copy photo FROM ipad to the mac

Bart-

There may be another way to do it, but this should work: with the iPad connected to the Mini, run iPhoto (or Aperture). Select the iPad under DEVICES on the left side of the iPhoto window. At the bottom of the screen, you have the options of Importing Selected or Importing All. Once imported into iPhoto, you can export them if you need copies separate from the iPhoto library.

In Aperture, you must click on IMPORT at the top, and select your iPad.

I suppose you could also mail them to yourself, one at a time!

Fred

There are apps such as Simple Transfer (which also has a free lite version called Simple Photo & Video Transfer) which can be used to copy those photos off via your wifi network. But as photos are 'optimised' when they are synced to the iPad, any that you then copy back to your computer may not be exactly the same as they originally were on your computer.

Have you not got Time Machine running on your Mac ?

It depends on how you set the iPhoto prefs. Check them --if you're lucky and set prefs to save the images in iPhoto, your wife MIGHT keep you. ;-)

Good luck. Let us know if you had iPhoto save--I sure hope so.