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Q: transfer photos from iphone to external hard drive

What is the best way to transfer pictures and videos from your iphone/ipad to an external hardrive?

iPhone 4, iOS 5.1.1

Posted on Aug 4, 2012 1:49 PM

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  • by JAKAJONYO,

    JAKAJONYO JAKAJONYO Jul 21, 2015 10:15 AM in response to TownieBrownie
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    Jul 21, 2015 10:15 AM in response to TownieBrownie

    Thank you!  Now I'm in charge and not photos any more.

  • by colinefinger,

    colinefinger colinefinger Jul 22, 2015 11:23 PM in response to ipjoe
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    Jul 22, 2015 11:23 PM in response to ipjoe

    ipjoe wrote:

     

    What is the best way to transfer pictures and videos from your iphone/ipad to an external hardrive?

    Do you want to import your pictures from camera roll? I think you can use iCloud to handle.

    1. Connect your iPhone with Wi-Fi.

    2. Turn on Photo Stream of your iPhone

    3. Get your iCloud downloaded to computer/Mac

    4. Thus, your photos could be  automatically transferred to the iCloud and to your iPhone.

    At this time, you can transfer your iPhone photos to external hard drive.

  • by colinefinger,

    colinefinger colinefinger Jul 23, 2015 12:41 AM in response to colinefinger
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    Jul 23, 2015 12:41 AM in response to colinefinger

    colinefinger wrote:

     

    ipjoe wrote:

     

    What is the best way to transfer pictures and videos from your iphone/ipad to an external hardrive?

    Do you want to import your pictures from camera roll? I think you can use iCloud to handle.

    1. Connect your iPhone with Wi-Fi.

    2. Turn on Photo Stream of your iPhone

    3. Get your iCloud downloaded to computer/Mac

    4. Thus, your photos could be  automatically transferred to the iCloud and to your iPhone.

    At this time, you can transfer your iPhone photos to external hard drive.

    One more step to handle is that you need to put your iPhone photos from your computer to external hard drive.

  • by violettesnanny,

    violettesnanny violettesnanny Jul 28, 2015 7:33 AM in response to Allan Sampson
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    Jul 28, 2015 7:33 AM in response to Allan Sampson

    Thank you so much, I have been searching everywhere for info on doing this and your simple instructions works perfectly.  Was just about to buy expensive software to do it but not necessary.  Thanks Again. 

  • by jenimo25,

    jenimo25 jenimo25 Aug 11, 2015 11:06 AM in response to TownieBrownie
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    Aug 11, 2015 11:06 AM in response to TownieBrownie

    Thank you TownieBrownie!  Huge help and so easy to do once you laid it out.  Thank you for your help!

  • by jandazza,

    jandazza jandazza Aug 12, 2015 10:30 AM in response to TownieBrownie
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    Aug 12, 2015 10:30 AM in response to TownieBrownie

    TownieBrownie! You rule. Thank you!

  • by Lindsdav,

    Lindsdav Lindsdav Sep 3, 2015 1:06 PM in response to colinefinger
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    Sep 3, 2015 1:06 PM in response to colinefinger

    How do you transfer the photos directly from icloud to an external hard drive without dowloading them onto the computer?

  • by grleging,

    grleging grleging Sep 8, 2015 6:18 PM in response to TownieBrownie
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    Sep 8, 2015 6:18 PM in response to TownieBrownie

    THIS IS AMAZING. I have been kinda out of the loop over the last few years with technology and I am soooo thankful to have found this. thank you! worked perfectly. tons of time and space saved on my mac!

  • by grleging,

    grleging grleging Sep 8, 2015 6:19 PM in response to Lindsdav
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    Sep 8, 2015 6:19 PM in response to Lindsdav

    Hi, do exactly this:

     

    Go to Finder in the dock at the bottom of the page (usually all the way left with a face)

    Select Applications

    Select Image Capture

     

    Should be very clear how to do it after this.

    But just in case:

    Icon of iphone will be on the left under Devices and your pictures should automatically pop up and then at the bottom it says Import to: and you select other and then select your external harddrive.

  • by Lindsdav,

    Lindsdav Lindsdav Sep 21, 2015 2:29 PM in response to grleging
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    Sep 21, 2015 2:29 PM in response to grleging

    Thanks for trying to help, but I already tried that. 

     

    Those directions only copied 45 out of 1000 photos that were on my iphone and not all the photos that are on the icloud.  When you have upward of 1000 photos on your phone, like I did they are not all saved on the phone, but rather downloaded from the icloud when you want to access them.  The image capture directions only accessed 45 photos when I tried that drag and drop method.


    Instead I logged onto my icloud account and downloaded all the photos onto my computer.  This is what I was  trying to avoid, and why I asked the question to begin with because I wasn't sure my computer would be able to handle it and I thought it would take forever.  Unfortunately it's not possible to drag the photos from your icloud account to the EHD. From there I transferred them onto my EHD, and deleted them from icloud therefore freeing up storage space. From now on I'll just have to be better about transferring photos more regularly from my phone directly to the EHD before there are too many to access directly from the phone.  

  • by angela_barbi,

    angela_barbi angela_barbi Oct 12, 2015 10:39 AM in response to TownieBrownie
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    Oct 12, 2015 10:39 AM in response to TownieBrownie

    After struggling for days to find the right solution and even getting to the Apple customer service, downloading external programs that asked me to pay, this is just the perfect and simplest solution to my problem of exporting my photos in iPhone to an external hard drive.

     

    Thank you very much for posting this, it's really helpful!!

  • by Chucks0103,

    Chucks0103 Chucks0103 Jan 10, 2016 7:05 AM in response to TownieBrownie
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    Jan 10, 2016 7:05 AM in response to TownieBrownie

    Thank you - addressing the pop-up issue to get image capture right away was exactly the problem.  But I tried a "dry run" - that is, opening up Image Capture without connecting my iphone to my computer and my external hard drive so a to adjust the setting so that image capture will automatically pop up and not iphoto.  But when I opened image capture (without connecting the device), there was no place to do this.   Can you suggest what to do?  (Otherwise, I'm afraid the photos will start to be captured by iphoto while I'm in the process of selecting image capture).  Thank you.

  • by Terenceevine,

    Terenceevine Terenceevine Mar 3, 2016 9:00 PM in response to ipjoe
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    Mar 3, 2016 9:00 PM in response to ipjoe

    You can copy Camera Roll photos to your Mac or to an external drive by following the instructions in the following link. Use the Image Capture option if you want them on an external drive rather than part of iPhoto:

    Once you have done that and deleted them from the phone, if desired you can then sync some of them back to the phone using iTunes sync with the appropriate settings on the Photo page of iTunes with the phone connected.

     

     

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  • by Biggleworthe,

    Biggleworthe Biggleworthe Mar 3, 2016 11:16 PM in response to ipjoe
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    Mar 3, 2016 11:16 PM in response to ipjoe

    If I understand correctly, you want to backup your iOS devices to a drive other than your Mac's (because they have small SSDs). It is possible to backup multiple Macs to a single Time Capsule.

    Sadly though, it seems that Time Capsule doesn't support backing up iOS devices (yet. I really do hope this becomes an option soon, and I'm not the only one). Here are ways you can make sure those 50GB in your iPhones don't end up in your Mac's SSDs though.

    Photos

    In terms of pictures, iOS8 should have you backed up with iCloud Photo Library. If enabled, all your pictures and video will automatically be stored in iCloud, which gives you 5GB of free storage (or 20GB for $1/mo, 200GB for $4/mo).

    If that is not your jazz though, you can always sync to iPhoto, but move the iPhoto library to an external hard drive. iPhoto stores all your photos a single archive, the iPhoto Library on your Pictures folder, which you can move as you please. When iPhoto opens, it will automatically look for the iPhoto Library where it last saw it, but if it can't find it it will ask you were it is, and keep working as if nothing had happened.

    Backups

    iTunes backups might be a little more tricky, but it seems to be possible to move the folder where iTunes stores its backups to an external hard drive, and then trick iTunes into backing up there.

    I haven't tried doing this myself, but here's a post that claims you can do it and outlines the steps to follow, both for Windows and OSX. The instructions for OSX aren't too bad, as long as you aren't too scared of using the Terminal application (Applications/Utilities/Terminal). In a nutshell:

    1. Copy ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/ to a new location, say /Volumes/~Your External HDD~/MobileSync. This directory has a folder called Backups, which is where iTunes stores backups for mobile devices.
      • Note 1: ~/ is an alias computers use for your home folder.
      • Note 2: Your ~/Library folder is hidden by default. You can open it in Finder by opening Terminal typing in open ~/Library.
    2. Remove/rename ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup. We won't need it anymore.
    3. Create a symbolic link to the new location for Backups in your external hard drive. This is basically like an alias in the old location of Backups to its new location. To do so open Terminaland type in
      ln -s /Volumes/**~Your External HDD~**/MobileSync/Backup ~/Library/Application\ Support/MobileSync/Backup 

    If you launch iTunes now it should follow the symbolic link and go on with business as usual, not knowing that in fact it's now working with a folder that's on an external hard drive.

    You'll need to have the hard drive connected to backup,

    Hope it helps!

  • by cheesecurd,

    cheesecurd cheesecurd Apr 13, 2016 8:51 AM in response to TownieBrownie
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    Apr 13, 2016 8:51 AM in response to TownieBrownie

    thanks, very helpful!

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