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my new canon zr200 is not recognized by my new Mac powerbook

Jan 8, 2006 2:04AM PST

ANYBODY got ideas?

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Did you connect with firewire?
Jan 8, 2006 2:20AM PST

I found one user tried USB...

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canon confused
Jan 8, 2006 6:28AM PST

yes . I used firewire the special wire that I had to send away for....does not look to special but still nada!

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Find some friends?
Jan 8, 2006 11:32AM PST

See if their machines find it. If you were here, we'd try it on our machines or a Windows machine, Firewire and WINDV.

If not, make the call and make it a warranty issue.

Bob

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y new canon zr200 is not recognized
Jan 19, 2006 12:41AM PST

Did you open iMovie and see if you could capture???
Also post in the Mac fourm. John

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fix
Feb 19, 2006 7:06PM PST

I had this same problem, maddening. The tech note should be updated to include this model. The Canon website says nothing about this issue. Not much documentation on this issue. But unplugging my Firewire cable and other firewire devices, then pluggin it into the rear port worked. After the camera was recognized I was able to plug my external scratch disk into the FW800 port on the rear and capture to that disk.

JM

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Try using the firewire port in the back of the mac. Unplug any other firewire devices you have and then-

Read what Apple has to say:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=43000

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61603

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61929