[BNM] Removing thumbnail previews from JPEGs etc

[Nick Sayers]

Me:

>> 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?

Martyn Fagg:

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

Seems to be embedded in the file on a Mac.

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

Nice one! Spot on. It's a bit slow, and slightly shonky (think they stopped
development before Mac OS 10.4), but it does the job! Thanks mate. :-)

All the best

Nick 

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