Help please - goddam fucking iPad

[pzkpfw]

A combination of Apple trying to make things easy, and trying to protect copyright is driving me fucking nuts.

My Wife's 16 GB iPad is nearly full, and we need to move photos off it to make space (e.g. for iOS update).

Simple connection by USB cable let me clean out the DCIM folder, but the "Photo Library" still has 2 GB of pictures I'd like to take off.

The kicker is the PC originally synced with iTunes is long gone. I installed iTunes on my PC, but when connecting the iPad it said it would clear the iPad as it was already synced to a different.

I've done a bunch of googling but it's all greek to me.

I tried to install dropbox on the iPad - but it wants a newer OS, and we can't update the OS without more space to do it with. Catch 22.

Any advice appreciated. What's the easiest cheapest way to just get the damn pictures out of the Photo Library?

Gah!

[Akzle]

linux motherfucker and dd that shit.

also. dont buy apple products because they're slave labour chineses shit for profiteering jews and everyone who owns one is an asshole.

yw

[JimO]

nobody gives a fuck about chinese slaves

[Scuba_Steve]

also. dont buy any electronic products because they're slave labour chineses shit for profiteering jews and everyone who owns one is an asshole.

yw

Fixed that for you...


Anyways under iTunes prefs you should be able to tell it not to allow sync, from there connect your iPad & you should be able to manually click photos & import them within iTunes... Course this is just educated guess (aside from the "do not sync" command) as I don't use Windows or an iPad

[pzkpfw]

Oh well, more or less done now.

Managed to stumble on a USB HDD that my Daughter had copied the photos onto (out of iTunes) before she took away the laptop that had the iTunes that the iPad was linked to.

Then I found some software that allowed me to delete the photos off the iPad. (It had an export function, which I'd have liked to use first, but the unregistered version only allow export of 20 of them). May have lost some of the images, but I think I've still got most of them.

That gave the free space needed for the iOS 8.3 update, that in turn allowed Dropbox to be installed, and the iPad is now useful again.

Sigh. Way too much effort.