How do I transfer photos and videos from iPhone 5 to an external hard drive?

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How do I transfer photos and videos from iPhone 5 to an external hard drive?

I have an iPhone 5. It's full of photos and videos that I've taken (27 GB). I also have a four year old MacBook with Mac OS X 10.6.8. The MacBook is full of stuff that I don't want to put elsewhere. So I don't want to transfer the photos and videos to the computer. However, I have a 1 TB external hard drive I want to transfer them to. I've been trying to do this, but can't figure it out. I've spent a few hours on this. What is the best and most simple way to transfer photos and videos from an iPhone 5 to an external hard drive?

iPhone 5, iOS 7.0.2

Posted on Oct 21, 2013 1:39 PM

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razmee209

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Oct 21, 2013 1:46 PM in response to joibjarni

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4083 plug your external hard drive to your Mac and see if you can import your photos to that external hard drive.

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zhoumin

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Dec 28, 2013 2:47 AM in response to joibjarni

And backup soon and often - having your iPhoto library on an external drive is not a backup and if you are using Time Machine you need to check and be sure that TM is backing up your external drive

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Mar 24, 2015 7:26 PM in response to joibjarni

Two steps:

you can first transfer photos from iPhone to computer and then drag them to the external hard drive. For your iTunes library, you can follow:

1. Quit iTunes.

2. Locate your external drive.

Mac: On the desktop or Finder sidebar.

3. Locate your iTunes folder:By default, the iTunes folder is located in:

Mac: Finder > username > Music

4. Drag the iTunes folder to your external drive. This can take a while if you have a lot of items.

6. When the transfer is complete, your iTunes Library will have been successfully copied to your external drive.

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Answer 4

Mar 24, 2016 2:50 AM in response to RenatoMahaffey

RenatoMahaffey wrote:

Two steps:

you can first transfer photos from iPhone to computer and then drag them to the external hard drive. For your iTunes library, you can follow:

1. Quit iTunes.

2. Locate your external drive.

Mac: On the desktop or Finder sidebar.

3. Locate your iTunes folder:By default, the iTunes folder is located in:

Mac: Finder > username > Music

4. Drag the iTunes folder to your external drive. This can take a while if you have a lot of items.

6. When the transfer is complete, your iTunes Library will have been successfully copied to your external drive.

Works greatly, but where is the step 5?

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