Using Your Macintosh Computer - Sony Cyber-shot DSC-S500 Handbook

Using your Macintosh computer

You can copy images to your computer.
• "Cyber-shot Viewer" 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 jack: 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.
• There are two modes for a USB connection
when connecting a computer, [Mass Storage]
(default setting) and [PTP] modes. This section
describes [Mass Storage] as an examples. For
details on [PTP], see page 46.
• 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 51.
2
Connect the USB cable.
Perform the same procedure as that
described in "Stage 2: Connecting the
camera and your computer" on page 52.
3
Copy image files to the Macintosh
computer.
1Double-click the newly recognized icon
[DCIM] the folder where the
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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 56.
4
View images on the computer.
Double-click the hard disk icon
desired image file in the folder
containing the copied files to open that
image file.
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