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Syncing from ipad2 iphoto to imac iphoto

I recently travelled overseas and used my dslr camera to take photos, my ipad2 + iphoto to upload all photos (a back up). I also used the images on the ipad to then edit, add location data, create albums and journals. I now have a full 64gb ipad to upload to my mac. I want to get all my trip photos from the ipad to the mac.

I have read conflicting reports about the ease and success of syncing as you would normally do to upload the photos to the mac via itunes.

I am looking for advice about:-

* The best way to upload the upload so that all the photos that are now in the ipad iphoto app, would result in syncing to the mac iphoto and include all edited photos, retaining the edits and the album and location data;

* is there any way to save the journals to the mac or do they have to stay in the icloud? I have read not. If not, if I sync the photos to my mac, and delete the photos off the ipad, will the journals and their connections to the journals be retained in the icloud?

* i also created a slideshow in iphoto on the ipad will that sync Ok with the mac iphoto?

Hoping you can help and save me having a disaster! All comments and advice much appreciated.

Regards

Veronica

iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)

Posted on Dec 7, 2013 9:59 PM

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léonie

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Posted on Dec 7, 2013 10:54 PM

Veronica, what is your versions of iPhoto on your mac, and what have you used on your iPad to organize your photos? iPhoto or the Photos.app? Is it IOS 7 or 6?

Since you create Journals, I assume you used iPhoto on your iPad to create the Journals, but what kind of albums do you have? Photos.app albums or iPhoto albums created by tagging the photos?

* The best way to upload the upload so that all the photos that are now in the ipad iphoto app, would result in syncing to the mac iphoto and include all edited photos, retaining the edits and the album and location data;

This will be difficult - you can sync albums and events from the mac to the iPad, but there is no easy way to sync from the iPad to the Mac.

You can transfer the contents of the camera roll to your Mac, as you probably know; simply connect the iPad via USB and import the camera roll to iPhoto on your Mac.
- To transfer all edits, share all edited photos to the camera roll, before you download the photos to your mac.
- Any custom tags you added in iPhoto on your iPad will be visible as keywords in iPhoto and the Photo Title you set on the iPad will appear in the description field in the information panel. The GPS loaction data will also be transferred. I tested this with IOS 7 and iPhoto 2, it may be different for earlier versions.
- To preserve your iPad albums, you might consider to add different iPhoto tags to the photos in each album and use them to sort your photos again into albums on your mac.
Jounals cannot be saved to your mac as journals - you have to keep them on your iPad. http://support.apple.com/kb/PH3156
- One problem is, that only the device you used to create the journal can be used to edit or delete the journal. If you delete it from the iPad, you will never again be able to remove it from iCloud or to edit it.
- You can view your published web journals on any devices that are connected to the Internet and set up to work with iCloud. You can edit a web journal only with the device you used to create it. For example, if you create a journal on your iPhone and publish to iCloud, you can view your journal in iPhoto on your iPad, but you can change the journal only using your iPhone.
- However, you can save your Journal as a webpage to your Mac and then continue to maintain it using a web editor: See: export your web journal to iTunes

Regards

Léonie

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léonie

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Dec 9, 2013 2:24 PM in response to rayver

Finally managed to transfer 10 edited photos across to camera roll to start playing.

success 🙂

Only tagged album name came over for the 10 edited photos. Favourites and flags from iphoto didn't come across.

Then create favorite and flag as tag as well, if you need it.

This time in iphoto I tagged all the edited photos and tagged the album (this has to be done one by one, even though you can select the group ie 14 edited, or all album etc). Surely there is a better way??

There should be, but there isn't. iPhoto on iPad simply has not been designed with a large photo library in mind - it is for sharing photos and simple editing.

So, I may have lost some captions in Album 1 if a photo with a caption hadn't been edited. To get iall the info I want across I think I have to tag all my faves and flags one by one as well!!

Yes, use only tags and captions, that will keep.

I suppose next trip as a better workaround I should:-

1. Do edits, faves and flags in iphoto on the ipad and tag each album/event as I go (this will be still laborious selecting images one by one but at least it will be in smaller chunks)

2. Copy the whole iphoto album to the camera roll and save as a new album

3. Delete all the original images on the camera roll for the same album

4. Then syncing to mac would be easier and just from camera roll

Would that work?

tag each album/event as I go

Yes, that is the idea - tag them while you are editing, then you do not need to track them down later.

And directly after tagging the photo save it to the camera roll.

I would not delete the originals - I see, that you need to save space, but delete the originals only, if you are very sure, that the edits you created will be the final version. It is always risky to throw away the original and not to be able to revert the edits.

Or do you have backups of the originals on your camera card?

I don't do much edits on the iPad, just straighten the horizon or something. I use the iPad mainly to preview the photos, add some tags and captions, and then delete rigorously the mediocre and technically bad photos. Instead of deleting the original of one photo that I want to keep, I rather delete many boring photos, that are not worth keeping. Most of the edits I'll do later, when the photos have been transfered to the mac. iPhoto and Aperture on the Mac are better suited for keeping the originals and edited versions paired.

rayver Author

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Dec 9, 2013 3:08 PM in response to léonie

Yes, I have a copy of the original on my SD card. My plan had been to use the ipad to store all the photos from my trip (as a back up in case something happened to the camera) and do as much deleting, editing and organising as I could whilst on the go.

I'm surprised this hasnt been catered for. Even the most casual shooter on holidays tends to take lots of photos. I find it incredible that you have to duplicate the tags that IOS iphoto must be making (ie favouites, flagged etc) to be able to copy back to the camera roll and then back to the mac.

We were away for nearly 3 months. This wouldn't be so bad if you could bulk tag and move things around. My ipad seems to fall over if I try to move more than 30 photos at a time to the camera roll. Ho hum, looks like another 3 months worth of work to sort it all out again!!

Thanks again for all your help, it's been great.

Syncing from ipad2 iphoto to imac iphoto