[granitehead]

Hopefully someone out there can steer me in the right direction!

Here's the situation. I have an older ibook and had some pics on it. To free up space I moved the pics to my ipod photo and deleted them off of my iBook. I now have an external hard drive and want those pics on that HD with my other images (from my other mac). When I connect my iPod to my other mac it tells me that the iphoto library is linked to another computer (my ibook) and asks if I want to replace my images. I click no. Now here is when it gets confusing.

When I look at my iphoto file in the Finder I see Picture files. I was able to import those pics but soon realized that they were pics I already had on my External HD. And they aren't even the ones that I can see on the ipod. The images that I can see on my iPod are the pics I am trying to move over. My ipod shows me a ton of pictures when it isn't docked. Those are the pics that I want to add to my iphoto library on the external HD.

Simply...
The pics I see on my Ipod I cannot see in Finder under iPod,
The files I see in Finder under iPod I cannot see on my iPod.
I would like the pics I see on my iPod to be transfered to my external HD with my other iPhoto library.

Help!!!!


Thanks in advance.

-O-

[Big Mac]

This thread may get you started: Transfering Songs From iPod to iPod

In it I describe how to move music from one iPod to another. The invisible folder iPod_Control contains the photos and the music on the iPod. You should be able to find them by opening that folder (as I describe in the thread above). Alternatively, there may be a utility available that does the same thing.

[granitehead]

Ok, Thanks. I'll try it as soon as I get home from work. Thanks again

[granitehead]

Still no luck, Maybe I'm doing something wrong I couldn't double click the iPod in finder but when I opend up Ipod_Control I only got the preference icon.

[Big Mac]

Yes, because the other items are hidden. It's really easier to do it using the Terminal.

[granitehead]

Ok I'll try it in terminal. Thanks for your help and your patience.

-O-

[granitehead]

Big Mac,

Hopefully you can help me out some more. Below is what I am Going through in Terminal. I can access some folders but I can't figure out where the pics that I can ONLy see on my iPod are located. And after I locate them how would I move them to my External HD.

Thanks again for your help I really do appreciate it.

-O-



[Omar-Salinas-Computer:/Volumes/Salinas\342\200\231 iPod/iPod_Control] osalinas% ls -F
Artwork/ Device/ Music/ iPodPrefs* iTunes/
[Omar-Salinas-Computer:/Volumes/Salinas\342\200\231 iPod/iPod_Control] osalinas% ls iTunes
DeviceInfo iEKInfo iTunesPlaylists
PhotosFolderAlbums iTunesControl iTunesPodcasts
PhotosFolderName iTunesDB iTunesPrefs
PhotosFolderPrefs iTunesEQPresets
[Omar-Salinas-Computer:/Volumes/Salinas\342\200\231 iPod/iPod_Control] osalinas% ls iTunes/PhotosFoldersAlbums
ls: iTunes/PhotosFoldersAlbums: No such file or directory
[Omar-Salinas-Computer:/Volumes/Salinas\342\200\231 iPod/iPod_Control] osalinas% ls iTunes/PhotosFolderAlbums
iTunes/PhotosFolderAlbums
[Omar-Salinas-Computer:/Volumes/Salinas\342\200\231 iPod/iPod_Control] osalinas% ls iTunes/PhotosFolderName
iTunes/PhotosFolderName
[Omar-Salinas-Computer:/Volumes/Salinas\342\200\231 iPod/iPod_Control] osalinas% ls iTunes/DeviceInfo
iTunes/DeviceInfo
[Omar-Salinas-Computer:/Volumes/Salinas\342\200\231 iPod/iPod_Control] osalinas% ls iTunes/iEKInfo
iTunes/iEKInfo
[Omar-Salinas-Computer:/Volumes/Salinas\342\200\231 iPod/iPod_Control] osalinas% ls iTunes/iTunesControl
iTunes/iTunesControl
[Omar-Salinas-Computer:/Volumes/Salinas\342\200\231 iPod/iPod_Control] osalinas% ls -F iTunes/PhotosFolderAlbums
iTunes/PhotosFolderAlbums*
[Omar-Salinas-Computer:/Volumes/Salinas\342\200\231 iPod/iPod_Control] osalinas% ls iTunes
DeviceInfo iEKInfo iTunesPlaylists
PhotosFolderAlbums iTunesControl iTunesPodcasts
PhotosFolderName iTunesDB iTunesPrefs
PhotosFolderPrefs iTunesEQPresets
[Omar-Salinas-Computer:/Volumes/Salinas\342\200\231 iPod/iPod_Control] osalinas% ls PhotosFolderAlbums
ls: PhotosFolderAlbums: No such file or directory
[Omar-Salinas-Computer:/Volumes/Salinas\342\200\231 iPod/iPod_Control] osalinas% ls -F
Artwork/ Device/ Music/ iPodPrefs* iTunes/
[Omar-Salinas-Computer:/Volumes/Salinas\342\200\231 iPod/iPod_Control] osalinas% ls iPodPrefs
iPodPrefs
[Omar-Salinas-Computer:/Volumes/Salinas\342\200\231 iPod/iPod_Control] osalinas%

[Big Mac]

I would assume the photos are in PhotosFolderAlbums. You can either navigate there and copy it in the Finder or do cp in Terminal.

[granitehead]

Thanks for your help Big MAc, I'm struggling with this but learning a lot in the process. Still no luck but I'll get it eventually. Thanks again.


-O-