On 5/10/08, Cory Waters, discombobulated, unleashed: >Excuse my mac noobness but I'm ever so slightly stumped here. >So I have put some pictures into my mac from my SD card. They went into >iPhoto and now they're an "event". I can look at them and everything >(about all iPhoto is good for as far as I've seen). >I can see my home PC over the network from the mac and have some shared >folders that I can see/open/play. >I'd like to copy those pictures from my macbook into the shared >"pictures" folder on my PC so I can fool with them in Elements. I can >open a finder window and navigate to the correct shared folder. I can >open another finder window to find the photos. As far as I can tell the >only way to get to them is to open iphoto though and then I can't export >the whole thing... >Must be a place I'm not looking that has the files just as files that I >can copy and paste or whatever. >Help is appreciated. >Cory
Hi Cory, The thing that makes me shudder is when you said 'they went into iPhoto'..... There's a really simple way to avoid iPhoto and manage your pictures manually, with no hindrance from iPhoto, and you still get to see your pics using 'Preview' (a small application that lets you view pictures that comes with the OS). How did you get the pics onto your Mac from the SDS card? Card reader of direct connection from camera? I'll assume card reader.... 1. Connect card reader to Mac, Insert SD card. 2. Ignore any application that opens, especially iPhoto. Ignore and close. See your SD card pop up straight onto your desktop. If it doesn't, look along the top in the menubar, see 'Finder' click on 'Preferences' NOT the same thing as the blue Apple menu and System Preferences!) (click anywhere on the desktop to make sure 'Finder' appears top left on the menubar), ensure 'Hard Disks' is checked in : 'Show these items on the desktop'. 3. With your SD card on the desktop, open it by double-clicking on it - navigate your way to your pics by double-clicking on the folders within til you reach all your pics. 4. Create a new folder directly on the desktop. 5. Drag and drop your pics into this new folder directly from your SD card pics folder. 6. Eject the SD card from the Mac. Drag it to the trash (does not delete anything - dragging a connected hard disk to the trash simply ejects the disk - see the cursor change to the eject symbol over the trash. There are several ways to eject the hard disk, this is one of them. Then pull the SD card out of the reader. 7. You now have copies of all you pics on your Mac. If you want to see them, you can organise them in the folder so they will show the actual pics in the icons, or open them in Preview. Or organise them and/or view them in any suitable application. Apologies if this is very simplistic. Your question reminds me of a PC user stumped by the simplest operation on a Mac ;-) HTH -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=====| http://www.cottysnaps.com _____________________________ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
