Hi Ronni I don't have the iPad here - it's still with the boss in Switzerland...
Your description of Dropbox is as I remember it, with one exception. I don't remember seeing the + at the top of the uploads section. I could only see the contents of my camera roll, not the other events/albums (e.g. Last Imported) which I could see in the Photo App. I was able to use the iResize App to access hi-res photos in Last Imported, and this inserted the compressed images into the Camera Roll, where Dropbox could see them and synch them, but I really wanted a backup of my originals. Cheers Rob On 18/09/12 9:45 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: > Hi Rob, > > Perhaps I'm not understanding your problem correctly. > The iPad version of the Dropbox mobile app allows you to upload any videos or > photos synced to your gallery. > > 1. Open the Dropbox App, link to account etc. > 2. Click the Box icon on the left hand side, a pop up opens > 3. Click the uploads tab at the bottom, which is immediately next to the > settings > 4. Click the "+" at the top of the uploads section > The app still asks for permission to access your locations, (because > photos can contain location data) > 5. Tap the photos and videos you want to send to Dropbox from the resulting > photo gallery. > 6. Once done select 'Upload' > > Cheers, > Ronni > > > On 17/09/2012, at 10:18 PM, Rob Phillips <r.phill...@murdoch.edu.au> wrote: > >> G'day Mart and others, >> >> This may be a bit heretical, but I have concerns how Apple is locking >> things down to its commercial benefit. >> >> Let me give you a concrete example. I've just returned from a month >> hiking through Switzerland. (If you have the interest, check out >> http://www.everlater.com/raphillips1). >> >> To prepare for this, I bought an iPad to: use to display Swiss >> topographical maps and record our track by GPS; to maintain a trip blog; >> to store and process Rita's photos; and do general web surfing. >> >> The iPad was great except for one element. Photo management. I was able >> to purchase an adaptor to download photos from the camera to the iPad. I >> had 15GB of DropBox space to backup the photos to the cloud. Everything >> was sweet. >> >> Then I downloaded the first lot of photos, and I could see them on the >> iPad, but they weren't in the 'camera roll'. Only items in the camera >> roll can be synched to DropBox and Mobile me. By default, only photos >> taken with the iPad camera go in the camera roll. The only way to get >> access to these photos seems to be to connect the iPad to a Mac >> registered to me, then upload/ download the photos to that machine. I >> didn't have one of these with me! >> >> Why does Apple restrict the functionality of powerful devices like the >> iPad so that it can only be used in ways that Apple determines, and >> which require other hardware. The underlying OS should enable me to do >> much more. >> >> I spent hours at nights trying to find apps to work around this, without >> much success. It shouldn't be so difficult. >> >> I am concerned that I am being manipulated by Apple. >> >> Cheers >> Rob > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > -- -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
