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gmar

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My wife has 5000 photos on her phone and wants to save them to an external hard drive but we’re having issues doing so. They’re backed up to iCloud which stores the original to her Mac. Whenever we try to export them to an external hard drive, it doesn’t copy all of them. I tried just copying the photo library over and I think they’re all there but they’re not in order.

Is there a company that can transfer them for me or does anyone have any suggestions?
 

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I never mess to much with iCloud. I just plug my phone cord into a USB port on the pc, it comes up after reading the device as a drive. Then I drag and drop to the local pc's C drive/folder. There's more than one way to skin a cat"..........might give that a shot.
 

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I never mess to much with iCloud. I just plug my phone cord into a USB port on the pc, it comes up after reading the device as a drive. Then I drag and drop to the local pc's C drive/folder. There's more than one way to skin a cat"..........might give that a shot.

While our phones are Androids, this is the way I copy over any photos that I want from the phone. The charger's cord is removed from the part that plugs into the outlet and plugs to the usb on the computer and to the phone input. With the Android, I do have to set it up as an external drive to copy from, simply by highlighting the photos and "copying" before "pasting" into a folder on my external drive. Setting up the Android is as simple as pulling down from the top of the phone, selecting the phone, and changing it from "charging from a usb" to being an "external drive."
 

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I never mess to much with iCloud. I just plug my phone cord into a USB port on the pc, it comes up after reading the device as a drive. Then I drag and drop to the local pc's C drive/folder. There's more than one way to skin a cat"..........might give that a shot.

This is what I did for my mother when she had iPhones. Plug it in, open the folder, copy it all away to a drive.
 

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These work really well if you don't want to store photos on a computer hard drive that will fail eventually.
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I've had many mechanical hard drives fail, never a memory stick, but my experience may differ from yours. Cheap enough to buy two for backup.

I use them for backup as well, but I've had them fail on occasion. I typically pull the SDHC memory card too for backup when full to give me a 2nd copy
 

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