Sometimes you need to move a picture or video that you’ve stashed in Drive, so you can use in on your iPad [in iMovie, for example].
Here’s how:
Open up Drive and naviagate to the picture or video you want to use.
Click on it – it should open up so you can view it
Hold your finger on it. A window should popup that will give you the option to save it to your Photo Album.
From there you can import into iMovie, Textilus, etc.
So what happens when you copy the photo from Drive to your Photos, and then Drive copies all your Photos back up to Drive because of the setting. Do you get 2 copies of the photo? Hmmmm……….
Here’s what you need to MAKE SURE gets setup after your iPad gets wiped – or better yet, BEFORE something happens to your iPad.
The Short List
iCloud signed in to your MDS email address
iCloud Backup ON
Google Drive – signed in, Pix auto-backup
Notability – backing up to Google Drive
Setup Email
The Detailed List
iCloud
This will make it faster to setup your iPad in case of a disaster.
Settings –> iCloud
Make sure you are signed in. You should see YOUR MDS EMAIL at the top. If you have used a different email address, CHANGE IT NOW. If you want to know why, ask Mr. Rule.
Turn iCloud Backup ON – and start a backup.
Google Drive
Automatically backup your pictures and videos after you take them.
Sign in to Google Drive
Look for the 3 stacked lines, top left. [It’s called a “hamburger menu”].
Click it.
Select Settings…..
Select Photos
Turn ON both sliders at the top [Use Google Photos folder, Autobackup].
Sometimes the “Google Photos” option is grayed out. I don’t know why. Let me know if you figure it out.
Notability
Automatically back up everything in Notability to a folder on Google Drive.
Fire up Notability
Bottom Left corner – click the gear icon [settings]
AutoBackup
Google Drive
Login
Give it permission
Setup Email
Settings –>Email
Add new account
It’s a GOOGLE account
Fill in the fields – should be easy to figure out.
When you get to the screen with 4 sliders – turn all 4 of them green, then hit SAVE
Normally you set Notability to automatically backup your docs to Drive. Sometimes you need to reverse that process – pull some material from Drive into Notability.
FIRST:
Get your Dividers and Subjects setup in Notability
Select a location[folder] in Notability.
THEN select what to import. Drive is organized just like notability was – if you had folders/dividers in Notability, then you will see folders in Drive, inside the Notability folder. Your Notability selection is WHERE the files will be imported to.
You will need to do this for each folder/divider you set up.
Once you get Notability setup:
Open up Notability
Click the icon, top right, that looks like a square with an arrow going INTO it
Select Google Drive
It should automatically show you the Notability folder on your Drive.
Select what you’d like to import.
REMEMBER THAT Folders on Drive = “Subjects” in Notability.