Best way to transfer large 4K video files from iPhone to external drive connected to Mac?

Hello,


I have large video files (4K 60fps videos recorded with iPhone) and I'd like to download them to my external drive connected to my iMac (running Mojave 10.14.6). Most of the articles I found referred to the Photo App on Mac. However, Photo App stores all the photos and videos to a single file (library) and it's hard for me to find them. So I use an external drive to store all of my photos and videos.


I have been using "Preview" to download large video files but sometimes the process would stopped with some error. Does anyone here have a better suggestion on how to get large video files off my iPhone to an external drive? I am sure that I am not the only one that have this issue.


thanks

Posted on Sep 6, 2019 5:37 PM

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Sep 7, 2019 8:06 AM in response to GSTRIB5

I checked out the link you posted - first, I could not find it in the app store and second, I could only find a mention that it works on a, for now, beta only iOS. Are you running a beta? And, I would not necessarily trust a third party app from an unknown developer especially if there is a native Mac OS app available.

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