Hi folks,
Everything you can imagine that could possibly go wrong, did go wrong today.
My niece finally brought her old iPhone 4 and cable here. As instructed, she charged it and deleted several hundred photos to make room. She
had about 1,500 photos on it. She deleted about 700 of them. There are
still about 800 of her photos on it.
They were here for about 2 1/2 hours. We didn't get much accomplished.
I decided to start with 3
Magna Graecia (
Apulia) coins. I spent about 1 hour taking photos and experimenting. I took several photos of each coin. I got scared because the photos looked very dark on the iPhone. But they transferred much better. I kept the best photos and deleted the rest.
We
had problems like you wouldn't believe. My computer is very, very "twitchy". It is also 8 years old.
The iPhone cable was acting up. If you just touch it or move it so much as 1 mm, the iPhone will shut off and reboot. It did this about 15-20 times today.
My computer kept freezing, about 8 different times. We
had to shut it down and re-start it all over again, 8 different times.
It turns out that, on my computer, you can't have the iPhone and flash drive connected to it simultaneously. The computer will just freeze. We
had to keep dis-connecting the flash drive so that the iPhone could download the photos. For some reason, on this computer, it won't let you download photos from the iPhone while the flash drive is connected.
We initially tried to do everything under me. But the computer kept freezing, and it wouldn't obey commands. This computer used to be my niece's old computer. She is
still the "admin". She is
still the primary user. I am a secondary user. For some reason, this computer will only do certain things (like download photos form an iPhone, for example) while it is operating under the primary user. It will refuse to do them if it is operating under a secondary user (me). It took us a while to figure this out.
I don't want to permanently store approximately 10,000 photos on the hard drive. It will significantly slow down the computer. And, initially, I didn't want to temporarily store the photos on the hard drive either. It is extra steps. Unfortunately, this computer will let you crop photos only if they are stored on the hard drive. It won't let you crop them if you are transferring them from the iPhone to the flash drive without using the hard drive. The "fix" icon (for cropping photos) is dark. It is a dead link. It only turns white and becomes a usable link if the photos are stored on the hard drive. So, now, as I am going along, I must delete the photos from both the iPhone and the hard drive. Extra steps.
Because of all these unforeseen problems, it literally took us about 1 1/2 hours (90 minutes !!!) before we finally were able to store even so much as one photo on the flash drive.
At that point, my niece and her boyfriend were here for 2 1/2 hours. And we were just transferring our first photo to the flash drive. They
had to leave because my niece
had to go to
work. In fact, she yelled at us (me and her boyfriend) 4 times that they
had to leave. So, her boyfriend literally
had less than 5 minutes to teach me things (cropping, storing, etc.). And she was screaming at us the entire time. She rushed us so much that I didn't know what I was doing. I didn't know if I was coming or going. Obviously, there were questions that I didn't get to ask. Later tonight, when I tried to organize things, I
had to look things up online.
(Continued in next post.)
Meepzorp