Can't copy large video files FROM iPhone to PC

I spent hours trying to get this video file off of my iPad and iTools worked in 60 seconds. Thank you for the tip.

Shame on Apple for making such a trivial and important function so stressful.

Thank you a million times...

I downloaded iTools and so far so good...am exporting the videos from my iphone.

THis after HOURS of trying to figure this out. I can't believe Apple made me do this. What a waste of my time!

But thank you to the person who suggested iTools.

that is the worst "logic" i think I have ever encountered. Why would the phone be able to take video, if it was unretirevable? that is the very definition of a "flaw."

Thank you SOOO much. The iTools worked great!

thanks, this is an old thread but worked great for me.

just fyi for other readers, I did not have a second icon for my iphone so no go on that option. Picassa did not work for me either and it is my main photo storage and import program. Neither did another forums suggestion to change usb ports. I got camera wizard to download to 100% but then error came up cannot save file.

finding the file in the apple computer folder was key.

Many thanks bkim028

This worked for me, bringing to end hours of frustration caused by the inability to transfer a 0.9 GB MOV file from iPhone5 to a Windows XP computer. (A 0.6+ GB file from the same batch transferred normally using Windows Explorer.)

I had to add the .mov suffix, and the file did NOT seem to play on Quick Time Player in any sensible timeframe, but played instantly on the excellent Free File Viewer (2012 version) and on Pinnacle Studio 15.

This solution needs to be widely publicised and available through help menus, and Microsoft (presumably) needs fix the problem - even the (frankly horrible program) iTunes seems to have no trouble transferring the file to the PC during the Sync backup step, so it's hard to understand why Windows Explorer would have this limitation.

Your solution is saving many people lots of time and frustration - well done.

1.6gb video on iPhone 4s -- tried EVERYTHING on my (old) 32-bit WinXP Pro desktop machine, and nothing worked. Then plugged phone into my 64-bit Win7 laptop, waited a couple of minutes for Windows Update to search for and find the Apple driver for the phone, then used the AutoPlay popup to download "all photos and videos" to the laptop. Worked like a charm! Obviously an address space compatibility issue.

I need an urgent help, I made some audio on my iphone 5 and then I wanted to see it on Windos VIsta 7 however by mistake I did a cut paste from Windows explorer and pasted it in desktop and now I cannot play that file, also the size of that movie was 1 hour 39 minutes and of 11 GB however now I can see that it has become of 117 MB on my desktop.

Please please please help this is very important for me..

You could try a Windows undelete utility on the iphone drive in Explorer. Cut would have deleted the file after the copy that it thought was complete.

If the file hasn't been overwritten, it may still be on the phone. I did this with a bunch of photos on my iPhone once. The are marked for delete like any other file, and are not gone until you actually overwrite them. Do NOT take any photos or recordings before you try this.

Thanks for your quick reply however could you please let me know how should I use this utility, my phone is connected to system and I want to use this and save this video.

Google "recoved deleted iphone files windows."

that worked perfectly - thank you

iTools worked great for me, after hours of trying other options. I have a 64GB iphone 5 and a relatively old version of Windows XP on my 7 year old pc. Thanks for the tip. What a relief!

I had the same issue. XP couldn't copy a 684 MB .mov file from my iPhone 5. I had to use iFunBox to copy a 7 min movie to my PC.

What's the point of having a smartphone from which you can't copy movies?

i shot video with my gopro hero 3+ camera and used the gopro app to move the large video files onto my ipad air (which is an awesome feature) so i could free up space on the camera for more video . i then had this problem becuase, later, the large video files would not transfer from my ipad to my windows XP computer. i tried itools and it worked great! Thanks for the info.