Save Your Camera-Phone Pictures

How many of you actually take the time to save the images you take from your camera phone?  This is a simple activity that doesn’t take too much time, but you would be surprised how many people are unsure how to do this and keep all of their photos on their phone.  I learned this lesson the hard way when I was at my daughter’s field trip and I filled up ALL the space on my camera . . . I have images on there from THREE YEARS AGO and have never deleted a thing.  Needless to say, it would have been much easier to periodically transfer all my images to my desktop computer than to try to make space on my phone by tediously deleting images one by one.  Do some spring cleaning of your own and get your phone all cleaned up (and hopefully running a little faster, too)!

 Windows:

1. Plug your camera phone into your computer.

2.  If the AutoPlay window appears, click “Import pictures and videos” using Windows.  Go to step 4.

3. If not, then choose Start > Computer.  You will see a small icon that represents your phone.   Right click this icon and select “Import pictures and videos”.

4.  Select the folder you want to save your pictures in and start the import.

5.  Once the pictures are imported, you can now erase all of the pictures on your camera phone by selecting the icon, then locating the pictures and deleting them.

Mac:

1.  Plug your camera phone into your Mac.  iPhoto should launch right away with the import window.

2.  Select “Import All”, or select only the images and videos you want imported and click the “Import Selected” button.

3.  After the import is done, you will be asked if you would like to delete these photos from your camera phone.  Click “Delete Photos”.

 *** Back up your folders onto an external hard drive so they are saved in 2 different places***

(I cannot stress this enough – do it before you lose those precious memories! – check out Dropbox to do this automatically when your phone is on a wireless network)