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Transferring Photos to Macbook

SRBMUK
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Transferring Photos to Macbook

Hi all,

So I got my Xperia Z1 a few months ago, and have just been having my first go at tranferring photos to my Macbook. In doing so I have been met with a proverbial brick wall at every attempt. I have tried using the functions on the phone itself to do the transfer via bluetooth and dropbox, but in both cases I am apparently required to highlight each photo individually, which is not practical for the thousands of photos I already have, or for regular transfers in the future. When I did highlight all of the first month or so of photos for a trial run through bluetooth, it crashed as soon as I attempted to transfer, making me even less keen on trying this method again. I have also tried Xperia bridge for Mac, but when I start up a transfer it seems to freeze, and is not great anyway as it seems to just dump all the photos in a folder with the date of the transfer, rather than putting them in folder according to months / dates or anything like that, which is not ideal for me.

I am aware that there are various cloud options available, but am not sure if any are suitable for my needs. I would want to use the cloud service (if I have to) as a only a temporary stop between my phone and Macbook - i.e. for transfer purposes only, not to leave on the service itself. It would be a huge plus if the photos and videos were sorted into folders by month, or something like that.

Would appreciate any help.

Thanks!

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Blumr2
Visitor

Hi, i have managed to use sony bridge for mac to send through to iphoto.

Most times this works but it will quite often hang, makes the mas wheels of spinning death appear and you need to force quit and start again.

Sony do not have a transfer mode that i can see that is compatible with mac to view in finder and just copy.

Give Sony Bridge ago, it does work, slowly and may not always delete files but to be safe say no and manually delete once transfered.