Dropping ZoomBrowser

user DeleteThis @example.net (Leonard) wrote in


> Bert Hyman wrote:
>
>> I'm particularly annoyed that ZB 5.5 now installs a SERVICE on my
>> machine which is running all the time, and which also REQUIRES
>> that I run other services that I don't need (or want) running on
>> my machine.
>
> Thanks for that, hadn't noticed it. How irritating.
>
> ZB seems to run ok with the service stopped though. I suppose it
> will fail if you try to use it to control the camera.

That's true; the picture viewing/filing/printing parts all work
without it, but the "CameraWindow" thing to download images from the
camera requires it, and the remote control feature may as well.

I didn't find mention of it in the "readme" file; the only reason I
found out about it is that I have one of the services it depends on
disabled on my system, and CameraWindow simply wouldn't start. No
error message, no log entries, nothing.

I did get a ->very fast response to my email to Canon support, which
suggests that I'm not the first person to ask about it.

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In Jack wrote:

>
> I too deleted Zoombrowser and use Picasa2.

Well.

How long has ->that been around?

Pretty neat.

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salgud wrote:
> I'm giving my thoughts on ZoomBrowser to save othere the time I spent
> with ths software. It came with the camera (Canon A520) and comes, I'm
> told, with all Canons. They aren't doing their customers much of a
> favor.
> I said in a previous thread, written after I first got ZoomBrowser,
> that I found it, at least initially, clunky. After a week of battling
> with it, I realize it's way beyond clunky. More like chug-chug,
> blah-blah, chug-chug. Difficult to move between the 3 main modes, Zoom,
> Scroll, and Preview. You can do certain things in each mode, but have
> to switch modes to do other things. In Zoom mode, where you can see all
> your images, more or less, half the screen is wasted by big blank
> areas, next to which are your pics, but if there's many of them,
> they'll be thumbnails smaller than a thumbnail, in other words, not
> visible. In adjacent folder window, all folders are shown, and folders
> without any pictures just waste more space.
> I'll admit the Search function is better then Picasa's, since you can
> search on more than one keyword at a time, but the keyword setup is
> ridiculously complex and difficult.
> Editing is clunky. You have to tell it to Edit, the select the pics you
> want to edit, the tell it which editing tool, the edit, then tell it
> you're done. And getting it to save and find edited images is very
> difficult.
> Practically everything is difficult in ZoomBrowser.
> I won't go into any more detail. If you have it, give it a try. Maybe
> it will work better for some of you than it did for me. Meanwhile, I'm
> back with Picasa 2, which seems, so far, more user friendly. We'll see.
>
I use ZB to download pictures from my A95 into dated folders in "my
pictures". After that I use Windows Explorer directory to organize my
pictures into the folders that I want. I find ZB cumbersome and
disorganized though I do like the slide show feature.

Ron

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