when I airdrop pictures from my ipad to my macbook air I have 2 unwanted issues.
any ideas?
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The order in which files display on your Mac is adjustable. You can view by file name, by date created, by date modified, by size, and other attributes, any of which can be reversed with a click. The Mac has no way of guessing what order you saw the photos inside those files before you airdropped them.
In what might be a common case, you would be viewing the photos in the order you took them with your iPad (or more commonly on and with an iPhone), and they would have file names that included numbers that increased with time, so after airdropping the Mac might view them in the same order if viewed by name sorted A-Z/0-9 or reversed if sorted Z-A/9-0.
When you choose that "All Photos Data" option, each photo from the iPad may become several files (such as base, changes, result), so they are enclosed in a folder to keep them together. If there are no changes and the result is identical with the base, you get only one file, but it is still in a folder. The folder itself has fewer interesting attributes on which to sort.
Does any of that longwinded explanation help any?
The order in which files display on your Mac is adjustable. You can view by file name, by date created, by date modified, by size, and other attributes, any of which can be reversed with a click. The Mac has no way of guessing what order you saw the photos inside those files before you airdropped them.
In what might be a common case, you would be viewing the photos in the order you took them with your iPad (or more commonly on and with an iPhone), and they would have file names that included numbers that increased with time, so after airdropping the Mac might view them in the same order if viewed by name sorted A-Z/0-9 or reversed if sorted Z-A/9-0.
When you choose that "All Photos Data" option, each photo from the iPad may become several files (such as base, changes, result), so they are enclosed in a folder to keep them together. If there are no changes and the result is identical with the base, you get only one file, but it is still in a folder. The folder itself has fewer interesting attributes on which to sort.
Does any of that longwinded explanation help any?
What do you mean, " Reverse order?" For me, AirDrop from Photo on my iPad sends pictures to the Downloads folder, and the order depends on how I choose to sort the folder. Also, when I select pictures from my iPhone, and then choose Share>AirDrop>MyMac, the pictures come with all their iPhone metadata intact. I say iPhone metadata, because the iPhone doesn't include Title and keywords.)
"Include All Data" seems to send, for me, the Original picture, the Edited picture, and a metadata file, all packaged into a folder to keep it together.
Can you tell us exactly what you're doing and how it's different?
Hold it! Somehow I missed that markwmsn said much of the same stuff-- sorry for the repeats....
Thanks so much for your reply. I appreciate your trying to help me.
I am trying to airdrop all the pictures I took on my vacation in chronological order from my iPad to my MacBook Air. They arrive in reverse chronological order. Each picture is enclosed within an individual folder which I must open to reach the picture file. Can I not simply airdrop pictures from my iPad to my MacBook Air in the same order in which they appeared in my iPad?
Again, thanks
Thanks for trying to help me. Reverse order means the last picture that I took three weeks after the first picture, appears to have been taken three weeks prior to the last picture. If I want to make a movie etc. etc., I will have to re-organize all of the pictures. I do not understand why AirDrop changes the order in which the pictures were taken in my iPad, when sending them to my MacBook Air. I also have great difficulty in understanding why each picture is enclosed in a folder. It cannot be what is intended, and I suspect I do not understand the settings required to send a picture file and receive a picture file which is not enclosed in an individual folder.
retireD62 wrote: ... Reverse order means the last picture that I took three weeks after the first picture, appears to have been taken three weeks prior to the last picture.
I still don't get the details. I'm not sure what "appears to have been taken" means. Are you talking about the creation dates of the pictures in the Downloads folder after AirDrop, or something else?
I just AirDropped 4 pictures randomly chose from my iPhone's Photos Library to my Mac. Above is the Downloads folder, and the pictures have correct Created dates. I did not use Options "All Photos Data."
You haven't told us what Mac you're using, or what OS it's running. That might be important...
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