Can't delete photos on iPad

jla930 wrote:
I do not have a "Saved Photos" album on my iPad. Where does it come from? How does it get on the iPad?

One way is do a screen snap. Hold down the sleep and home buttons together, then release quickly.

Another way is press your finger on a photo in an email or web page and say yes to the save photo question. Both of these save to the saved photos album.

Thanks, red555.

It can be done in Windows 7, at least. With the iPad connected:
1. In iTunes click on the 'your ipad' ikon and call up the 'Sync' page.
2. Choose 'Photos'
3. Untick the album in which the photo lies that you wish to erase.
4. Sync the iPad in the usual way and the chosen album will be removed from the ipad
5. Go to Windows and select My Pictures and then the album just removed from the iPad
6. Select the photo you want not to appear in the iPad and move it to a chosen file in 'My Documents'.
7. Go back into iTunes and then the 'Sync' Page, choose Photos again and replace the tick for the album concerned
8. Re'Sinc' the iPad and the album will appear without the unneeded photo.

Doubled click on the your iPad icon. This brings up the Sync page where you can find all your 'selected' albums - Photos or Music, or whatever.

As noted by others, works only with "saved photos" album, not with those in the Photo Library synced with iTunes.

Are they afraid that syncing would DELETE the photos from the desktop?

What bugs me is so many "experts" on other sites that keep repeating how to use the delete function that isn't there! They get really annoyed when the readers keep telling them that their instructions don't work!

Hope no one will mind my throwing a video file stuck in Photo app into this post.

I agree with everyone else that individually deleting photos is a pain.
Although it will clear an album. Except, it appears if it has stored a video from a camera, via a Camera Connecion Kit (CCK) that is not in an iPad format/codec.

Any suggestions anyone!?

I am also completely aghast that multiple-photo- or album-deletion functionality was left out of the iPad OS. This makes the Camera Connection Kit, for photographers who shoot events or travel photographers who typically work with multi-thousand photo albums, next to useless for its stated purpose.

I only found this out today - I shot a wedding yesterday, loaded all 1100 shots / 10GB onto my iPad, and now I can't delete these shots off the iPad no matter what I try (short of a factory reset, obviously).

I had a bit of a rant about this on my blog: http://blog.mortalcoil.com/rant-the-ipad-camera-connection-kit-has-a-mas

I dearly hope this is fixed in iOS 4.2.

Although I'm running Windows XP, I'm pretty sure this'll work for your Mac/iPad combo.

Connect your iPad to your Mac. Go to your HD. Locate your iPad as a drive (it is a Flash Drive like a USB

drive!). What you should see are all the images in Photos on your iPad. Note: on Windows they do not

appear in the same folders as on the iPad, but they are all visible on the computer. Back/copy up any

images/movies you need to keep from the iPad to your HD. Then delete all/selected on your iPad from

your Mac.

If you delete all images in an album the album will be deleted too!

Let me know how you get on?

Dom

This has worked for me -

Open iTunes
Confirm that 'Sync Photos from Iphoto is checked
Uncheck each album sent to iPad that is to be deleted
Click 'Sync' button in lower right hand corner of iTunes screen
Check iPad to confirm photos have been deleted

Photos on iPad can be deleted with the following steps -

Open iTunes
Confirm that 'Sync Photos from Iphoto is checked
Uncheck each album sent to iPad that is to be deleted
Click 'Sync' button in lower right hand corner of iTunes screen

I have recently come back from my honey moon where I took my iPad a digital camera and an apple sd card readers.
The idea was to import all the pictures along the way into the iPad and store them on there until we get home so if we lost the camera we wouldn't have lost all the pictures.

This seemed to working fine and all the pictures were uploaded into the photos folder. Because we were starting to get short of space I decided to delete some of the pictures that were no good. Blurry and repeats etc. I selected the trash icon and selected the red delete button and watched as the photo was sucked to the trash. I did this with an awful lot of photos only then to discover that when I exited the photo app and went back there were all the pictures I had deleted??!
So I did it again and deleted all the pictures I wanted rid of and exited and entered the programme and it had happened again. What I couldn't figure out was the number of photos in my folder were continually decreasing.

I returned home and imported all the pics that were on there. Then I noticed that a few pictures that I remember taking were not there? It was then when I tried deleting a single picture and then noticed that it didn't delete the picture I had selected, it had deleted the one previous???!!! This means that I have unwillingly deleted a load of my precious honeymoon photos!

Is there any chance I can retrieve them? I'm so upset and angry.

If you loaded your photos onto the iPad via the connection kit you can delete them or download them directly to your Mac. Plug the iPad in, and while iTunes is firing up, launch image capture. Wait a bit and the iPad if appear under the devices list in Image Capture. Select the iPad icon and all your photos that were added via the connector kit will appear. You can then select what you want, import what you want to your Mac or select the ones you want to delete. Very easy. Give it a shot.

Just figured this out. I added every single photo from my pc and they were just too many that I didn't want on my iPad. So to wipe all and start from stratch... connect iPad to computer with iTunes. So once in iTunes click iPad under the devices section on the left hand side. In there click the photo's tab. Where there is a checked box saying 'Sync photo's from' just uncheck that and click apply at the bottom left. It wipes all your photos.

Hope I've made sense! Good luck!