Re: image icon problem
- From: Stewy <anyone4tennis@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:27:32 +0900
In article <1138250876.057297.282160@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"angmel" <mackayshea@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm using a Nikon 5700 Coolpix, then transfer images from memory card
> to a portable hard drive (Smart Disk Flash Trax) while traveling. When
> I connect the hard drive to my computer at home and transfer the images
> files to my computer hard drive (Apple G4), the file icons appear as
> jpeg icons, not thumbnails. The image icons do appear as thumbnails
> when I download memory card images via a card reader. With the Flash
> Trax downloads, it is impossible to determine image content without
> opening each file. I'm aware I can change the view option in Mac OSX
> to icon preview to see the icons. But with 100 images in a folder,
> it can take a really long time for all the thumbnails to appear. If
> anyone can offer suggestions, I would really appreciate it. Last
> summer I used the portable hard drive on a trip to so. east asia and
> came back with 2500 images. It took me over a month (evenings after
> work) to open each file in photoshop, save it, thereby creating a
> thumbnail. Yes...I know if I didn't shoot such volume, I wouldn't
> have this problem. But that is also the beauty of digital!
The "filmstrip" feature in WinMX is something Mac could well copy and
use (after all the copying has been mostly the other way).
You could import the pix using iPhoto - the free one (iPhoto2) is a bit
klunky but iPhoto6 (part of iLife) would create thumbnails of any size.
http://www.apple.com/ilife/iphoto/
.
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