JoelS Loc: Deep South Alabama

I searched the archives and could not find the answer. A friend of mine wants to move all of her photos from her Ipad to her PC. She wants to keep the photos in the albums but when she tries to transfer the pics, it does not keep them in the albums, it puts them randomly. Does anyone have experience in moving photos and keeping them in the albums? Thanks for your replies in advance....

BHC Loc: Strawberry Valley, JF, USA

By PC, do you mean a Windows computer?

ygelman Loc: new -- North of Poughkeepsie!

I use Phototransfer from Phototransfer.com which is a free download. It works over a wifi network and is great. I transfer between Mac, iPad, and android cell phone. Windows will also work, and other devices are probably possible but I have not tried any.

You can create folders in your target device or transfer into existing folders.

The only slight drawback is that the sources have to be in a single folder each time you transfer, so that means having to transfer a number of times, or to temporarily move/copy images into a single folder. (Either case is no big deal for me; I only transfer a few images per week.)

Capture48 Loc: Arizona

One word...iCloud

JoelS Loc: Deep South Alabama

Yes, PC with windows

eesileon1

San Disk makes a flash drive that is wifi with USB . That's what I have, and use. They also came out with a new drive that has the new connecter for Apple. You could try this also. These do double duty, as they can both be used as as std flash drive. One additional feature of the wifi unit is that you can use a mini sd card and store more data.

davidrb Loc: Half way there on the 45th Parallel

The software on the PC does not recognize the same album structure that the iPad does. You fail to mention what software is being used on the PC. You must configure it to meet your needs.

eesileon1

I am using win 7 and I have a version of fuji fine pix on there. Seems to work for me.

forjava Loc: Half Moon Bay, CA

Without software or hardware to get, just take the USB end of an iPad charging cable and plug it into a PC. The PC will treat the attached iPad -- or iPhone -- as a hard drive and it will appear in your PC's Computer folder. Then you can click your mouse to navigate to the iPad folders that have the photos to be moved. Copy selected photos from the camera drive to any folder on any PC drive.

For my two iPads and two iPhones, this works with the two Apple mobile-device connector formats I've used and presumably all formats.

You can chose to delete photos on your Apple mobile device while hooked up this way.

Apple sells kits -- connectors in a nice box -- to do this. Don't go there unless you enjoy wasting money and (likely) buying the wrong kit, then struggling to figure it out.

Capture48 Loc: Arizona

K.I.S.S.
Man so many complicated ways to do what is built into the iPad. Buy this software, get this connector, download this. This is all BS, This ability is built into the iPad, simply use iCloud. Sometimes the simplest way is the best way.

They are probably already on your iCloud, if they are not simply turn on photo syncing in your iCloud settings on your iPad, you're done. Albums are preserved.

jethro779 Loc: Tucson, AZ

iCloud does not cross platform.

Capture48 Loc: Arizona

What the hell you talking about, iCloud is a website you can get to it from any browser, MAC, PC, or even Unix can ge to it on their machine

jethro779 Loc: Tucson, AZ

iCloud does not work with my E Machines desk top running windows 7. I have to use an external WD cloud drive to go from iMac to PC. I don't use my PC much at all as I have it for when family shows up that doesn't use a MacBook or iMac. I could be not setting things up right but it doesn't work.

Capture48 Loc: Arizona

Works with any browser, on any OS...Does this snapshot look like a PC? The bottom of the shot should tell you.

erickter Loc: Dallas,TX

Apple delibertly scrambles the pis and folders to make it more awkward to transfer when doing it straight from iPad to PC. Total Steve Jobs control freak BS. They punish you for not using iCloud, or iTunes, which is a scam. They want control to drive sales with iTunes and ic. I dislike both. Apple also screwed up my iPad with an OS update that slowed my iPad up terribly. Apple Store admitted it was the Apple OS update that curroupted my iPad, and all they could offer was a clean OS install. Duh. So could I. They screw up software left and right, and look at you with no remorse.

Apple, like MS, Adobe, HP, Autodesk, et al, are insanely controlling and $ renenue chasing to a scary degree. Software updates and new releases get bigger, more bogus, and slower. Some new features, but seldom, if ever, true speed increases. Software programmers seldom write efficient, super fast, code anymore because they lazy with so much GB of ram to work with.

A simple data transfer between two standard devices should not be convoluted, but it is because of corrupt management, nothing else. I just finished transferring lots of pics from iPad to PC, the convoluted way. You can Also Email them to your self,, but Apple limits that to 5 max per email. Self induced none sense. Try some third part solutions, but ones listed here may or may not be better. I havn,t verified. Or, go IC, or do it the Micky mouse way. This is 2015. Seems more like 1995 in some ways software evolution wise, except code ran faster then.