Thanks Cearbhall. Will work on it and report back.
Regards
Marian
Sent from my iPad
On 13 Nov 2017, at 22:55, Cearbhall O'Meadhra <iphone@xxxxxxx> wrote:===========================================================
Hi,
Mary and Marion,
This is the message that I was referring to today. See if it solves your
problem.
http://osxdaily.com/2013/08/31/back-up-iphone-photos-automatically-dropbox/
Back Up iPhone Photos Automatically to DropBox
You can really never have too many backups of your most important files, and
since our iPhone photos and pictures often fall into the ‘very important’
category, having an automatic backup solution directly from your iPhone can
be a good idea. Yes, <http://osxdaily.com/2011/10/12/how-to-setup-icloud/>
using iCloud will back up some photos, but it doesn’t offer direct access to
a single picture the way that
<http://osxdaily.com/2010/07/10/transfer-photos-from-iphone-to-computer/>
copying them to your computer does. That’s where Dropbox can come in,
offering a bit of both worlds; direct photo access, but the photos are backed
up to the cloud.
<http://cdn.osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/back-up-iphone-photos-dropbox-automatically.jpg>
For the unfamiliar, Dropbox offers an excellent cloud based file storage
solution that is free at the entry level for 2GB of space. Referring friends
and others to sign up can net you a total of 18GB of free space, otherwise
Pro paid solutions offer anywhere from 100GB to 500GB at monthly rates. If
you intend on backing up tons and tons of photos to DropBox, jumping to one
of the paid plans is probably a good idea, but even at the free level you can
store a fair amount of your most important pictures and access them again at
any time from anywhere.
This is not meant to be a replacement to
<http://osxdaily.com/2010/06/22/how-to-backup-your-iphone/> regular iPhone
backups to iTunes or iCloud, nor regularly transferring pictures to a local
computer for backup, but it does offer an excellent simple solution for
another layer of backups, providing easy redundancy for photo backups that
happens automatically.
Configure Simple Automatic iPhone Photo Backups with Dropbox
* <https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dropbox/id327630330?mt=8> Get Dropbox
free from the App Store and <https://www.dropbox.com/> sign up for an
account if you haven’t done so yet (2GB account is free, pay for more)
* Launch Dropbox on the iPhone and login with DropBox
* At the “Camera Upload” screen, choose “Only Wi-Fi” (recommended) and
then tap “Enable”, then tap “Allow” to provide DropBox access to the camera
roll to begin uploading photos
<http://cdn.osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/back-up-iphone-photos-to-dropbox.jpg>
The Wi-Fi Only upload setting is recommended otherwise you can quickly go
over your cellular data plan limits.
The DropBox app Photos tab will have a red badge indicating how many photos
remain to be uploaded, and selecting that tab will show you the progress of
uploads from Camera Roll. The initial backup process can take a while,
depending on the speed of your connection and how many photos are uploading.
You can check the progress any time by going to the Photos tab:
<http://cdn.osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/photo-backup-status-dropbox.jpg>
If Wi-Fi is not found, Dropbox is smart enough to wait until a wifi
connection is available before trying to upload the images again.
Note: if you would rather manually manage and upload photos from the iPhone
directly to Dropbox, turn automatic uploads OFF from Settings, and instead
handle uploads directly from the Dropbox app itself.
Accessing Backed Up iPhone Photos from DropBox
Once you have your iPhone photos backed up to Dropbox, you can access them
anytime from the Dropbox iOS app on any device using the same login. Browsing
through photos stored in Dropbox is easy, and images are stored
chronologically.
Downloading a picture back to the iPhone (or another iOS device) is just a
matter of launching the app then:
* Tap the Photos tab
* Select the photo you want to download and choose “Save to Photo Library”
to transfer it back to your iPhone from Dropbox
<http://cdn.osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/download-photos-from-dropbox-to-iphone.jpg>
Another significant feature of Dropbox is the availability of a desktop app
(also a free download), meaning you can always access any photos or files
backed up to Dropbox from your iPhone right from the desktop OS, whether
that’s Mac OS X or Windows. On the desktop side of things, Dropbox behaves
like any other folder in the OS X file system, providing for simple access to
everything, with easy drag & drop support of uploads and downloads.
For users who like direct access to files and the file system, Dropbox
behaves like iCloud should behave, without having to resort to quirky tweaks
to gain direct control of files like what is required when
<http://osxdaily.com/2012/08/09/how-to-access-icloud-documents-from-the-mac-os-x-finder/>
accessing iCloud from the desktop. Again, it’s not meant to be a replacement
to iCloud, but it does offer some nice perks that go well to complement
Apple’s backup offerings. Even if you don’t pay for a larger level of Dropbox
storage, having the free 2GB plan to store some of your most precious photo
memories is so easy that there is little reason not to do so.
Heads up to <http://www.idownloadblog.com/2013/08/15/back-up-iphone-photos/>
iDownloadBlog for the idea.
Sent from my iPhone
All the best,
Cearbhall
m +353 (0)833323487 Ph: _353 (0)1-2864623 e: cearbhall.omeadhra@xxxxxxx
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