Friday, October 28, 2005

No Photos on the PSP


I'm unable to view pictures on my PSP now. No more slideshows, sharing pictures, or viewing JPG exports from PDF files - no reading my magazines!

What's happening is that I can view the first ten or so pictures from an album or from the main Photo directory, but after that the PSP just crashes. All the photos are either baseline or progressive JPG files, come either from my digital camera or from a photo editor (iPhoto or Fireworks MX), are under 100KB in size and have been added to the PSP either manually using a Mac or via synching through PSPWare.

This all began to happen soon after I installed the v2.50 upgrade from Sony. Big problem is that I can't downgrade to v2.00 according to the tech support from Sony. I was asked but discounted the possibility of physical damage to the unit.

The Sony support guys asked me to format the MS in the PSP, then reset the defaults, then re-format the MS. I was able to view a bunch of iPhoto thumbnail files alright, but still haven't been able to view more than 10 "regular" images on the PSP without a crash.

I'm either going to have to wait for the next system upgrade, switch to my Palm for all my document reading, or experiement by using a PC to transfer the files over to my PSP.

I'm pretty pissed off right now.

1 comment:

Kent Matsueda said...

I just tried copying a variety of JPG files from my work computer onto my PSP and am overjoyed to find out that they work! I still have to bring in photos from my computer at home and see if they work. I'm wonding if it's a MAC incompatibility problem.