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Originally Posted by dmaul1114
I want to just drag and drop the photos I want to move over, not have to fiddle with my sync settings, or have a separate folder with redundant copies of the photos I want on the iPad etc. as I'd want to keep them in the regular places in the My Photos folder (and sub folders in my PC)--but not want to sync all them to the iPad and waste space.
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You need to take a look at iTunes, because it will do this.
Basically you point it at a parent directory. It, and all sub-directories within can then be synced over to your iDevice, or not. It will give you a list of the parent and all sub-directories, you simply check the directories you want synced over (which show up as albums on the iDevice) and leave un-checked the directories you don't want synced over.
There is no need to make duplicate copies of the image files if you don't want to.
Only two notes. You have to have your photos all within a single parent directory, you can't specify two parent directories. iTunes will create an index directory within that parent, it's up to your other applications to ignore that, just as iTunes will ignore non-image files in the directory structure.
So you'd still have to use iTunes to sync, but you can use your folder structure for photo management.
You can't leave some interaction with iTunes out of the equation when you have an iDevice. You're going to need it at some point for upgrades or managing applications, and definitely for making backups. If you absolutely hate iTunes and won't install it on your system, then an iPhone/Touch/iPad is definitely not a device for you.
The same argument is going to go for other devices. Dell is going to come out with their Android based tablets, do people think they won't be releasing their own content manager application that goes along with it? I sure hope they include something to help make backups at the least. But you know they'll come out with some graphical interface for managing your media (or you'll use Windows Media Center). Drag and Drop will hopefully be an option as well, but we won't know until we see the devices and their operating systems. Anyone remember Palm, Palm Desktop Manager was everywhere and you used it for managing your content and making backups. There were alternatives to that as well.