question about JPEG file exensions

amadeusamadeus Registered Users Posts: 2,125 Major grins
edited April 9, 2011 in Finishing School
a question for a friend.


"I need to convert my file extension from JPG to jpg, the company that is placing the photos on my website told me that the all CAPS, JPG doesn't work. I manually changed all the file extensions, but it was time consuming. Is there a program that I could use or a setting on my computer that I'm not seeing that would be more efficient? "

Thank you.

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  • Art ScottArt Scott Registered Users Posts: 8,959 Major grins
    edited April 9, 2011
    What does your friend use to process the images....photoshop has batch capabilities
    and i use this to rename and number my images at which time I can choose the
    extension...I have never seen a difference between JPG and jpg...I have used both.ne_nau.gifscratch
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  • DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
    edited April 9, 2011
    On the Mac I use and love A Better Finder Rename. But you didn't mention which OS. ne_nau.gif
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  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,967 moderator
    edited April 9, 2011
    amadeus wrote: »
    a question for a friend.


    "I need to convert my file extension from JPG to jpg, the company that is placing the photos on my website told me that the all CAPS, JPG doesn't work. I manually changed all the file extensions, but it was time consuming. Is there a program that I could use or a setting on my computer that I'm not seeing that would be more efficient? "

    Thank you.
    If you are running Windows, a simple DOS command is all you need. Put them all in one folder, open the command prompt window from the Start menu, change directory to the folder, then enter:
    rename *.JPG *.jpg

    Done.

    If you're on a Mac, you can do something similar from a terminal prompt.
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited April 9, 2011
    Art Scott wrote: »
    What does your friend use to process the images....photoshop has batch capabilities
    and i use this to rename and number my images at which time I can choose the
    extension...I have never seen a difference between JPG and jpg...I have used both.ne_nau.gifscratch

    Art, it's probably a LAMP website, so their server software and file system are case sensitive and the software expects the extension to be a ".jpg" in lower case.
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  • pathfinderpathfinder Super Moderators Posts: 14,708 moderator
    edited April 9, 2011
    DavidTO wrote: »
    On the Mac I use and love A Better Finder Rename. But you didn't mention which OS. ne_nau.gif

    There is a Windows version as well, TO.
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