Getting Rid Of Thumbnails For Digital frame

If you can mount the digi frame as a volume on your desktop, delete the thumbnail files in Finder (they should be obvious by their size, if nothing else).

Another work-around is to acquire an inexpensive thumb drive. Most of them come formatted for PC (MS DOS File System). Drag your pictures from iPhoto to the thumb drive. Delete any thumbnail images that appear there, then transfer the remaining contents to the digi frame.

Robert:

You can download and use GrimRipperCM, a contextual menu application, or DeleteFork 1.0 to rip the resource fork out of the files before using in the frame.

Are you trying to add the photos to the root directory of the frames memory card? You might try putting them in a folder first and then copy the folder to the frame. Also you can get more photos on the frame is you resize the files down to the frames pixel dimensions and add some jpg compression to them. I reduce my 2712 x 2212 photos at 3 MB down to 640 x 480 at a 60% compression/quality level with Resize! and end up with file sizes around 100 KB. It makes the transitions between slides in the frame much smoother and quicker.

TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've created an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. It's compatible with iPhoto 08 libraries and Leopard. iPhoto does not have to be closed to run the application, just idle. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.

Old Toad,

I bought a digital photo frame for my grandparents and used a card reader to copy photos (after sizing to 600 x 800) to the SD card. The frame saw those resource fork files, so I wanted to delete them. I tried GrimRipper and had no success.

My hubby is proficient with Terminal, so he took a look. The fork files weren't present in my folders of jpegs until after copying them to the SD card. GrimRipper wasn't able to delete them from the card, and using it on the folder prior to copying to the card achieved nothing. (No files in the Trash, nothing to delete or Empty, and the files still appeared in the photo frame.) He used Terminal to delete the ._ files and DSS Store files directly from the SD card. This was the only effective method that he found. Neither of us has used Automator, so we were unable to create an easier fix.

If you can describe how to do this with Automator it would be appreciated. Or am I missing something in my use of GrimRipper?

Happy New Year,
Shelly

Shelly:

After installing GR select one or multiple image files and Control-click to get the contextual menu. Select the Delete Resource Fork option. If the file does not have a resource fork there will no be that option in the contextual menu. You can use PhotoToolCM 2.0, another contextual menu application, to view the info before and after running GrimRipper. There's a Resource fork field which will show None after GR has been run on the file.

OT

Rob:

Are the photos in a folder on the memory card or internal memory of the frame? I found that using a memory card I could only get around 99 or so photos added to the root directory of the card. It's formatted as FAT 32 or 16 and evidently doesn't like many files in the root directory. Once I put them in a folder there was no problem.

OT