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Does iPhoto save your videos too?

Curious. I was thinking about getting drop box but if iPhoto can save videos as well I might as well buy iCloud storage and keep iPhoto.

iPhone 5, iOS 7.0.4

Posted on Nov 22, 2013 9:30 PM

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Posted on Nov 23, 2013 5:59 AM

Are you asking about iPhoto on your iPhone or a Mac?


iPhoto in IOS does will show and organize photos and videos that are stored in the Photos.app on your device, but it will not store them; if you delete them from the Photos.app, they will be gone from iPhoto too: see: http://help.apple.com/iphoto/iphone/2.0/?handbuch#blnka2334ce4


iPhoto on your Mac will store photos on videos in the iPhoto library on your Mac.

But none of these applications will store photos and videos permanently in iCloud. They will use iCloud to share and stream photos and videos between your devices, but iCloud is not a permanent storage for videos and photos. If you want to use iCloud to share photos between your devices, you do not need additional cloud storage. The Photo Streams do not count against your cloud storage.

iCloud: Photo Stream limits

iCloud: Using and troubleshooting Shared Photo Streams

Regards

Léonie

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Nov 23, 2013 5:59 AM in response to Ortiz7983

Are you asking about iPhoto on your iPhone or a Mac?


iPhoto in IOS does will show and organize photos and videos that are stored in the Photos.app on your device, but it will not store them; if you delete them from the Photos.app, they will be gone from iPhoto too: see: http://help.apple.com/iphoto/iphone/2.0/?handbuch#blnka2334ce4


iPhoto on your Mac will store photos on videos in the iPhoto library on your Mac.

But none of these applications will store photos and videos permanently in iCloud. They will use iCloud to share and stream photos and videos between your devices, but iCloud is not a permanent storage for videos and photos. If you want to use iCloud to share photos between your devices, you do not need additional cloud storage. The Photo Streams do not count against your cloud storage.

iCloud: Photo Stream limits

iCloud: Using and troubleshooting Shared Photo Streams

Regards

Léonie

Nov 23, 2013 9:38 AM in response to Ortiz7983

Now to decide between Flickr or Dropbox?

Do you want to publish the photos, or just store them online? For storing, I'd prefer Dropbox, for publishing web albums Flickr will have more options.


Personally, I like to control of my own photos and keep them backed up on two external drives, one of the drives in a different place from my home. The most important photos are in Shared Photo Streams as well (Shared only to me), and thus backed up in iCloud.

Nov 23, 2013 11:03 AM in response to léonie

I just want to be able to store them and be able to view them through my iPhone or iPad but without them being on stored onto my devices. I went with 16GB on my iPhone and iPad because I wanted to pay to store things on a cloud service and be accessible to my devices while being able to download to my devices if I wanted to. I have lots of video and that takes up space real quick. If I had an external hard drive with a wife connection, would I be able to access my photos through my devices with it? Also, I really appreciate your input.

Does iPhoto save your videos too?

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