[Hidden-tech] photo move solution Re: uncool 3GS

[Stacy Kontrabecki]

For those who are interested in how I worked this out:

When I plugged the phone in to the Mac it did not recognize it as 
Stacy's iPhone - only a generic iPhone with no data. No- I couldn't sync 
the phone b/c of this (& I have yet to restore to factory settings.) The 
Mac did not recognize the phone as an external drive/device that I could 
manually extract the pics. Image Capture saw the image files but 
couldn't download. The Mac install of Dropbox offered to download the 
pics from the phone, but it couldn't start the procedure.

What DID work was wirelessly uploading the pics en-mass to Dropbox via 
the Dropbox iPhone app and then moving them into my local Mac directory. 
I never have uploaded a thing to Dropbox from the phone, only from the 
Mac for viewing on the phone, so I didn't think of this. Thanks for the 
recommendation!

Still unsure what will happen to my songs when I restore settings to 
factory baseline, but will see. At any rate, I pre-ordered my 5 today. 
Now I wonder how I'll get all those apps over to the new phone while 
still using the 3GS as the music iPod. 2 iTunes account, I imagine... We 
will see in 2 weeks!

You folks are great! Have a wonderful weekend.

Stacy


On Sep 13, 2012, at 11:18 AM, Stacy Kontrabecki wrote:

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> Can't import 140 photos from iPhone 3GS today. iTunes says to restore
> factory settings. I assume I'll lose the pics and all my songs, although
> the songs could probably be added back from iTunes after the phone is
> reset? I really need to get the pics off, though. Not looking fwd to
> sending myself 140 emails...
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