How can I export pictures NOT on camera roll from my ipad to my iMac?

If they are not on your camera roll, where are they? iCloud? Those will stnc automatically if you are logged in on your iMac

System Preferences > iCloud

Go to this link...

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4083

If these photos are in some other photo app, check to see whether there's a button to save to camera roll when viewing the photo.

As far as I know, there is no way at all to get pictures that are not in the camera roll onto your computer without the use of a third party application like this one.

http://www.wideanglesoftware.com/touchcopy/features/features_photo.php

I use PhotoSync WiFi transfer app to move photos and video back/forth between iPad and PC. See if that or similar WiFi app would work.

I have not had the particular problem, but I know that PhotoSync will transfer photos out of albums. I guess I'm a bit confused by your situation, thoguh. 'm not sure how you exactly "dragged" photos from PC to iPad and then created albums. Created them how if not in Camera Roll?

There are apps that can import photos and create folders/albums outside of Camera Roll, such as PhotoManager Pro, but which app did you drag the photos into? There is no general file system on the iPad.

I have an app called Wireless Transfer app that will move photos back and forth from computer to iPad BUT it will not transfer photos other than those IN the camera roll so make sure that you read the specs carefully for any of these WiFi transfer apps.

I thought for sure that TouchCopy would work. Sorry about that.

Hi everyone,
If you want a quick way to transfer photos from any album on your iPad to your computer you can take a look at 'MobileGo for iOS (Mac)' App (I'm the developer of the app). Here is a video that shows how the app works and how to transfer from iPad to computer:

You can transfer 56 photos at one time. The only requirement is to have your iPad and your computer connected to the same wifi network.

I hope the app will be useful to you!

Cheers,

Enrique

Hello jcamengual,

I was having the same problem you're having - for those that don't understand... I synced photos on to my ipad which placed them inside "photos" not cameral roll. I then sold me laptop as I thought I had no need for it. When I bought my new iMac I tried to use my external hard drive which had my back up on, however my hard drive no longer works. Thus unable to retreive my photos on to my iMac!

Anyway... long of the short of it is theres no easy way. But there are a few ways. I'm currently using icloud's photo stream. As long as you have photo stream set up on your mac you can create a shared stream on the ipad with a friend. This shared stream will appear on your mac, you can then "import photos" straight from the shared stream.

Alternativley you could use something like drop box. Sync your pictures from iPad to drop box. Then download from drop box to Mac. As I said, no easy way that I have found but this does work. It just takes a long time.

Key Facts:

You can have 5000 photos inside a sharred stream

You can have 100 sharred streams

Therefore you can stream 500,000 photos - I hope you don't have that many.

All explained here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4858?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

rhysp1984

It does not matter how many photos there are. Once they are in a Shared Photo Stream and you have access to them from a computer, you can save them locally. If you have too many photos to move at one time just move what you can. After they are copied out of the Shared Photo Stream to the computer delete the photos in the Share Photo Stream and add the rest. After they are all moved you can delete the Shared Photo Stream altogether.

In addition...

I had some photos on drop box already and have just tried downloading them. Again not obviously simple but if you download the drop box app on to your mac then all the files will slow download themselves into the drop box foler at which point you can import them into iphoto

Hope all that helps,

Rhys

Have you tried to use Image Capture on your Mac? It is located in the applications folder.

It may see the pictures not in the roll. I can't test it because all my pictures are in the roll.