Import Error---Lost Photos?

I used "Image Capture" for first time with A3. I selected "delete photos" after import to clear iPhone HD space. After waiting for 650 items to import an error message popped up saying not all could be imported and said to go to a "finder folder" but link did not work. I closed out hoping that finding the image capture folder would not be to difficult, but I cannot find it.
Can someone help?
jbs

So you were doing the import with +Image Capture+ not Aperture correct? Not sure if there is an discussion group for +Image Capture+ but you may want to look.
I haven't used +Image Capture+ to import from cameras but one thing to do would be to look at the iPhone and see if the images are still there. Most capture software won't do the delete until the transfer is complete. So if the transfer failed there is a good chance the images are still on the iPhone.
An other thing to try is to use Finder and search for the folder it told you to go to or search for the name of one of the image files from the iPhone.
650 images on one download seems like a lot. Did the iPhone go into energy saving mode or power off while the transfer was going on? You may want to limit the size of transfers in the future.

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