Photo albums on iPad

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dpinsonn Author

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Photo albums on iPad

How do I create photo albums on iPad?

iPad, Other OS

Posted on Jun 5, 2010 2:19 AM

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Mr.C UK

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Jun 5, 2010 2:30 AM in response to dpinsonn

You need to put the different groups of photos in different folders on your computer and then put those folders within a main folder. When you sync this though ITunes the folders will appear as separate albums. In Photos you will have a photos and an albums tab.

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Jun 5, 2010 7:49 AM in response to Mr.C UK

can you rearrange them or create new folders from your iPad?

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pkincy

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Jun 5, 2010 8:11 AM in response to Corsair Noir

I think not. You need to do your organizing offIPAD, in somthing like iTunes or DropBox.

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red555

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Jun 5, 2010 10:11 AM in response to Corsair Noir

Nope.

You can use a 3rd party app to organize and display your photos on the ipad, but the photos app built into ipad will not change how it displays them.

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Jun 5, 2010 9:27 PM in response to red555

why is every simple function something you have to download from a 3rd Party? I really hope the new update impresses the heck out of me

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dpinsonn Author

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Jun 6, 2010 2:47 AM in response to Mr.C UK

Thanks Mr. C. Perfect (and easy) solution. If Apple had these instructions in its materials I could not find them. I think it is something it should do.

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Jun 9, 2010 3:55 AM in response to dpinsonn

The way the iPad handles photos is a major flaw for me. When it syncs photo folders from my computer to the ipad it totally ignores all subfolders. So, on my ipad I have one huge album called Travel with all the photos from many different trips all combined as one. Why can't I have a subAlbums of all the different trips? The ipad really needs to be able to display subAlbums.

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red555

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Jun 9, 2010 9:38 AM in response to rschissler

You can in Windows/ipad. Create a master photo sync folder on your pc with no photo's in the master folder.

THen, place subfolders in that master photo's with photos in the subfolders.

Name the subfolders what you'd have the albums be named.

When you sync to the ipad, the subfolders will be individual albums on the ipad with the folder's names.

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Jun 9, 2010 9:59 AM in response to red555

Yeah, but you can't have subfolders in those. You can't have subAlbums in Albums. If you had a 100 albums of 4,000 photos in total, wouldn't it nice to break them down into smaller categories?

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red555

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Jun 9, 2010 10:21 AM in response to rschissler

rschissler wrote:
Yeah, but you can't have subfolders in those. You can't have subAlbums in Albums. If you had a 100 albums of 4,000 photos in total, wouldn't it nice to break them down into smaller categories?

You are correct. Ipad will not do sub-albums.

Maybe a 3rd party photo sorting app will. Don't know....

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Jun 9, 2010 1:04 PM in response to red555

You're right, a third part app will do it, but you have to access the photos through that app and with its interface. So, the "Photos" application will sit there unused, because it can't do the job. I want to use the "Photos" application, so hopefully Apple will fix it.

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