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Jamie23009771g1ce
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February 5, 2022
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Transfering RAWs from Ipad to Windows - please help!

  • February 5, 2022
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I have about 60GB of RAW photos stored on my iPad, directly imported via Lightroom and would like to move them to my Desktop PC.

Problem is: They don´t show up in local storage and I`m not prepared to sell my soul for enough cloud storage to do it that way.

So is there a way to get these files form the IPad to my PC?

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Jim Wilde
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Jim WildeCommunity Expert
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February 5, 2022
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Problem is: They don´t show up in local storage

 

What does that mean?

 

What version of Lightroom on your PC are you trying to get the iPad photos into, Lightroom Classic or the cloud-centric Lightroom Desktop? What subscription plan are you using? If it's the Photography Plan (which only has 20GB of cloud storage) many users are using the method of uploading 20Gb at a time from the iDevice to the cloud, wait for those images to download into Classic, then remove them from the cloud which allows the next 20GB of photos to upload from the iDevice. Repeat until all images have been dealt with.

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February 5, 2022

Thanks for the reply!

What I meant was that I have no way of accessing the photos via file manager, either through the iPad itseld or via PC becasue they are only accessible via Lightroom.

 

I have thougt about doing it the way you described, but I have a different catalogue on my Lightroom Classic which is also kind of a nuissance to change.

I have tried under Lightroom (non classic) on PC, too. At least the first 20gb have transferred, but naturally no more will. When I log into my Adobe cloud, these pictures don´t show up (I have looked into all directories there), however, so I don´t know how to delete them from there.

So in addition to both Adobe and Apple locking me from accesing my own local photos, there is some kind of sync problem, too. (And by locking out, I mean not giving me access via file browser).

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