I recently purchased a macbook pro. I installed Canon's DPP. I shot raw files with my 1D mk3. I did post processing with DPP and converted to JPG for the finished images. I backed up the raw files and jpgs to an external hard drive. This exercise was in preparation for a shoot next week.
I can't view the jpgs with my windows computers. I can view the raw files with my windows machine using either PS3 or Canon DPP.
My question is why can't I view the JPG's with the windows machines. I noticed that the jpg's all have a ._filename_sequence# which is different from the windows machine. When I convert from raw to jpg with my windows machines everything looks the same as the raw file. (the . is not ahead of the underscore.
Would appreciate any help on this. It is crunch time as I pack for this week long gig tomorrow, and at this point am not confident enough to use the macbookpro
because the clients I am shooting for all run windows machines.
With all due respect, a few days before a big shoot is never the time to extensively change up your workflow or your hardware! That's just recipe for headaches and frustration!
Regarding the question, I use a Macbook on site, and have no problems going between the OSX environment and Windows. I use Lightroom for RAW processing, and haven't used DPP for quite some time. My guess is that your problem lies more with DPP than with the hardware.
Check your output settings on DPP to be sure nothing is strange. All of the outputtes JPEG's should have a .jpg extension. I'm assuming from what you wrote above, that your JPEG files, when viewed in a Windows environment, all have the ._filename_sequence# extension which doesn't seem right.
You can easily open windows files on a MAC but Windows cannot always deal with Mac made files.
In PS you have the option of saving in a "Windows Byte Order" or "Macintosh Byte Order" but DPP doesn't afford you this luxury that I know of.
You haven't specified what version of Windows you are running and what Vintage of OSX you used but on XP I ran MacDrive, an application that translates.
There are others.
Sometimes if you merely remove the . in front of the filename Windows will read the file.
I know his isn't the best solution but I've changed the filename and Windows would then read the file with XP. Try changing the filename. I
No no no. When you look at files on Windows written to a FAT/NTFS volume by a Mac you'll see two files for every file you wrote: the actual file and a sort of shadow/metafile with the same name prepended by a period. If you look at the file sizes you'll see a dramatic difference - the metafile may only be a matter of bytes or kilobytes, regardless of the size of the actual file.
On Windows, you can ignore or delete the files prepended with the periods - they're useless to Windows. Your actual files should be there, just without the periods on the names.
Hi there -- you shouldn't have ANY problems sharing Mac and Windows files. Mac OS'es are a form of Linux / Unix and files are shared as per Samba or SMB system -- this has been around for Donkeys years.
On the Mac system just connect to your Windows machine.
Windows files can also be shared --just enable the SHARING option on the drives / folders you want to share
This should solve all the problems (and it shouldn't matter whether your Windows drives are FAT or NTFS- although with large disks NTFS is preferred in Windows environments).
The SMB protocol (network share) will handle any Byte mapping etc
