I have a Macbook. I recently imported my photos from my vacation onto my Mac from my camera. This organized great in iPhoto. Then I imported the photos onto a flash drive, (formatted FAT32), and when I put them on my PC, Windows Photo Viewer will not open the photos. Is this a compatibilty issue? And how can I make this happen?
Mac vs PC jpeg compatability
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What format are they on the flash drive? How did you "import" them to the drive? If you put them there in a standard format (jpeg, for example) then Windows viewer should show them just fine.
What format are they on the flash drive? How did you "import" them to the drive? If you put them there in a standard format (jpeg, for example) then Windows viewer should show them just fine.
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Did you format the flash drive with your Mac or was it pre-formatted from the factory to FAT-32? A jpeg is the same on a Mac as it is on Windows so it sounds like the flash drive might be the culprit.
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I do that all the time and they always work fine on any machine. I just cleaned the pics off my friends camera. Put them on my Mac in Photos then dragged them to a FAT-32 Flash drive then put them on his Windows 10 Notebook and all opened fine.
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