Transferring Photos To Your Gmini - Archos Gmini 500 Series User Manual

43
11.3 11.3

Transferring photos to your Gmini

Transferring photos to your Gmini
™
The Gmini 500 is equipped with a USB host port. This port, along with the USB Host adapter cable will allow you
to connect USB Mass Storage Class (MSC) devices to your Gmini
Gmini ™ 500. Many cameras produced today are MSC type devices. Thus you can often plug your camera directly
into the Gmini ™ 500's USB Host port and copy your photos with the ARCHOS
MSC type camera, you can use a USB card reader and plug this into Gmini
host adapter cable). Finally if neither of these solutions is available to you, you can always copy the photos to
your computer and then copy them from your computer to the connected Gmini
3 methods to copy photos to your Gmini
1) Connect your Mass Storage Class camera to USB Host port (via USB host adapter cable).
2) Use a stand alone USB card reader with the USB host adapter cable.
3) Copy photos to your computer and then copy (or Sync with Windows Media
Method 1
44
44
™ ™ 500 500
™ 500 and transfer fi les from that device to your
™ 500
Once you plug an MSC type device into the USB host port (via the
host adapter cable), the browser's left panel will show the contents of
your external USB device, and the right panel will show the contents
of your Gmini ™ 500's hard drive. Navigate to the panel which contains
your photos (in this example /DCIM/113CANON ). Move to the right
panel (action) and navigate to the folder you would like to save your
photos to (you can create a new folder if you need to by selecting
the corresponding action icon). See the screen images on the next
page.
Photos from camera are shown on the left,
and your Gmini
right. By using the Select right pane action
icon, move to the right pane and choose the
destination folder.
Now return to the left pane and choose the
Copy all fi les action icon. Your fi les will be
copied to your Gmini
right pane. You can now unplug the camera
from the Gmini
™ browser. If you do not have an
™ 500's USB host port (via the USB
™ 500 (via USB 2).
® Player 10) to the Gmini ™ 500 (via USB 2).
™
500 hard drive on the
™ , into the folder in the
™ 500.
43