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Dropbox.. is it me?

SnazzyParrotSnazzyParrot
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Just come back from holiday with some great photos taken by the Mrs on her not very expensive but good for the money Aldi underwater camera.  Photos are stored on a 4Gb micro SD card which plugs into an adapter.  When I tried to put the adapter into the card reader on my computer it wouldn't read it.  I'm running Vista and there are no issues with normal SD cards.  Any ideas?

Anyway I used the cable supplied and transferred the photos to my computer.  Now, the Mrs would like a copy of these on her iPad and why not.  But other than putting them online for her to download I don't know how.  So I made a Dropbox account which uploads them real slow and she can download them on her iPad (real slow).  Is there a better way?

And another thing... Dropbox seemed to link and sync with a folder on my computer so as storage or backup isn't it a bit pointless?  I mean, if I store a file on Dropbox but delete the copy on my computer its gone from both places.. or is it?  I do like making backups but having a copy of these photos on Dropbox,my harddisk and on a external hardisk is overkill.  Is it me?  Am I missing the point of Dropbox?

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  • Lee FogartyLee Fogarty
    Probably missing the point.  I use it to share files with clients.
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  • SnazzyParrotSnazzyParrot
    I want to share files but not have to have a copy stored on my computer.
  • p13zp13z
    Windows isn't the best at that kind of thing. Most Linux distributions will be happier dealing with / reading most file systems. I assume there are plenty of third party tools to read non MS filesystems for Windows too. There is a chance that a cheap camera is running Linux and using a standard Linux filesystem.
    I just treat my local dropbox folder as somewhere to stick files I'd like safe, or files I'd like to share.
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  • Lee FogartyLee Fogarty
    Don't install dropbox on the computer then?  You can still login online.
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  • SnazzyParrotSnazzyParrot
    Okie dokes. Will uninstall it and give that a go.  Thanks for the tip.
  • Lee FogartyLee Fogarty
    Yeah - the desktop version is handy to access the files locally, and auto updates new files/updates in shared folders.
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  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited June 2015

    I have dropbox installed on my computer, it uploads and downloads pretty quickly, and I don't have to store the files on my desktop once I've uploaded them?

     

    Although something sketchy happened with DB a month or so back where they cut down a load of peoples storage, and tried to hammer everyone who'd accumulated a load of storage (some over years) with premium accounts. I understand most people walked. I don't use it that often though, and I don't have loads of storage on there anyway (I think like 100GB or something, haven't checked it for ages, for all I know I may have been cut down to something like 10GB by now?).

     

    There's a few more peeps on here who are way more in the know about it than me though, I won't name names, but I'm sure they'll comment about it here if they're willing to talk about it?

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  • beanzbeanz
    Why not just put them on photobucket or something like that?
  • SnazzyParrotSnazzyParrot
    I just picked it because it was recommended to me by another student and also because I have a free account with a external hard disk I bought.  I'll check some others out.
  • joefishjoefish
    edited June 2015
    I wouldn't use any of these free services for backup. I just use DropBox for sharing files, and yes, it can be a pain.
    Personally, I keep my own stuff in my own drives, and only copy something into the DropBox folders with the express intent of sharing it.

    I use my external drive for storing photographs and manually making a backup copy of any projects I'm working on at the end of a day. Thus I don't actually have a backup copy of my photographs. I suppose I could copy them periodically to a DVD, or simply have a second external drive that backs up the first one automatically.

    What I would like to do is pick out the best ones, tidy them up a bit, then aggregate them for printing and backing up. In the past, I've put 100-odd good pics (out of thousands) onto one CD and also taken it in for printing. But it takes so long I haven't done it again since. And I've lost the disk in the move. But then I don't have a wife to scream at me in a shrill manner if any of those photos are lost or corrupted...
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  • TimmyTimmy
    edited June 2015
    So how is DropBox these days? Is it good to, say, keep a collection of my (and other people's) Spectrum games on it for publishing?

    EDIT: I never used DropBox before, nor have I an account there, so this is all new for me.
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  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    Welcome to the limitations of the iPad.  It's why I prefer my Android tabblets despite owning a new hi-def retina iPad.

    One way you could do it us sync the photos using iTunes. So copy them on to the computer with the iTunes app installed and sync them with the iPad that way.
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  • SnazzyParrotSnazzyParrot
    I discovered the iTunes sync way last night when checking the cables that came with the iPad.  Not good enough apparently because synced photos can't be deleted on the iPad.  So today we go to Cardiff to buy a cable that connects her camera to the iPad directly.
  • SnazzyParrotSnazzyParrot
    We bought the iPad to Camera cable and plugged it in and iPad says the device draws too much power.  I bet theres an accessory you can buy to resolve that.
  • hikokihikoki
    edited June 2015
    The app for Onedrive.com works really well on the ipad
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  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    MustrumRidcully said:

    We bought the iPad to Camera cable and plugged it in and iPad says the device draws too much power.  I bet theres an accessory you can buy to resolve that.

    Yep, it's called an Android Tablet.
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    Scottie_uk said:

    MustrumRidcully said:

    We bought the iPad to Camera cable and plugged it in and iPad says the device draws too much power.  I bet theres an accessory you can buy to resolve that.

    Yep, it's called an Android Tablet.
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  • SnazzyParrotSnazzyParrot
    Haha!  I tend to agree.  However, I successfully transferred photos from the Aldi camera to her iPas without using the PC.  Here's how... take photos on Aldi cam, remove micro sd card and insert in Panasonic cam, connect Panasonic cam to iPad using cable purches yesterday and wallah.. photos can be transferred and deleted while she's on her hols as long as she has a decent camera as well as the budget one (the budget cam has a design annoyance which means that when the battery/usb/sd door is open then the circuit it broken and the camera must be powered some other way and the iPad is too much of a sissy to do it).
  • VampyreVampyre
    With a OneDrive account you can tie this into your iDevice camera roll and automatically add pictures you take to the OneDrive cloud.  I know this is completely separate to your requirements but it's a useful thing to know because if you're like me and hate having photos taking up 90% of the iDevice capacity you can just wait until they're uploaded and then remove the photos from the device.  The OneDrive iOS app then acts almost exactly like the camera roll anyway.

    You get something like 15Gb storage for nothing by doing this. 10Gb for free, 5Gb for installing OneDrive on your iOS device.
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  • SnazzyParrotSnazzyParrot
    Liking the sound of that, thanks for the info.  I'll experiment with some of the options that have been mentioned here.
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