I have a relative whose Mac died, but his hard drive is fine. So his iPhoto library is fine and I've already salvaged it.
He now has an iPhone 5 (and no Mac) and basically views his iPhone as his one machine. Although, he does also have a cheap PC laptop that he limps along with and syncs with his iPhone.
But he wants to get his iPhoto photos onto his iPhone. Extracting the photos from the iPhoto library package and putting them on the PC and syncing with the iPhone is straightforward enough, but then he'd lose all the event, etc. info.
I figure he could borrow someone's Mac, and that person could temporarily tell it to point to his iPhoto library, and then sync it to the iPhone.
You can split the syncing but there are two basic groupings to syncing: (1) media (movies, tv, music) and (2) data (apps, photos). So he can't sync his contacts, etc. with his PC and tell it to get the photos from the Mac he would use once. If he synced it with the Mac to get the photos, it would erase the other data; if he then synced it with the PC to get the other data, it would erase the photos. (Right?)
Quite the conundrum. Any ideas for him getting his iPhoto library contents onto his iPhone? The goal would be to then rely upon his iPhone exclusively for photos going forward (a combination of the photo app and iPhoto app on his iPhone).
His library is about 7 gigs. The ideal solution would be for me to be able to post it somewhere in cloud storage and for him to access it on his iPhone and pull it all down, with all the organization, etc. still intact. One other data point: he's about 1,000 miles from me so he can't just use my Mac.
He now has an iPhone 5 (and no Mac) and basically views his iPhone as his one machine. Although, he does also have a cheap PC laptop that he limps along with and syncs with his iPhone.
But he wants to get his iPhoto photos onto his iPhone. Extracting the photos from the iPhoto library package and putting them on the PC and syncing with the iPhone is straightforward enough, but then he'd lose all the event, etc. info.
I figure he could borrow someone's Mac, and that person could temporarily tell it to point to his iPhoto library, and then sync it to the iPhone.
You can split the syncing but there are two basic groupings to syncing: (1) media (movies, tv, music) and (2) data (apps, photos). So he can't sync his contacts, etc. with his PC and tell it to get the photos from the Mac he would use once. If he synced it with the Mac to get the photos, it would erase the other data; if he then synced it with the PC to get the other data, it would erase the photos. (Right?)
Quite the conundrum. Any ideas for him getting his iPhoto library contents onto his iPhone? The goal would be to then rely upon his iPhone exclusively for photos going forward (a combination of the photo app and iPhoto app on his iPhone).
His library is about 7 gigs. The ideal solution would be for me to be able to post it somewhere in cloud storage and for him to access it on his iPhone and pull it all down, with all the organization, etc. still intact. One other data point: he's about 1,000 miles from me so he can't just use my Mac.