I have a newly set up iPad pro, 3rd gen, 11 inch that we got new and set up via wireless side by side transfer. Upon plugging it in to MacBook pro Big Sur 11.6, i noticed that the pictures folder on the MacBook shows (left side below on screen shot of Get Info) 34.16 gb and 13,085 items while the iPad (right side of screen shot) shows 18.48 GB and the iPad has 6,695 photos and 71 videos showing synced from the computer. I have deleted the synced photos, soft reset ipad and restart MacBook and re-synced with same results as shown below.
Questions:
Which is right? Why the difference? How do i reconcile the difference?
I have compared manually almost all of the computer folders to the iPad synced folders and have only found about 5 missing picture and .mov files for a total of about 200mb. thank you
In the photo folder on the Mac I sync with there are "iPhoto library", "iPod photo cache", "Photo booth library" and "photos library folders". If I exclude those and "get info" on the remainder of the folders, the no. and sizes matches almost exactly to what is being synced to the iPad. The culprit for the greatest difference is the iPod photo cache for about 15gig. The 4 folders are included in the total on the Mac but do not sync to the iPad, hence the difference.