I received our wedding photos on a USB flash drive from our professional photographer. I am trying to get these photos on my ipad 4.

Question

Level 1

0 points

I received our wedding photos on a USB flash drive from our professional photographer. I am trying to get these photos on my ipad 4.

I have enough room on my ipad for all 600 photos.

I have tried to sync the photos through iTunes by choosing the USB drive on my computer. The folder appears empty.

I have purchased a lightning to USB camera kit and nothing happened once I plugged the USB into the ipad.

I thought since the lighting to SD card reader I've been using with my camera works maybe I'll try uploading a photo or two onto the SD card and use the lighting to SD card reader and do it that way. I see the photo I chose on the camera when the SD card is inserted into my desktop, but once I insert it into the camera kit on ipad it doesn't show up. The other photos I have taken show up but not the ones I copied over onto it show up.

I wonder if our photographer saved the photos in such a way to prevent me from syncing them? I have permission and the rights to use them so that's probably unlikely. The photos are saved as jpegs.

My other thought is maybe the photos are too large in size to upload onto the ipad? Is there a limit? Under properties they are listed around 400kb and 1800x1200 in dimension.

Please help! I'm wanting to make a photo book for the holidays as a gift with one of the ipad apps.

Thank you in advance

iPad (4th gen) Wi-Fi

Posted on Dec 7, 2013 12:41 AM

Reply

Answer 1

Dec 7, 2013 4:27 AM in response to Kat U

Hi Kat U,

Many thanks for your question today.

I am happy to assist you in this process and this method of helping you today will not involve you using your Camera Connection Kit from Apple.

This method of downloading images onto the iPad requires the following items:

The USB
A computer/Mac with a USB Port
The iPad
iTunes (preferably iTunes 11, but it won't make much difference if you have iTunes 10)

Before we start I have based this resolution on the basis that you use:

iPad 4 with iOS 7.0.0 or better
iTunes 10 or better
Mac OS X Mountain Lion or better or Windows 7 or better

Here are my steps to resolve your issue:

Insert the USB drive into your computer and then go into the folder in windows explorer or finder where the images are saved on your USB.
Save all the images from the USB under one folder on your own folder in your document/image folders (not on the USB). On the Hard Drive
Remove your USB stick from your computer
Insert your iPad with the lightning connector into your Mac/PC.
When iTunes pops up click on the iPad icon/textbox - it may say (i.e. Name's iPad). (If iTunes does not pop up open it up manually by clicking twice on the icon on your desktop or Dock Taskbar).
Click on Photo's Tab and the tick the tick box for: sync photos from
Click my pictures (located next to sync photos from), then navigate around your folders until you choose the folder where you copied your images from the USB stick to and once you have found the folder click select folder.
Press sync.
Go to your iPad once it has synced and log in, click on photos then albums (located bottom right of the menu/screen) then click on the Album of the images - (its name will be what the Album's name was on your computer).
Your images should be located there.

If this resolution does not work, you have three other options

Try the solution provided by the gentleman above using the Camera Connection Kit
Call Apple - American number is 1800-MY-APPLE (1800-692-7753) and go through to AppleCare for iPad
Take the USB and iPad to your closest Apple Store and get a Genius to look and possibly fix the problem.

Many Thanks for your question and allowing me the time to possibly resolve your issue. I hope to hear from you soon regarding this issue.

iBenjamin

Reply

Answer 2

Dec 7, 2013 12:47 AM in response to Kat U

Plug the USB stick into your computer.
Create a folder called DCIM.
Put all the photos into that folder.
Verify the photos all have exactly 8-character names. No more, no less.
Verify all the photos are JPG and have a .jpg extension.
Once more verify that all the photos have names that look like asbcdefg.jpg
Plug the CameraConnection Kit (CCK) into the iPad and the USB stick into the CCK.
The iPad will ask you to import photos.

Reply

Answer 3

Kat U Author

Level 1

0 points

Dec 7, 2013 10:13 AM in response to iBenjaminCrowley

Thank you very much. Following your instructions I was able to upload all my photos with ease. I really appreciate you taking the time to write such a thorough explaination.

Have a great day and thanks again :)

Reply

Answer 4

Dec 7, 2013 1:30 PM in response to Kat U

Hi Kat U,

No worries. I just thought that maybe the images were not going to upload due to the USB stick being ejected and then the iPad had no contact with it. I uses the same formula as PowerPoint. If you upload media from your documents file and then save the PowerPoint to a USB the sound doesn't work.

I am glad that all of your wedding photos have been uploaded and now you can enjoy them on your full retina iPad 4. Try using slideshow or Apple TV to get the most out of these images. Apple TV provides an opportunity to see your images mirrored to a HDTV in front of anyone at your house.

Enjoy and Many thanks

iBenjamin Crowley

Reply