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  Copy photo albums from iPad to Mac? Ed Anson <EdAnson@comcast.net> - 2014-08-08 21:18 -0400
    Re: Copy photo albums from iPad to Mac? Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2014-08-08 22:32 -0700
      Re: Copy photo albums from iPad to Mac? David Fritzinger <dfritzin@nospam.mac.com> - 2014-08-09 15:07 -0400
        Re: Copy photo albums from iPad to Mac? Ed Anson <EdAnson@comcast.net> - 2014-08-09 18:28 -0400
          Re: Copy photo albums from iPad to Mac? Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2014-08-09 19:07 -0700
            Re: Copy photo albums from iPad to Mac? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-08-10 15:32 +0000
              Re: Copy photo albums from iPad to Mac? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-08-10 12:27 -0400
                Re: Copy photo albums from iPad to Mac? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-08-10 16:41 +0000
                  Re: Copy photo albums from iPad to Mac? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-08-10 12:53 -0400
                    Re: Copy photo albums from iPad to Mac? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-08-10 17:00 +0000
    Re: Copy photo albums from iPad to Mac? Zaidy036 <Zaidy036@isp.spam> - 2014-08-09 20:57 -0400
      Re: Copy photo albums from iPad to Mac? John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2014-08-12 12:24 -0700
    Re: Copy photo albums from iPad to Mac? Fred McKenzie <fmmck@aol.com> - 2014-08-11 18:46 -0400

#24039 — Copy photo albums from iPad to Mac?

My wife recently returned from a three-month tour of New Zealand. She 
took her iPhone and iPad along, but left her Mac at home. She wound up 
with something like a thousand photos on her iPad, which she has edited 
and organized into albums in the Photos app.

Now, she wants to have those albums on her Mac, in iPhoto.

We had no trouble getting the photos into iPhoto, but have found no way 
to migrate the albums. Since she has a lot of time and effort invested 
in creating those albums, we are trying to find a way to avoid having to 
do it all over again.

I Googled my question. Google promptly provided me with many, many 
articles about how to go the other way. Not much help. There were some 
other articles that seemed to indicate that what we want is not 
supported. The only suggested work-around was two years old, and does 
not work.

So, before we give up and do all that work over again, I thought I'd 
check whether someone knows something I've missed.

Thanks for any helpful suggestions.

/Ed

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#24040

On 2014-08-09 01:18:34 +0000, Ed Anson <EdAnson@comcast.net> said:

> My wife recently returned from a three-month tour of New Zealand. She 
> took her iPhone and iPad along, but left her Mac at home. She wound up 
> with something like a thousand photos on her iPad, which she has edited 
> and organized into albums in the Photos app.
> 
> Now, she wants to have those albums on her Mac, in iPhoto.
> 
> We had no trouble getting the photos into iPhoto, but have found no way 
> to migrate the albums. Since she has a lot of time and effort invested 
> in creating those albums, we are trying to find a way to avoid having 
> to do it all over again.
> 
> I Googled my question. Google promptly provided me with many, many 
> articles about how to go the other way. Not much help. There were some 
> other articles that seemed to indicate that what we want is not 
> supported. The only suggested work-around was two years old, and does 
> not work.
> 
> So, before we give up and do all that work over again, I thought I'd 
> check whether someone knows something I've missed.
> 
> Thanks for any helpful suggestions.
> 
> /Ed

This has always worked for me to move image files in either direction, 
but that isn't your actual problem.
http://www.phototransferapp.com

As for the album issue I fear she might have to repeat that work.


-- 
Regards,

Savageduck

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#24053

In article <2014080822320215023-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom>,
 Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> wrote:

> On 2014-08-09 01:18:34 +0000, Ed Anson <EdAnson@comcast.net> said:
> 
> > My wife recently returned from a three-month tour of New Zealand. She 
> > took her iPhone and iPad along, but left her Mac at home. She wound up 
> > with something like a thousand photos on her iPad, which she has edited 
> > and organized into albums in the Photos app.
> > 
> > Now, she wants to have those albums on her Mac, in iPhoto.
> > 
> > We had no trouble getting the photos into iPhoto, but have found no way 
> > to migrate the albums. Since she has a lot of time and effort invested 
> > in creating those albums, we are trying to find a way to avoid having 
> > to do it all over again.
> > 
> > I Googled my question. Google promptly provided me with many, many 
> > articles about how to go the other way. Not much help. There were some 
> > other articles that seemed to indicate that what we want is not 
> > supported. The only suggested work-around was two years old, and does 
> > not work.
> > 
> > So, before we give up and do all that work over again, I thought I'd 
> > check whether someone knows something I've missed.
> > 
> > Thanks for any helpful suggestions.
> > 
> > /Ed
> 
> This has always worked for me to move image files in either direction, 
> but that isn't your actual problem.
> http://www.phototransferapp.com
> 
> As for the album issue I fear she might have to repeat that work.

Just out of interest, how many albums does she have? The best solution I 
can think of might be to copy one album at a time, and name that event. 
Of course, if she has more than one event in each album, that would 
complicate things.

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#24057

On 8/9/14, 3:07 PM, David Fritzinger wrote:
> In article <2014080822320215023-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom>,
>   Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2014-08-09 01:18:34 +0000, Ed Anson <EdAnson@comcast.net> said:
>>
>>> My wife recently returned from a three-month tour of New Zealand. She
>>> took her iPhone and iPad along, but left her Mac at home. She wound up
>>> with something like a thousand photos on her iPad, which she has edited
>>> and organized into albums in the Photos app.
>>>
>>> Now, she wants to have those albums on her Mac, in iPhoto.
>>>
>>> We had no trouble getting the photos into iPhoto, but have found no way
>>> to migrate the albums. Since she has a lot of time and effort invested
>>> in creating those albums, we are trying to find a way to avoid having
>>> to do it all over again.
>>>
>>> I Googled my question. Google promptly provided me with many, many
>>> articles about how to go the other way. Not much help. There were some
>>> other articles that seemed to indicate that what we want is not
>>> supported. The only suggested work-around was two years old, and does
>>> not work.
>>>
>>> So, before we give up and do all that work over again, I thought I'd
>>> check whether someone knows something I've missed.
>>>
>>> Thanks for any helpful suggestions.
>>>
>>> /Ed
>>
>> This has always worked for me to move image files in either direction,
>> but that isn't your actual problem.
>> http://www.phototransferapp.com
>>
>> As for the album issue I fear she might have to repeat that work.
>
> Just out of interest, how many albums does she have? The best solution I
> can think of might be to copy one album at a time, and name that event.
> Of course, if she has more than one event in each album, that would
> complicate things.
>
Because it was a three month tour, and because each day is treated as a 
separate event, she has a rather large number of events. Her albums are 
NOT based on events. She has several albums organized by topic, and each 
draws from quite a number of events. If the relationship between the 
events and the albums were simpler, there wouldn't be a problem. What 
we're up against is the time and effort required to create each album.

BTW: I was really surprised when I learned that albums don't sync even 
though there is a sync function. You can move albums from the Mac to the 
iPad, but you apparently can't move them the other way. Any changes made 
on the iPad are lost the next time you "sync" with the Mac.

I would LOVE to learn that I'm wrong on this, that I've missed 
something. But so far all I'm hearing is that I haven't missed anything :-(

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#24066

In article <ooqdneMMgbfgPXvOnZ2dnUVZ_qKdnZ2d@giganews.com>,
 Ed Anson <EdAnson@comcast.net> wrote:

> On 8/9/14, 3:07 PM, David Fritzinger wrote:
> > In article <2014080822320215023-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom>,
> >   Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 2014-08-09 01:18:34 +0000, Ed Anson <EdAnson@comcast.net> said:
> >>
> >>> My wife recently returned from a three-month tour of New Zealand. She
> >>> took her iPhone and iPad along, but left her Mac at home. She wound up
> >>> with something like a thousand photos on her iPad, which she has edited
> >>> and organized into albums in the Photos app.
> >>>
> >>> Now, she wants to have those albums on her Mac, in iPhoto.
> >>>
> >>> We had no trouble getting the photos into iPhoto, but have found no way
> >>> to migrate the albums. Since she has a lot of time and effort invested
> >>> in creating those albums, we are trying to find a way to avoid having
> >>> to do it all over again.
> >>>
> >>> I Googled my question. Google promptly provided me with many, many
> >>> articles about how to go the other way. Not much help. There were some
> >>> other articles that seemed to indicate that what we want is not
> >>> supported. The only suggested work-around was two years old, and does
> >>> not work.
> >>>
> >>> So, before we give up and do all that work over again, I thought I'd
> >>> check whether someone knows something I've missed.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for any helpful suggestions.
> >>>
> >>> /Ed
> >>
> >> This has always worked for me to move image files in either direction,
> >> but that isn't your actual problem.
> >> http://www.phototransferapp.com
> >>
> >> As for the album issue I fear she might have to repeat that work.
> >
> > Just out of interest, how many albums does she have? The best solution I
> > can think of might be to copy one album at a time, and name that event.
> > Of course, if she has more than one event in each album, that would
> > complicate things.
> >
> Because it was a three month tour, and because each day is treated as a 
> separate event, she has a rather large number of events. Her albums are 
> NOT based on events. She has several albums organized by topic, and each 
> draws from quite a number of events. If the relationship between the 
> events and the albums were simpler, there wouldn't be a problem. What 
> we're up against is the time and effort required to create each album.
> 
> BTW: I was really surprised when I learned that albums don't sync even 
> though there is a sync function. You can move albums from the Mac to the 
> iPad, but you apparently can't move them the other way. Any changes made 
> on the iPad are lost the next time you "sync" with the Mac.
> 
> I would LOVE to learn that I'm wrong on this, that I've missed 
> something. But so far all I'm hearing is that I haven't missed anything :-(

No you're not wrong about this.  iTunes is the same way. The Mac acts as 
the master and the iOS devices are the slaves unless you sync everything 
with iCloud.  I assume you haven't done that yet?  Personally, I've 
heard stories about stuff been trod on by the unintelligent way iCloud 
handles sync-ing so I've stayed away from it.

Try uploading all the iPad photos to Dropbox or Google Drive.  The 
albums are constructs of the iPad's software and probably won't transfer 
but the photos most likely will.

You might try bringing your Mac and iPad into your nearest Apple Store 
and scheduling some time with an Apple Genius to see if they can solve 
this problem.

-- 
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[I filter all Goggle Groups posts, so any reply may be automatically ignored]

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#24083

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On 2014-08-10, Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> wrote:
>
> You might try bringing your Mac and iPad into your nearest Apple Store 
> and scheduling some time with an Apple Genius to see if they can solve 
> this problem.

That's actually a fantastic suggestion, because it will force a genuine
Apple employee to see and admit there is a problem (and hopefully pass
it up the chain) and potentially figure out a solution for it.

-- 
E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter.
I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead.

JR

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#24091

On 2014.08.10, 11:32 , Jolly Roger wrote:
> ["Followup-To:" header set to comp.sys.mac.apps.]
> On 2014-08-10, Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> wrote:
>>
>> You might try bringing your Mac and iPad into your nearest Apple Store
>> and scheduling some time with an Apple Genius to see if they can solve
>> this problem.
>
> That's actually a fantastic suggestion, because it will force a genuine
> Apple employee to see and admit there is a problem (and hopefully pass
> it up the chain) and potentially figure out a solution for it.

'genuine Apple employee', aka clerk, aka genius, have about as much 
influence at Apple as a wet, used kleenex.  Hmm, the later probably has 
more influence.

-- 
I was born a 1%er - I'm just more equal than the rest.

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#24093

On 2014-08-10, Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> wrote:
> On 2014.08.10, 11:32 , Jolly Roger wrote:
>> ["Followup-To:" header set to comp.sys.mac.apps.]
>> On 2014-08-10, Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> You might try bringing your Mac and iPad into your nearest Apple Store
>>> and scheduling some time with an Apple Genius to see if they can solve
>>> this problem.
>>
>> That's actually a fantastic suggestion, because it will force a genuine
>> Apple employee to see and admit there is a problem (and hopefully pass
>> it up the chain) and potentially figure out a solution for it.
>
> 'genuine Apple employee', aka clerk, aka genius, have about as much 
> influence at Apple as a wet, used kleenex.  Hmm, the later probably has 
> more influence.

I would find it hard to believe that Apple pays absolutely no attention
to legitimate issues encountered by customers while interacting with its
retail store customer service staff, or that there is no opportunity or
staff to pass things up the chain. And you are ignoring that the OP
may just walk out with the problem solved. But you go right ahead and
discourage the OP from attempting to get help if it helps your ego.

-- 
E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter.
I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead.

JR

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#24094

On 2014.08.10, 12:41 , Jolly Roger wrote:
> On 2014-08-10, Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> wrote:
>> On 2014.08.10, 11:32 , Jolly Roger wrote:
>>> ["Followup-To:" header set to comp.sys.mac.apps.]
>>> On 2014-08-10, Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> You might try bringing your Mac and iPad into your nearest Apple Store
>>>> and scheduling some time with an Apple Genius to see if they can solve
>>>> this problem.
>>>
>>> That's actually a fantastic suggestion, because it will force a genuine
>>> Apple employee to see and admit there is a problem (and hopefully pass
>>> it up the chain) and potentially figure out a solution for it.
>>
>> 'genuine Apple employee', aka clerk, aka genius, have about as much
>> influence at Apple as a wet, used kleenex.  Hmm, the later probably has
>> more influence.
>
> I would find it hard to believe that Apple pays absolutely no attention
> to legitimate issues encountered by customers while interacting with its
> retail store customer service staff, or that there is no opportunity or
> staff to pass things up the chain. And you are ignoring that the OP
> may just walk out with the problem solved. But you go right ahead and
> discourage the OP from attempting to get help if it helps your ego.

I find it hard to believe that you're so hair trigger sensitive.

There are hundreds of Apple stores.  Thousands of relatively low wage 
Apple store employees.  Their contribution up is highly filtered and 
dampened, just as customer feedback is.


-- 
I was born a 1%er - I'm just more equal than the rest.

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#24096

On 2014-08-10, Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> wrote:
> On 2014.08.10, 12:41 , Jolly Roger wrote:
>> On 2014-08-10, Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> wrote:
>>> On 2014.08.10, 11:32 , Jolly Roger wrote:
>>>> ["Followup-To:" header set to comp.sys.mac.apps.]
>>>> On 2014-08-10, Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> You might try bringing your Mac and iPad into your nearest Apple Store
>>>>> and scheduling some time with an Apple Genius to see if they can solve
>>>>> this problem.
>>>>
>>>> That's actually a fantastic suggestion, because it will force a genuine
>>>> Apple employee to see and admit there is a problem (and hopefully pass
>>>> it up the chain) and potentially figure out a solution for it.
>>>
>>> 'genuine Apple employee', aka clerk, aka genius, have about as much
>>> influence at Apple as a wet, used kleenex.  Hmm, the later probably has
>>> more influence.
>>
>> I would find it hard to believe that Apple pays absolutely no attention
>> to legitimate issues encountered by customers while interacting with its
>> retail store customer service staff, or that there is no opportunity or
>> staff to pass things up the chain. And you are ignoring that the OP
>> may just walk out with the problem solved. But you go right ahead and
>> discourage the OP from attempting to get help if it helps your ego.
>
> I find it hard to believe that you're so hair trigger sensitive.
>
> There are hundreds of Apple stores.  Thousands of relatively low wage 
> Apple store employees.  Their contribution up is highly filtered and 
> dampened, just as customer feedback is.

Whatever helps your ego. I'm just trying to help the OP. You, on the
other hand...

-- 
E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter.
I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead.

JR

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#24065

On 8/8/2014 9:18 PM, Ed Anson wrote:
> My wife recently returned from a three-month tour of New Zealand. She
> took her iPhone and iPad along, but left her Mac at home. She wound up
> with something like a thousand photos on her iPad, which she has edited
> and organized into albums in the Photos app.
>
> Now, she wants to have those albums on her Mac, in iPhoto.
>
> We had no trouble getting the photos into iPhoto, but have found no way
> to migrate the albums. Since she has a lot of time and effort invested
> in creating those albums, we are trying to find a way to avoid having to
> do it all over again.
>
> I Googled my question. Google promptly provided me with many, many
> articles about how to go the other way. Not much help. There were some
> other articles that seemed to indicate that what we want is not
> supported. The only suggested work-around was two years old, and does
> not work.
>
> So, before we give up and do all that work over again, I thought I'd
> check whether someone knows something I've missed.
>
> Thanks for any helpful suggestions.
>
> /Ed
Here is a Windows Bat file which will take a folder of pictures and copy 
them into the original folder in NEW folders by date. I do not have a 
Mac so I do not know what would be required to make it run for you 
(Parallels?)
==============
:: Photos to Dir.bat
:: 02/03/10 Eric

:: 09/27/13 added title
:: 08/09/14 update exiftool

:: Drop a folder containing photos into this batch or copy photos from 
camera into "1" or copy containing folder and rename "1"
:: Run this Batch if not using "drop"
:: Result is New folders "YYYY-MM-DD" inside folder dropped or named "1" 
with originals unchanged

@ECHO OFF & setlocal enableextensions
(TITLE Photos to Dir  Bat)

:: Setlocal

If "%~1" EQU "" (Goto Skip) ELSE (Set Base=%~1)

:: Set Tool="C:\Program Files\exiftool-8.09\exiftool(-k).exe"
Set Tool="C:\Program Files\exiftool-9.69\exiftool(-k).exe"

Start "" /wait %Tool% -o dummy/ -d "%Base%\%%Y-%%m-%%d" 
"-Directory<DateTimeOriginal" "%Base%"

Exit

:Skip
Echo.
Echo *** No Data Supplied - Drop a Photo Folder on the Batch ***
Echo.
pause

Exit

:: following is expanded command for reference
:: Start "" /wait "C:\Program Files\exiftool-8.09\exiftool(-k).exe" -o 
dummy/ -d "C:/Users/Eric/Desktop/1/%%Y-%%m-%%d" 
"-Directory<DateTimeOriginal" C:\Users\Eric\Desktop\1

:: following URLs are for reference
::    http://owl.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/
::    http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/filename.html
::    http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/filename.html#codes

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#24141

On 8/9/14   PDT, 5:57 PM, Zaidy036 wrote:
> On 8/8/2014 9:18 PM, Ed Anson wrote:
>> My wife recently returned from a three-month tour of New Zealand. She
>> took her iPhone and iPad along, but left her Mac at home. She wound up
>> with something like a thousand photos on her iPad, which she has edited
>> and organized into albums in the Photos app.
>>
>> Now, she wants to have those albums on her Mac, in iPhoto.
>>
>> We had no trouble getting the photos into iPhoto, but have found no way
>> to migrate the albums. Since she has a lot of time and effort invested
>> in creating those albums, we are trying to find a way to avoid having to
>> do it all over again.
>>
>> I Googled my question. Google promptly provided me with many, many
>> articles about how to go the other way. Not much help. There were some
>> other articles that seemed to indicate that what we want is not
>> supported. The only suggested work-around was two years old, and does
>> not work.
>>
>> So, before we give up and do all that work over again, I thought I'd
>> check whether someone knows something I've missed.
>>
>> Thanks for any helpful suggestions.
>>
>> /Ed
> Here is a Windows Bat file which will take a folder of pictures and copy
> them into the original folder in NEW folders by date. I do not have a
> Mac so I do not know what would be required to make it run for you
> (Parallels?)

Sorry, but this is absolutely useless, and not just because it's PC based.

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#24137

In article <NvGdnfL71p9263jOnZ2dnUVZ_oSdnZ2d@giganews.com>,
 Ed Anson <EdAnson@comcast.net> wrote:

> My wife recently returned from a three-month tour of New Zealand. She 
> took her iPhone and iPad along, but left her Mac at home. She wound up 
> with something like a thousand photos on her iPad, which she has edited 
> and organized into albums in the Photos app.
> 
> Now, she wants to have those albums on her Mac, in iPhoto.
> 
> We had no trouble getting the photos into iPhoto, but have found no way 
> to migrate the albums. Since she has a lot of time and effort invested 
> in creating those albums, we are trying to find a way to avoid having to 
> do it all over again.
> 
> I Googled my question. Google promptly provided me with many, many 
> articles about how to go the other way. Not much help. There were some 
> other articles that seemed to indicate that what we want is not 
> supported. The only suggested work-around was two years old, and does 
> not work.
> 
> So, before we give up and do all that work over again, I thought I'd 
> check whether someone knows something I've missed.
> 
> Thanks for any helpful suggestions.

Ed-

I have the demo version of a Mac program called "iPad File Explorer" (or 
iPadFileExplorer).  It runs under recent versions of OS X, and works 
with my iPad 2 connected with the USB cable.  I do not know if there are 
Windows versions.

The program can see the file structure of the iPad.  Opening the iPad 
device, there are two folders:  Applications and Storage Root.

Inside Storage Root there are numerous folders including one named DCIM.  
Inside DCIM there are several folders that appear to be my photo albums 
but with cryptic names.  Just for a test, I successfully dragged one of 
the albums to the Mac's desktop.

This program may be capable of solving your problem.  Being a free demo, 
it is worth a try.  However, you might mess up your iPad if you aren't 
careful!

Fred

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