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iTunes syncs all iPad pictures every time

Hi, I am syncing photos in my iPad through my Macbook. The pictures are stored in an external drive. iTunes sees the library, that is correctly set. The thing is, I add 10 photos to the folder on the external drive, sync, and iTunes syncs ALL 3000 photos. Every time. Can't it see (after scanning the drive and the ipad) the 10 new ones and sync those ? It's so annoying and a waste of time. Is there a setting to overcome this, or another method altogether ?

Thanks,

iPad, iOS 12

Posted on Jun 28, 2019 11:36 AM

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Posted on Jun 28, 2019 9:28 PM

Well, you have various options you can select in iTunes. Consider, for example, limiting sync based on date.

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Jun 28, 2019 9:28 PM in response to geoff0101

Well, you have various options you can select in iTunes. Consider, for example, limiting sync based on date.

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Jun 28, 2019 2:12 PM in response to geoff0101

If that happened to me, I would retry while housing those photos (in Photos' Library) on my Mac's home drive.

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geoff0101 Author

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Jun 28, 2019 9:22 PM in response to sberman

‘‘Tks sberman, but the thing is, I stopped using the internal memory for lack of space, hence the external drive...

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geoff0101 Author

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Jul 2, 2019 12:21 PM in response to geoff0101

Thanks again, sberman, somehow I never payed attention to those options. Might be the best way to do what I need !

Best regards,

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Jul 3, 2019 1:05 PM in response to geoff0101

Glad that helped.

Enjoy your Apple gear.

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iTunes syncs all iPad pictures every time

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