How to copy 'Home videos' back from iphone to mac

I have some "Home videos" that I made in imovie from my travels and kept copies on both my iphone and my ipad. I also had a backup on an external WD Passport drive. Very recently my WD passport drive just stopped working with very slim chances of data recovery due to a mechanical issue. Unfortunately my imac's hard drive stopped working literally 3 days later. I lost all my imac's data together with the full WD passport backup literally at the same time. People who fixed my imac and installed a new ssd drive were not able to recover anything from the old hard drive either. The most precious was the GoPro footage from all my travels over the years. At least the ones that I have already put together into final videos in imovie were copied onto my iphone and ipad. However, I struggle to now copy them back to my newly repaired imac. Is there any way at all I can do that given they are not purchased videos but my own imovie videos. I don't understand the logic behind not being able to copy back anything other than purchased videos. Is there a solution or software that can help me get them back?

iMac, macOS High Sierra (10.13.6), iphone 7

Posted on Oct 16, 2018 10:58 AM

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Oct 23, 2018 11:58 AM in response to alex_reade1612

Alex,


I don't have the "Videos app" on any of my devices, and I don't see it listed in the App store. Is this a Go Pro app?

In any event, the app should have some way of exporting the videos to an independent movie. Check its help menu or or other menu items, or perhaps the app's website for some help. Once you get the videos into independent movies it is an easy matter to export them to your Mac per the instructions in the link I gave you in my previous post.


-- Rich

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