iPhoto Photo Sync
September 23, 2010 11:30 AM Subscribe
My wife has an iPhone 3G that we'd been syncing with an old eeepc. The eeepc bit the dust, so the iPhone has the only copy of lots of photos. How do we sync the photos (not from the camera roll; the ones from the photo library) to a different computer? (Windows, please)
TouchCopy will do the trick. There may also be a freeware alternative, but I am not familiar with one.
(On the Mac, I'd recommend PhoneView, whici is also great for this sort of thing.)
posted by mosk at 11:35 AM on September 23, 2010
(On the Mac, I'd recommend PhoneView, whici is also great for this sort of thing.)
posted by mosk at 11:35 AM on September 23, 2010
you can jailbreak, then use SSH to access the files on the phone
posted by T.D. Strange at 11:36 AM on September 23, 2010
posted by T.D. Strange at 11:36 AM on September 23, 2010
Good to know: the retrieved photos will be of a lesser quality.
posted by dance at 12:14 PM on September 23, 2010
posted by dance at 12:14 PM on September 23, 2010
Did the hard drive of the EEE die? or something else? If the hard drive works, you could extract it and get a casing to access the files via USB.
posted by almostmanda at 1:20 PM on September 23, 2010
posted by almostmanda at 1:20 PM on September 23, 2010
Maybe I'm missing something, but I just plugged my iPhone into my work computer (they are not synced), and Windows immediately asks me what I want to do with the pictures on it. The Scanner/Camera wizard will copy them all for you.
posted by General Malaise at 1:27 PM on September 23, 2010
posted by General Malaise at 1:27 PM on September 23, 2010
"Maybe I'm missing something, but I just plugged my iPhone into my work computer (they are not synced), and Windows immediately asks me what I want to do with the pictures on it. The Scanner/Camera wizard will copy them all for you."
The iPhone treats photos from the Camera Roll as photos on a camera; photos that are stored in the photo library aren't visible using this method.
posted by almostmanda at 1:31 PM on September 23, 2010
The iPhone treats photos from the Camera Roll as photos on a camera; photos that are stored in the photo library aren't visible using this method.
posted by almostmanda at 1:31 PM on September 23, 2010
Another paid suggestion -- Pod to PC which will extract all kinds of media files and other data from iOS devices. $20 though.
Just wanted to underscore that the photos were reduced in size when they were first synchronized to the iPhone. The full-resolution originals are likely gone for good. In addition, photos stored on the phone are locked inside a series of ".ithmb" files, so if you had a way to browse the phone's filesystem - such as jailbreak+ssh - you still wouldn't be able to view and copy individual photo files. Yeah, I know it blows.
Altreality's Sharepod suggestion looks like a winner. If I had Windows machine handy i'd be trying it out myself. Does anyone now of a comparable free solution for Mac?
Good luck!
posted by khregs at 1:48 PM on September 23, 2010
Just wanted to underscore that the photos were reduced in size when they were first synchronized to the iPhone. The full-resolution originals are likely gone for good. In addition, photos stored on the phone are locked inside a series of ".ithmb" files, so if you had a way to browse the phone's filesystem - such as jailbreak+ssh - you still wouldn't be able to view and copy individual photo files. Yeah, I know it blows.
Altreality's Sharepod suggestion looks like a winner. If I had Windows machine handy i'd be trying it out myself. Does anyone now of a comparable free solution for Mac?
Good luck!
posted by khregs at 1:48 PM on September 23, 2010
When you talk about the old PC biting the dust... is the hard drive REALLY dead or not?
You might be able to recover things from it.
posted by MikeWarot at 2:11 PM on September 23, 2010
You might be able to recover things from it.
posted by MikeWarot at 2:11 PM on September 23, 2010
This thread is closed to new comments.
Lovely app...highly recommended.
Hope it helps
posted by AltReality at 11:34 AM on September 23, 2010