ari.neiditz
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Hi, I am new to this forum and really hoping to find some help.
I am traveling long term and taking many many raw photos. I am using an iPad mini to import from SD cards direct into LR Mobile which then backs up the files to Creative Cloud storage. I keep smart previews in LR Mobile so that I can view and play with the files if I so desire.
The backup is not always quick but if I leave it overnight it has been able to keep up and the system has been working UNTIL... I got to an island off the coast of Japan where the WiFi is universally weak. I am here waiting out the covid crisis and without sufficient WiFi for an extended period, the whole system has gotten backed up. Of the roughly 7000 photos I have shot so far, about 2500 are imported and being stored locally on the iPad which is now full. My SD cards will also be full in a matter of time and then I will be TSOL. While LR is still trying to sync, it’s not working and I have more or less given up on getting them to upload until I leave the island which will be not for another month or so and I need to keep shooting.
The only solution I have come up with is to purchase an SSD and start backing up files from the cards to the drive as I continue to shoot. In order to do this though, I will need to free up storage on the iPad so that I can copy new files onto the iPad then move them from there onto the hard drive.
So I have a few questions.
1. Is there a way for me to move the files that have not uploaded to the cloud from the iPad onto an SSD? I don’t see where these files are stored in the iPad or if they are viewable in this way.
2. Ideally I would still be able to store smart previews in LR Mobile, but will this be possible if the first 5,000 are stored in the cloud and the rest are stored on the SSD?
3. Bonus question: I was using Creative Cloud to manually backup video files by importing them from video file folders on the memory cards into Creative Cloud. This was a nightmare, some would upload others would fail in no particular order that I could detect, so I gave up and have been using iCloud Drive instead. I cleared everything out of the CC app to eliminate any redundant video files but CC is still taking up 18 GB of my iPad’s storage. Other than the LR photos tab, there is nothing in there, so what is this 18 gigs???
Really hope someone out there can help. Totally open to other solution suggestions. Thanks!
I am traveling long term and taking many many raw photos. I am using an iPad mini to import from SD cards direct into LR Mobile which then backs up the files to Creative Cloud storage. I keep smart previews in LR Mobile so that I can view and play with the files if I so desire.
The backup is not always quick but if I leave it overnight it has been able to keep up and the system has been working UNTIL... I got to an island off the coast of Japan where the WiFi is universally weak. I am here waiting out the covid crisis and without sufficient WiFi for an extended period, the whole system has gotten backed up. Of the roughly 7000 photos I have shot so far, about 2500 are imported and being stored locally on the iPad which is now full. My SD cards will also be full in a matter of time and then I will be TSOL. While LR is still trying to sync, it’s not working and I have more or less given up on getting them to upload until I leave the island which will be not for another month or so and I need to keep shooting.
The only solution I have come up with is to purchase an SSD and start backing up files from the cards to the drive as I continue to shoot. In order to do this though, I will need to free up storage on the iPad so that I can copy new files onto the iPad then move them from there onto the hard drive.
So I have a few questions.
1. Is there a way for me to move the files that have not uploaded to the cloud from the iPad onto an SSD? I don’t see where these files are stored in the iPad or if they are viewable in this way.
2. Ideally I would still be able to store smart previews in LR Mobile, but will this be possible if the first 5,000 are stored in the cloud and the rest are stored on the SSD?
3. Bonus question: I was using Creative Cloud to manually backup video files by importing them from video file folders on the memory cards into Creative Cloud. This was a nightmare, some would upload others would fail in no particular order that I could detect, so I gave up and have been using iCloud Drive instead. I cleared everything out of the CC app to eliminate any redundant video files but CC is still taking up 18 GB of my iPad’s storage. Other than the LR photos tab, there is nothing in there, so what is this 18 gigs???
Really hope someone out there can help. Totally open to other solution suggestions. Thanks!