!

 

[Winston905]

I know that a bunch of people on this forum have asked me in the
past to notify them when the new version of EasyShare software
becomes available. We released on our web site this morning Kodak
EasyShare software V4.0.

What's included:

• much tighter integration with Ofoto including a new express

upload feature that allows you to upload entire albums from
EasyShare and to keep track of changes on the desktop that can then
be propagated to the Ofoto service with the touch of a button. If
you add pictures to an album that has been uploaded, the next time
you update the album only those picutres that have been added will
be uploaded. Your Ofoto username and password are remembered so
you only need to supply it once and all subsequent interaction with
ofoto is seamless (where ofoto service is available)

• Ofoto powered email - instead of sending your photos as

attachments, your recipients will now get an invitation to view
your pictures on a secure location on Ofoto. This eliminates the
worries about email not getting through due to ISP email limits and
allows your recipients with dialup connections to not have to
download all of the pictures to view them. (where Ofoto service is
available)

• increased support for Burn CD through the integration of Sonic's

burn engine. Many more CD-R/RW drives will be supported with this
release.

• Much more "album centric" in the design of the software

• Windows standard selection mechanisms for selecting single and

multiple images

• drag and drop support from EasyShare to other applications

• the ability to re-arrangephotos within an album

And of course, a littany of bugs that have been reported here and
elsewhere have been fixed.

As always, this is a free download from Kodak.com. If you have the
automatic updater service enalbed, Kodak will start spooling
updates on the 17th of this month.

go here to get it:

http://www.kodak.com/go/easysharesw

--
Disclaimer: I am an employee of Eastman Kodak Company

tried to download and install this 3 times last night..... all 3 times received an error on instalation and did not install.. 3 reboots and no joy!

my 2 cents
win ME OS
6490 user

 

[Bill Jackson190395]

did you happen to write down the three digit code that you got as a result of the error? If so, can you please send it to me

william dot jackson at kodak dot com

thanks

I know that a bunch of people on this forum have asked me in the
past to notify them when the new version of EasyShare software
becomes available. We released on our web site this morning Kodak
EasyShare software V4.0.

What's included:

• much tighter integration with Ofoto including a new express

upload feature that allows you to upload entire albums from
EasyShare and to keep track of changes on the desktop that can then
be propagated to the Ofoto service with the touch of a button. If
you add pictures to an album that has been uploaded, the next time
you update the album only those picutres that have been added will
be uploaded. Your Ofoto username and password are remembered so
you only need to supply it once and all subsequent interaction with
ofoto is seamless (where ofoto service is available)

• Ofoto powered email - instead of sending your photos as

attachments, your recipients will now get an invitation to view
your pictures on a secure location on Ofoto. This eliminates the
worries about email not getting through due to ISP email limits and
allows your recipients with dialup connections to not have to
download all of the pictures to view them. (where Ofoto service is
available)

• increased support for Burn CD through the integration of Sonic's

burn engine. Many more CD-R/RW drives will be supported with this
release.

• Much more "album centric" in the design of the software

• Windows standard selection mechanisms for selecting single and

multiple images

• drag and drop support from EasyShare to other applications

• the ability to re-arrangephotos within an album

And of course, a littany of bugs that have been reported here and
elsewhere have been fixed.

As always, this is a free download from Kodak.com. If you have the
automatic updater service enalbed, Kodak will start spooling
updates on the 17th of this month.

go here to get it:

http://www.kodak.com/go/easysharesw

--
Disclaimer: I am an employee of Eastman Kodak Company

tried to download and install this 3 times last night..... all 3
times received an error on instalation and did not install.. 3
reboots and no joy!

my 2 cents
win ME OS
6490 user

--
Disclaimer: I am an employee of Eastman Kodak Company

 

[harneyn]

Tried to download last eve and then again this am. I get the country screen, then log in. Enter my user name and pw and go back to the country names again.

Tried saying I forgot my password and returned email gave me the one I was using?????? I have been a member for 5-6 years.

Sometimes I think the server is busy, but I have encountered loops on the site many times.

Any suggestions?
Ann

 

[MjrBad]

Hi Bill,

Have dowloaded Windows version, however install fails:

message: cannot find "ATI hardware" while installing DVDDec

Help!

I know that a bunch of people on this forum have asked me in the
past to notify them when the new version of EasyShare software
becomes available. We released on our web site this morning Kodak
EasyShare software V4.0.

What's included:

• much tighter integration with Ofoto including a new express

upload feature that allows you to upload entire albums from
EasyShare and to keep track of changes on the desktop that can then
be propagated to the Ofoto service with the touch of a button. If
you add pictures to an album that has been uploaded, the next time
you update the album only those picutres that have been added will
be uploaded. Your Ofoto username and password are remembered so
you only need to supply it once and all subsequent interaction with
ofoto is seamless (where ofoto service is available)

• Ofoto powered email - instead of sending your photos as

attachments, your recipients will now get an invitation to view
your pictures on a secure location on Ofoto. This eliminates the
worries about email not getting through due to ISP email limits and
allows your recipients with dialup connections to not have to
download all of the pictures to view them. (where Ofoto service is
available)

• increased support for Burn CD through the integration of Sonic's

burn engine. Many more CD-R/RW drives will be supported with this
release.

• Much more "album centric" in the design of the software

• Windows standard selection mechanisms for selecting single and

multiple images

• drag and drop support from EasyShare to other applications

• the ability to re-arrangephotos within an album

And of course, a littany of bugs that have been reported here and
elsewhere have been fixed.

As always, this is a free download from Kodak.com. If you have the
automatic updater service enalbed, Kodak will start spooling
updates on the 17th of this month.

go here to get it:

http://www.kodak.com/go/easysharesw

--
Disclaimer: I am an employee of Eastman Kodak Company

 

[iancjc]

I have to say I am a fan of easyshare - never had any problems with it BUT

I take it that we still have to use the poxy auto installer - why can't we download the complete program ?

I have easyshare on 2 of my 3 pc's (1 work/ 1 home) plus 2 notebooks (overkill I know but we have 2 camera's and my kids like to keep their pictures on their own machines plus I take my notebook away on holiday with my camera - downloading the same app 4 times is absolutely bloody stupid. Also my folks have a kodak camera and don't have internet access so I have to bring their laptop to my network and install it! (OK so that makes 5 downloads - plus doing it again if I buy a new machine)

"EASY SHARE" software should be easy to share not involve pointless downloads - thankfully I have broadband - but thats hardly the point.

 

[Bill Jackson190395]

the short why is that I can't afford it

The long answer: (1) my budget has only so much in it for releasing software. (2) each release costs money, so if I do a monolythic download install and the install-from-web install, that's two releases and (3) the previous versions that we did have a downloadable file made the phones ring with people telling us that they downloaded but couldn't find the files. The phones don't ring with the install-from web nearly as often.

So, it's a prioritization and cost issue. I try to balance the spend on putting new stuff into the software with the abiltiy to get it to people. We do offer a CD for sale for (I think) $7.95 that covers our cost.

I have to say I am a fan of easyshare - never had any problems with
it BUT

I take it that we still have to use the poxy auto installer - why
can't we download the complete program ?

I have easyshare on 2 of my 3 pc's (1 work/ 1 home) plus 2
notebooks (overkill I know but we have 2 camera's and my kids like
to keep their pictures on their own machines plus I take my
notebook away on holiday with my camera - downloading the same app
4 times is absolutely bloody stupid. Also my folks have a kodak
camera and don't have internet access so I have to bring their
laptop to my network and install it! (OK so that makes 5 downloads

• plus doing it again if I buy a new machine)

"EASY SHARE" software should be easy to share not involve pointless
downloads - thankfully I have broadband - but thats hardly the
point.

--
Disclaimer: I am an employee of Eastman Kodak Company

 

[Bill Jackson190395]

Can you send me specifics? What machine (brand, model) what extra hardware is connected, what software, was it hte preload or a new install, what other software?

We'll look into it

Hi Bill,

Have dowloaded Windows version, however install fails:

message: cannot find "ATI hardware" while installing DVDDec

Help!

--
Disclaimer: I am an employee of Eastman Kodak Company

 

[iancjc]

Bill

thanks for the answer - hope you've got the bandwidth costs factored in as I'm part way through download no. 2!

as for the cost issue whilst I understand what you're saying I really can't see how putting the full file on an ftp site and giving people the option to download would cost more money over posting cd's (no cd available on the kodak uk site at the moment). As I guess the cd provides a full install version, you are all ready producing the required version, therefore there is a marginal cost advantage to providing a download over a cd! (sorry the accountant in me occassionally surfaces).

IMHO I think that whilst kodak's aims to hand hold and make digital easy is a reasonable aim - However, this ignores the fact that a lot of users are more than capable of doing a download / save / install - in fact it implies that kodak users are some how technically stupid - perhaps because we chose easyshare camera's?

Cheers

Ian

The long answer: (1) my budget has only so much in it for
releasing software. (2) each release costs money, so if I do a
monolythic download install and the install-from-web install,
that's two releases and (3) the previous versions that we did have
a downloadable file made the phones ring with people telling us
that they downloaded but couldn't find the files. The phones don't
ring with the install-from web nearly as often.

So, it's a prioritization and cost issue. I try to balance the
spend on putting new stuff into the software with the abiltiy to
get it to people. We do offer a CD for sale for (I think) $7.95
that covers our cost.

I have to say I am a fan of easyshare - never had any problems with
it BUT

I take it that we still have to use the poxy auto installer - why
can't we download the complete program ?

I have easyshare on 2 of my 3 pc's (1 work/ 1 home) plus 2
notebooks (overkill I know but we have 2 camera's and my kids like
to keep their pictures on their own machines plus I take my
notebook away on holiday with my camera - downloading the same app
4 times is absolutely bloody stupid. Also my folks have a kodak
camera and don't have internet access so I have to bring their
laptop to my network and install it! (OK so that makes 5 downloads

• plus doing it again if I buy a new machine)

"EASY SHARE" software should be easy to share not involve pointless
downloads - thankfully I have broadband - but thats hardly the
point.

--
Disclaimer: I am an employee of Eastman Kodak Company

 

[Winston905]

did you happen to write down the three digit code that you got as a
result of the error? If so, can you please send it to me

william dot jackson at kodak dot com

thanks

Hi William..... its great to see you using the fourm ! make sure you keep comming back! even if its only to see the nice pics your product is responcible for!

ok that tri code .. is.... 1638x53x2951053040x:ErrorTriCodeDefault

that makes 4 times Grrrrr!
win ME OS
thanks in advance!
Dave
Http: www.whirlwind30.com

tried to download and install this 3 times last night..... all 3
times received an error on instalation and did not install.. 3
reboots and no joy!

my 2 cents
win ME OS
6490 user

--
Disclaimer: I am an employee of Eastman Kodak Company

 

[harneyn]

Found my own solution to the ES download problem - the security settings on my machine. Got it now!

Wish the website had noted that rather than just looping me!
Ann

 

[Bill Jackson190395]

Hi William..... its great to see you using the fourm ! make sure
you keep comming back! even if its only to see the nice pics your
product is responcible for!

ok that tri code .. is.... 1638x53x2951053040x:ErrorTriCodeDefault

that makes 4 times Grrrrr!
win ME OS
thanks in advance!
Dave
Http: www.whirlwind30.com

Dave

when the tricode was signaled, did you click "yes" to go on line and solve the problem?

This one is well documented on the on-line solution. This is an error with the MSI (MicroSoft Installer) that failed. Running the EasyShare "clear utility" mentioned in the on-line solution will clear this situation in over 99% of the cases we have seen.

You can get the clear utility at:

http://www.kodak.com/go/clear2
or
http://www.kodak.com/go/clear3

(depending on if you are trying to clear EasyShare V2 or V3 installs)

--
Disclaimer: I am an employee of Eastman Kodak Company

 

[Winston905]

hi bill ..... did what you said...... the software installed.... when opening the first time I got another error 0x324x2147749904x

yes I do allow the software to look for a solutiuon. on the first problem I had it said there was no answer for the code...

this code it didt even open a browser window and take me to your site to look for an answer.

Nowe I have No easyshare working on this pc. Grrrrrr

I did open up version 4 to see if it would work and it did open .... all it showed me was the printer stuff. I could not view any pictures in my collection. no tabs on the left to view collections.......

can you help me out.?

Dave
http://www.whirlwind30.com

Hi William..... its great to see you using the fourm ! make sure
you keep comming back! even if its only to see the nice pics your
product is responcible for!

ok that tri code .. is.... 1638x53x2951053040x:ErrorTriCodeDefault

that makes 4 times Grrrrr!
win ME OS
thanks in advance!
Dave
Http: www.whirlwind30.com

Dave

when the tricode was signaled, did you click "yes" to go on line
and solve the problem?

This one is well documented on the on-line solution. This is an
error with the MSI (MicroSoft Installer) that failed. Running the
EasyShare "clear utility" mentioned in the on-line solution will
clear this situation in over 99% of the cases we have seen.

You can get the clear utility at:

http://www.kodak.com/go/clear2
or
http://www.kodak.com/go/clear3

(depending on if you are trying to clear EasyShare V2 or V3 installs)

--
Disclaimer: I am an employee of Eastman Kodak Company

 

[DBirdsong]

I know that a bunch of people on this forum have asked me in the
past to notify them when the new version of EasyShare software
becomes available. We released on our web site this morning Kodak
EasyShare software V4.0.

It was working great on my G4, but yesterday it started crashing on launch and nothing on the computer has changed. Errrrrrrrr

--
Dave
Just say no to Date/Time Stamping your picture!

 

[Winston905]

yes I do allow the software to look for a solutiuon. on the first
problem I had it said there was no answer for the code...

this code it didt even open a browser window and take me to your
site to look for an answer.

Nowe I have No easyshare working on this pc. Grrrrrr

I did open up version 4 to see if it would work and it did open
.... all it showed me was the printer stuff. I could not view any
pictures in my collection. no tabs on the left to view
collections.......

can you help me out.?

Dave
http://www.whirlwind30.com

Hi William..... its great to see you using the fourm ! make sure
you keep comming back! even if its only to see the nice pics your
product is responcible for!

ok that tri code .. is.... 1638x53x2951053040x:ErrorTriCodeDefault

that makes 4 times Grrrrr!
win ME OS
thanks in advance!
Dave
Http: www.whirlwind30.com

Dave

when the tricode was signaled, did you click "yes" to go on line
and solve the problem?

This one is well documented on the on-line solution. This is an
error with the MSI (MicroSoft Installer) that failed. Running the
EasyShare "clear utility" mentioned in the on-line solution will
clear this situation in over 99% of the cases we have seen.

You can get the clear utility at:

http://www.kodak.com/go/clear2
or
http://www.kodak.com/go/clear3

(depending on if you are trying to clear EasyShare V2 or V3 installs)

--
Disclaimer: I am an employee of Eastman Kodak Company

ok got home.....uninstalled easyshare..... ran the cear3 again.... reinstalled easyshare. no tray icon .... ownt open says "reqired mediaengine.dll not found. It wont open...

when pressing the share button on the dock... pc found device and read data Kodack CSS was running and I'm able to find the camera on My computer... and have transfered from camera to drive.

But again no easyshare...

so now I'm up to 5 downloads...... 5 reboots.... and a buch of messing around..... and gettin ticked.

to much time spent trying to get this working.... becaues i have a printer dock i have to get this thing going.

do you still have a download for the old version ummm 3.02 or whatever it was.. atleast that version worked for me!

Dave
http://www.whirlwind30.com

 

[Bill Jackson190395]

hi bill ..... did what you said...... the software installed....
when opening the first time I got another error 0x324x2147749904x

yes I do allow the software to look for a solutiuon. on the first
problem I had it said there was no answer for the code...

this code it didt even open a browser window and take me to your
site to look for an answer.

Nowe I have No easyshare working on this pc. Grrrrrr

I did open up version 4 to see if it would work and it did open
.... all it showed me was the printer stuff. I could not view any
pictures in my collection. no tabs on the left to view
collections.......

can you help me out.?

send me an email off line, william dot jackson at kodak dot com

I have some other questions for you regarding what you have and where you came from (previous versions, etc)

Dave
http://www.whirlwind30.com

Hi William..... its great to see you using the fourm ! make sure
you keep comming back! even if its only to see the nice pics your
product is responcible for!

ok that tri code .. is.... 1638x53x2951053040x:ErrorTriCodeDefault

that makes 4 times Grrrrr!
win ME OS
thanks in advance!
Dave
Http: www.whirlwind30.com

Dave

when the tricode was signaled, did you click "yes" to go on line
and solve the problem?

This one is well documented on the on-line solution. This is an
error with the MSI (MicroSoft Installer) that failed. Running the
EasyShare "clear utility" mentioned in the on-line solution will
clear this situation in over 99% of the cases we have seen.

You can get the clear utility at:

http://www.kodak.com/go/clear2
or
http://www.kodak.com/go/clear3

(depending on if you are trying to clear EasyShare V2 or V3 installs)

--
Disclaimer: I am an employee of Eastman Kodak Company

--
Disclaimer: I am an employee of Eastman Kodak Company

 

[Bill Jackson190395]

There was a bug in the 4.0.0 release that impacted some Mac and some Windows people, specifically those who had upgraded from very specific prior versions of the software.

Windows version 4.0.2 and Mac version 4.0.1 are now on the web. I suggest you download those and you're problem will go away.

If you're running without crashing on either windows or mac, you probably don't fall into the very narrow group of people who got hit by this. But, upgrading is probably a good idea.

I know that a bunch of people on this forum have asked me in the
past to notify them when the new version of EasyShare software
becomes available. We released on our web site this morning Kodak
EasyShare software V4.0.

It was working great on my G4, but yesterday it started crashing on
launch and nothing on the computer has changed. Errrrrrrrr

--
Dave
Just say no to Date/Time Stamping your picture!

--
Disclaimer: I am an employee of Eastman Kodak Company