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Adding movies to iPad thru iTunes and restoring them?

Hi,
I have an iPad 32gig. I have several videos I compress for the iPad, and rather than let the videos "live" in iTunes (tying up several gig) I found I can drag them directly into the iPad 'thru' iTunes by dragging them directly from my desktop to the iPad icon on the left side of iTunes.

They then "live" in the iPad and I can delete them from my desktop.

Good - works perfectly! BUT . . . let's say a week later, I want to restore that movie back to my MacBook Pro! I can't seem to drag them from the iPad (seen thru iTunes) back onto my desktop like I should be able to! The movie will PLAY fine thru iTunes! It's there! I just can't restore it back to my computer! Grrrr . . .
I'm hoping there's something easy I'm not doing . . . any ideas out there?

Thanks!
Larry

Macbook Pro 17, Mac OS X (10.6.3), iPad, Mac Pro & Newton!

Posted on Jun 3, 2010 6:58 PM

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Aug 18, 2010 9:55 AM in response to Larry Cohen1

By dragging a movie directly to the iPad icon in iTunes you are using a side door, I would strongly recommend you do it the normal way by adding it to the iTunes library and synch it then to the iPad.
Anyway, there are some third party utilities that allow you to grab files from iPhone/iPad… one of these is "PhoneView"
Check this link: http://www.ecamm.com/

enjoy your magic machine

Adding movies to iPad thru iTunes and restoring them?

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