iPad iPad Photos - Mac not seeing them?

[cosmichobo]

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]

I found something here:

Mac doesn't see photos on iPhone - Apple Community

discussions.apple.com

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.

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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.

 

[AutomaticApple]

My fault for not keeping up to date with new versions of the software, I guess.

Always keep your devices up-to-date! You'll never know what'll happen otherwise.

 

[BigMcGuire]

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]

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.