Having trouble syncing photos
Just got the iPhone 4 and am not able to sync photos to my mac. I actually never was able to with my 3g either, but just didn't care before.. but now it's really bothering me! When I plug in my phone to sync, the photos I've taken since last sync do not automatically load onto my computer. I tried to make a folder in iphoto called "iphone sync" and clicked in itunes to "sync photos from selected album" then click that album. but each time i plug in, i have to go into iphoto and click "import" and do it that way. i KNOW there has to be an easier way to have this done automatically.
now that i've messed with it, instead of just 1 folder in photos on my phone, i now have THREE. my created folder as well as "camera roll" and "photo library." anyone know the diff between those last two?
also, in "camera roll" all photos are the correct orientation, but in all other folders (my "iphone sync" folder and "photo library") the orientation is incorrect on many photos (landscape photos are portrait and vice versa).
any tips would be greatly appreciated. i tried searching online but am having a lot of trouble and can't seem to figure it out. i'm running an old version of iphoto, not sure if that's the reason. it's 4.0.3.
I believe you are looking at the process in the wrong way. Plugging your iPhone into iTunes will not trigger an "automatic loading" of pictures on your computer. Photos that are in the Camera Roll of your iPhone, ones that you have taken with the camera on the iPhone are "imported" to the computer. I'm not exactly sure how it works with a Mac and iPhoto, however you should be prompted to import the photos and they will be moved to the computer. With a Windows machine, they are defaulted to the Pictures folder.
You mention creating a folder on the computer and telling iTunes to sync the folder you created. However, if there are no pictures there, they will not get synced. Expecting the pictures to go to the newly created folder from the iPhone is not the correct assumption. This is not how it works.
The 3 folders that you speak of on the phone are correct. The camera roll just holds pictures taken with the iPhone, Photo libraray is the default location for photos synced from the computer, and the created folders are the ones that are synced from the computer. Think of the Photo library like you would a public library. It holds all of the photos that you have synced from the computer. The individual folders that you have created hold just the photos that you have put in those particular folders. There are not physically two copies of your photos, just that you can look at all photos from Photo Library, but just the ones in the particular folder if you select that folder.
Hope that helps your understanding.
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