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Coolpix E990: Marching ants and no mount

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TLMurray

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I've been a computer geek since the Mac Plus and IBM PC junior, so feel free to use big words on the computer side. I'm new to the Nikon, as a friend who moved to assisted living gave me a Coolpix E990 and an E8700, and an awesome Manfrotto tripod. (He was a pioneer in the 360 field.)
 
When I plug in the USB data cable to my Coolpix E990, I get the tiny icon of the computer and the little marching ants on the control panel. Fine so far, but that's it, and the ants never stop (I took just one photo). The PDF version of the manual doesn't say what should happen on the computer, but I half expected it to work like a typical thumb drive: It just mounts as a volume. The Disk Utility app does not see the camera as a mounted volume.
 
I also downloaded the Nikon ViewNZ 2 software, since it's free. Its DMG volume has only a Welcome.app. When it launches (after removing the unknown-developer blocking), the screen flashes for maybe a quarter-second, and that's it. I'm running a MacBook Pro and Catalina 10.15.5.
 
I suppose I could buy an adapter to use the memory card, but since I have the cable, I'd like to get it working.
 
Any ideas?


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It is possible that Nikon is considered an unknown developer.  I believe I saw that a few years ago with some Nikon software on my Mac but it has been too long to remember what it was.  Perhaps try not removing...



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This question takes me back, Nikon haven't implemented Mass storage mode in their cameras since around 2007 or so. You need to set the camera to Mass storage somewhere in the menus to get MacOS to mount the volume. In the default PTP setting, you need an application that sets up PTP over Usb to communicate with the camera. Nikon Transfer, which is a part of ViewNX will do that if the software is working correctly.

 

Why stay with ViewNX 2? It is probably not compatible with 10.15 as it is abandonware. The current version is ViewNX-i. You can find the software on Nikon's support site, just like ViewNX 2.