I am trying to export pictures from the library to a card for a photo frame. I can’t seem to get them there. I keep getting “unable to create” message. Do all the photos need to be renamed/ is there a sharing issue with photos having the same name?
I spent countless hours trying to accomplish what I thought was a simple task and now I am about to throw this iMac out in the street. I made a new folder and put all the pics I wanted to export in it. I loaded a new 1G SD card into the reader went to export and kept getting the error message. I then opened up the card and went to the folder where the pic were and selected all. I tried dragging them to the SD card and after about 40 pics transferred I got a message that said “DCI0002.jpg was busy”…WTF
You are moving the photos from iPhoto? I would try moving them and burning them to a disk to see if there is a problem with the new SD card. I've never had to rename the photos.
When it tells you unable to create, does it give you any more reasoning than that? Usually mac errors will point you in the right direction a little more than that.
Do you have more than one user configured on your iMac?
If so, do you have admin access on the account you're using when copying?
Were all the photos downloaded to the iMac using that account?
Have you reformatted the SD card already?
What are your file names? You shouldn't have to rename them, but most memory cards conform to ISO9660 format and often don't like strange characters or long file names. The long file names part Mac OSX should take care of, but strange characters or punctuation in the filename it might not fix, especially when you're trying to copy multiples like that.
Go into Utilities > Disk Utility, select your boot drive and run "Repair Disk Permissions" and try again.
While you're in there, you might as well hit it with a "Verify Disk", too.
I am at work now so I don’t remember the complete message. I did not know I needed to re-format the card before moving photos to it. I really thought it was as simple as selecting all and dragging them to the card…
Spark wrote:I am at work now so I don’t remember the complete message. I did not know I needed to re-format the card before moving photos to it. I really thought it was as simple as selecting all and dragging them to the card…
You shouldn't have to, but there's a chance that if the card wasn't dismounted correctly off the desktop at some point, the "drive" headers may be damaged/corrupt which might be causing your issue. - Not a mac specific thing, you can do it on a Windows box too if you don't eject them off the desktop before you yank it out of the reader. Since you don't have anything on there you want to save atm (least it doesn't sound like it), it's not going to hurt to do a quick reformat - it'll at least eliminate one more thing.
