Can't get photos off ipad to pc

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Can't get photos off ipad to pc

When I connect my ipad to pc,I can't get the photos from the ipad to the pc. I have over 500 on there and no backup.

My photostream is working over icloud but I only have about 100 photos on that. I understand pre-icloud photos won't sync to cloud. But I can't get my other 400 photos off the ipad. I had transferred them somehow from an old pc to the ipad but that pc is fried so the only copies I have of the photos are on my ipad.

I open itunes and then my ipad but that shows 0 photos.

I open my ipad from my PC under "my computer" and go to the dcim folder. There is only some weird folder there, 860OKMZO, with 4 random pics from my photo stream

There is no way I can get to my pics. Not even my photo stream from my pc

iPad 2, Windows 7

Posted on Dec 21, 2012 8:44 AM

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Answer 1

King_Penguin

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Dec 21, 2012 9:00 AM in response to Mjd2k

To copy photos that were originally synced from a computer you can use third-party apps such as Simple Transfer which can copy them off via your wifi network. But as photos are 'optimised' when they are synced to the iPad, any that you then copy back to a computer may not be exactly the same as they originally were on your computer e.g. their file size and dimensions may be different, colours might look different etc

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Dec 21, 2012 9:10 AM in response to Mjd2k

Photos that were synced onto the iPad cannot be downloaded directly off the iPad.

You'll need a third Party Application to get them out.

There's a few out there like http://www.iskysoft.com/syncpod.html

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Mjd2k Author

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Dec 21, 2012 9:20 AM in response to Mjd2k

Thanks guys. I downloaded simple transfer but it only shows my camera roll and my photo stream. Not my library, which is where I want to get the pics from

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King_Penguin

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Dec 21, 2012 9:35 AM in response to Mjd2k

It should show photos that were synced from a computer. On a browser on my computer if I go to the URL that the app displays it shows all of my synced albums, and it allows me to go into one of them and transfer photos from it. Do you not get a screen with all of your synced albums shown, as well as the camera roll album ?

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