Oct 18,2012 16:31 pm / Posted by Hall Paular to eBooks Topics
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You can open the contents of your Photo Library by using Show Contents from Finder (control click). Then drop the ithmb files or the entire filder on File Juicer to extract the images. Recover ithmb from the iPod Photo. First - do not synchronize your empty iPhoto album with your iPod before you have everything recovered. See screen shot of iTunes below (where the synchronize is turned on). CompuClever ITHMB Viewer is a free Windows 10 app. It lets you view and share ITHMB files. It lets you view and share ITHMB files. The features to print and convert ITHMB files are also there but.
If you are iOS device users, you must know the ITHMB files. They are created when you sync your iPhone, iPad, or iPod with iTunes. ITHMB files contain thumbnail images to make image viewing faster. But you can only view them on your iOS devices. If you want to open on your computer, you can convert ITHMB files to JPEG photos. You need a powerful image converter that can easily turn ITHMB into JPEG.
You can use XnView to convert ITHMB images to JPEG
XnView is a free software for Windows, Linux, and Mac. It can be used as an image viewer, image converter, image editor. It supports more than 400 files formats and converts photos to more than 50 formats. You can use it to quickly create various types of photo projects like collages, film strips, web pages, and slide shows. XnView supplies an easy to use interface for viewing and converting images. You can choose one or more images to see in thumbnail form, and convert them to the format you want. You can also use it to make some editings like changing size and color, and lossless turning and flipping of JPEG files.
Step 1: Download and install Xnview on your computer.
Step 2: Choose the folder contains your images and highlight each picture you want to be in your project.
Step 3: You can batch convert your images from the Tools >> Batch Convert… section.
Though there are many free online image converters. YouConvertIt, Zamzar, CoolUtils are all free online image converter. They are powerful and easy to use. But many of them can't convert ITHMB to JPEG photo. ITHMB is a photo format that we use rarely. So if you convert popular images, some free online converters can easily meet your requirements.
You can make a photo slideshow video with your photos you shoot with your iPhone. The Mac Slideshow Making Software is the best software to make a wonderful photo slideshow. This software is easy to operate. You can make an elegant slideshow in three steps. It allows you to upload your photo slideshow to YouTube and to import for your mobile devices like iPhone, iPad. You can also burn it to DVD to share with your friends.
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File Juicer can convert ithmb files to TIFF. This is one of the few conversions File Juicer does, as ithmb is not a common format.TIFF can preserve all the information from ithmb files, so this conversion is lossless.
The ithmb files are compressed using 16 bits per pixel in YUV format for television and they are therefore a bit smaller than the converted TIFF files.
The iPod Photo Cache
When you use iTunes to synchronize photos to your iPod, iPhone or Apple TV, iTunes creates an iPod Photo Cache inside you Photos Library. You can open the contents of your Photo Library by using Show Contents from Finder (control click). Then drop the ithmb files or the entire filder on File Juicer to extract the images.
Recover ithmb from the iPod Photo
- First - do not synchronize your empty iPhoto album with your iPod before you have everything recovered. See screen shot of iTunes below (where the synchronize is turned on).
- Then you need to make your iPod connected to your Mac as a hard disk.
You do this by checking 'enable disk use' for your iPod in iTunes. - Then you can copy the .ithmb files, which are in the '/Photos/Thumbs' folder on your iPod, from your iPod to your hard disk.
- To convert the ithmb files to TIFF, drag and drop them into File Juicer.
Sizes
The largest of the ithmb files on the iPod, 'F1019_X.ithmb' on the iPod Photo (X is a number), can be converted to TIFF by File Juicer. They contain the same images as you can find in the iPod's Photo cache folder. They are small copies of your original images - 720 x 480 pixels.
Newer iPods may put the best images in F1023 or F1024. On the iPhone the best images (640x480) are in the F3008_1.ithmb, F3008_2.ithmb ... files.
The Tiny Versions
File Juicer can also extract the TIFF from the smaller ithmb files with the sizes: 176 x 220 pixels, 130 x 88 and 41 x 30 pixels. Usually you will only be interested in the images you can extract from the largest ithmb files.
iPhone and iPod Touch (difficult)
The thumbnails on the iPod Touch and the iPhone are also in ithmb format. They are a lot harder to copy to your Mac and you may consider contacting a professional recovery service for this task. This requires that you do a jailbreak to get to the files. Then drop the F3008_1.ithmb onto File Jucier and you are done. The extracted TIFF files are the best representation of the images on the iPod, and the JPEG versions are carefully upscaled, to compensate a bit for the small size. Using the iPod as a backup for your images
The iPod can automatically synchronize the full resolution images too, although it is not turned on by default. You may be reading this page because you have lost your Mac and your iPod is the last place you have your images. After you have recovered your ithmb files you can turn this checkbox on.
Screen Shot of the iTunes preference.
How to scale up converted ithmb images
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If you lost the original images, and wish to scale up the rescued photos you can use neural network resizing in BIG JPG.
iPhoto's files for smaller thumbnails
File Juicer can also extract icons from the iPhoto's Thumb32.data and Thumb64.data files. For more about extracting images from iPhoto.Ithmb Viewer Freeware
Extract images from an Apple TV
You don't need File Juicer for this, but I have made instructions on how to extract images from an Apple TV as it is somewhat related should you need it!
Extract images from Windows Thumbs.db files
Windows generates thumbnails of images for speed reasons like the iPod, iPhone and Apple Photos. YOu may encounter Thumbs.db files if you copy over folders of images from a computer running Windows.
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The Windows thumbnail files contain 256 by 256 pixel versions of the images of the folder it resides in. File Jucier can pull these JPG thumbnails out.