40K+ Photos - Moving to iPad

[spyder0109]

Hi everyone,

Recently got the iPad pro 11 256GB and wanted to move all my photos from google photos to iPad.

Until now, I extracted all photos from Google Photos (using Takeout) and have segmented into different file types, as I wanted to only move photos and not videos.

However, I am not able to move them and tried/thought of following

1. iTunes Folder Sync is not helpful as it will make a copy of photos from mac to iPad and then I have two copies - i just want it to be on iPad and save space on Mac
2. Tried AirDropping
   1. Got error message when I tried sending in batch of 3K photos "Failed to save and use iCloud drive instead" - I did make sure that I'm sending only JPEG files
3. Tried USB-C from Mac to iPad but it doesnt help either

Its sad that there is no simple way to tranfer my photos (about 50GB) easily to my new iPad. Help would be highly appreciated as I'm lost.

 

[Mike Boreham]

Hi everyone,

Recently got the iPad pro 11 256GB and wanted to move all my photos from google photos to iPad.

Until now, I extracted all photos from Google Photos (using Takeout) and have segmented into different file types, as I wanted to only move photos and not videos.

However, I am not able to move them and tried/thought of following

1. iTunes Folder Sync is not helpful as it will make a copy of photos from mac to iPad and then I have two copies - i just want it to be on iPad and save space on Mac
2. Tried AirDropping
   1. Got error message when I tried sending in batch of 3K photos "Failed to save and use iCloud drive instead" - I did make sure that I'm sending only JPEG files
3. Tried USB-C from Mac to iPad but it doesnt help either

Its sad that there is no simple way to tranfer my photos (about 50GB) easily to my new iPad. Help would be highly appreciated as I'm lost.

I have no experience of transferring photos with iTunes Sync, but Apple wants us to have all our pics in the Photos app. Import them into your Photos Library, on your computer. Then, still on the computer, make the library the System Library and turn on iCloud Photos. The originals will upload to your iCloud and synchronise to the Photos app on your iPad. You will need to pay for enough iCloud storage to hold the full size version of all 40,000/50GB.

On either or both the computer or iPad you can chose to have the originals or "optimised" to save space. Sounds like you want optimised on the computer to save space. You could have the full size originals on your iPad.

Other options would be Lightroom CC (the Cloud version) which works similar (but better IMO) to Photos but would cost more. Lightroom CC has more controls for managing and saving space. I have 75000 photos in my LRCC Library which uses 560GB on the Adobe cloud, but only 18GB on my iMac.

The same 75000/560GB of photos are also in my iCloud Photos library which uses 47GB on my MacBook Pro using the optimised setting. Obviously your 50GB would use proportionately less, probably only a few GB.

Another way would be to put them all in Dropbox.

Note all the above are syncing options where the full size photos exist on the cloud and either full or reduced on the computer and the iPad. And none are free.

There maybe other ways which only have the photos on the iPad, which others will contribute.

 

[spyder0109]

I have no experience of transferring photos with iTunes Sync, but Apple wants us to have all our pics in the Photos app. Import them into your Photos Library, on your computer. Then, still on the computer, make the library the System Library and turn on iCloud Photos. The originals will upload to your iCloud and synchronise to the Photos app on your iPad. You will need to pay for enough iCloud storage to hold the full size version of all 40,000/50GB.

On either or both the computer or iPad you can chose to have the originals or "optimised" to save space. Sounds like you want optimised on the computer to save space. You could have the full size originals on your iPad.

Other options would be Lightroom CC (the Cloud version) which works similar (but better IMO) to Photos but would cost more. Lightroom CC has more controls for managing and saving space. I have 75000 photos in my LRCC Library which uses 560GB on the Adobe cloud, but only 18GB on my iMac.

The same 75000/560GB of photos are also in my iCloud Photos library which uses 47GB on my MacBook Pro using the optimised setting. Obviously your 50GB would use proportionately less, probably only a few GB.

Another way would be to put them all in Dropbox.

Note all the above are syncing options where the full size photos exist on the cloud and either full or reduced on the computer and the iPad. And none are free.

There maybe other ways which only have the photos on the iPad, which others will contribute.

Thanks for the response. But they are still not fitting the bill.

But I want following things

• Move all high-res photos to iPad (Remove it from macbook pro)
• Dropbox/google drive/icloud drive are not suitable as they just keep a redundant additional copy on internet and the photos dont show up on Camera Roll (Currently, I already have a back up on Google Photos)

Any other options guys - basically moving photos from Mac to iPad's camera roll.

 

[alexprib]

Sorry to say that what you wish to do is not an easy task; Apple makes it far easier to pay and use iCloud Photos. And, to be fair, I don't blame them, it is a well integrated solution for the storage of thousands upon thousands of photos, and not just on one device, but across many. I had to do the same as you wish to do for a client (resorted to AirDrop of a few at a time...) but they ended up resorting to iCloud Photos in the end, its just too convenient to pass up.

 

[Mike Boreham]

Thanks for the response. But they are still not fitting the bill.

But I want following things

• Move all high-res photos to iPad (Remove it from macbook pro)
• Dropbox/google drive/icloud drive are not suitable as they just keep a redundant additional copy on internet and the photos dont show up on Camera Roll (Currently, I already have a back up on Google Photos)

Any other options guys - basically moving photos from Mac to iPad's camera roll.

Camera Roll is where pics in Photos app appear. So you want to use Photos on the iPad without iCloud Photos turned on.

How about putting them on an SD card and importing them to the iPad with a Lightning to SD reader?

You may be able to get them from Computer to iPad without going via a Cloud with a third party app like iMazing or Phoneview.

 

[zz_nosa_r]

There is an app called PhotoSync in ios and macos. It can send photos directly to your camera roll via this app. Its like air drop with no limitation. I used this app before to transfer 80GB of photos to my 512GB ipad.

 

[Robertjan88]

Hi everyone,

Recently got the iPad pro 11 256GB and wanted to move all my photos from google photos to iPad.

Until now, I extracted all photos from Google Photos (using Takeout) and have segmented into different file types, as I wanted to only move photos and not videos.

However, I am not able to move them and tried/thought of following

1. iTunes Folder Sync is not helpful as it will make a copy of photos from mac to iPad and then I have two copies - i just want it to be on iPad and save space on Mac
2. Tried AirDropping
   1. Got error message when I tried sending in batch of 3K photos "Failed to save and use iCloud drive instead" - I did make sure that I'm sending only JPEG files
3. Tried USB-C from Mac to iPad but it doesnt help either

Its sad that there is no simple way to tranfer my photos (about 50GB) easily to my new iPad. Help would be highly appreciated as I'm lost.

Only 50GB for 40k photos? Are you sure? Personally I have JPEG and RAW, but even JPEG is around 5-10MB in general.

Have a look at a good Cloud provider. E.g. Office 365 is 60 EUR per year and comes with Office, 1TB of cloud storage (OneDrive) and 1 hour of Skype calls each month to almost every country in the world (landlines).