Ron Jones wrote: > Colin Shepherd wrote: >> Which is sort of on topic as I have a lot of canal trip photos. >> >> We have a Phillips photo frame and not only are they slow to load but >> have limited capacity. I bought a 1 gig XD card (I've got a Fuji >> camewra) but found I couldn't load more than a third of a gig before >> I get a message "The directory or file cannot be created". I got the >> same whether I used the card reader/writer in my printer or used my >> camera as a hard drive. I bought a one gig SD card (£6.99) today and >> I can get up to 2/3 gig before I get the same message. > > Snap! Been there, done that, and got the T shirt. > Pictures are *way* too big. You need (free) Visualizer Photo Resize > http://www.snapfiles.com/get/vphotoresize.html. > Look in your manual for the photo frame and find the screen > resolution - shrink all your pics to that size, and put those on the > card, only then can you get the slide show to work at the speed it > was designed.
>Also forgot - only 512 files in a root directory - DOS strikes again! - It >got me as well. Put then all in one sub-directory >Ron Jones I've only managed to 157 files onto the card. The slideshow is working ok though without reducing them. Colin
