Importing iphone pictures to PC

[mike9009]

I dislike iPhone!

My wife has an iPhone SE and the memory is maxed out (why can I not have an SD slot in an iPhone - rhetorical question)

I have tried to back up the photos to two PCs so that she can start deleting stuff off the phone.

On both PCs using the photo App, the import hangs after 318 items of almost 2500 items.

It really pisses me off....

Why can I not just see the items and copy them over????


Aaarrrggghhhhh!

[buggalugs]

Pay the 80p a month to get more iCloud storage, it can take photos off your phone automatically but make it look like they’re all there. It’s neat.

[mike9009]

buggalugs said:

Pay the 80p a month to get more iCloud storage, it can take photos off your phone automatically but make it look like they’re all there. It’s neat.

Right, this is where I get conflict with my wife. She loves iPhone but does not trust the cloud. I will have a little look at it all though....

Thanks

[Timbuktu]

mike9009 said:

Why can I not just see the items and copy them over????

You should be able to view them on the phone as if it were a memory stick - on a PC anyway, or is this what you're doing and it hangs on photo 350 when you try and copy them all?

[timmymagic73]

As above, you should just be able to drag and drop once you've allowed the PC to access the iPhone.

Silly question - but is image 319 a long video file.....? How long are you leaving it "hanging"?

Can you copy anything after this file? Can you Ctrl-A and then Ctrl-click to deselect one image and still copy the rest? Seems odd!

[Timbuktu]

Should look like this on a PC

Try copying the file it doesn't like first or not copying it like a poster above suggested.

[essayer]

I can recommend paying a bit extra and using PhotoSync, it will allow you to sync over USB and wifi, and into custom directories etc.

[deckster]

mike9009 said:

Right, this is where I get conflict with my wife. She loves iPhone but does not trust the cloud. I will have a little look at it all though....

She doesn't trust the cloud, but is happy to have all her data sitting in a fragile device that is only ever a single drop from instant irretrievable death?

Ooookay.

[captain_cynic]

deckster said:

mike9009 said:

Right, this is where I get conflict with my wife. She loves iPhone but does not trust the cloud. I will have a little look at it all though....

She doesn't trust the cloud, but is happy to have all her data sitting in a fragile device that is only ever a single drop from instant irretrievable death?

Ooookay.

You could have just written "I don't understand anything about computers or information security" and it would have been the same.

Hard drives are stupidly resilient.

But its less about data integrity and more about data security. Many major technology companies have given us a lot of reason to distrust them with our data, not just the fact that many misuse it, but also that they fail to maintain proper security procedures (just google how many US companies have had had entire databases of credit card details stolen and be grateful the evil EU prevents companies from storing our PII and FSI data like that). Apple are far from the exception here.

And if you stop paying, bye bye data. Nothing stops them from raising the price to £80 a month. See: Photobucket.

Paranoia is totally justifiable.

However all of that is totally besides the point, you should have the option to copy locally.

This is why I refuse to use any Apple products. If it's their way or the highway, I'll take the highway.

Edited by captain_cynic on Friday 25th May 16:16

[Efbe]

deckster said:

She doesn't trust the cloud, but is happy to have all her data sitting in a fragile device that is only ever a single drop from instant irretrievable death?

Ooookay.

yeah the cloud is completely safe #fappening

[nikaiyo2]

Efbe said:

yeah the cloud is completely safe #fappening

That was not cloud security related was it? It was targeted social engineered hacking, I would imagine the OP's Mrs is not that likely to have to worry about being papped.

[deckster]

captain_cynic said:

deckster said:

mike9009 said:

Right, this is where I get conflict with my wife. She loves iPhone but does not trust the cloud. I will have a little look at it all though....

She doesn't trust the cloud, but is happy to have all her data sitting in a fragile device that is only ever a single drop from instant irretrievable death?

Ooookay.

You could have just written "I don't understand anything about computers or information security" and it would have been the same.

Hard drives are stupidly resilient.

I genuinely laughed-out-loud at that. You know the square root of dick all about me and I'm not about to get into a technical willy-waving competition, but rest assured that you are significantly far from the mark in both of those statements.

captain_cynic said:

However all of that is totally besides the point, you should have the option to copy locally.

Which, erm, you do. As the screenshot a couple of posts up clearly shows. But don't let that get in the way of a(nother) badly-informed rant.

[The Selfish Gene]

as a person that is very involved professionally with software security and testing of it...........I wouldn't trust anything, ever, ever, ever.........

assuming the pictures aren't in any way dodgy the cloud is fine.

Just don't have anything you don't mind anyone else seeing at any point for the rest of time.

[The_Jackal]

Just show your wife several of the 1000s of theads on the web where an iPhone user has lost all their photos because they never turned on iCloud backup for their photos or use any kind of cloud/offline storage.
At least with cloud storage you wont have to be manually backing up her phone every week.
Even Google photos will automatically backup all your photos (unlimited storage I think).

[Efbe]

The Selfish Gene said:

as a person that is very involved professionally with software security and testing of it...........I wouldn't trust anything, ever, ever, ever.........

assuming the pictures aren't in any way dodgy the cloud is fine.

Just don't have anything you don't mind anyone else seeing at any point for the rest of time.

OP has a campervan... all bets are off.

[mike9009]

Thanks for the helpful comments.

Managed to do it all manually, using file explorer and date created by search function to copy off into separate date folders. All done and backed up. What a PITA Apple is in the way it stores the photos and videos!!

<and the 'special' campervan folder!! >

Mike

[essayer]

mike9009 said:

Thanks for the helpful comments.

Managed to do it all manually, using file explorer and date created by search function to copy off into separate date folders. All done and backed up. What a PITA Apple is in the way it stores the photos and videos!!

<and the 'special' campervan folder!! >

Mike

Next time use PhotoSync, it does all this for you

[Timbuktu]

mike9009 said:

Managed to do it all manually, using file explorer and date created by search function to copy off into separate date folders. All done and backed up. What a PITA Apple is in the way it stores the photos and videos!!

There is a far easier way to do it - click on the phone in the left hand list, then type .jpg in to the search box and it will show every photo on your phone.

To see videos type .mov

Yes apple can be a pain but there is usually a way around it - the people who all complain about it just don't know the tricks.

[Timbuktu]

And voila:

[mike9009]

Timbuktu said:

And voila:



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Umm, thanks, that is what I did, but also added another sort filter by date created. Then I could copy the photos and movies in bite-size chunk into separate folders on my PC.