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Laisha

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Jan 21, 2014
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Far northern Maine.
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?
 

Stefan johansson

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Apr 13, 2017
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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.
 
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Laisha

macrumors regular
Original poster
Jan 21, 2014
152
29
Far northern Maine.
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

macrumors 65816
Apr 13, 2017
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Sweden
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.
 
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