My desktop hard drive failed. Most of the photos on my IPad were backed up but some were not.
The only copies I have of some of them are on my iPad. Because they are the only copies I have I want to be certain how I should go about assuring I can get them as they are very important to my wife and me.
If I reinstall iTunes to my rebuilt computer, will it immediately pull any photos on the iPad over? I'm concerned it's first instinct will be to reset the iPad.
I'm not using iCloud. In the settings of my IPad I see that there is a Backup option. When I enable this I get a confirmation box. "Your iPad will no longer back up to your computer automatically when you sync with iTunes"
I'm not sure what this means or if I should be concerned about it. As far as I know my iPad never backed up when I synced.
Anyway, if I enable ICloud will that transfer the photos on the iPad to the Cloud and allow me to them pull them down to my account?
Any help would be appreciated. I just want to have a plan before trying anything so as not to risk losing those photos.
Thanks much,
Colin
Photos aren't copied off an iPad via iTunes, that is only used to sync them to the iPad. To copy photos to your computer that were taken with the iPad, copied to it via the camera connection kit, or saved from emails/websites then see this page - on a PC you can use the windows camera wizard
To copy photos that were originally synced from a computer you will need a third-party app on your iPad such as Simple Transfer which can copy them off via your wifi network. But as photos are 'optimised' when they are synced to the iPad, any that you then copy back to a computer may not be exactly the same as they originally were on your computer.
You may also find these 2 articles useful :
syncing with a new computer : https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3141
recovering content from a device : https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3991
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