Help PC vs Mac problem

clairg_2

[COLOR="rgb(255, 0, 255)"]Hello All,

Hoping someone can help, my Mum has come back from 3 months away in Oz and has given me all her holiday pictures on disk down loaded from her camera on to a PC and disks, tried to put them on my MAC doesn't recognise the disks and format !

Very worried thought she might have lost all her pics so tried it on a friends PC and they are there thank goodness, but i've never had this problem before, any ideas of any programs i could run that might the problem

Thank you :A

Clair x[/COLOR]

Marty_J

What format are the pictures?

clairg_2

I'm guessing J pegs as it would of been my brother putting them on disk know it would be me sorting them out but i couldn't be sure with out checking

Ta

Clair x

Marty_J

Well that's weird.

Can you transfer the photos any other way?

Maybe try copying them onto a memory stick on your friend's PC, and then copying them from that onto your Mac.

asininity

Got a spare PC?

456789

Get a pc

clairg_2

No i love my Mac !!! :rotfl: and it's the 1st PHOTO problem i've had LOL !! cos she was over there visiting the new grandaughter there is a fair few disks i may need to move in with my friend for a few days to transfer over the amount of pictures!! i might try snappy snaps in town see if i can transfer on to there disks

Clair

Marty_J

Good plan; I'm guessing the disk has been written some weird way.

I doubt it's a file format problem, as Mac OS X can read many more image formats out of the box than Windows can, which is one reason it's so popular with photographers.

Anyhow, I hope you get it sorted.

Phantom_Flan_Flinger

When you say the disc isn't recognised, do you mean that you can't see the contents of the disc, or the Mac isn't recognising that there's a disc in?

clairg_2

It says the disk you inserted was not readable by this computer!

Clair

Phantom_Flan_Flinger

You might have to presume that the disc's been written by some Windows based application that the Mac doesn't recognise.

Either go the Snappy Snaps route or go back to your friends, transfer them to their PC and then write them back to a blank disc just as data files.