Runtime error - MCU.exe

[R.M.]

Today's irritation! I've been out taking pics with my Canon camera. I use Zoombrowser Ex 6.2.1 to download with a card reader. Usually everything is AOK, but today it gives me this error:

'Runtime error. Program C\Program Files\Canon\Zoombrowser Ex MCU\MCU.EXE'

And won't download. I have downloaded another way - but I'm used to doing it this way, so would like to repair. I installed the latest version of Zoombrowser this last week, so reinstalled it again, but with no success in fixing it.

OS - Windows XP Pro - all patched and up-to-date. The usual virus etc protection.

Any suggestions would be gratefully received!

[Speedy Gonzales]

Any program should work if you want to add photos to it

If you use a card reader.

Install Picasa, Irfanview or The Gimp. All of these are free

[pctek]

To transfer your photos all you need is Windows Explorer. Cut or Copy and Paste.

The use whatever editing program you fancy to amend them.

[R.M.]

I think the solution is a programming solution - perhaps Visual Basic. I'm not au fait with that though!

I know I can 'sort' it by other computing solutions - I was interested in 'fixing' Zoombrowser if I could...

[Wingflyer2]

R.M., found a solution yet? Got the same problem here. Know I can use other methods but I like possibility of zoombrowser to rename the files automaticly (shooting date + sequencenr.) during download. Do you know another tool that can do that?

Removed zoombrowser and reinstalled 6.0 from CD. Nothing. Downloaded latest update and installed 6.2.1c, nothing...

[Blam]

I think Picasa does it IIRC.

[R.M.]

R.M., found a solution yet? Got the same problem here. Know I can use other methods but I like possibility of zoombrowser to rename the files automaticly (shooting date + sequencenr.) during download. Do you know another tool that can do that?

Removed zoombrowser and reinstalled 6.0 from CD. Nothing. Downloaded latest update and installed 6.2.1c, nothing...

No, I didn't manage to fix it - reinstalled my Acronis image of C Drive (that has got me out of a number of pickles in the last year - well worth the money - although changes to NZ dollar probably has made it more expensive now).

There are a number of programs that do what you want - Photoshop, ?Elements, ? Bridge, perhaps Picasso. There are 'no cost' programmes that image your c drive - worth looking at I think.

[sluggy]

I uploaded some photos yesterday morning. This morning I installed Windows 7 onto a spare partition I have for messing around with other OS'es. This evening I tried uploading some photo's and got this exact same message from zoombrowser. I know where I would point the finger of suspicion.

I keep 'my documents' in separate folders on a completely isolated raid partition to simplify sharing between XP and Vista (plus linux). When I setup Windows7, I created a homegroup and allowed it to share pictures/music/videos.

Booting back into Vista, at least the pictures and music directories reported requiring permissions to be changed to access them while 'My Documents' did not. Since I had not shared this it seems to be related.

Now if I could work out how to undo this...

And to fix it, I went to Pictures->properties->security, noticed that it had set the permissions for my primary user account to read/execute and reapplied the full control.

Phew!!