>On Tuesday 05 Nov 2002 10:53 pm, you wrote:
>
>
>>Anne Wilson wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Tuesday 05 Nov 2002 6:38 pm, you wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Anne Wilson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>I use KView's ability to display thumbnails, when working with images,
>>>>>but have come across a real puzzler. In the large batch of photos I'm
>>>>>working with, two directories contain .jpg and .bmp images. Some of the
>>>>>.bmps were written by a windows program, and some by gPhoto. The .jpgs
>>>>>display as thumbnails, but the .bmps don't.
>>>>>
>>>>>In a third directors there are images that were captured from video by a
>>>>>windows application, then trimmed in Gimp. These all show as .BMP.
>>>>>These images do display as thumbnails.
>>>>>
>>>>>All three directories are subdirectories in a fat32 partition, so
>>>>>renaming *.bmp to *.BMP makes no difference.
>>>>>
>>>>>Any ideas, anyone?
>>>>>
>>>>>Anne
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>What about the name of the files ?
>>>>
>>>>John
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Non-displaying ones are in the order of pic00003.bmp and displaying ones
>>>are Svid003.BMP.
>>>
>>>Anne
>>>
>>>
>>Well I'm not familiar with those file names as such but I do know many
>>windblows file names have to be changed, that is what jhead and chcase
>>are there for, but just as
>>an experiment try changing the name to something all lowercase and see what
>>happens.
>>john
>>
>>
>
>Wouldn't that be counter-productive? It's the mixed case ones that do
>display correctly.
>
>BTW, the pic* names are because that's the way the smartmedia card names its
>.jpg files, and I use .bmp when processing them to avoid further degradation.
> The Svid* files are a user'defined prefix from the video capture software.
>
>Anne
>
>
>
>
All I can go on is my experiences with Windblows files , and any
Johnfiles that
were higher case I had to rename in all lower case to work in linux, and
to that end chcase and jhead did the job.
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