IPAD backup

December 20, 2017, 06:17 AM

TBH

IPAD backup

What is the best, easiest way to back up (or down load photos) from iPads and iPhones? We have photos from three weddings, and a bunch of others.
Do we have to go through a computer to save on an external hard drive?

We do have an older HP laptop that we have used to backup in the past, I bet it hasn’t seen a startup in almost a year.

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December 20, 2017, 07:38 AM

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I typically use an image capture program and put them into folders while iPad or iPhone is hooked up to the computer

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December 20, 2017, 07:54 AM

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When you connect your iPhone or iPad to a computer, you can go to it using Windows Explorer and it will show up in the list under “This PC”. Go to the name of your device and there will be the folder Internal Storage>DCIM> and then folders with your pictures. You can either cut or copy the pictures to whatever folder you want onto you computer’s hard drive and now you have them.

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December 20, 2017, 01:28 PM

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On the PC at work, I just plug in my iPhone and a window pops up with an import photos option or something similar, IIRC, it's been a couple years. From there I would just drag and drop to the PC. It's really very very easy. Once on the PC you can make backups to CD, DVD, flash drives or external disc.

The "best" backup is multiple methods.

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December 20, 2017, 07:31 PM

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If you connect your iThingy to a PC without iTunes open you should get a windows pop up with an option to download pictures OR your iThingy will show up under the MyComputer folder. Open it up and it will only give you your photos.

You can back them up to the cloud and then log into the cloud from your desktop and move the pictures to the hard drive.

You can use iTunes to download the pictures to your desktop.

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December 20, 2017, 07:41 PM

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I usually use a computer. I have iTunes but use windows to pull the images off. You can set it to make a folder for every date, with the folder name being the date taken.

December 20, 2017, 07:44 PM

Black92LX

Are you an Amazon Prime member??
Download the Prime Photos app and it saves them to the cloud.

If not plug into the PC open the iPad folder and drop into a folder on the PC. No need for iTunes.

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December 21, 2017, 09:16 PM

TBH

Ok, thanks all. I was hoping there was a portable hard drive specifically for iPhone and iPad backup. I’ll dust off the old PC.