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What are the best digital photo frames that are compatible with Mac and iPhoto?
Any frame that uses a small SD or Compact Flash card can work with a Mac. Remember that this board is international. If you want specific brands it might be useful to indicate where in the world you are...
I am in Houston, TX in the US. Appreciate ur input!
A couple years ago my mother-in-law died. We uploaded all sorts of photos from our MacBook of her to run on a digital photo frame (via flash drive) during the wake. It didn't work! We were soooo bummed out, had some great photos to share with family, but it wasn't to be. It turned out that the funeral parlor only had a Windows-compatible digital photo frame for our use. Wouldn't work, no matter what. I'm really shocked that someone hasn't glommed onto this and started making Apple-friendly digital slideshow frames, considering all they are used for today (I've seen them at wakes and weddings). So always check out whether the photo frame is Apple-compatible. In searching for a digital frame currently, I'm finding several with the "Windows-compatible-only" warning. I'm outside of Chicago, Illinois. Anyone have an idea for a good brand of digital slideshow photo frame that is Apple-compatible? Thanks!
Gee I get 76,100,000,000 answers when I type "Mac friendly Digital Photo Frames" into Google - I'm shocked that one of those will not work for you
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Gee, Larry, I decided to come to this forum first because I figured actual Apple users might have some better suggestions (I've tried things other people have posted elsewhere for other problems, and nothing has worked--this time I wanted to try Apple users first). Thanks for your help. Charmed… Marilyn
Marilyn.
If you use a frame that works of an SD or Compact Disk card it simply doesn't matter. The frame doesn't know where the card came from - Mac, Windows, Linux.
I have seen some devices that might wirelessly connect with Windows machines only, but that's just one feature. So read the manual carefully before you buy. If it takes a card then it doesn't matter.
Thank you, Terence. But then why didn't our flash drive work on the dpf at the funeral parlor? The man told us it was for Windows photos. And what "card" is that? Can't one use a flash drive? Thank you.
Here's one I had been looking at:
NIX X08D 8 inch Hi-Res Digital Photo Frame with Motion Sensor
If it uses a thumb drive, why would compatibility matter?
With respect, I'm not sure how I could know why something didn't work at a funeral parlour thousands of miles from me. As for the "man" how knowledgeable was he? The card is the SD or Compact Flash card that comes with your camera. A flash drive is a USB Device, and no, the device you're looking at does not work with flash drive.
However, if you take the time to read the questions here
you will find one that might be relevant:
is it MAC comparable?Apr 10, 2014
Not sure if the direct connection is, however in my case I plugged the SD Card directly into the Mac and dragged/dropped from iTunes and iPhoto. So it's an easy work around, if not!
Which rather supports my case. The device reads photos and videos from the SD card and has no way of knowing where the SD card came from.
The issue I have seen is that when you format an SD Card or USB stick for FAT for windows compatibility, OSX adds extra files to contain metadata, these have the same filename but begin with '.' so you cannot normally see them in OSX. Some digital picture frames choke on these extra files and just refuse to load any others, rather than just moving on to the next file like they should.
But you can fix this - if it arises - with apps like Blue Harvest
Didn't say it couldn't be fixed, just pointing out the issue. Windows Explorer on a handy PC can fix it, to.
Sorry, Terence. I really didn't expect you to know that funeral parlors here don't run Mac photos. I just mentioned it as a way of explaining that my husband and I assumed that a jpeg is a jpeg is a jpeg, and that any system that could read one jpeg could read another. That's where I got confused. Also, not being techie, I'm not really sure what all the other stuff means ("metafiles," for example). I did click on your link, but I'm not really sure what "question" you need me to see. All I saw was the data I copied above to show you that this particular dpf is only Windows-compatible. And again, shouldn't jpeg-ready systems be able to read all jpegs? I don't know…seems like it should be much easier. Or, maybe Apple could put out their own dpf so we wouldn't have to download other programs to simply show jpegs. Argh…sorry, just very confused. Thanks, though. Marilyn
The problem is that Macs put extra files onto Windows formatted disks. Normally this shouldn't be a problem because most systems ignore files they don't understand. But it seems that some picture frames just crash when reading a file that is not a JPEG.
Ahhh...than you, Keith. And getting rid of those files won't be harmful? Marilyn
Digital Photo Frame with iPhoto
