For some time we believed this to be a bug, but now its become clear to us that this problem is just due to the nature and organisation of the iPad’s photo library from where Foliobook imports images and videos.

The problem is visible when adding photos to a gallery in the lightbox, or when trying to add a background image or video. When looking at the import dialog, the desired pictures do not appear to be in the iPad’s photo library.

This problem only happens when the images are in the default top level ‘Photo Library’ on the iPad. If the images are in user created ‘Albums’ then Foliobook can see the images.

The problem is caused by placing all the images in a single folder on a computer before syncing them to the iPad. Assuming that the folder on the computer is called ‘iPadPhotos’ this folder organisation looks like this. This appears to be a perfectly sensible arrangement, but for technical reasons photos at this top level are not sync’d into a named ‘Album’ on the iPad and are therefore not available for import.

To create user named albums, and to avoid the problem, its only necessary to put your images in subfolders on the originating computer. You don’t have to re-organise all the images, so long as they are not in your top level folder they will be found, you can create a single subfolder to put them in if this is easier.

The work around

Assuming that the folder on your main computer is called iPadPhotos, then the organisation should look something like the one shown in the following image, of course if you want to add more album folders, feel free to add as many as you need. However only one is needed to work around the problem, in this case we have labelled it ‘myalbum’. In order to make this work, you should still choose iPadPhotos as the folder to sync in iTunes.