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September 27, 2025
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I’m getting very frustrated. I am about to scream.

  • September 27, 2025
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I only have a lot room for my iPad Pro. I have both the light room for iPad plan at 100 MB of storage and the creative cloud tb plan. I have over 47,000 pictures and 700 videos that are preventing me from being able to edit the 6000 pictures I need to go through for football games. It is my only option of making money and I cannot get a Mac without making money and I cannot get these pictures. Edited through lot room for iPad. Can I? Is there a way I can compress the existing pictures in lot room and move it to creative cloud somewhere because I could not get it to work. Also, why can't I choose what I see and what I can edit when I know I uploaded those are ready. I know when I upload them, they will not sync. I don't at least I don't think so. I have paid a lot of money for several years for Adobe and at this point, I am about to be completely done with it. I just don't know what to do

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Community Expert
September 27, 2025

Your best option is an external drive or sd card option. Depending on your ipad model and it's capabilities will depend on which option may be best for you. But the details on connecting the drive/card can be found here: https://support.apple.com/guide/ipad/external-storage-devices-ipad75b7b23f/ipados .

 

Also, you don't need a Mac to edit pictures. There are Windows versions of Lightroom and Photoshop that are available with your plan as they are not tied to the OS like they used to be. You should be able to find a Windows computer capable to run those applications for less than the Mac.

John T Smith
Community Expert
Community Expert
September 27, 2025

Does your device have a USB connection to use an external device?

 

I use a Sata docking station and SEVERAL 'bare' drives for backup of my desktop computer
There are many external drive devices, this is the one I use
https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-External-docking-station-drives/dp/B00U8KSLA8/

kglad
Community Expert
Community Expert
September 27, 2025

why don't you buy an external harddrive and use that for storage?