Using Your Macintosh Computer - Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-S600 Service Manual

Using your Macintosh computer

You can copy images to your computer.
• The supplied software is not compatible with
Macintosh computers.
Recommended computer
environment
The following environment is
recommended for a computer connected to
the camera.
Recommended environment for
copying images
OS (pre-installed): Mac OS 9.1, 9.2 or Mac
OS X (v10.0 or later)
USB connector: Provided as standard
Notes on connecting your camera to a
computer
• Operations are not guaranteed for all the
recommended computer environments
mentioned above.
• If you connect two or more USB devices to a
single computer at the same time, some devices,
including your camera, may not operate
depending on the types of USB devices you are
using.
• Operations are not guaranteed when using a
USB hub.
• Connecting your camera using a USB interface
that is compatible with Hi-Speed USB (USB 2.0
compliant) allows advanced transfer (high speed
transfer) as this camera is compatible with Hi-
Speed USB (USB 2.0 compliant).
• There are three modes for a USB connection
when connecting a computer, [Auto] (default
setting), [Mass Storage] and [PTP] modes. This
section describes the [Auto] and [Mass Storage]
as examples. For details on [PTP], see page 50.
• When your computer resumes from the suspend
or sleep mode, communication between your
camera and your computer may not recover at
the same time.
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Copying and viewing images on
a computer
1
Prepare the camera and a
Macintosh computer.
Perform the same procedure as that
described in "Stage 1: Preparing the
camera and the computer" on page 55.
2
Connect the USB cable.
Perform the same procedure as that
described in "Stage 2: Connecting the
camera and your computer" on page 56.
3
Copy image files to the Macintosh
computer.
1Double-click the newly recognized icon
t [DCIM] t the folder where the
images you want to copy are stored.
2Drag and drop the image files to the
hard disk icon.
The image files are copied to the hard
disk.
• For details on the storage location of the
images and file names, see page 60.
4
View images on the computer.
Double-click the hard disk icon t the
desired image file in the folder
containing the copied files to open that
image file.