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photos and an ext hard drive

If I were to download photos directly via camera while traveling, how would I go about storing them later on my external hard drive?

MacBook Pro 5, Mac OS X (10.6.3), Intel Core 2 Duo

Posted on May 8, 2010 3:42 PM

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May 12, 2010 11:35 AM in response to Al Tornquist

You cannot write them back out to an external hard drive from the iPad. It's a one way street.

If you connect the iPad, however, the imported photos on the iPad show up in Aperture, Lightroom, Bridge, iPhoto etc for uploading to your computer.

Not a real solution for me. In the sense, that while traveling I take a Mac Book and upload from my Compact Flash/SD cards, delete the duds, rename and add meta data, and then write them back out to external drive(s) for backup. It's this last step that kills the iPad for my field work. The intermediate steps while not necessarily currently supported are not impossible to develop in an App. - whihc I have thought about looking into.

Steve

May 12, 2010 4:44 PM in response to Al Tornquist

This is weird ... the iPad sync will take changed bookmarks and backpropagate them to your Safari on the iTunes server where you sync it ... why would they not be logically consistant and do the same ... pull any downloaded content and in some way push it up to the iTunes/Sync server, and photos should get added to iPhoto where you can export them to individual files if you like????

At the very least there should be some addressible content space where you could FTP them to some place on the network.

I'm thinking you also might be able to upload them to a photo site like FlickR ... have you tried that, like some stuff can go to Facebook/Twitter/....

I don't want a chance any of my personal data is going anywhere on the internet though, that's just me.

May 14, 2010 4:38 PM in response to ReDDTalon

To clarify....

Photos imported onto the iPad via the Camera Connection Kit as well as images created on the iPad can be deleted on the iPad.

Tapping the rectangle with the arrow in the upper right gives delete as an option for these photos.

However photos synched from the computer to the iPad cannot be deleted on the iPad.

One can argue about the logic behind this, but it's what I see on my iPad.

Steve

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