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iPhone photo backup #114

Closed abbeyjackson closed 7 years ago

abbeyjackson commented 7 years ago

Need to figure out how to back up more than 4000 photos from one specific folder on an iPhone (not all the photos) over wifi (not using itunes on the computer). Needs to be a service that is easily browsable and prefer one that allows tagging of files.

ghost commented 7 years ago

There are two ways to do this -- Google Drive and Dropbox. Google Drive provides 15GB of storage for free, compared to Dropbox's 2GB, making it the better choice for uploading this many images.

Here are the steps: 1 - Download Google Drive for iOS, here, on the iPhone being used. 2 - Log in to your account, or create one for free if you do not have one. 3 - Open the app, tap add, and tap upload. 4 - Browse to and choose the folder holding the images. 5 - Tap Upload. 6 - A progress bar will appear showing you the upload progress. This will likely take a while to upload -- I recommend doing it overnight or during a period while the phone isn't being heavily used.

Here is the official Google support page for this process.

If needed, more storage can be bought for Google Drive here.

abbeyjackson commented 7 years ago

Thanks @alidiafindley !

abbeyjackson commented 7 years ago

@alidiafindley We tried to do this today but when we go into the folder you have to select the images one by one. Is there a way to select the entire folder?

ghost commented 7 years ago

@abbeyjackson Submitted a help request for this with Google Support. Will update as soon as I receive a response!

abbeyjackson commented 7 years ago

Thanks!

ghost commented 7 years ago

@abbeyjackson Google doesn't support uploading a whole folder to Drive from Camera Roll, so you'd have to select them individually. Apparently Dropbox and other similar softwares don't support this either.

There is one app made as a workaround for this specific problem, but you have to pay for the iOS side. Once you download the two parts of this app, you will be able to download the images directly to the computer -- from there you could upload them to Google Drive, Dropbox, or another sharing platform as you would normal photos. The computer side can be found here for Mac or here for PC; the iOS side can be found here.

Here are the instruction guides with images for Mac and for PC.