So something that happens to me fairly often is I take some photos with my iPhone, then I need them on my PC’s hard disk, so I can do one of any number of things with them. Plugging in a card takes way too much effort (and is not always practical). So what I usually end up doing is emailing the photos to myself, one at a time, which seems incredibly silly.
There seems to be a thing called “photostream”, which does exactly what I want, BUT it always seems to reduce the photos down to a much smaller version, when I almost always want them full-sized.
Anyone have any bright ideas?
thanks
Dropbox? You can sync with your phone’s photos on one end, and have the PC synced to dropbox on the other.
Then, just move the photos out of the dropbox synced photos when it gets full.
I’m not familiar with the Apple ecosystem any more, but maybe find out from them if there’s a setting you can change to keep the photos full sized? If your Cloud service is currently free, maybe there’s a nominal paid version that will not economize space automatically.
I use Google Drive for $1.99 a month, 125GB. I upload from my phone and then the photos are accessible anywhere, the same size/resolution that’s on my phone (generally around 4MB). I just download the ones I want to edit to my home PC, saved in a separate folder but then also copied to Drive so I can pick it back up on my phone if I want.
I know several people who are very happy with their Dropbox accounts, too.
In a pinch you can email them to yourself.
I’m not sure what sort of “card” you’re referring to. What I do is to connect the iPhone to the sync/charging cable, which is plugged into a USB port on the computer. Then you just open the iPhone on the computer as an external device and copy the photos off. It’s very easy.
I meant “cord”, not “card”, and was talking about precisely that, but fairly often am somewhere without a cord.
Dropbox might be a good answer. I currently have a free account and my drive is always full, but I bet it’s not expensive to get a much larger one.
thanks for all the advice.
Another vote for Dropbox. I use it on my Android to get photos to my PC. All my PCs, in fact.
I’ll just add that Photos synced via Photostream to all my other iDevices arrive in full resolution. I’m not sure why yours don’t.
If you don’t mind spending a few dollars, there’s an app called file browser that allows you to wirelessly transfer files to and from any iOS device and any other device that’s on the same network. I use it to quickly pull image files and video clips from my PC into my iPad for building keynote presentations. At $5.99 it’s one of the most expensive apps I’ve ever bought, but I’ve absolutely no buyer’s remorse.