Photos not transferred into specified directory

14 years ago • updated 14 years ago • 1

I have an iPad 2 running iOS 5.0.1 and the version of Photo Transfer that I purchased today (12/6/2011). I am trying to move a large number of albums and associated photos from a Windows 7 machine and FireFox 8.0 to the iPad.

For a while everything goes fine, with the images going into the correct albums that I create. After a while I find that my albums aren't being created and all of the images are going into the Camera Roll directory.

I also note that all of the images appear in the Camera Roll directory as well as in the directory that I specified. Is this planned/expected? Deleting them out of Camera Roll deletes them from the specific album as well.

I will also point out that on a semi-regular basis the Photo Transfer App crashes on the same image, so I bypass that image. None of my photo editing software on the PC has any problems with the specific image. All of the names are similar (scan_xxxx.jpg).

This iPad is a gift for my 90 yo father and I want to get this wrapped up (literally) in the next day or two so that I can get it ready to ship to him.

-- Geoff

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14 years ago

It looks like this is probably an iOS issue as I found that if I rebooted the iPad that the albums would appear with the photos in them. As I was transferring lots of images, I had to keep rebooting to make sure that the files were going to where I expected.

I do think that there's an asynchronous issue though. When you transfer a lot of files, the transfer completes and the iPAD is still busy "saving" the photos to an album. If you start another transfer before the iPad reports that the files have been saved, I've often seen the app on the iPad abort.

I still end up with copies of all of my images in the Camera Roll directory, which clearly is not what I want. Is this the way that it's supposed to work?

-- Geoff

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