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T1w4n4 Hi Thanks for reponses, I can get my files from my SD card onto the ipad via the adaptor which works very well. as the first reply was thinking about using icloud photos, but how would I continue to save the originals on hard drive archive.
If the photos are in iCloud do you need a backup? Maybe you could use your old Mac for this purpose. You could sync it with iCloud photos and use it to import and backup photos while you do everything else on the iPad. It wouldn't matter if it was a bit slow. The only problem with that is that a 2008 Mac might not be able to run future versions of OSX (does it run El Cap?).