> On Jul 4, 2018, at 10:48 AM, Stanley Halpin <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On Jul 4, 2018, at 6:56 AM, ATT <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Jul 2, 2018, at 3:29 PM, Stanley Halpin <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> I use these, 64GB capacity. If you have your images organized in folders >>> within Photos, you can Select at the folder level, don’t have to use >>> individual one-at-a-time picking. >>> Works well. >>> >>> http://dmlife.cc/productshow.asp?id=1032&sid=234 >> >> I was tempted by this device, Stan, but became concerned on reading the >> uniformly negative reviews of the app in the Apple Store. I suspect you’ve >> had a different experience with it. > > OK, you made me look. > The reviews are "interesting". And the app update history is weak > > But for what I want, it works. I travel. As I’ve mentioned, when I travel, I > dump the jpeg version of my images to my iPad as a form of backup and for > immediate use. But the iPad storage is limited (128GB in my case). So what I > needed was a way to move some those “backup” jpegs to another place, thus > freeing up internal memory for more. Hopefully I never have to take those > files off the DM Aiplay device, if I do it would be because of a loss or > failure of my RAW files. If I needed to, I could. > > So, it works in the following respects: > - it identifies and sorts images on my iPad, recognizing Photos > folders the system and I have created to organize stuff. > - it allows the Copy (or Move) of those files to the thumb drive. > - the copied/moved files look like any other batch of files on any > other USB Drive when plugged into the computer. > I haven’t and won’t use it to take a video with me to watch on my iPad. I > haven’t and won’t use it to take an expanded music library on my iPad. So > those sorts of functionality are irrelevant to me, and that is where most of > the bad reviews seem to come from. And then there was the guy complaining > that this device, made for iOS and OS-X, does not format the files so that > they can be viewed on a PC. > > What does impress me, aside from the fact that the device + app just do what > I need, is that the device is nicely built.
Thanks, Stan. I might have noted that the negative reviews concerned features that would not interest me, either. I sensed that the device was well maid, and that was what attracted me. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA [email protected] “...we are a form of invitation to others and to otherness..." - David Whyte -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
