Problem with Photos- Pretty Please somebody help me- I am a computer illiterate!

[shonbon7shonbon]

Hi, if anyone could help me I would be so so so so appreciative.  I have been selling on ebay for a few years and have a couple of accounts.  I normally just take photos of my items and then hook up my camera to my laptop with a usb cable.  Then when I go to list the items I just click on the Add Photos and select my camera (Canon Powershot) from the pop-up.  I then select the correct folder from all the folders that come up when I select Canon Powershot.  Once I select the correct folder in my camera then I select the individual photos for that particular listing. Pretty simple.

This is where I am now having trouble.  It used to be that once I went through the hassle of selecting "Canon Powershot" and then selecting "Removable Storage" and then selecting something else (I cant remember off hand) and then eventually getting to the individual photos I needed in the right folder it would be that each successive time I went to add more photos to the listing (or to other listings I was working on after that one) the computer would intuitively go straight back to the correct folder with the correct individual photos I needed.

Now all of a sudden for no reason I have to go through all those steps each and every time for each new photo I want to download for the listing.  When I click "Add Photo" on the ebay listing I am creating it does not go back to the last folder I chose from (where all my photos are).  While each time it only takes an extra 5 to 10 seconds per photo, I normally upload about 5 pictures per listing so it makes each time I upload pictures to a listing take an extra minute or so and its driving me crazy.  

Does anyone know how you get your computer to go back to the folder you were last downloading from each new time you click on the "Add photo" button of the listing. There must be a setting or a default that was changed and its making my listing time go way up 😞  If anyone can help me I would appreciate it so much!

[divwido]

DCMI?

[divwido]

DCMI is in there somewhere.  Just keep opening files until you find it.

I have a similar procedure and when I started I just opened files until I found the pictures.

[cayotic.com]

I empathize with your situation. The picture taking process can be frustrating and time consuming; although it doesn't have to be. If you are selling as often as you indicate, I would suggest using a smart phone for listing and picture taking. When I list on Craigslist via my Blackberry PRIV, I can have the listing completed before I sit back down or get back to whatever it was that I was previously doing.

If you don't have a smart phone, or you simply prefer listing from a computer with the aid of a conventional keyboard, may I suggest that you "drag and drop" all photos from your Canon Powershot into the picture folder that eBay has defaulted to? If your camera has a removable SD card, you could purchase a cheap SD card reader ($10-$20), if your computer doesn't already have one built in (many do). Then simply remove the card from your digital camera, insert it in the the SD reader of your computer, then transfer them to the folder that eBay keeps defaulting to. 

This should save more time since you won't be limited by the transfer speeds of your USB cable which is much slower than the transfer speed of the SD Card itself. Also, this method would allow you to quickly delete unwanted/old pictures from your card, using your computer, instead of deleting them manually using the camera itself. 

I hope this helps, if not feel free to reply.

Have a wonderful day!

[shonbon7shonbon]

Thank you! I'm going to try some of the things you have suggested! I have been selling on here for a few years but am still not very computer or tech savvy so I tend to never change the way I do things once I learn something that works for me. So this issue that just arose has really been throwing me; I may come back on here and ask you a few questions since you seem to know a lot more than me about options for doing photos and/or listings a different way. Thanks!

[monster-deals]

Get yourself a USB Card reader. 

They are cheap and SD cards are cheap.  I use whatever I can find lots of.  Anything more than 1 or 2 GB is overkill for what you can accomplish listing in a single sitting.

Name your SD card and create a shortcut to it in quick access.

Should be at the top of file explorer now.  Make sure you sort by date ascending.