It seems that I can never use the same procedure as last time around ... In the past I was able to organize her files into albums within iTunes, then transfer them to the iPad. But that doesn't work any more in iTunes 12 (based on hours of research).
I tried using the ideas shown in these two threads, but did not have much success
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I could only sync a single folder at a time from her computer to her iPad using iTunes (which does not understand sub-folders). Then I had to go to the iPad, create a new album, then manually move all those JPG files into the new album. Then I had to go back to the computer and repeat this process for each of the 20 other JPG folders she has.
In the end I decided it was a bit cleaner to use http://www.icloud.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; to access her iCloud photos via a web browser on her computer. I turned on iCloud photos sharing on her iPad (in Settings). I could do pretty much the same series of steps, but no longer had to use iTunes. I could drag and drop files from Windows Explorer to the icloud web page.
This would have been very fast and efficient, except for one gotcha. The web based iCloud Photos "app" is REALLY flakey. It was pretty quick if I copied 15 files or less. But it got very slow when I copied more than 25 files at once. It crashed 50% of the time that I tried to create a new album, or when I was copying files into the album.
The best part of using iCloud photos to do this is that the files SHOULD be transferred over automatically when she decides to buy a new iPad.
