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I want to use the Ipad as a backup when travelling.
But I want 2 backups (not 2 ipads ;-)

Can I copy the Photo's to a USB stick? without the use of another computer.

thanks,
Mark
 
Mark den Hartog said:
Can I copy the Photo's to a USB stick? without the use of another computer.
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At least two user answers on the Apple site claim that even if you get away with plugging in a storage device (is there enough power on the Camera Connection Kit port to run a USB flash drive?), the software will not let you export photos to it.
 
Tom_N said:
Mark den Hartog said:
Can I copy the Photo's to a USB stick? without the use of another computer.
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At least two user answers on the Apple site claim that even if you get away with plugging in a storage device (is there enough power on the Camera Connection Kit port to run a USB flash drive?), the software will not let you export photos to it.
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Now we know what Steve Jobs meant when he said the iPad is not a netbook. :0

--mamallama
 
wipe that smile off your face :-( grrrr
mamallama said:
Tom_N said:
Mark den Hartog said:
Can I copy the Photo's to a USB stick? without the use of another computer.
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At least two user answers on the Apple site claim that even if you get away with plugging in a storage device (is there enough power on the Camera Connection Kit port to run a USB flash drive?), the software will not let you export photos to it.
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Now we know what Steve Jobs meant when he said the iPad is not a netbook. :0

--mamallama
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I think this one issue of no usb port makes the IPad flawed.

Think how good a device it could have been if photographers could back their images up from a card reader whilst out on a shoot.

I know it has a SD card port, but does not help compact flash card users, unless some kind of adapter.
 
Can you blame him? Cheap low-profit-margin netbooks have cannibalized PC sales. The entire PC industry is hurting because of them. So instead of making a netbook, Steve came up with an iPad. No, it doesn't do everything a netbook does, but what it does do, it does far better and way cooler. For now. The question is--will the iPad be able to hold its own once the PC makers come out with their own tablets that do have USB ports, cameras, Flash, and everything else netbooks have?
 
pillowtop said:
The question is--will the iPad be able to hold its own once the PC makers come out with their own tablets that do have USB ports, cameras, Flash, and everything else netbooks have?
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Once PC makers come out with such tablets? They already came out with such tablets, several years ago, and even with Microsoft making a big push for tablets, Windows-based tablets were far from a big success.

Now Steve Ballmer is saying that Microsoft's "job one urgency" is "making things happen" with Windows 7 on "slates", because Apple has "sold certainly more (of the iPad) than I'd like them to sell":

http://money.cnn.com/2010/07/29/technology/microsoft_analyst_meeting/

Note: "Windows 7" (a desktop OS not designed around touch), and not, say, "Android" or "Courier". To me, this suggests that Microsoft has not learned from history, and that this history will repeat itself. Bring on the Zune, Slate Edition! :)
 
Rotorbug said:
I think this one issue of no usb port makes the IPad flawed.

Think how good a device it could have been if photographers could back their images up from a card reader whilst out on a shoot.
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I don't believe Apple designed the iPad first and foremost as a portable photo backup unit. However, if they were to add two built-in SD/SDHC/SDXC slots, two built-in CF slots, and a Memory Card Manager app to a future revision of the iPad, that would certainly make card backups easier. (Pop in two cards, press COPY, wait ...)
 
Tom_N,

I tend to agree with you. Currently, there are several stand-a-lone portable data storage devices on the market. Two of the better known are made by Epson. Each has a four inch screen and come in 80 gig (not much more than an iPad) and the other in 160 gig sizes. The prices are $525 and 684, which are kind of pricey. For the price of an iPad, you get so much more, especially the larger screen.

I have an older unit made by FastTrak. It's 40 gig and has a CF slot. I can put in the card and hit the back-up button. The files upload automatically and I can view them on a 3.5" screen. I can also put in another card and download files to it, making multiple back-ups.

All in all, I think the iPad provides a very good back-up option for the price.
 
Nikon1977 said:
Tom_N,

I tend to agree with you. Currently, there are several stand-a-lone portable data storage devices on the market. Two of the better known are made by Epson. Each has a four inch screen and come in 80 gig (not much more than an iPad) and the other in 160 gig sizes. The prices are $525 and 684, which are kind of pricey. For the price of an iPad, you get so much more, especially the larger screen.

I have an older unit made by FastTrak. It's 40 gig and has a CF slot. I can put in the card and hit the back-up button. The files upload automatically and I can view them on a 3.5" screen. I can also put in another card and download files to it, making multiple back-ups.
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Those PSDs have been made so passe by small $299 netbooks. I last used my Volsonic 6210 eight years ago in China. Now it's best use is a paperweight as it's so limited compared to the simplest netbook.

--mamallama
 
Except that everyone doesn't wat to carry a netbook around. I keep mine in my camera bag because it is so small compared to a netbook.
 
Looks interesting. Could you give more information of the card reader - make? model? Where did you get it from (in the UK)?

Thanks
 
The iPad does not have an SD card slot. The camera connection kit (available separately) has both an SD reader and a generic USB connection that you can use with a CF card reader. Also some other USB devices, though they're not officially supported.

So you can copy your images from your camera's storage to the iPad, but you can't copy them from the iPad to a "backup" device. You can only sync them to a computer.

I expect this will change in the future.

joe
 
FlyingDiver said:
The iPad does not have an SD card slot. The camera connection kit (available separately) has both an SD reader and a generic USB connection that you can use with a CF card reader. Also some other USB devices, though they're not officially supported.

So you can copy your images from your camera's storage to the iPad, but you can't copy them from the iPad to a "backup" device. You can only sync them to a computer.

I expect this will change in the future.

joe
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Like joe, I used the generic USB connection of the camera connection kit to connect to my CF card reader. I have been successful transferring my pictures from my 8G cards to the iPad (numerous attempts). However when I tried it with my 16GB card, it stopped before completion, complaining of insufficient power. I was using the SanDisk Extreme IV cards in all cases.

I suspect that if you use a powered CF card reader it may also work well with the 16GB cards. However I have not got round to testing this as yet.

I think for transfer from iPad to USB stick your iPad needs to be jail-broken so that you can run an app on the iPad to initiate and run this process. I believe there is at least one program that allows transfer to/from external hard disks as well (in a jail-broken iPod).

Sree
 
I know this is a REALLY old thread, but is there an app that will now allow this? I have a connection kit that works fine but also would like an additional backup

I have room in my Google Drive and Skydrive accounts, but there is no autosync and I suspect backing up a few hundred pix a day will be slow, nevermind there is no way to select an entire folder.

I don't have enough space in dropbox and don't want to use the Apple one for various reasons.

TIA,

Diane
 
mamallama said:
mamallama wrote:
mamallama said:
Tom_N wrote:
mamallama said:
Mark den Hartog wrote:

Can I copy the Photo's to a USB stick? without the use of another computer.
Click to expand...
At least two user answers on the Apple site claim that even if you get away with plugging in a storage device (is there enough power on the Camera Connection Kit port to run a USB flash drive?), the software will not let you export photos to it.
Click to expand...
Now we know what Steve Jobs meant when he said the iPad is not a netbook. :0

--mamallama
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Man this is some old trolling! :)
 
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I guess I don't really understand the issue. I take photos and when the card is full I remove and replace with an empty card. The full card is copy ONE of the photos which I label and keep in a card case until the trip etc. is over. Then I use the camera connect kit to load to my iPad, that is copy TWO of the photos.

Are you wanting a third copy? Are you not wanting to invest in extra cards? Do you not consider your computer the ultimate destination for the photo library so that the extra backups are only needed until the photos are able to be permanently stored there? (Assuming you have all the backup/recovery strategies in place for you computer).
 
There are several ways to make iPad backups and/or to free up iPad memory while traveling:

1. Hardwired and simplest: Find a PC/Mac (any…at a motel, hotel, borrow, etc.), plug in your iPad USB cable from the PC/Mac to your iPad. Access the photos in Image Capture (Mac) or the standard Windows pictures viewer (can't remember name). Highlight the images and copy or drag/drop them to a new desktop folder. Disconnect iPad.

At the same PC/Mac, mount a blank USB thumb drive or card reader and memory card or portable hard drive. Drag the folder with the images from the PC/Mac to the drive.

If desired, go to iPad and delete images to free memory.

2. Wireless: Use an iUSBPort or Kingston MobileLite Wireless or equal (others available). These can accept hard drives, thumb drives, card readers, etc.
 
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