\nI have a cheap photo frame with very little built in memory but it had a SD slot in it so I waited until 8GB SD cards went on sale and bought one.<\/p>\n
\nI exported all my photos from iPhoto in one big drag and drop into a folder. This ended up with about 7000 JPG files in a single directory. When I put this SD card in my photo display simply hung for a long time on the Loading… screen and then gave up and only showed files from the internal memory – not the SD card.<\/p>\n
\nSo I wrote a little Python script to spread the files across 10 folders with 10 sub-folders in each folder. Just pushed things around randomly basically hoping the microcode in the photo frame could handle 80 photos per directory. I dropped the Python script in the main folder of the SD card and fired away. I even got rid of some of those Mac metadata files which started with a dot to give my poor photo frame a fighting chance.<\/p>\n
\nimport os\nfor i in range(10):\ntry: os.mkdir(\"dir\"+str(i))\nexcept: pass\nfor j in range(10):\ntry: os.mkdir(\"dir\"+str(i)+\"\/dir\"+str(j))\nexcept: pass\ni = 0\nj = 0\nfor root, dirs, files in os.walk('.'):\nfor file in files:\nif file.startswith(\".\") :\ntry: os.unlink(file)\nexcept: pass\ncontinue\nif not ( file.endswith('.jpg') or file.endswith('.JPG') ) : continue\nplace = \"dir\"+str(i)+\"\/dir\"+str(j)+\"\/\"+file\nj = j + 1\nif j > 9 :\ni = i + 1\nj = 0\nif i > 9 : i = 0\nprint file, place\nos.rename(file,place)\n<\/pre>\n\nAnd it worked – a cheap closeout photo frame ($20.00 from Aldi’s) with a $14 8GB SD card and I have 9 years of photos showing randomly! Yay!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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