Hmm without having more information available yet, it sounds like a
cross platform formatting problem.
What kind of disk drive is he using to save the photos to? Are the
floppies formatted for use with M$ products by the drive he is using or
were they formatted by the machine he is using to send them with. This
used to be a problem back in the days when Macs came with floppy disks
(Macs could read and write to disks that had been formatted by windoze
machines, but sometimes if the disk was formatted on a Mac, the windoze
machine would not read it properly, or would read it but would corrupt
the data files. This was usually fixed by formatting the disk on the
windoze machine, then using it on the Mac.
Since he must be using a USB floppy drive attached to that iBook, has
the latest drivers been downloaded and applied to try to see if that is
causing the problem?
(You can tell that I am assuming here he is sending via a windoze
machine, given the prevalence of those critters in the military.)
Jerry
On Tuesday, April 29, 2003, at 01:23 PM, Diane Stinnett wrote:
> My husband is in Germany on a military base, and to send me pictures
> taken with our digital camera he has to download them to his ibook,
> them put them on a disk and take them to one of the base computers
> that has an internet connection. As long as he burns the pictures to a
> CD, I can open them without any trouble, but if he uses a floppy disk
> I can't open them at all. I get the following error message: "Could
> not open "filename" because an unknown or invalid JPEG marker type is
> found". Does anyone know what the problem might be? He is wasting a
> lot of CDs.
>
> Diane Stinnett
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