Frustrated
Oct 17, 2018 11:44:14 #
A friend wants to make a print from an image I took recently, but I'm having a hard time trying to get that image off my computer and onto a thumb drive. I tried to copy it directly from "Photos" to the thumb drive, but it wouldn't load. Then I made a copy of it to my desktop and that copied to the thumb drive. I double checked and it was there. Then I went to make a test print locally, but their machine said there were "no images on the the media.". Does anyone have a suggestion, and is my problem that my images also go to iCloud for storage? Thanks.
Oct 17, 2018 11:50:31 #
Oct 17, 2018 11:50:49 #
Look at it again on the thumb drive and see what file type it is. Maybe it's a tif or something the "local machine" wasn't set up to read.
Oct 17, 2018 11:51:11 #
Wingpilot wrote:
A friend wants to make a print from an image I too... (show quote)
Right click the image in Photos and choose: "Show referenced file in finder" and then go get it and copy / drag it to a thumb drive.
Oct 17, 2018 11:52:13 #
I can think of two things - check the thumb drive to see if its write protected. (its usually a small slide switch) And/or try another thumb drive- yours may be defective, or formatted for another file structure.
Oct 17, 2018 11:52:44 #
OR right from Apple:
Step 1: Launch Photos on your Mac.
Step 2: Choose File → Export → Export Unmodified Original.
Step 3: In the image export window, optionally click the File Name menu to choose how to name your exported files. You can name the files using the titles you’ve given them in Photos, or their original filenames, or opt to have a filename numbered sequentially, in which case you can specify text to appear before each number (for example, Image001, Image002 and so on)
Step 1: Launch Photos on your Mac.
Step 2: Choose File → Export → Export Unmodified Original.
Step 3: In the image export window, optionally click the File Name menu to choose how to name your exported files. You can name the files using the titles you’ve given them in Photos, or their original filenames, or opt to have a filename numbered sequentially, in which case you can specify text to appear before each number (for example, Image001, Image002 and so on)
Oct 17, 2018 12:00:02 #
Wingpilot wrote:
A friend wants to make a print from an image I too... (show quote)
Use the File>Export feature.
Oct 17, 2018 12:12:00 #
Wingpilot wrote:
A friend wants to make a print from an image I too... (show quote)
I had a similar problem my PC file format is NTFS and my thumb drive was FAT32. my laptop was EXFAT.
If I would load pictures on my thumb drive larger than 4 meg from my PC. when I put the thumb drive in my laptop they wouldn't show up on the thumb drive. I put it back in my PC and they were there. I also backed up pictures on to a thumb drive that was FAT32 from my other PC which is FAT32 and they don't show up on my new PC. My solution was to reformat my thumb drive the same as my PC. No more problems.
Oct 17, 2018 12:14:16 #
Thank you all for the tips. I will give those a try. I knew I was missing something there. Much appreciated.
Oct 17, 2018 12:26:33 #
rpavich wrote:
OR right from Apple: br br Step 1: Launch Photos ... (show quote)
Was the picture taken form camera or a iPhone or are sure it’s a jpeg and what’s is the file extension. Something like .tif or .nef ? It’s possible where you took the thumb drive the file you copied it couldn’t read the extension!
Oct 17, 2018 12:37:06 #
RichardSM wrote:
Was the picture taken form camera or a iPhone or are sure it’s a jpeg and what’s is the file extension. Something like .tif or .nef ? It’s possible where you took the thumb drive the file you copied it couldn’t read the extension!
This will be one of my projects today.
Oct 17, 2018 23:01:01 #
Oct 17, 2018 23:20:58 #
I think I got it figured out. The image is a JPEG and is on the thumb drive. Now I have to see if their machine recognizes it.
Oct 17, 2018 23:32:17 #
Wingpilot wrote:
I think I got it figured out. The image is a JPEG and is on the thumb drive. Now I have to see if their machine recognizes it.
Possibly there is a drive format incompatibility. Use Disk Utility on the Mac to reformat new flash drives for cross-platform compatibility (not NTFS or APFS).
Wikipedia has good articles on SD card cross-platform compatibility.
Oct 17, 2018 23:48:12 #
burkphoto wrote:
Possibly there is a drive format incompatibility. Use Disk Utility on the Mac to reformat new flash drives for cross-platform compatibility (not NTFS or APFS).
Wikipedia has good articles on SD card cross-platform compatibility.
Wikipedia has good articles on SD card cross-platform compatibility.
Good point. Provided the file type (JPEG, TIFF, etc.) is something that can be read by the computer/printer receiving the file, the issue is likely to be a file system incomparability issue. Both FAT32 and EXFAT file systems can be both read and written by either Apple or Windows platforms, so choose one of those for the thumb drive file system.
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