I have 600 pics, numbered chronologically, but want a slideshow for 200 of them. To save 500 MB of disk space, I created an alias for each of the 200 using meaningful names, such as EiffelLookingUp instead of P10000463.JPG.
When I feed the slideshow folder name to the slideshow tool in Preview (or Photobase 2.5, for that matter), the program reads in only the 15 raw JPGs in the folder, and ignores the 185 aliases. Naming the aliases with ".JPG" seems to make no difference.
I have 1 hour before relatives arrive to view the slideshow.
The only solution I can think of is to manually copy each original file to one with a meaningful name, which would take hours.
I would happily write a shell script, but Unix sees the aliases as empty files (I think), so not easy to automate. Thank you.
2006-07-23 11:31:10 · 1 answers · asked by Chuck S 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
Sorry, Its too late, but try using iPhoto next time. iLife makes life easier.
2006-07-26 21:16:33 · answer #1 · answered by nathan75932 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋