Transfer images to external hard drive

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Transfer images to external hard drive

Hi chaps - I'm guessing no but ... is it at all possible to transfer files from my iPhone onto an external hard drive (I'm thinking of holidays with no computer and an iPhone full of photos ie I run out of space and it would be good to transfer them to external storage) ... best Roger - or is it 'Mobile me ?

1 imac 24" 3.06, 1 x G4 desktop FW 800 and 15" Macbook Pro 2.2 and an iPod, Mac OS X (10.6.6), iPhone AppleTV and a little Advent PC as well

Posted on Mar 3, 2011 2:18 AM

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wjosten

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Mar 3, 2011 2:30 AM in response to ROGER BURTON

You can't do that with just an external drive, you'd need a computer to import the photos. However, you could sign up for MobileMe and upload pictures directly from your phone to your MobileMe Gallery. Or use Dropbox.

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ROGER BURTON Author

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Mar 3, 2011 3:32 AM in response to wjosten

Thanks wjosten - yes I've been checking out MobileMe and I read somewhere that with the MobileMe app for iPhone it was NOT possible to "upload'" photos to iDisc (is that the storage bit of MobileMe) ? there's a comment here:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mobileme-idisk/id320654497?mt=8

Best Roger

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wjosten

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Mar 3, 2011 3:42 AM in response to ROGER BURTON

With a MobileMe account, you don't need/use an app to upload photos, they're uploaded directly from your camera roll to your MobileMe gallery. Apple makes this app to view them or share with friends:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mobileme-gallery/id350223710?mt=8

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Rudegar

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Mar 3, 2011 4:35 AM in response to ROGER BURTON

you don't need to sync the iphone with the computer to upload so any computer will do connecting it would make it show up as a "drive" where you can get the pictures out of it put them on a ext usb thingy and delete them from the iphone

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ROGER BURTON Author

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Mar 3, 2011 4:55 AM in response to Rudegar

Thanks again for the clarification wjostin and Rudegar - that's a pretty good way around it - there's always a PC around somewhere - in an hotel or whatever ... Roger

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OO7X

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Dec 26, 2013 6:44 PM in response to ROGER BURTON

The iPhone no memory card,we use iTunes to sync our iPhone data,and also can use iCloud to backup our data,However,this data is no read,we need to use some tools to help us transfer images to external hard drive,iStonsoft iPhone to Mac Transfer can very easily to backup images to external hard drive on Mac computer,this is a Professional tool to Copy photos to external hard drive on Mac computer,you can move pictures to external hard drive on Mac computer and more quickly,Follow these steps to transfer photos from iPhone to external hard drive on Mac computer

Step 1. Download,Install and run iStonsoft iPhone to Mac Transfer

Step 2. Connect iPhone to Mac

Step 3. Check "Photos" you want to transfer from iPhone to Mac computer

Step 4. Choose "Photos" you want to transfer to Mac

Step 5. Click "Export" to start transfering images from iPhone to external hard drive on Mac computer

Believe you can success to transfer your images from iPhone to external hard drive on Mac computer

http://is.gd/RYq2Ew

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Answer 7

Dec 28, 2013 1:08 AM in response to ROGER BURTON

Maybe the Coolmuster iPhone iPad iPod to computer transfer can help you.

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devinpot

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Jul 11, 2016 11:52 PM in response to ROGER BURTON

If someone looking for this same question, please go to here Import photos and videos from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support. Most of you can get your answer to this question. Remember to choose the correct Version of your computer.

If it cannot help you, you can try some 3rd party transfer tools, like Dr.Fone or FonePaw iOS Transfer which are the popular and also powerful iPhone manage tools. And they support kinds of files to transfer from iPhone to computer or the external hard drive. You can have a look.

And here is a tutorial about how to transfer images to external hard drive.

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