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How to transfer photos from iPad

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sudee

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I downloaded about 2500 photos on to my iPad from my camera while on vacation. When I tried to transfer them to my desktop, iPhoto continually shut down and did not complete the transfer. After several hours on the phone with Apple support, I was told to try a 3rd party software program. Any suggestions?
 
Lots of views but no one has replied. I don't think many of us have that accessory. Hopefully you still have the photos on your camera. Sucks, dude. Sorry.
 
Adobe light room might work and it is an excellent editing program. I use it in conjunction with Photoshop. I think you can sample it free and see if it works. Have it open when you plug in your iPad and then follow the prompts.
 
Image Capture --Free and On your Mac

sudee said:
I downloaded about 2500 photos on to my iPad from my camera while on vacation. When I tried to transfer them to my desktop, iPhoto continually shut down and did not complete the transfer. After several hours on the phone with Apple support, I was told to try a 3rd party software program. Any suggestions?
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Image Capture comes with your Mac, is free, and will do what you need. It will recognize the iPad as a device and you can browse and select the images you want or do them all. If it is bombing out with all, do them in batches.

I don't know why more folks don't know about this great little core application? And, it is criminal Apple Support didn't know about it.
 
Zazoh said:
Image Capture comes with your Mac, is free, and will do what you need. It will recognize the iPad as a device and you can browse and select the images you want or do them all. If it is bombing out with all, do them in batches.

I don't know why more folks don't know about this great little core application? And, it is criminal Apple Support didn't know about it.
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That is a good solution, assuming the OP's desktop is a Mac.
 
Image Capture

I have tried Image Capture and it doesn't work because it shuts down before completing the transfer. I'll try some of the other suggestions.
 
Image Capture is OK, for a few small photos. For me, I had ~2000 raw images, each 22-27 MB in size for a total of ~50 GB and several gig sized movies made on the camera. In this context, at least for me, the Apple tools (iPhoto and Image Capture) failed miserably. This is what my status bar looked like before the images were erased.
 

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Adobe Bridge

I used Adobe Bridge to move my iPad pictures (almost 4,000) to my PC. Worked quite nicely, quickly.
 
I could be wrong, but I'm guessing that there is a bad file for one of the images. Try using image capture as suggested above and transferring in batches of maybe 100 photos at a time till you see it crash. Then you can narrow it down to the bad file.
 
Image Capture comes with your Mac, is free, and will do what you need. It will recognize the iPad as a device and you can browse and select the images you want or do them all. If it is bombing out with all, do them in batches.

I don't know why more folks don't know about this great little core application? And, it is criminal Apple Support didn't know about it.


Thanks.
Brilliant. Worked like a charm. Didn't know about this.
 
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