Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

cosmichobo

macrumors 6502a
Original poster
May 4, 2006
986
605
G'day,

I have an iPad with a few GB of photos/vids captured into the Photos app.

Both my MacPro (Sierra) and MBA (Catalina) can only see 7 photos. AND, both of them do NOT offer to delete the photos after download.

Anyone know why my Macs can't see, nor delete the photos?

Is this an iCloud thing? (I believe my son may have played with the iCloud settings... )

Cheers

cosmic
 

cosmichobo

macrumors 6502a
Original poster
May 4, 2006
986
605
I found something here:


Reset the trust options on the iPad, and it allowed my MBP to see the videos that I just exported from iMotion to Photos (within the iPad) - so at least I can delete them... again though - have to manually delete them on the iPad itself - the Mac didn't have the option to delete after download.

But, there's still something like 4gb of photos on the iPad that are not showing up for me to download. Not showing as "already downloaded"... just not showing up.

I have tried leaving it connected for a long time - hoping maybe it's just downloading the photos and will eventually show more... but unless it's taking HOURS - there's something wrong.

---

Ok yes - "iCloud Photos" was turned on, which evidently was stopping me from accessing the full camera roll, and from deleting after downloading to the Mac.

Have now finally resolved this.

My fault for not keeping up to date with new versions of the software, I guess.
 
Last edited:
  • Like
Reactions: BigMcGuire

BigMcGuire

Cancelled
Jan 10, 2012
9,832
14,032
For anyone else who might hit this thread searching for answers — I noticed that my iPad will refuse to update the photo stream when I’m on battery sometimes - this prevents photos I’ve taken on my iPad from appearing elsewhere. (Either hit resume on iPad Photo’s app or plug it in for a little bit).
 

cosmichobo

macrumors 6502a
Original poster
May 4, 2006
986
605
Always keep your devices up-to-date! You'll never know what'll happen otherwise.

Oh I mean - I've not kept up to date with how the hell you do something complicated like - transfer data - within the iOS / macOS ecosystems.
 
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.