I need to free up space on my phone. Most of my photos are live. I plugged my phone in, opened "photos" on my mac, imported everythign I wanted, then dragged it into a folder on my hard drive.
All of the live photos were made into regular jpegs. When I send them back to my phone or try to view them on my computer, they are flat jpegs.
How do I transfer live photos to my computer to make sure everything is saved?
Thank you
iMac
A live photos has two pieces - a still photo and a short video and must be processed and viewed with Photos on a Mac or an IOS device to work - when you move it to disk or edit it with other software you no longer have a live photo - to keep it as a live photo keep it in the Apple enviorment
Take and edit Live Photos - Apple Support
LN
A live photos has two pieces - a still photo and a short video and must be processed and viewed with Photos on a Mac or an IOS device to work - when you move it to disk or edit it with other software you no longer have a live photo - to keep it as a live photo keep it in the Apple enviorment
Take and edit Live Photos - Apple Support
LN
And I don't have the option to get the broken down file you have above.
Again you select the live photo in the Photos application and export (file menu ==> export) the unmodified original - the three files are exported to a location you specify so you find them b using the finder and going to the location you export them to
LN
To clarify, the work as live photos when they are in "photos".
But if I move them into another folder (I want to back them up) and then try to open them again in photos, they are a flat jpeg and I can't play the live photo
Thanks! How do I find those files? I'm using a mac. The only way I've found to get files off of my iPhone is photos on mac. And I don't have the option to get the broken down file you have above.
Thanks!
Can anybody help with this? Thanks!
How do I get both the video and still file off of my phone? There has to be some way to back these up on a hard drive.
Thanks!
export the unmodified original including the XMP data - this will give you three files - the photo, the movie and the metadata
LN
Live photos don't transfer to computer through "photos"
