CopperSnowboarder
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I am trying to download my photographs from the Nikon D610 to my new Windows 10 computer. My old Windows 8 computers download fine to new folders. Is there a firmware download for my Windows 10 computer?
Downloading from D610 to Windows 10
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Don Kuykendall_RIP
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First off welcome to the forum. There is no difference in downloading to the computer in any of the windows Operating systems. Are you just doing a straight download or using Lightroom?
Tell us exactly how you are trying to download
Tell us exactly how you are trying to download
Welcome! Are you downloading from the camera via USB cable or from the SD card via card card reader?
CopperSnowboarder
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Windows 10 downloading problems with Nikon D610 cable
I have been downloading from my Nikon D610 for years onto Windows 8 computers. Last year, I bought an HP Spectre Windows 10 laptop from Best Buy. The downloads did not prompt me anymore to label the imported files [ex.: Yale-01, Yale-02] and leaves them in raw sort [ex.: DSK_1588]. I replaced my Windows 8 all-in-one. New Dell Windows 10 does not allow any downloads. "dingle-dingle" sound on plug-in. No photograph files are brought up. Geek Squad blames Nikon firmware.
I have been downloading from my Nikon D610 for years onto Windows 8 computers. Last year, I bought an HP Spectre Windows 10 laptop from Best Buy. The downloads did not prompt me anymore to label the imported files [ex.: Yale-01, Yale-02] and leaves them in raw sort [ex.: DSK_1588]. I replaced my Windows 8 all-in-one. New Dell Windows 10 does not allow any downloads. "dingle-dingle" sound on plug-in. No photograph files are brought up. Geek Squad blames Nikon firmware.
CopperSnowboarder
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I always use the cable: big USB at one end to little data transfer junction at the Nikon D610.
CopperSnowboarder
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There is a big difference over how each computer responds to the data transfers. Windows 8 gave me a "camera" icon, then a box to label the run of photographs [ex.: Yale-01, Yale-02]. The Windows 10 on my laptop does not allow this. It opens a bunch of big boxes, instead of showing me my little file folders. It downloads, but retains raw organization [ex.: DSK_1888, DSK_1889]. The new Dell Windows 10 all-in-one desktop does nothing. It goes "ding" recognizing a device, but does not ask me what I want to do with the device.
CopperSnowboarder
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Do you think that I should try a firmware download from the internet???
Don Kuykendall_RIP
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It really sounds like you need to configure your new computer to download the way you want to. I really don't think this is a camera issue. What software are you using to edit your photos?
Horoscope Fish
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You do NOT need a firmware update.
What it sounds like you are missing from Windows 10 is the device driver for your camera.
Try installing something like ViewNX-i or ViewNX-D; both of those applications come packaged with Nikon device drivers. Another solution would be to get a USB card reader and transfer your photos/raw files right off the card on to your computer without using the cable. Card readers are like $10 nowadays.
Download source: https://support.nikonusa.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/61
What it sounds like you are missing from Windows 10 is the device driver for your camera.
Try installing something like ViewNX-i or ViewNX-D; both of those applications come packaged with Nikon device drivers. Another solution would be to get a USB card reader and transfer your photos/raw files right off the card on to your computer without using the cable. Card readers are like $10 nowadays.
Download source: https://support.nikonusa.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/61
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Don Kuykendall_RIP
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Re: Windows 10 downloading problems with Nikon D610 cable
Merged from different thread. A duplicate of the same problem. Please do not create duplicate threads
Merged from different thread. A duplicate of the same problem. Please do not create duplicate threads
CopperSnowboarder
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I spent an hour with a Geek Squad technician ~ third attempt at trouble-shooting ~ who identified that the autoplay setting was wrong on this new Dell Inspiron. Now, the photograph album covers pop-up and a box asks what I want to do with the image files on the camera. There still is no way to change the names of all of the files universally, which I would like to do instead of DSC_001, DSC_002.
CopperSnowboarder
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Re: Windows 10 downloading problems with Nikon D610 cable
Sorry, I could not find my original thread.
Sorry, I could not find my original thread.
CopperSnowboarder
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Probem solved: the "autoplay" settings on the new computer were wrong. Still unable to do a universal file label on import.
Horoscope Fish
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Without using software that allows you to rename on Import no, you won't be able to do that.
What you can do is copy them over to your computer with their default filenames and then do a batch rename from Windows Explorer. Use Ctrl+A (select all) then right-click on ONE of the files in the selection to rename it using the right-click context menu. Changing it from "DSC_001" to, say, "Vacation Photo" will sequentially number all the files in the selection "Vacation Photo (1)", "Vacation Photo (2) ... "Vacation Photo (268)".
You can also permanently modify the "DSC" suffix to something else if you'd like; there's a menu setting on the D610 to do that.
Don Kuykendall_RIP
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If you get Lightroom it will import and automatically rename all your files for you to the pattern you want.