[nfbcs] How can I take my picture and video files out of my iPhone?

[Aaron Cannon]

Here's what I would suggest.  Note that I'm still proudly clinging to
XP (I'm upgrading before XP EOL, I swear), so YMMV if you don't do
this in XP.

First, copy all of the images off of your phone, but only the images.
Do this by accessing the phone directly in computer.  (If you don't
already, I suggest you turn on the display of file extensions).  Note
that it can take a few minutes for all the files to appear, so be
patient after you open the folder.

Second, once you have all the images safely off of the phone and
backed up, delete them from the phone.  You should then just be left
with the video files on the phone.

Third, sort the remaining files on the phone by size, and start
copying them, one by one, smallest to largest.  After you've copied
each one, delete it from the phone.  Make sure that the video plays
from your computer, before you delete it from the phone.  (This is
important, because many times my computer will claim to have
successfully copied a video file from my phone, but when I go to
check, the file on my computer is 0 bytes in size.)

Fourth, you'll probably start having files fail to copy once the video
files get to be larger than 500MB or so, so at that point, go into
Itunes and sync your phone with your computer.

Fifth, After your phone has synced, open the folder on your computer
that contains your Itunes library.  As you have noticed, all of the
files in this folder are random hashes, with no extension, and no
meaningful name.  However, they are the files from your phone.  They
just have different names.  So, the trick to recovering them is to
sort them by size, and then starting at the largest, match them up by
size with the video files on your phone, then once you've figured out
what a particular file is, copy it (important! copy, don't move) into
the folder where you want to store it, and rename it to the filename
(including extension) that the video file had on the phone.  You can
then delete that file from the phone, after you confirm that the file
does in fact play in your video player.

It's a huge pain (thanks Apple for not bothering to fix your removable
media implementation), but that's the best way to accomplish this.

If this doesn't work for you, you might try using Dropbox to copy them
over a few at a time.  Just make absolutely certain you're either on
Wifi, or that you've got unlimited data from your carrier. :)

Best of luck.

Aaron

On 12/6/13, Oso Calmo <osocalmo at yahoo.co.jp> wrote:
> Hi listers,
>
> One year ago, I bought an iPhone and I have taken lots of pictures and
> recorded some videos since then.  I have about 60GB of data (jpg files, mov
>
> files, etc).  I would like to copy all those files to a Blue-lay disk, using
>
> my Windows computer (XP sp3 or Vista sp2) and Jaws Ver 11.
> To do so, I wont to copy the files to an external hard disk as JPG files,
> MOV files, etc, so that I can see them and use them directly with my pc.
>
> 1. I connected my iPhone to the pc thru the USB port, made a backup and
> checked for the target folder, but I only found lots of files without
> extension.
>
> 2. Then I looked into the iPhone with Computer from my pc (Windows Vista)
> and I found lots of JPG and MOV files in about 10 folders in "Local
> storage".  However, when I tried to copy them all to the external hard disk
>
> thru my pc, using Computer, the process stopped and an error was displayed
> saying that a handle couldn't be found.
> I tried to do the same (use this second method) with XP, but no subfolders
> or files were displayed (I might have to wait for them to appear).
>
> 3. Then, I thought to use iTunes to copy the files, but I don't know how to
>
> do so.  I can't synchronize all files to my computer, because I have only
> 5GB of free space in the C drive, where the User folder is (iTunes will copy
>
> the files there, I understand).  There will be no space for all the files.
>
> I don't think that JPG and MOV files are copied with the first method and,
> even if they are copied, it's useless, because I get files that I can't load
>
> with my Windows pc.
>
> The second method seems to be the most appropriate, but will all my data be
>
> copied (all pictures and videos)?
> I don't wont to lose data because of using an irregular method.
>
> Is there any way to synchronize all the files from my iPhone to my pc (third
>
> method), using the external hard disk directly?
>
> Is there any other way to do this?
>
> I called Apple, but the directions they gave me didn't help.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
>
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