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I have done the backup through Itunes; now where can I see the photos/videos on my laptop?
Thanks
 
Let'sgoflying! said:
I have done the backup through Itunes; now where can I see the photos/videos on my laptop?
Thanks
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No direct way that I am aware of. I usually text or email someone and then access on my iPhone or iPad.
 
If I put all the pics in icloud or dropbox, is that a more useable backup?
Thanks
 
Are you on a Mac?

If so, you should also have a program on your computer called "Image Capture".

That pulls all the photos off your phone and sticks them in a folder of your choosing.

And of course there is iPhoto.
 
There's a difference between iOS device backup and syncing content, although iTunes combines both processes within the "sync" operation. You can choose to backup the device and not sync the content, or vise versa. On the Mac at least, you can tab through the sync preferences on the iOS device page in iTunes, and select the content to sync and the source/destination on the PC.

If you turn on Photo Stream, your photos will be synced to iCloud and between iOS devices. You can also elect to share photos via iCloud. This all works fairly well, but I'm not sure that there is any way to sync between iCloud and a Windows PC.


JKG
 
denverpilot said:
ICloud/Photo Sync is 30 days. It's not a backup solution.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4486
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The device backup is supposed to backup the photos which originated on the device (i.e. it won't backup synced photos that originated on another device), but this is different from a sync, because the data contained in the backups is only intended for device restores.

The iCloud Photo Stream is intended as a vehicle for sharing and syncing between devices and, as you noted, is not a backup solution.


JKG
 
I am surprised they do not sell a device with software that a person can plug their phone or ipad into, download the files for safekeeping. Revenue stream right there. I'd pay for it, if we could also access the files as jpegs on a computer.
 
Let'sgoflying! said:
I am surprised they do not sell a device with software that a person can plug their phone or ipad into, download the files for safekeeping. Revenue stream right there. I'd pay for it, if we could also access the files as jpegs on a computer.
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It's called a computer with iTunes installed.


JKG
 
DropBox and the accompanying iPhone app accomplishes this quite nicely.
 
dans2992 said:
DropBox and the accompanying iPhone app accomplishes this quite nicely.
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And as much if a Dropbox fan as I am, Google Drive and Microsoft's thing, and all the others have started a price war that Dropbox can't afford. They lowered their prices but it's not good for them.

If you have an Ofiice 365 license, Microsoft just lowered their price on a Terabyte to $2.50/mo. They have a similar iOS App.

The cloud personal storage market is getting squeezed.

Cloud hosted server market is headed the same direction. Linode and Digital Ocean and Amazon and MSFT and others all battling those prices downward too.
 
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Even the free version of DropBox could accomplish this as long as you moved the pics onto your PC and out of the dropbox folder.
 
denverpilot said:
And as much if a Dropbox fan as I am, Google Drive and Microsoft's thing, and all the others have started a price war that Dropbox can't afford. They lowered their prices but it's not good for them.

If you have an Ofiice 365 license, Microsoft just lowered their price on a Terabyte to $2.50/mo. They have a similar iOS App.

The cloud personal storage market is getting squeezed.

Cloud hosted server market is headed the same direction. Linode and Digital Ocean and Amazon and MSFT and others all battling those prices downward too.
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We just bought Office 365 and it INCLUDES 1TB of OneDrive storage for each of up to five users in the house. I'm backing up my iPad videos and photos automatically to OneDrive. Just edited several from this weekend on my local copy of OneDrive files.
 
LDJones said:
We just bought Office 365 and it INCLUDES 1TB of OneDrive storage for each of up to five users in the house. I'm backing up my iPad videos and photos automatically to OneDrive. Just edited several from this weekend on my local copy of OneDrive files.
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Yup. I think that was mentioned in this thread or another recently. It's insanely cheap for what you get.

We are seriously considering it for the office. We are in the prime target category for doing a subscription software model with rights to install on hardware. Hardware significantly behind for some people, modern for others, licensing currently handled by my young co-hort in crime tracking all of them manually, desktop OS is whatever the machines were loaded with the day they were purchased, etc Etc.

They've been in need of a desktop software strategy for a number of years now.

We MAY even consider moving the email over. Pricing isn't as good for that, but it's competitive. Options for removing said mail and returning to on site or other hosted services looks really weak though which gives me a "vendor locked" case of the willies. Also not reading very good things about their spam fighting system. They need to partner with someone who has a clue on that.

In all, O365 could be useful in the right circumstances at a business. Google screwed up when they dropped support for ActiveSync and their back end for Single Sign On is a bit convoluted. Their decision to not have traditional group distribution lists and to have to convert 40 of those into individual Google Groups also blows.

We've been running on Zimbra. For all the hype I read about it when not actually running it, it doesn't live up to it. The Outlook connector is a flaky POS and while they just released updates to their web interfaces in 8.5 a couple weeks ago, those look like they're trapped in the last decade.

Interestingly, O365 gives the most device interoperability between PC and Mac platforms of anything out there. Or maybe that's irony.

Still thinking about it. It's a few items down the priority list but the list is getting shorter.
 
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