[Douglashh]

I need to remove the Resource Forks and DS file from a folder of digital camera pictures so that I can burn a CD and play it on my Panasonic DVR.

What is the best and easiest program to accomplish this? Would it be best to duplicate the folder and remove DS file and resource forks from the duplicated file?

What is the affect of removing the resource fork as far as viewing and using them on my Mac? What information is contained in the resource fork? Does it affect the printing of digital pictures in any way?

I assume that if I remove the folders .DS file and then open that folder before I burn it to CD that another .DS file will be created, is that correct?

Thanks in advance,
Doug

[Chuckit]

Presumably. Have you looked at just burning a photo CD with iPhoto? Seems like the simplest thing to do.

[Douglashh]

These are photos that I don't want to put in iPhoto.

[CharlesS]

I find that the easiest thing to do here is to just use Toast. I have an old version of Toast Lite that came with my external LaCie CD-RW, but if you don't have an OEM version you'd need to buy the retail version for $89.95. I'm not sure if it's worth it at that price, but Toast is usually pretty good at not leaving dotfiles if you didn't tell it to.

Barring that, one thing that would probably work would be to make a disk image, reformat it in MS-DOS format, copy the files onto it, go in and delete the dotfiles in the Terminal, unmount the image, and burn it.

[Douglashh]

I just tried buring a test CD with iPhoto. iPhoto CDs don't work correctly with my Panasonic DVR.

[hyperizer]

You can use GraphicConveter's Convert & Modify command (under the File menu) to remove resource forks. You could also use AppleScript or make a FileBuddy droplet.