How can JPG & RAW files be transferred from iPad to MacBook Pro & still maintain the albums built in iPad?
In the iPad Photos app I've put my photos in different albums. On iPad I'm using Photos & Affinity Photo. On my Macbook I've used Photos, Image Capture and iTunes & they import everything but not the albums, which is daunting because I've got 10,000 photos I'm importing. Which is also the problem with iCloud because it wants to backup everything & it's not obvious that it also imports the albums (at least Apple Support can't confirm that either)>
Best Answer
Photos app on macOS, via iCloud syncing maintains album structure. If the photos are in albums in photos app on iPad, turning on selectively iCloud for photos app only and turning off backup on iCloud can do what you want to achieve.
Though some offline method would be great too!