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Any script to read the old Mac iPhotos files and transfer to my iPad Pro?

henryaukc

I have gone to iPad only for many years. I found an old external harddisk with my older pictures that backup from iPhoto. Did any one try to write a python script to import those files to iPad Camera Roll?

I don’t have any Mac now. thanks.

cvp

@henryaukc said

iPad only

No Mac, no PC?

Old disk ? Which connection: Ethernet or USB?

Which iPad slot: USBC or lightning ?

henryaukc

iPad Pro connect to usb-c hub to access my external harddrive. I can copy them to my iPad (32GB for one year). I can access its Master folder to get the pictures. I think i can search the sub folders for images and save them one by one using the photo module. thanks.

cvp

@henryaukc Then, you could open the folders as external files in Pythonista and write a very small script to scan all these folders and copy the photos where you want

cvp

@henryaukc to know name of external folder, you have to create this little script on this folder and run it

import editor
print(editor.get_path())

You will get something like

'/private/var/mobile/Library/LiveFiles/com.apple.filesystems.userfsd/xxxxxxx/'