I want to share some pictures with a PC user. The last photos burned to a cd for a PC user was littered with the UNIX files .ds and .ds_store etc. It confused the PC user mightily.
Is there a best practice for burning photos to disc for PC users to keep it free of OS litter?
Not sure if this is the "Best practice" but it worked for me......instead of burning photos to a cd within iPhoto I created a desktop folder which I exported my photos to. Then I simply dragged the folder to the blank cd and burned it. Hope this works.
Ryan is right. Export to photos to a desktop folder. this gives you just the picture files.
Burn the CD from the finder which gives a PC friendly format by default.
I'm trying to burn a disk of photos (in chronological order) for PC users. When I export the photos to the desktop folder the photos get rearranged into order by the jpeg file number - not at all in chronological order. Is there some way for me to make these photos appear in the right order?
The displayed sort order of files is determined by the settings in the operating system that is displaying the contents of the folder (or directory). The user controls those settings when the folder contents are displayed, not iPhoto during the export.
One consideration that is important though... If you export images from iPhoto to a folder by dragging the images from the iPhoto Window, the original file creation dates will be retained (the image files are
copied), but if the images are exported via the iPhoto "Export..." dialog, the exported image files will end up with the current date and time.
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Yes there is a way to do that. Place them in an album and sort manually how you want them. Then export to the folder on the desktop using the "Use Album Name" option in the File Export window. That will give you files titled: "album name-01.jpg", "album name-02.jpg", etc. These will sort alphanumerically in the order you want.