Re: [WinMac] windows formatted floppies and Macs

Bruce Johnson(johnson[at]Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU)
Fri, 08 Oct 1999 09:31:30 -0700

Matt Montagne wrote:
>
> Our site recently purchased a Sony Mavica Digital Camera. The camera uses
> a Windows formatted floppy. Our G3 computers (running OS 8) have no
> problems seeing and opening the JPEG images-we mostly open them up in Kid
> Pix. However, when we attempt to open the images on our Power Mac 5200
> (once again, opening them from Kid Pix) machines (which run system software
> 7.6 and have 40 Meg of RAM and all extensions/control panels are ON) the
> computer recongizes the existence of a Windows formatted floppy but it sees
> nothing on the disk. My hunch is that the older system software does not
> have the capability/tools to work w/ these images. Any suggestions on how
> to make our 5200s work successully w/Windows formatted disks and images
> from the Sony digital camera? I hope I can prevent having to change the
> format of the images on our G3 machines before using the disk on our
> 5200s-doing this would eliminate one of the major advantages of the Sony
> Mavica Camera.
>

7.6 happily sees Windows formatted disks, as PC Exchange was built-in to
every system after 7.3. I know my old 7200 came with 7.3.2 or somesuch.
Uhhh...make sure PC Exchange is indeed installed and on!

Check the PC Exchange settings, for the .jpg settings, and make sure it
isn't set to something weird that kidpix won't recognize.

Do the files show if you just open the disk in finder? If not, then I
suspect either a dirty or misaligned floppy in the 5200. Otherwise drag
the file onto the kidpix icon, it should open it.

Try Graphic Converter, that will open _anything_ ;-)

-- 
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group


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