Downloading photos into IPhoto 8

I recently upgraded to Leopard and IPhoto 8. I use a Cannon camera and have used Dassle media reader to download my photographs into my computer. A dialogue box use to come up allowing me to delete the pictures from the memory stick after they were downloaded to the computer. That box doesn't appear in the new Iphoto 8. I need to reinsert the memory stick back into the camera and delete them via the Cannon, an unneeded step. What do I need to do?
Iiwi

Try delete the com.apple.iphoto.plist file from the home / library / preferences folder and then see idf the option appears.
However on here we regularly recommend that you do not allow iPhoto to delete pics from your card, because if there is a problem with the import this will not be obvious until after you've wiped the card. Further, reformatting the card in the camera is a couple of seconds work.
Regards
TD

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It is a database - not a file manager
It is not fragile - few people who follow the rules ever have a problem - the prime rule is do not ever change the contents of the iPhoto database (iPhoto library) - except with iPhoto
Hardware or software failures can damage the database and therefore is it important to have backups - but then that is true of all computer files
Why use it - the power of the database - I can show you all photos that I took in Cortona Italy in a second - or all photos of my wife and grandson taken in 2006 - or of my granddaughter at a birthday party - of gather and export for a digital frame all photos of my mother -- etc, etc, etc
Plus it makes great keepsakes (I do books of vacations now that we keep on our coffee table and look through instead of photo albums that we never go back to)
And it creates and maintains web albums
It is a fun and very powerful program
There is nothing wrong with Picasa - lots of people use it - it just is nothing like iPhoto
Before you make a decision create a small (100 - 200 photos) iPhoto library and assign faces and places and keywords and play with it - you may find that you like it
As to duplicates - it make no duplicates - it does have two or three (if you have made any modifications) versions of a photo
iPhoto maintains your original photo unchanged - the digital negative - so you always have it available - it does make a small thumbnail for display and when you modify a photo it keeps one modified version - it uses non destructive editing so each edit goes back to the digital negative eliminating the progressive degradation of an image created by multiple edits in other programs.
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Problems downloading photos into iPhoto

Attached is an example of what is happening to about 10% of the photos I am downloading to iPhoto. I tried 2 different camera and they bath had the same problem. Any ideas?

The problem started when I noticed other problems with my hard drive. I had the hard drive replaced and the problem still exists. I am running OS X Yosemite , 10.10.2. I photo version 9.6. I am shooting raw. When i first set up to download all the pictures look fine. During the download process is when the problem shows up. The first camera I noticed on was my Canon 7D. I just bought the 7D MKii and it is doing the same thing. Like I said, I have used different cards and cables but the problem still exists.

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Hello
Please If anyone out there can help I sure would appreciate the time !
I have been on the phone all day with Mac and cannot seem to get my pictures from my CF Card off my Camera or off My multi card reader.
Have tried everything ! I think ???
I even reinstalled my install discs .
I am new to Mac so please explain thoroughly .
Thank you for your help.

HI Larry
Thanks for your prompt reply and welcoming me to this forum !!
Here are the details :
- NOTHING happens , that's the problem....
- iPhoto does not prompt me in any way to upload photos.
- there is no link on my desktop to click on instead of iPhoto like there usually is if I don't want to use iPhoto to import.
- Nothing happens, even when I pull the connection from my camera or from the card reader , I am not told that I should have "ejected" first.
-I tried image capture several times but that does not work either
-I tried using the other USB port on my laptop and that does not work .
-I have not dragged to folder because there is nothing to drag from .
Basically my laptop is refusing to recognize anything with a CF card attached to it. I did plug in my old external hardrive and my computer recognized that right away. I have tried other CF cards and that does not work .
Kinda pulling my hair out right now , with deadlines and clients waiting and the Mac people not really knowing after 4 hrs. on the phone today with no solution.
I was reading in another forum by "Toadcellar" that I should have iPhoto5 or iPhoto6 installed just in case iPhoto 8 crashes......Is this really true ??
I really dont want to complain but I feel like a juvenile here , with 10 years of PC use and now 2 months on my new Mac and all these problems.....
Anyhooo , chins up and hoping that I find the answer here ...
Thanks you in advance for your help .
PH

If i download my photos into iPhoto does that use up more hard drive space?

If I download my photos into iPhoto does that use up more hard drive space on my mac?

iPhoto and Lightroom are similar apps - although LR is a far more capable app - and that the price it should be, of course. But the two apps are similar in that they both offer
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So, essentially, they both play the same part in the workflow.
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Review and select in the Manager
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It is at this point - and only this point - that Photoshop might come into play. Both of these apps can act as a 'front-end' for Photoshop - after all, they're the Managers. But in truth, if you're using Lightroom then you very likely do not need Photoshop at all, and for anything that does require layers you can use one of the many - much less expensive - alternatives. But I think the common experience is that with Lightroom (like Aperture) the requirement for the sledgehammer that is Photoshop really fades away.
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Ive downloaded my photos into iphoto and cannot find them. I inadvertantly deleted photos from my camera. Any chance to recover or find them?

Ive downloaded my photos into iphoto from my Canon G10 and cannot find them. I inadvertantly deleted photos from my camera. Any chance to recover or find them?

Do they show in "last import" or in photos view?
You give us nothing to go on so we can only make really wild guesses
you may be able to recover them on the camera card using software like media recover
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Abstractman23:
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