Photo Storage on the iPod -- The Gory Details

[Jesse Hollington]

If all of your photos are in albums, you could just discard the "Library" folder that's copied over using iPod Access Photo to eliminate the duplicates.

Alternatively, you could import the Library folder last as a separate step and take advantage of iPhoto's own ability to track duplicate pictures and skip over the ones that have already been imported.

 

[MarcVincent]

Can we sync the whole album in one go? I don't want to spend hours doing it manually.

 

[rokoge]

The max resolution for photos on iPad/iPhone is...

Photos in the "Camera Roll" are displayed at full resolution (the original image file), as they have not been processed by iTunes/iPhoto yet. Once synched to iTunes/iPhoto, the photos are extracted from the "Camera Roll" and enter the iPhoto Library and then handled by a different process.

The iPhone has a 320x240 screen and displays photos up to 640x480, using *.ithmb files. The iPad has a 1024x1024 screen and displays photos up to 2048 x 1536 also using *.ithmb files.

I for one would like to find a way to put those 2048x1536 photos on my iPhone. Anyone know the filenames for the iPad *.ithmb files?

 

[Jesse Hollington]

Unfortunately, even if you could copy the exact iTHMB files to your iPhone from the iPad, the iOS running on the iPhone would not actually read them. The iPhone "Photos" app is a completely different application from the one on the iPad, and it doesn't just read whatever ITHMB files it finds. In essence, it would completely ignore any ITHMB files it doesn't recognize.

While you could theoretically try to dump the higher-resolution images into the 640x480 iTHMB file used by the iPhone (ie, swap around and rename files), this likely wouldn't work. The iTHMB files are not internally indexed in any way -- the index is stored in a separate Photo Database in the same folder, and the iOS, or specifically the Photos app, simply expects each photo to be a specific size and position within the iTHMB file and extracts them based on that. I'm not sure what would happen if you tried to feed it larger images, but my guess is that it would simply crash the Photos app rather than displaying the larger images or that you'd see corrupted images (as the result of the device trying to read the file based on where it expects the image bits to be).

 

[jjackson90]

I'm now concerned with difficulties I may have as I've had no time to really to use the TV function yet. (Most of my TV watching is in the lounge at some airport

 

[Design My Caase]

Oh, really really really really.

 

[ChaserChick87]

Hello all. Im new here and have a problem and will have to read the whole thread later (dont have much time right now). My problem? Well, i had a laptop and it sadly crashed, taking EVERYTHING with it. Music, pictures, files - the whole nine yards. Im an amature photographer, and had over 1,300 pictures that i luckily had (and still have) on my 32 gig iPod Touch. The only problem is, I want to get the pictures out of my iPod photo library and onto my new laptop. I CANNOT - for the life of me - figure out how to do it. Im hoping this thread will help me. Like i said before, i havent read the whole thread yet, but when i do, i will try everything it recommends. If i still cant figure it out, well, i guess im just SOL then...LOL

 

[bernhard8]

thanks for sharing

 

[ChaserChick87]

So, I downloaded the XPlay Photo Browser and.....it wont work because i have WINDOWS 7!! D'oh! *facepalm*

 

[crazyfeminist]

I don't know if anyone here can help me because I'm not very tech-savvy. Same old story - lost photos from hard drive but they are on my ipod (though I didn't transfer them in full res). I've managed to get them off my ipod and now have three random files - F1024_1.ithmb; F1066_1.ithmb; F1067_1.ithmb (I assume the files contain all the photos that were on my ipod). I don't understand what on earth you guys are talking about in this thread! Is there anyway to get these photos back or should I just accept that they're gone? I haven't found any conversion software that's worked...if someone could explain to me what to do in language for stupid people, I'd be so grateful...

 

[Jesse Hollington]

The problem is that those files are in a somewhat proprietary format that's not easily extractable. If you've still got them on your iPod, you could look at a tool such as iPod Access Photo or CopyTrans Photo, both of which are designed specifically for extracting photos off of your iPod in whatever resolution they can get.

I'm not sure if these will work with the extracted ITHMB files as they're designed to read the iPod directly, so ideally you should just be able to point them at your iPod and let them take it from there.

 

[W_Jimm]

I haven't found any conversion software that's worked...

Did you try iThmb Converter (ithmbconverter. com)?

 

[remebe]

oh mi dios, el mejor teléfono del mundo de 2013. Original de Star i9220 (N9000) es tan barato y tan perfecta