Installing canon camera software on a macbook air?

James J

James J

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How the hell do I actually do this? Used a housemates windows computer to copy the contents of the disk onto a USB pen drive, yet none of the files run on a mac. (all exes)

The canon website says that software needs to be installed already for the updated stuff on their website to work.

Any ideas how I can actually get round this?
 
James J said:
Macbook air laptops don't have a cd/dvd drive mate. This is why I have the issue.
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For real?!

Apple really knocked that one out the park! XD

I had a problem where I needed Canon software and required a digital source (Canon require a CD install then online updates, as apparently everyone wants to steal their softwarez..)

A certain website involving ships can usually find the droids your looking for...
 
Lunawolfy said:
For real?!

Apple really knocked that one out the park! XD

I had a problem where I needed Canon software and required a digital source (Canon require a CD install then online updates, as apparently everyone wants to steal their softwarez..)

A certain website involving ships can usually find the droids your looking for...
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Lol I thought it was common knowledge that MBA's didn't have a dvd/cd drive :O

Yeah that my last resort option but looks like I'll get to that point shortly. iPhoto imports and edits the photos to a decent standard though which I'm quite surprised at!
 
Sorry if this is obvious, you said none of the files would run and that they were .exe files. I take it you are not attempting to run them on Mac OS and either have the Air running Windows via Bootcamp or a VM? I may have got the wrong end of the stick.
 
Thrash said:
Sorry if this is obvious, you said none of the files would run and that they were .exe files. I take it you are not attempting to run them on Mac OS and either have the Air running Windows via Bootcamp or a VM? I may have got the wrong end of the stick.
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I don't have bootcamp mate. Using lion OSX. I got my housemate to copy the entire cd to my 32gb USB stick but there are no .dmg files on the disc that windows can see anyway. Its got me stumped.

Having to use iPhoto at the moment for basic editing, which isn't great.
 
Thought I had the wrong end of the stick. I'm surprised the disk doesn't have the dmg's on it. You could use the remote disc option to share the optical drive in the Windows PC.
 
Thrash said:
Thought I had the wrong end of the stick. I'm surprised the disk doesn't have the dmg's on it. You could use the remote disc option to share the optical drive in the Windows PC.
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Good idea, didn't think of that. I'll try it tomorrow!
 
More importantly, what do you need the software for? I have a Canon and use mac and never ruan any of their software
 
You shouldn't need any additional software, I use Image Capture to hook up my DSLR to OSX, imports the RAWs then use Photoshop or Bridge.

(That said, my 20D doesn't appear in Image Capture in Lion, does in Snow Leopard)
 
i uses adobe bridge and photoshop. brigde downloads the files off my 550d and to archive them. then i uses photoshop with camera raw plugin to loads the raw files from brigde into Photoshop for editing and to save to jpg, that how i do it. as for your problem i think their are some windows base tools that let you view,extract mac file's from disc when they are hidden. but the only other wait is to go to computer shop buy an exteranl cd/dvd writer to hook-up to your mac airbook.
 
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