How to Sync photos from iphone to ipad and know which are synced?
Transfering photos from iphone to ipad is proving to be a lot harder than we thought, and not doable by my girlfried.
There seems to be a number of options, most of which we cannot use:
- use the photostream in icloud. We cant use this becaue of the following:
- we have more than 5GB of photos, and she doesnt want to pay for more space just to be a glofied file copy.
- it doesnt transfer existing photos (can be overcome with other means)
- it uses the internet, its not device to device (we live in spain, the internet is very slow and I cant afford to have it clogged with uploading gigs of moves taken on the iphone when I need to work)
- Transfer files from iphone to a PC, then from PC to ipad. I currently do this manually for her. Its difficult and time consuming because:
- She doesnt have (or need) her own PC. I have two laptops, but travel with one or the other. The probelm is if we use laptop 1 to copy photos between iphone and ipad, then I take this, she is left with laptop 2. my understanding si that Apple cripple you by only allowing 1 laptop to sync - if she wants to use laptop 2, she looses all photos already on the ipad.
- I copy photos from the iphone to PC via the DCIM dir which is exposed when you plug in the iphone to a PC. Its hard to know which photos and videos are new, and which were previusly copied.
- I copy the photos and videos I think are new to a new directory on the PC, and give them a consecutive roll number as part of the folder name, e.g. 0042_iphone_photos
- I then plug in the ipad, fire up itunes, then click on library, then the button to eject the ipad in the top right (I would NEVER have found this, only by googling did I discover clicking on this gives more options. Why did they remove the easy to use device list on the left?).
- Then I set it to sync the directory above where I put my camera rolls.
- Use some paid for apps on the iphone and ipad.
I dont do this as I dont have time to research which will do the job without uploading to some kind of cloud through our appaling ADSL, and doesnt require spending money each time the app upgrades, and is easy enough for my girlfriend to use, and has all the features we need.
We are currently using option 2, and its horrible.
We dont know how to solve these issues:
- When we transfer photos from the iphone to the computer, how do we mark them as transfered? In the iphone, she has about 500 photos and videos under "camera roll". There does not seem to be a way to rename this to "synced" or to move all 500 photos to a new album without slelecting each photo individually, which is not an option.
- When the iphone gets full, we will need to delete most of the older photos. However, she will want to keep some of her favourite photos. The iphone is too small and difficult to go through and select which photos, she wants to do this on the ipad. But then we have the whole difficult situation in reverse - how to make some photos persistent, e.g. copied into a favourtes album on the iphone, whilts not deleting the non favourites from the ipad or pc, but deleting the non-favourites from the iphone, in a fool proof an easy manner my girlfried could use?
Any thoughts or tips appreciated. My girlfried is horrified how difficult the process is, and how much time we have spent just to get this far.
The next problem is how to get the photos onto the TV, but thats another post. We have a first gen mac mini connected to our TV, but the HD is full, and its not possible to replace.
We have very fast wifi at home (but very slow ADSL).
iPad, iapd air ios 7.0.4