Transfering RAWs from Ipad to Windows - please help!

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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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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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Update: I have gone from very annoyed to absolutely fuming.

Here´s what I did: Synched to the cloud. Downloaded all files to my computer. Deleted all.
So far so good.
Went do do the same again with the next batch. ALL Photos went straight to a "Syonchronisation error" folder in the cloud.
Only option: Delete.
This also deletes the files from the iPad. No problem. Just restore. Right? WRONG. File cannot be restored, not enough space. Please give us money for more space.
I now have the option to delete 700 photos or get lost.
Thanks for nothing, adobe. this really is by far the worst cloud experience I have ever seen.

I now have 1.396 raws in the deleted folder on my iPad which can only be restored if I pay Adobe money. How is this different from ransomware?

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Jamie23009771g1ceAuthor

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Here´s what I did: Synched to the cloud. Downloaded all files to my computer. Deleted all.
So far so good.
Went do do the same again with the next batch. ALL Photos went straight to a "Syonchronisation error" folder in the cloud.

After you "Synced to the cloud", how did you "Download all files to your computer"? If you mean you used the Lightroom preferences option to "Store a copy of all orginals...." and then deleted them from the Lightroom app, that isn't the way to do this. To delete content from the cloud while retaining a local hard drive copy, the correct way is to allow Classic to sync with the cloud, which automatically "imports" all cloud images into Classic, thus creating an independent local copy of the cloud-based originals. Those new downloaded files will then appear in the "All Synced Photographs" special collection, and if you then remove those images from that special collection (select them all, right-click on any one, select the option to remove them from the collection) that will "unsync" the files. That in turn automatically deletes them from the cloud, but they are retained in Classic. Then the next 20GB of data should upload from the iPad.

That is a standard "workflow" used by many users who want to import into their mobile devices but don't want to increase their cloud storage beyond that initial 20GB.

If you don't want to sync your main Classic catalog, create a new empty catalog, set that to sync and follow the process above (but make sure you first set the download location to your liking in the Preferences>Lightroom Sync tab). Later you can import that new catalog into your main catalog if you wish.

Thanks for your tips!

Sorry for being a little unspecific here.

i downloaded all my synched photos, including the "deleted" folder using the utility "Lightroom downloader". This has at least given me access to part of my photos.

Guess I'll try the combo with Lightroom classic you described, thanks for that!

right now my main problem is that Lightroom on the iPad is synching EXTREMELY slowly. It's been on basically all the time since yesterday for around 600 remaining files.

I'm hoping once that's done, I'll at least be able to download the rest that had the Sync error show up.

Why can't I just have the option to import files locally to the iPad and then copy them via cable or SSD? The cloud is a super unnecessary hassle if you do any more than edit a couple of shots here and there.

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