Is This Thing On?

Happy new year! Only a week late… No sewing projects so far this year, I’ve been dealing with iPad photo woes.

Making silly faces

Short version - on 12/26 got a warning that my iPad memory was full ‘cause I have so many pictures… it’s 6 years old, probably due for an upgrade, so bought a new 1 terrabyte iPad… pick it up from the Apple Store, help line is loooooooong, so take it home to do the setup myself. Setup is good but pictures won’t download from iCloud… go back to the Apple Store… spend 4 hours waiting for help… help sucked and basically sent me home to do it myself. 

I’d kept the original iPad offline, thinking if the iCloud transfer failed, I’d still have those as a backup. Yeah… help guy forgot to tell me about one more teeny tiny setting I needed to switch off and…. Poof! all but about 6000 random pics from my 59,000+ photo library are gone. Cue pulling out my hair and yelling at the universe.

Bottom(ish) line, my iPhone is backed up to a separate account and has most of the pics I lost. Apple makes it very hard to download/upload pics, especially to a PC or other service (help guy said they throttle download speeds deliberately to make it difficult.) It’s taken me the better part of a week, but I think I have everything in place to do the iPad reload tomorrow. Please cross your fingers and beseech the computer gods that it goes well. I’m tired of this and just want to quilt.