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Old 06-01-2014, 06:44
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My iphone is full of photos and I would like to transfer to a file on my laptop, I'm a bit unsure what to do as I don't want to loose them, help please ?
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Old 06-01-2014, 07:52
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My iphone is full of photos and I would like to transfer to a file on my laptop, I'm a bit unsure what to do as I don't want to loose them, help please ?
If you have Windows, just plug the phone into the laptop using the USB cable you have for charging. It then works the same way as a digital camera - you will find the phone appears as a camera in My Computer and there is a folder called DCIM and everything inside this is your pictures and any video.
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Old 06-01-2014, 11:24
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If you have Windows, just plug the phone into the laptop using the USB cable you have for charging. It then works the same way as a digital camera - you will find the phone appears as a camera in My Computer and there is a folder called DCIM and everything inside this is your pictures and any video.
Are you sure about that ? I have always used 3rd party apps to do this job. I have just tried plugging my iPhone into a Windows PC (I usually use a Mac) and although it sees it in Explorer, it doesn't see any files.

For the OP - if you are using a Mac then there is a standard app called ImageCapture which will copy the photos.
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Old 06-01-2014, 11:44
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Are you sure about that ? I have always used 3rd party apps to do this job. I have just tried plugging my iPhone into a Windows PC (I usually use a Mac) and although it sees it in Explorer, it doesn't see any files.

For the OP - if you are using a Mac then there is a standard app called ImageCapture which will copy the photos.
Yep, just plug into USB, select from the list of connected devices and just open the DCIM folder.
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Old 06-01-2014, 13:08
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Are you sure about that ? I have always used 3rd party apps to do this job. I have just tried plugging my iPhone into a Windows PC (I usually use a Mac) and although it sees it in Explorer, it doesn't see any files.
Works EXACTLY as described for me! Plug the iPhone in and it comes up as a device. Then, as stated, photos and videos are in the DCIM folder (as on any digital camera)
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Old 06-01-2014, 13:49
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If you have Windows, just plug the phone into the laptop using the USB cable you have for charging. It then works the same way as a digital camera - you will find the phone appears as a camera in My Computer and there is a folder called DCIM and everything inside this is your pictures and any video.
That's never worked for me. It appears in my computer but when I access the icon it just displays as blank for me.

I recommend 'syncios' - it's a third party app that lets you access the file system of your iphone, where you can speedily move photos to your computer.
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Old 06-01-2014, 13:53
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I've just got to the bottom of this. I have done some more testing and it is a Windows XP problem. It works fine on Windows 7.
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Old 06-01-2014, 18:33
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I've just got to the bottom of this. I have done some more testing and it is a Windows XP problem. It works fine on Windows 7.
It works on many XP machines, but they all *might* have had iTunes installed first (and removed later).

On Vista and Win7 its never needed drivers, and on Linux I'm told, but I've not tried.
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Old 06-01-2014, 19:05
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It works on many XP machines, but they all *might* have had iTunes installed first (and removed later).

On Vista and Win7 its never needed drivers, and on Linux I'm told, but I've not tried.
OK, makes sense
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Old 07-01-2014, 08:12
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I don't have an iPhone but a guy I know does and he can just plug it into the pc but nothing shows until he unlocks the iPhone
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Old 07-01-2014, 11:13
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To make life easier, I would recommend setting up your PC so it can have shared folders on your network and then use an app such as filebrowser so copy your photos wirelessly.

I do this with my iPad, but access a NAS drive on my network. It will then also allow you to copy over music, films, etc.
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Old 07-01-2014, 12:36
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I don't have an iPhone but a guy I know does and he can just plug it into the pc but nothing shows until he unlocks the iPhone
Yep. I think it doesn't show the pics until you enter your PIN
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Old 08-01-2014, 07:55
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Yep. I think it doesn't show the pics until you enter your PIN
iOS 7 now asks on the phone (or iPad) if you want to "Trust" the computer. Until you say Yes, nothing happens.
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Old 09-01-2014, 17:01
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My iphone is full of photos and I would like to transfer to a file on my laptop, I'm a bit unsure what to do as I don't want to loose them, help please ?
I use Dropbox. Open an account, Install the app on the i-phone, install the program on your PC, set the i-phone app to sync photos whenever it's on WiFi
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