HT1349 Suddenly both my husband and I cannot import photos from our iPhones (4) to our Mac (10.6.8) - error unrecognisable file - these files are .jpg. I have tried importing using Image Capture - same error.

I had a thought about any changes we may have both made recently - in The Camera settings we turned HDR off - because we had 2 images of the same photo.
Maybe the import is failing because of the duplicates

I've managed to fix this.
After 3 attempts, Image Capture (instead of iPhoto) was finally able to pull my photos/video off my iPhone. There were a few shots missing, I'm guessing those were the "corrupt" ones. No idea how or why I could end up with corrupt images, the only shots on my phone were ones that I'd taken with my phone.
After that, I opened up Photos on my iPhone, selected every photo and every video and deleted them all.
Then I took a couple shots with the phone, re-opened iPhoto, and everything seemed to work dandy.
Still. Lame.

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