Video Files Destroyed on iPhone & Fractured on iPad

[Laisha]

This might belong in the iPad section, but it involves both, as far as I can tell.

I spent yesterday at a private showing of the Blue Angels prior to their show, and I took quite a few videos on my iPhone 6.

Got back to the hotel room and watched the videos on the iPhone. They were fabulous! So I uploaded them all (via AirDrop) to my iPad, preparatory to posting them on *********.

I looked at my iPhone to make sure that I had sent them all to the iPad, and there are about 15 .mov files dated yesterday with a size of 4KB each.

Ran upstairs to check the iPad, and they all appear to be there, but they are all chopped up to between 1 second and 18 seconds.

Not a huge deal. At least they are still there, in whatever increments, and I can certainly edit them together, but I don't understand what happened!

How does iPhone basically delete a file when I AirDrop it? And how does iPad chop those files up?

 

[Laisha]

So perhaps this is in the wrong category?

 

[Stefan johansson]

Large files transferred wirelessly is always a bit tricky. Not sure what went wrong for you,as I don't use my phone as video camera that much,and if I do,I sync to laptop with a cable.

 

[Laisha]

Large files transferred wirelessly is always a bit tricky. Not sure what went wrong for you,as I don't use my phone as video camera that much,and if I do,I sync to laptop with a cable.

I get that anything can happen on the receiving end, but for the videos which were on my phone -- and which I watched just last night -- to disappear is making no sense to me.

There is nothing but the video arrow in place of what were 3 and 4 minute videos. I'm unable to imagine how that could possibly happen,

 

[Stefan johansson]

I get that anything can happen on the receiving end, but for the videos which were on my phone -- and which I watched just last night -- to disappear is making no sense to me.

There is nothing but the video arrow in place of what were 3 and 4 minute videos. I'm unable to imagine how that could possibly happen,

Yeah,it's weird. Next time try a cable sync.