I accidently deleted a bunch of photo's from my mac, but they are still in my iPod Touch. Do you know of a program that will transfer them to my mac?
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iPod touch Transfering photo's from iPod touch to mac
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Can't think of one, but you can always email them to yourself. How many photos are we talking?
The photos on your iPod, however, are significantly smaller than the ones on your computer, most likely
They compress them to be put on your iPod.Yeah. But I'd like to keep all the photo's private... As in, password protected web gallery would be fine, if possible.
Hey, MobileMe supports that. The way to create an album is in iPhoto. Make a new MobileMe album, and set it so that it's only viewable by you.
That, or email the pics to yourself.
There doesn't appear to be a free way to transfer photos from your iPod to your computer So, unless you're willing to drop $20+ on an application, I'm afraid I couldn't find anything. Sorry!
Did you try contacting Apple?
Anyone else have any luck?
That, or email the pics to yourself.
There doesn't appear to be a free way to transfer photos from your iPod to your computer
So, unless you're willing to drop $20+ on an application, I'm afraid I couldn't find anything. Sorry! Did you try contacting Apple?
Anyone else have any luck?
The mobile me thing should be great! Thanks a lot!
EDIT: Wait. If I restore my iPod and it creates a back up, would that back up my photos as well?
EDIT: Wait. If I restore my iPod and it creates a back up, would that back up my photos as well?
iPhoto works for me, I plug my ipod in sometimes iPhoto will load automatically but if it doesn't open it and it should detect it or there is an import button somewhere (not on my mac so couldn't say where)
The reason this wouldn't work is because iPhoto only imports photos that are in the Saved Photos album. So, it's only saved pictures from Mail, Safari or screen shots.
Unfortunately, iPhoto doesn't connect to the rest of the pictures on the iPod.
Apple's reasoning for this is beyond me, though.
Unfortunately, iPhoto doesn't connect to the rest of the pictures on the iPod.
The "rest of the pictures on the iPod" are synced from a computer to the iPod. Therefore, the originals should be on a computer somewhere. Also, iTunes compresses the pics when copying them to the iPod, so the pics on the iPod are of a lower quality than the originals on the computer. So I can see why Apple would think there isn't any point in copying them off the iPod back to a computer.
But as has been stated earlier in this thread, the pictures recovered from an iPod wouldn't be as high quality as the lost originals. Apple doesn't intend for the iPod to be a backup device for your picture collection, and they're qute clear about that.
True... I'm by no means downing Apple's decision. I was more asking why the limitations are put into place, you know? But you're right, it knocks size waay down.
And I can see how it may occasionary be useful to be able to copy back the pics from the iPod, as in the OP's case. However, I don't think this is a case of putting limitations on something -- I assume Apple would have to write extra code to enable a functionality like copying the pics off an iPod, right? So why bother going to the trouble since it's going to be only of rather limited use?
Dropbox. It supports every kind of file since it's basically a normal folder - and it is sure cross platform. I share important files (school work for example) between my macs, idevices and windows based computers automatically.