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I provided a friend/client with wedding photos on a USB pen around 6 months ago (MSDOS FAT formatting using a MacBook Pro from memory).
All was good on their end using a Windows laptop. They used a kiosk to print photos from the USB pen and now when they plug it into their Windows laptop, all of the image files are there but they're all now 4.00kb in size and not showing the actual image when loaded up... strange! I asked for the USB back and I'd fix it ASAP, plugged it into my MacBook and all of the images load up absolutely fine.
I don't have a Windows computer handy, so I plugged it into my TV and have the same problem the client was having... I tried a quick Google but not to much avail.
One thing I did find was MSDOS FAT is an old formatting and NTFS is what all the cool kids do these days. My formatting knowledge is limited (^^ that's about all I got up there - I know!) but can anyone help?
Is it just as simple as delete the lot, reformat as NTFS and pop the files on again? (I know I need to buy a program to write as NTFS on a Mac - or so Google tells me)
Thanks in advance!
I provided a friend/client with wedding photos on a USB pen around 6 months ago (MSDOS FAT formatting using a MacBook Pro from memory).
All was good on their end using a Windows laptop. They used a kiosk to print photos from the USB pen and now when they plug it into their Windows laptop, all of the image files are there but they're all now 4.00kb in size and not showing the actual image when loaded up... strange! I asked for the USB back and I'd fix it ASAP, plugged it into my MacBook and all of the images load up absolutely fine.
I don't have a Windows computer handy, so I plugged it into my TV and have the same problem the client was having... I tried a quick Google but not to much avail.
One thing I did find was MSDOS FAT is an old formatting and NTFS is what all the cool kids do these days. My formatting knowledge is limited (^^ that's about all I got up there - I know!) but can anyone help?
Is it just as simple as delete the lot, reformat as NTFS and pop the files on again? (I know I need to buy a program to write as NTFS on a Mac - or so Google tells me)
Thanks in advance!
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