Sony DSC Operating Instructions Manual page 26

PNotes
• Operations are confirmed when:
– you connect your camera directly
to your personal computer with
the USB cable (supplied), and the
USB connector on your personal
computer does not have any
other connections
– you connect the USB keyboard
and mouse which are provided as
standard to your personal
computer, and connect your
camera to your personal
computer with the USB cable
(supplied) directly
• Operations are not confirmed if:
– the USB connectors on your
personal computer have more
than one connection
– you use a hub
– you connect other equipment
with USB cables at the same time
except for the USB keyboard and
mouse which are provided as
standard
• We cannot assure all the
recommended Windows and
Macintosh environments mentioned
before.
• When the cables are connected to
both the USB jack and the serial jack,
the jack connected before the other
one works.
Disconnect the cable from one jack
to make the other one available.
• Communications between your
camera and your personal computer
may not recover after recovering
from Suspend, Resume, or Sleep.
• Use the AC power adaptor/charger
when your connect your camera to
your personal computer. A
malfunction such as a data error
may occur since the battery
discharges during communications.
• When using the Macintosh, connect
the USB cable after your personal
computer starts.
• The Macintosh may become
unstable if you delete the data in
"Memory Stick" right after copying
the data to the hard disk.
26-GB
• You may not be able to copy the
whole of 100 msdcf folder at once to
the hard disk on the Macintosh. In
this case, open the 100 msdcf folder
first, and copy the contents in the
folder.
Notes on Using the PC
Card Adaptor or USB
Cable
• Set the LOCK switch on the
"Memory Stick" to off.
• To play back an MPEG file, install
Active Movie Player (Direct Show)
or Media Player.
• For playing back a file recorded in
MOVIE or VOICE mode, first copy
it to the hard disk of your personal
computer. If you play back the file
from a "Memory Stick", the picture
and sound may break off.
• Install Quick Time 3.2 or later to
play back MPEG files.
• New "Memory Stick"-s are already
formatted so that they can be used
as storage media for your personal
computer without the need for
formatting them.
However, when you format
"Memory Stick"-s on your personal
computer, note that:
– "Memory Stick" operations on
your camera cannot be assured if
the "Memory Stick" is formatted
on a Windows machine. Format
the "Memory Stick" on your
camera again when you use it
with your camera.
– "Memory Stick"-s formatted on a
Macintosh may not work. Do not
format "Memory Stick" on a
Macintosh on which the Mac OS
is running.
• Do not optimize the "Memory
Stick" on your personal computer. It
may damage the flash memory.
• Do not compress the data on the
"Memory Stick" on your personal
computer. Compressed files cannot
be played back on your camera.