iOS, USB photo transfers, and Windows
OK, here's a task that should be really simple with an iPhone but isn't. I just want to manage photos myself, using file copy / move operations. Goal: Move photos off an iphone, onto an external hard drive. Obstacle: iOS won't actually move photos, even if you select a 'move' operation, it only copies them. You have to use some application to do this. I don't want to use a photo application to manage the photos. This is mainly because I move between different computers, and I have too many photos for them to live in 'the cloud' unless I pay for a huge amount of storage, which I don't want to do. I don't want Windows or whatever application to 'suck in' all my photos to some BS folder (c:\user/abc/Pictures) simply because I want to manage where they are (on an external RAID drive), and not have them live in some photo store on the PC. One possibility is that this is Apple's attempt to get you to pay for cloud storage which I don'