Can't read jpgs from macbook pro and iphoto on my pc

Question

help.... in my iphoto library i highlighted the pictures i wanted to export.... i hit file, export, chose jpg, chose the folder to drop them in and hit ok...... everything seemed ok, but when I connected the external hard drive to my pc I could not view the jpgs...... all of the files had a period in front of the file name ( .090106sportevent1)
Please, what am i doing wrong?

Answer 1

For some reason iphoto creates a small 4kb file of each jpg and puts it along with the jpg file into the folder you have chosen.
What’s happened there is that the Windows machine is having trouble dealing with the structure of the Mac files.
Although deprecated now, Mac files can have two Forks - the resource and the data fork. Windows boxes can’t dal with the resource fork and show it as a separate file. The solution, when this occurs, is to run something like The Grim Ripper over the files after you export. This will strip the resource fork and therefore solve the issue.
It will make no difference to the display of the actual files.
Regards
TD