Saving pictures to ipods

Bug-Eyed Earl · Post by **Bug-Eyed Earl** » 2006-09-24 09:18pm

I have a 30g ipod, and it has a section for photos, but as near as I can tell, it seems to be referring to porting pictures from a digital camera into the ipod.

Is there a way to put image files that are already saved in my hard drive in my ipod?

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2006-09-24 09:20pm

What's the difference between images from a camera and from a harddrive? Why would the iPod know or care?

Bug-Eyed Earl · Post by **Bug-Eyed Earl** » 2006-09-24 09:40pm

Stark wrote:What's the difference between images from a camera and from a harddrive? Why would the iPod know or care?

On the homepage for iTunes, there are only folders to put in music, music videos, movies, and podcasts. There isn't one for photos. I tried "add file to library" with a random photo, it seemed to work, but I don't know where it went.

Doing a search under "picture ipod load" comes up with results mainly for add-ons that allow you to connect your camera to your ipod. The instruction manual says nothing about what I need. Hope that helps.

Darth Quorthon · Post by **Darth Quorthon** » 2006-09-24 09:53pm

This tutorial is for Macs

On my PC, I created a folder that contained the pictures I wanted to transfer. Then, with my iPod connected, I went into iTunes, clicked on the iPod, then the "Photos" tab. There's an option for "sync photos from" and you can choose the folder that contains the pictures. It should sync automatically after that.

Ypoknons · Post by **Ypoknons** » 2006-09-24 10:20pm

This is one of the areas where the ipod is a pain. You use the syncing folder, or you can use Adobe Album, either by importing all the pics you want to sync or by importing, creating albums and porting over the ipod.

Praxis · Post by **Praxis** » 2006-09-25 02:55pm

I haven't tried it for photos, but in iTunes 7 there was an option to manage the iPod manually. I hooked up my iPod to a different computer (not the one I was syncing it with) and transferred a couple videos on manually that way, and it continues to sync fine with the computer it's set to sync with without removing the videos.

Lord Woodlouse · Post by **Lord Woodlouse** » 2006-09-25 03:28pm

I've noticed that you often need a fair bit of space left before it will upload them to your iPod. Even if technically it looks like you have plenty of space for the pictures. I needed to pretty much delete an entire album before it would let me have the pictures, even though I had a couple of megs left over.

But aye, the photos part is fairly easy to find in your iPod info bit on iTunes.