can't we just get along?

My computer and my main camera are having issues.
My computer has decided that after years of working together it no longer wants anything to do with my camera. I thought i could patch the relationship--but the computer wants none of that. He is standing firm in his excluding the camera from playing with him. Ultimately this means that i am going to have to figure out another way to have them communicate with each other--a therapy of sorts. All i know is that it is going to end up costing me money to get them to work together again. Isn't that they way it always is--the children end up suffering?