After you connected the USB cable from the camera to the computer, you did turn the camera on - right? And the batterry had enough charge. I have the same setup except on a desktop: Windows 7 professional, Canon PowersShot SX50 HS. A hint: Instead of turning on the camera with the ON/OFF power button, press the review button. Its to the right of the viewfinder window. This powers up the camera for viewing images on the card without activating the lens and auto-focusing stuff - saves battery power. Next on you computer, click (or double click depending on you settings) on "Computer". This should bring a panel showing all your hard drives, USB ports and the camera. Click on the camera to open a panel showing the folders or files on the SD card. Navigate down to the folder with the desired images; also arrange to have open the folder where you wish to copy the images to. You can right-click and hold down on a file to drag it to the "to" panel. release the mosue button. a small pop-up menu appears - choose copy here. Careful: Do not choose "move to here". That will make a copy in the "to" panel and delete the file in the camera.

I also have a cannon about that age and it clearly states it will not take anything over a 2 GB SD card. That would definitely be my guess as to why you get that error. I agree the point of the memory card is to use it to temporarily store the pictures on the camera till you can off load them to your pc and burn them to cd or whatever medium you choose, take the card in and have them printed out or what ever. Once you do that you have all the space on the card available again. I never use the cable to transfer pictures and never use any software from the camera it is just not needed when you can so easily use the memory card in a memory card reader.

I do it on all my cameras after I upload the pics to computer I check them out that they are on the computer and what they look lik then I go back to the drive where the camera is and delete all items then I right click on the drive and eject. Tht way it cleans up tht drive (read tht somewhere) I end up with n empty camera disk. some times I putthe disk in the computer sometimes I upload with a cord from computer to camera works the same both ways

Many cameras, when connected with a USB cord to a PC, appear as external drives in Windows Explorer. Find the folder with the media files (often named DCIM or a folder under it) and you can copy the files off onto your PC. Or, with the camera off, remove the SD card and connect it to the PC and do the same thing. Once the files are on the PC, the transfer to the iPad is an iPad question. I think you need to put it into a folder that "syncs" with the iPad using iTunes. Refer to the Apple forums for help if you can't figure it out. This is not a difficult task. Good luck.