In article <
0qgsqfds1nb9fb9vj...@4ax.com>, Eric Stevens
<
eric.s...@sum.co.nz> wrote:
> >> I've several hundred photographs I want to transfer to my iPad. I have
> >> spent quite a few hours discovering ways that don't work.
> >
> >it's a lot more productive to discover ways that do work.
> >
> >> The obvious way is by iTunes but as far as I can tell version
> >> 12.10.10.2 no longer allows me to select a source from my own computer
> >> but only assumes I am going to download from iCloud.
> >
> >yes it does.
>
> No it doesn't.
yes it very definitely does. i use itunes to sync photos all the time
without any issues whatsoever.
the problem is not itunes.
> >> There are lots of
> >> pages on the Internet which tell me how to use iTunes to transfer but
> >> they all describe buttons etc which enable me to select the photos
> >> folders on my computer with which I wish to synchronise the iPad.
> >
> >you're looking at the wrong pages.
>
> Obviously, but they are the ones presented by Google.
google is extremely good at ranking the pages with the correct answers
at the top.
the bigger question is why you failed to find the link below,
especially since it was the first hit.
actually, it doesn't explain your problem.
> Select łSync Photos˛, then choose an album or folder from the
> pop-up menu.
>
> That's what it is not doing.
try it again.
> If you canąt see Sync Photos, youąre using iCloud Photos to
> share your photos and you canąt sync your photos using iTunes.
>
> And that explains why, much more sucintly than you managed to do.
unfortunately, you don't understand what it means.
hint: turn off icloud photos.
> >> I can't find anything in my current iTunes which will allow me to do
> >> this. I don't want to transfer so much stuff to iCloud so that option
> >> is out.
> >
> >see above.
> >
> >> I once had a transfer app which worked very well but over the years
> >> changes of machines and iPads have caused it to go astray. I recently
> >> installed the 'Transfer' app but after several hours of trying I have
> >> not been able to get it to behave in the way that is described in the
> >> instructions. I have reached the point where I am asking for any
> >> relevant help or advice. Surely it is still possible but the only
> >> question is how.
> >
> >they are unnecessary and nearly all of them are scamware.
>
> This one works. I have just discovered the problem was that I had the
> iPad connected with a USB cable and the computer end of the app had
> also connected by wifi. It turned out it didn't like two connections
> even though it gave me the opportunity to select only one of them.
it doesn't work that way.
being connected to wifi has absolutely nothing to do with also being
connected to usb. they are two entirely different things that coexist.
this is yet another instance of you running into a problem of your own
making and blaming everything other than yourself.
i seem to recall you also had significant difficulties copying photos
from the ipad to the computer, doing all sorts of ridiculous things and
wondering why nothing worked. i
pads and iphones show up as ordinary digital cameras (or card readers),
so if you can manage to copy photos from your nikon d800, you can
manage to copy them from an ipad, yet for some reason, you failed and
refused to learn why.