[BNM] Removing thumbnail previews from JPEGs etc

Martyn Fagg lists at muphi.com
Fri Jul 3 22:19:58 BST 2009


On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Nick Sayers wrote:
> Hello clever people
>
> I've got about 4.8 gigs worth of JPEGs (and a few TIFFs, PSDs etc) that'd
> probably just fit onto a DVD if they were a leetle bit smaller. I thought I
> might be able to do this by removing all their preview thumbnails. I'm on a
> Mac (OS X 10.4). Is there a quick way I can do this? Is there a piece of
> software I can use?

If its anything like Windows (probably not...) the thumbnails are held
in a separate hidden file (thumbs.db).

Actually this looks like it does what you want and its free.
http://www.stalkingwolf.net/software/cocothumbx/

Martyn


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