You don't need to jailbreak to use my workaround!
I appreciate the advice and direction, though just as you mentioned you wouldn't recommend this because of the strange names and all; but it would allow me to extract my photos out of my iPad and into external storage.
So... why not just sell your 13" rMBP and buy a (new or used) 13" rMBP with 500GB? It will likely end up saving you money. You might even be able to afford a used 15" rMBP with 500GB - that will perform better than the 13", anyway.
The 500GB SSD upgrade is $500 - your other solution will certainly cost you more in the long term (losing money on the 13" sale + cost of iPad + cost of reliable internet and cloud storage or external drive).
I've not seen rMBP 13" w/ 500GBs; only 256GBs at most. The 15inch rMBP sound appealing but only due to the larger storage and screen size, though as mentioned, I do travel quite a bit and the 13inch rMBP would best suit my needs in regards to portability. (FYI, I had the 11inch Air for a few months before trading it in for a 13inch rMBP but hated the weight distribution on the Air.) I do feel ya on the faster workload the 15in. rMBP would handle but i'd prefer to not go into the 15inch MBP world.
Here's an idea: Using a Synology NAS (I guess the
DS212j with 2x2TB drives would be fine here), you can upload photos via Synology's "DS photo+" App.
At first I freaked out seeing this, thinking it was way more than what I was asking for, though it does seem to be what I'd like, even remotely from almost any corner in the world; however this means I'd need to have this secure in a "home-base" sort of location and truth i'm in moving all the time w/ no concrete settlement.
lol, maybe it's a language barrier thing but there seem to be so many products you require or are seemingly available that simply do not exist.
You don't like external devices for storage but your rMBP SSD isn't enough so you want an iPad which is smaller in capacity??
For a 'cloud' service may I suggest Dropbox - my iOS camera roll is currently too large for my free iCloud storage so I turned the back up off so that it instead synchronises to my 50GB Dropbox cloud storage. These files are then accessible anywhere on the web and any device when you sign in. You will be paying out a lot of £/$/ for a big cloud storage space though.
Yes, I can more than thrive on 16GB on a weekly basis. In the end, this question is about storage. Something of which my MBP, any Mac do, so long as there is enough space available. A Mac Mini would suffice, but as mentioned above I'm always traveling and wouldn't be able to carry that along with me. Portability and a storage solution are the name of the game here.
So confused. Thanks for taking the time to write.
I suspect he's trolling. For example he says external storage for his MBP is unacceptable even though there's so many options even StorEdge drives, but it's something he can get past on an iPad where Apple just cripples out that functionality. It feels like an invented problem.
On the off chance he's actually not trolling, it's pretty clear he wants the impossible and for some pretty contrived reasons. So what he needs is to rethink his requirements in light of reality.
I'll make it work.
Charitably speaking, perhaps he's thinking that MBP plus external hard drives are too heavy to lug around, but the same external hard drives plus iPad are light enough that he can live with that.
Still, it does seem like he has an extreme edge usage case, and he's not helping himself by not explaining his situation and requirements clearly.
This is it. I've always hated carrying around externals so since my 1st Mac I always had more than 500GB's within any MacBook i've owned. Since iPads came along i've noticed most of those space GBs were consumed with photos and videos I took and edited. iPhoto isn't my ideal location to house everything, though I do consider it the prettiest, and considering I have more than 60GB's of photos so far (and quickly accumulating more), I'm seeking a solution for housing all this. At the same time not wanting to carry around extras I don't need.
I hope you don't employ anyone because I would hate to hear how confusing your demands would sound to them.
You're contradicting yourself everywhere in this post.
I don't understand why a 128GB iPad (not Mini) wouldn't suit your needs NOW and be much better for photos since it is a larger screen. But then again - you have a MUCH more capable device already - and why sell it to lose your butt on it and then buy an iPad which is far inferior in every way for what you are wanting to do?
Buy external storage - offload photos when necessary. Keep your 60+ gigs freed up so you can utilize while traveling. Use cloud storage (Google Drive, Flickr, Dropbox, Pogoplug, etc...) for when you run out on the MB.
You make take thousands of photos but you don't need instant access to all of them at any given moment. And quite honestly - there isn't any feasible solution for you that will give you instant access to every photo. It's all about organization.
Check yourself before you wreck yourself.
It certainly is about organization and convinience. I certainly do not need all my photos at the same time, but within these past few years i've always had every file i've ever create available to me at any given time. Back in the day I would leave my MBP on 24/7 via LogMeIn and it suited me well between University and hoping to different continents. Now, it's different. I truly don't know where I'll be the next week and it's always been nice to have everything available should I need it. Here however, the question is about not wanting to lose any photos/videos I take throughout my travels, seeing as it's more likely I lose/misplace my iPad or iPhone at the airport or in some foreign place as oppose to the tranquil daily life in Anytown USA.
You can store 101,000 photos with shared photo streams. You have 1,000 photos in your standard photo stream and 100 shared photo streams that will store 1,000 photos each.
This, if i'm understanding you correctly would be a great solution.. assuming that I can create a shared photo stream, sharing it only to myself and that the photos don't disappear once I delete them from the original iOS device. That and assuming Apple provides a service for this. I would assume this isn't iTunes Match, a service i'd heavily consider getting before selling my rMBP (hoping the iPad Mini w/ Retina comes out) seeing as the array of my iTunes media wasn't purchased in iTunes.
