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When my mac was OS X 10.4 the Safari connection was a bit tricky but did work and I successfully transferred pictures to and from my ipod touch. I bought an ipad at Christmas and had to upgrade my Mac to 10.5.

Unfortunately I can not get the app to work with my ipad and something weird happened the other day, it connected to iphoto which was really not desirable as i do not store my pictures there. But it disconnected very quickly. I cannot get any connection now.
i have tried turning modem off and on but no joy.
Am using : http://ipad.local:8080/

My ipod touch will connect ok.

I'd be grateful for advice

Kind regards, Jude