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Photos on iPad and in iPhoto

Avatar Roy Rainford
Someone's photos have somehow been loaded onto my iPad 1 and iPhoto on my iMac. There are 46 in all and they are definitely not mine. I have used the iPad at hotels on their WiFi, using their password. Could that be the the source of input without me being aware of them loading? The photos in iPhoto are in an untitled folder as the 'Last Import' on 4 June 2012. Alternatively could the photos come in from the internet in some way, perhaps via my FaceBook page (now closed) or Flickr where I have an account? They are quite respectable shots btw., some taken on a ship at Portsmouth and others are garden shots. Nothing exciting! Any ideas on how this can happen will be welcome.

Re: Photos on iPad and in iPhoto

Avatar Mick Burrell
How do you normally put photos on your iPad - do you use iCloud? Via a cable to iTunes on your Mac?

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Avatar Roy Rainford
I don't use iCloud but it was switched on in iPad settings so now off. I use a cable from iMac to iPad for transfer of images but haven't used this for about two years. I have emailed one of the unknown photos to friends to see if they recognise it. I have also checked emails received on and around the 4th of June this year (date of last import to iPhoto containing the 'rogue' photos) but no attachments were received around that time.

Re: Photos on iPad and in iPhoto

Avatar Trevor Hewson
Roy, have you had any guest users on your iMac?

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Avatar Roy Rainford
Latest - a friend has identified the photo which I emailed and said she only sent 6 via email in June at the most, not 46!
So I now have the source but not how they got into iPhoto and the iPad. I don't use iPhoto and wouldn't save these photos to either the iMac or iPad. Could iCloud be the culprit because it was switched on?

Re: Photos on iPad and in iPhoto

Avatar Mick Burrell
Can you give us more to go on:

You say you don't use iPhoto - how did you discover the photos were in iPhoto without using it? Did you suspect an issue so open it to check?

Which version of the OS is your Mac? If i's prior to 10.7.2 then it can't use iCloud. And for iCloud to put your friend's photos on any of your machines, she'd have had to log in to your Apple ID. I don't use (or know about) Flickr but is there a way to share photos between users?

If you've not connected the iPad to the Mac for ages, then it has to be some form of wireless - like iCloud - even if your friend had access to iPhoto and has forgotten.

Re: Photos on iPad and in iPhoto

Avatar Trevor Hewson
Once the photos are in iPhoto, they will transfer to the iPad wirelessly the next time it is synched, if the appropriate settings are set in iTunes (possibly even with the default settings?) What I want to know, is does your friend recognise the other 40 photos? If not, the mystery deepens!

Incidentally, we have experienced another iPhoto importing irregularity. (Mountain Lion, iPhoto '09 8.1.2): If I plug my camera into the iMac, iPhoto opens automatically as expected, I import the photos, eject the camera, unplug it and quit iPhoto. Then, when Mary switches to her account, she finds that her iPhoto is running and displaying 'my' photos. It seems that, when the camera is plugged in, iPhoto launches for all logged in users, regardless of which user is active. It doesn't take a lot of imagination to see how this could prove embarrassing!

This only seems to happen with my Panasonic camera, and not with the Canons. I suspect that the Canons are recognised as Cameras, whereas the Panasonic is seen as an external drive which might be why it receives a more 'universal' treatment.

I doubt that this is the source of your mystery Roy, but you can see why I asked whether you had had any guest users on your iMac.

Re: Photos on iPad and in iPhoto

Avatar Roy Rainford
Many thanks for the replies M & T. Mick I did open iPhoto yesterday to check a possible issue. My iMac is on 10.6.8 and I feel sure that iCloud was 'alive' until I closed it yesterday. I don't think Flickr was the culprit because my settings were just to receive alerts about friends posting photos on the Flickr site, not to receive their photos.
I do connect the iPad to the iMac fairly regularly, say once a week, to sync and update apps.

Trevor I do have old photos in iPhoto but they don't transfer to the iPad wirelessly so probably settings in iTunes prevent this. However I must confess to being non savvy iPhoto and non savvy iTunes and non savvy iPad and would certainly appreciate a session on how to move photos around on these at a future WAGS meeting in Bournemouth. Hope Alan sees this to twist arms!

Btw, my iPhoto is '09 version 8.1.2. My friend doesn't have and hasn't had access to this or to my iMac and iPad. She believes she sent 6 photos as email attachments but she had recently changed from a PC to an iMac and could have sent me all the images in her folder I guess.
I don't connect my cameras to the iMac. I use the memory card slot in the side of my monitor and transfer the Raw files into Lightroom.
This leaves me thinking that the photos in question somehow went from Mail to iPhoto and then to iPad via iCloud which was on at that time.

Re: Photos on iPad and in iPhoto

Avatar Alan Cox
Roy and are suffering from the same travail here and need a hand holding session with step by step guidance to restore order. I am therefore issuing herewith a desperate plea for some high powered member of WAGs to get in touch with me and discuss which meeting in Bournemouth would suit. Free biscuits and tea or coffee are available at half time and there's a very nice Italian restaurant two doors away where we can have a feast after the meeting. Surely someone will be tempted. WAGs has as one of its functions the objective to help members in trouble. Well, that's Roy and me for starters.

Re: Photos on iPad and in iPhoto

Avatar Mick Burrell
I'm intending to be at the meeting so will gladly help - but (that's a big but!) we need both the iPad and the Mac to be present to check settings on both.

Re: Photos on iPad and in iPhoto

Avatar Roy Rainford
Thanks Mick but the iMac is the 27inch model so I couldn't possibly bring that. I could bring the settings!
However the initial 'panic' is over and I was hoping for a presentation on the various ways of transferring images onto the iPad.
 
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