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- Mac mini (late 2012), macOS 10.15.7
Equipment:
Computer: Mac G4 (powerpc) OS X 10.4.11
Flash drive: SanDisk cruzer USB 4GB, formated as FAT32
HDTV: Panasonic TC-P50GT50
Blu-ray player: Oppo BDP-103
I am using a USB flash drive to view JPEG photos on my HDTV, using the USB port on the HDTV or the Blu-ray player, both of which have a Media Player to support this. I am able to view the photos just fine but there is a problem with the thumbnail view of the photos on both devices. When Media Player displays the thumbnail images, I see the photos but also see "blank" thumbnail images which are displayed ahead of the photo thumbnails. The Panasonic displays these "blank" thumbnails as an icon that looks like a small rectangle with an exclamation point (!); the Oppo just displays a gray rectangle. When I display the "info" for one of these, I find that it has a filename similar to one of my photos but prefixed with "._", so for example if the photo was "IMG_4659.jpg" the corresponding "blank" file has the name "._IMG_4659.jpg". The .jpg files were copied to the flash drive from my Mac. These "blank" files do not appear when I display the flash drive contents on my Mac, even when I force it to display "invisible" files. I know some Mac files include a "resource fork" which sometimes is viewed by non-Mac systems as a separate file. I attempted to delete the resource forks (using File Buddy 8.1) prior to copying the files to the flash drive, but that apparently didn't help (I'm pretty sure the fork removal worked because the file sizes were about 56KB smaller afterwards, but after copying the files to the flash drive they grew by about 8-12KB). So I'm hoping somebody out there has also tried displaying Mac-based photos on an HDTV via a flash drive.
Computer: Mac G4 (powerpc) OS X 10.4.11
Flash drive: SanDisk cruzer USB 4GB, formated as FAT32
HDTV: Panasonic TC-P50GT50
Blu-ray player: Oppo BDP-103
I am using a USB flash drive to view JPEG photos on my HDTV, using the USB port on the HDTV or the Blu-ray player, both of which have a Media Player to support this. I am able to view the photos just fine but there is a problem with the thumbnail view of the photos on both devices. When Media Player displays the thumbnail images, I see the photos but also see "blank" thumbnail images which are displayed ahead of the photo thumbnails. The Panasonic displays these "blank" thumbnails as an icon that looks like a small rectangle with an exclamation point (!); the Oppo just displays a gray rectangle. When I display the "info" for one of these, I find that it has a filename similar to one of my photos but prefixed with "._", so for example if the photo was "IMG_4659.jpg" the corresponding "blank" file has the name "._IMG_4659.jpg". The .jpg files were copied to the flash drive from my Mac. These "blank" files do not appear when I display the flash drive contents on my Mac, even when I force it to display "invisible" files. I know some Mac files include a "resource fork" which sometimes is viewed by non-Mac systems as a separate file. I attempted to delete the resource forks (using File Buddy 8.1) prior to copying the files to the flash drive, but that apparently didn't help (I'm pretty sure the fork removal worked because the file sizes were about 56KB smaller afterwards, but after copying the files to the flash drive they grew by about 8-12KB). So I'm hoping somebody out there has also tried displaying Mac-based photos on an HDTV via a flash drive.