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I was reading earlier about someone who uses a WD external 2Tb drive with wi-fi to transmit images to his iPad for viewing, culling and processing.
The images remain on the drive and are only sent to the iPad individually as required. They are not ingested into Photos and the whole process is quite slick.
He uses a card reader built into the hard drive but I think it also works with a USB adaptor. Can't remember what the exact drive is but I don't think it's anything special. Could find out if anybody is interested.
I've got a WD Passport external 2TB drive with WiFi and it only has an SD card slot in it??
If you insert an SD card it transfers everything on the card blindly to a folder on the WD drive ....and it's not that quick!
The MyCloud software app you have to download to see the drive contents is crude....or at least apple are their usual helpful selves ensuring file transfer isn't easily handled (as it means delving into the iPad file structure...which is prohibited!) From memory they don't allow selection of multiple files for transfer...you have to do one at a time. I use a File Transfer app to speed things up. Been disappointed with this idea of remote file handling.
But maybe I am doing it wrong?
I could use the D500 WiFi and send it direct to the iPad. But that uses camera battery power and takes time.
Last edited on Sat Jul 28th, 2018 17:57 by Eric
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