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User profile for user: Nigel82
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Exporting photos from Mac to PC

Hi


Recently got a MacBook Air, to replace an old Windows PC. Eventually got everything transferred over and decided that I could use my old PC as a backup for my pictures. Today I have exported all my pictures from 'Photos' to an external drive (FAT32) and can see the files on my Windows PC but when I go to look at the pictures they don't open - errors such as 'unknown or invalid JPEG marker' / 'not a file that Quicktime understands' / 'viewer doesn't support this file format'.


What have I done wrong? Is there a specific way I should be exporting these pictures so that they are viewable on a PC? Sort of restricts ever going back to a PC if Im not able to do so?


Thanks in advance


Nigel

MacBook Air

Posted on Dec 23, 2015 8:12 AM

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User profile for user: Nigel82
Nigel82 Author
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Posted on Dec 23, 2015 8:24 AM

Sorry, just realised I was being stupid .... there are '._IMG' files and 'IMG' files in my directory, which I presume is a Mac thing. The 'IMG' files are working fine.


Thanks, I'll try and delete this thread now to avoid my embarrassment!!

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LarryHN
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Dec 23, 2015 8:27 AM in response to Nigel82

The general steps to do this are to select the photos in Photos and export (file menu ==> export - if the full export window is not shown click the v oto the right of JPEG to open all of the options) to a desktop folder and then move that folder to the PC - if it fine to use a FAT32 formatted drive as both the Mac and the PC are happy with that (note you can not put your Photos library on a FAT drive but can put exported photos on it)


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Exporting photos from Mac to PC

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