A while back, I wrote about the missing Home Page button in the latest version of iPhoto. This button made it simple to create .Mac slideshows, and many people who used it had no interest in using iWeb instead. The missing button inspired this simple workaround to publish albums to .Mac. While it's not perfect, it does work. I showed my mother how to use it, and she'd been happily updating her .Mac pages ever since.
Until a couple nights ago, that is, when she told me it was no longer working -- the exported folder showed up in the .Mac list of folders, but when she clicked on that folder in the "add an album" screen, the Choose button was grayed out. It took a bit of troubleshooting to work out what happened, and I thought the solution might save others some time.
It turns out that .Mac will not allow you to add a folder as a slideshow if the images within that folder have been named without file extensions. At some point during the export process, my mother had unchecked the "use file extensions" box (and this setting is remembered whenever you do a new export). I had her enable file extensions again and re-export her images. That's all it took -- .Mac would now let her select the exported folder for use as a slideshow page. At some level, this makes sense, but a meaningful error message would have saved us a bit of troubleshooting time.
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