QHow can I upload photos taken on my iPhone 4 to my Dell PC's "My Pictures" folder? Do I need additional software?
PETER GILLETTE, MINNEAPOLIS
AYou don't need additional software. Your PC can import photos or videos from your iPhone via the phone's USB cord. See tinyurl.com/24hdxn5.
Note that this operates independently of the iTunes "sync" feature, which lets you automatically or manually copy content one-way from a PC to an iPhone, iPad or iPod. When you import photos or videos from an iPhone to a PC, Microsoft Windows is reading the iPhone's memory as if it were an external disk drive.
If for some reason this approach doesn't work, there is for-pay software that will transfer photos and other content, including music and documents, from an iPhone to a PC. See tinyurl.com/7espnnk.
QI've got a zillion photos scattered over dozens of directories and hard drives. I'd like to copy all these photos onto a single hard drive that I could put in a safe deposit box. I'd prefer not to duplicate photos and to avoid copying directories individually. How can I do it?
MICHAEL PELT, JACKSONVILLE, FLA.
AThe Windows search function can help by rapidly searching all the directories on a hard drive for photos.