Empty your iDevices of photos and videos without iPhoto

As users of iDevices such as the iPhone and iPad increase, in my workplace the daily questions of how to download them increase. photos and videos of them to the computer.

The fact is that most of these people have entered Apple through an iPad or an iPhone and later have been tempted to buy a Mac.

When you use an iDevice and want to download the reel content, if you use windows, when you connect the device It will appear in My Pc a new device connected and navigating within it to the reel folder, you will be able to quickly download the video and photo files.

However, when you enter Apple's OSX system, things change, since when you connect the iPad, for example, something similar to what happens in Windows does not appear. The fact is that if what you want is to synchronize with iTunes and enter documents, books, music, videos and photos, just tell it where the folders are located and synchronize.

The thing changes when it is the opposite in the case of photographs and videos. How do you get these files out of the device? The immediate answer is, making use of iPhoto, which detects all files and imports them into the program's library. Then you must search for the videos and remove them from iPhoto, since it is a program that manages photos well but not videos.

Many are the colleagues who tell me that they find it cumbersome and slow to orderly import and subsequent process of the files in iPhoto and they ask me if there is no other way to do it. The answer is yes and the way is:

• Go to the Launchpad and go to the OTHERS folder.

• Inside her look for the tool Screenshot and open it.

• Connect your iDevice, either the iPad or the iPhone and you will see how the device appears instantly in the left sidebar.

• All the files appear in the right window, which you can sort by date, type, size.

• Once you see the files, just select the ones you want to grab and drag them to the desktop or to a specific folder that you indicate at the bottom.

Keep in mind that you have the possibility to delete files directly or after importing them. Take a good look at all the import configuration options before doing it.

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