Iphone photos won't import to iphoto

When I try to import photos from my iPhone I click "import selected photos" and then iPhoto goes to the events menu and my iPhone disappears from the left side. The iPhone still appears in iTunes, so even though it doesn't appear in iPhoto, it is still there in iTunes.
I have tried selecting all photos to import, and a select few, but neither method works. I have also tried Image Capture, but my iPhone doesn't appear in the device list.
I've tried rebooting, and have tried disconnecting my iPhone and then reconnecting it many times. Each time it appears in iPhoto, but disappears as soon as I begin to import.

Try resetting the Phone.
Regards
TD

Similar Messages

Certain photos won't import into iPhoto?

Today I tried to import all of my photos from the past few months into iPhoto from my iPhone 5s. But what I discovered is that all of my pictures from February 21st until May 9th won't import or won't appear in my iPhoto library, but they are obviously still on my phone. All of my pictures from May 9th until now imported, but it's just within that specific time frame that none of those pictures will import and I have absolutely no idea why. I tried rebooting my computer and phone, force quitting iPhoto, selecting only the photos that won't import and trying to import those individually, but nothing is working. Please help, I'm really upset and frustrated.

Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
The title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select
SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages
from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar at the top of the screen.Click the Clear Display icon in the toolbar. Then try the action that you're having trouble with again. Select any messages that appear in the Console window. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.
The log contains a vast amount of information, almost all of which is irrelevant to solving any particular problem. When posting a log extract, be selective. A few dozen lines are almost always more than enough.
Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Please don't post screenshots of log messages—post the text.
Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.

Iphone photos won't import

this has been a problem with two differenent iphones i've owned - i have about 4,400 photos on my iphone, but only about 1,600 will import to my iMac through BOTH iphoto and image capture. all i want is every single photo on my iphone to be backed up as a usable .jpg in it's original file size on my iMac - why does this seem to be impossible for me? i've scoured forums for a similar problem, but have not found myself a fix. in iphoto - the import stalls out at around 2,800 count and just sits there - so alas i only get about 1/3 of my photos.
in image capture, it goes through all the photos and imports "what it wants" i guess, skipping huge chunks of photos, about the same amount as iphoto. i'm beginning to think something is corrupted, or perhaps there is a specific photo or vid that is crashing both applications - if i only get a similar count of photos from two different imports. HELP!!!!

Try transferring them wirelessly with an app like PhotoSync. I haven't noticed any reduction in image size with photos taken on the 4S.

I need help proving the date tag on a photo stored in my iPhoto is from the date it was sent to my iphone/date it was imported into iphoto - and that it is NOT the date the photo was actually taken. Please help!

I need help proving the date tag on a photo stored in my iPhoto is from the date it was sent to my iphone/date it was imported into iphoto - and that it is NOT the date the photo was actually taken. I recieved a photo via text on my iphone and then I synced my iphone to my macbook and now it is in iphoto. I already know that the date on the photo per the tag that shows up on it in iphoto is NOT the date the photo was actually taken. I need article or literature or something confirming the tag is from when it was sent to the iphone and/or when it was imported. I greatly appreciate some assistance!

All I am trying to do is find something on a forum board or article etc stating that the the date showing in iphoto could be the date it was imported or synced or sent to me and not the actual date taken.
The date on the photo could be anything because you can edit the date with iPhoto or any of 100 apps, free and paid for. So, the date on the photo will prove nothing, I'm afraid.
Regards
TD

Files that won't import to iPhoto

I keep encountering files (png and jpeg) that wont' import into iPhoto even though they are fine in all other programs. I am using iPhoto '08 version 7.1.5. Any help would be appreciated. I use iPhoto to organize all my digital scrapbooking supplies, so not being able to import into it is a problem.
Thanks!

Usual reasons why a photo won't import:
Unsupported Colour Profile - iPhoto works with RGB (which is what camera's shoot in) not CYMK or Greyscale
Malformed Metadata on the file - try open it in Preview, Save it, and then import it.
Regards
TD

Photos won't import images from my Canon camera. When connected, program sees the images, tells me it will import the new ones, then freezes once import starts, not allowing any other operation to happen. MacbookPro 15" 2012, OSX Yosemite 10.10.3.

Photos won't import images from my Canon camera. When connected, program sees the images, tells me it will import the new ones, then freezes once import starts, not allowing any other operation to happen. MacbookPro 15" 2012, OSX Yosemite 10.10.3. Any suggestions?

Solution discovered. Faulty connector cable. Tried a different one and it worked.

All my photos have been imported to iPhoto library. Is it safe therefore to delete all photos in the Finder pictures folder? It seems crazy to have them duplicated (all are backed up externally). And are they full size images in iPhoto?

All my photos have been imported to iPhoto library. Is it safe therefore to delete all photos in the finder picture folder? It seems crazy to have them dupllcated ( all are backed up anyway). And are they the full sized images stored in iPhoto?

Assuming you have iPhoto set to the Default setting, then yes, your full sized photos are copied into the iPhoto Library and so you can delete your own stored in the Finder.
Easiest way to check: Select a photo in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Reveal in Finder -> Original. A Finder Window should open with the file selected. Is it stored within the iPhoto Library? You can tell easily in the Finder's column view.
As an FYI:
There are many, many ways to access your files in iPhoto: You can use any Open / Attach / Browse dialogue. On the left there's a Media heading, your pics can be accessed there. Command-Click for selecting multiple pics.
(Note the above illustration is not a Finder Window. It's the dialogue you get when you go File -> Open)
You can access the Library from the New Message Window in Mail:
There's a similar option in Outlook and many, many other apps. If you use Apple's Mail, Entourage, AOL or Eudora you can email from within iPhoto.
If you use a Cocoa-based Browser such as Safari, you can drag the pics from the iPhoto Window to the Attach window in the browser.
If you want to access the files with iPhoto not running:
For users of 10.6 and later: You can download a free Services component from MacOSXAutomation which will give you access to the iPhoto Library from your Services Menu.
Using the Services Preference Pane you can even create a keyboard shortcut for it.
For Users of 10.4 and 10.5 Create a Media Browser using Automator (takes about 10 seconds) or use this free utility Karelia iMedia Browser
Other options include:
Drag and Drop: Drag a photo from the iPhoto Window to the desktop, there iPhoto will make a full-sized copy of the pic.
File -> Export: Select the files in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Export. The dialogue will give you various options, including altering the format, naming the files and changing the size. Again, producing a copy.
Show File: a. On iPhoto 09 and earlier: Right- (or Control-) Click on a pic and in the resulting dialogue choose 'Show File'. A Finder window will pop open with the file already selected. 3.b.
b: On iPhoto 11 and later: Select one of the affected photos in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Reveal in Finder -> Original. A Finder window will pop open with the file already selected.

HT201250 How do I restore photos from Time Machine? All of my photos have been imported within iPhoto and therefore are exported to Time Machine via an iPhoto file. I can't figure out how to break individual photo files out of the iPhoto file. Any idea

How do I restore photos from Time Machine? All of my photos have been imported within iPhoto and therefore are exported to Time Machine via an iPhoto file. I can't figure out how to break individual photo files out of the iPhoto file. Any ideas?

You might post this query on the iPhoto forum and perhaps someone there can provide an answer.
I tried this on my MBP and it seems that you have to restore the entire iPhoto Library. What I did was put the current library in a separate folder on the desktop and then I restored the library from a prior date. If you were to do that, you then could extract the desired photos and then delete the restored library. Then place the current library back to the original location and import the desired photos.
Not tidy but it seems it will work.
Ciao.

IPhone sometimes won't delete all the photos after I import into iPhoto

Every so often, my iPhone 3GS won't delete some photos after importing into iPhoto and choosing "delete originals." It deletes most of the originals but strangely keeps a certain number around. My basic routine is to "Import All" and then "Delete Originals." This works 98% of the time, but sometimes the iPhone just gets hung up and won't delete the originals until I manually do it from the iPhone itself.

I was looking further into this and I found out that on my Macbook Pro's System Preferences. In the iCloud settings, the "Photos" setting was checked and in the Options next to that, the "My Photo Stream" and "Photo Sharing" was also checked.
I think this was the main problem. After I used iTunes to sync with the photos maybe there was some cache settings or something residual left on the iPhone which let to it being continuously restoring.
This is the fix which I used. It is fine now.
Check in System Preferences for - iCloud >> Photos is unchecked.
Check in System Preferences for - iCloud >> Photos >> Options >> "My Photo Stream" and "Photo Sharing" is unchecked.
Temporarily delete account for iCloud settings on iOS device - Settings >> iCloud (This didn't affect my main iCloud account only deleted my information on the device)
Re-sync iOS device with iTunes.
Set up your iCloud account on iOS device again.
Hope this helps for anyone having this problem.

Photos won't import in to iPhoto 9.6 (Yosemite) from iPhone

Anybody seeing issues with importing photos in to the latest version of iPhoto 9.6 (910.29) from an iPhone (iOS 8.0.2)? Seems to get stuck on "Preparing to import".

The iPhoto Library is a disk image located in a shared folder on the HD to provide access even to another user account. The disk image has a size of 21 Gb ... maybe the problem is right there! Only 30 Mb available.
That is your problem. Sharing an iPhoto Library in a Shared folder between users is not supported. If you open the library from a different account the ownership of items inside the library will change and you will have to repair permissions after each write access from a different user account.
The only supported way to share a library is on an external disk or a partition with the "Ignore Ownership" flag set. See this Apple Support document: iPhoto: Sharing libraries among multiple users
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1198
Sorry I missed the "disk image when I read your answer, but the size of the disk image is too small with only 30 MB available. Copy your library to a larger disk partition or a disk image with more storage space.

Scanned photos from photoshop won't import to iphoto

I rescanned some photos, the firsts were fuzzy, through photoshop. I saved as a jpeg file to a file on my computer but it won't let me import those to iphoto. I thought first it was because I saved them under the same file name, so opened photoshop, found the photos and saved under a new name. Still cannot import. Then I thought it may be due to the pictures already existing on iphoto, so deleted those, still with no luck.
Please help.

Baby Jake
Not so: iPhoto can work with any format supported by QuickTime. From the iPhoto help:
iPhoto: About Compatible File Types
This document discusses which image file types are compatible with iPhoto.
Importing to iPhoto
iPhoto can import photos saved in any format recognized by QuickTime, including:
BMP
GIF
JPEG/JFIF
MacPaint
PICT
PNG
Photoshop (with layers)\
SGI
Targa
FlashPix
TIFF
Files used by iPhoto
Any edited or rotated GIF images are saved in JPEG (.jpg) format. Any other file type, or unedited GIFs, retain their original file type.
Regards
TD

IPhone photos won't go onto Mac with iPhoto

I need some photos on my iPhone put onto my Mac.
I usually connect my iPhone into the USB cable which connects to the Mac.
I then open iPhoto on the Mac.
iPhoto then loads the iPhone's photos.
Now, iPhoto says loading... and nothing happens. No iPhone photos load.
Any help please?

Launch Image capture from your applications folder. Does Image capture see these photos? If so, import them using Image capture, then drop them in iPhoto. Make sure you delete them from your phone after you import.

IPhone pics won't import on Photos

My photos won't upload my pictures from my iphone... i plug my phone in and click import all but it stays like that for over an hour and nothing has imported?

Download iCloud Control Panel and enbale iCloud on your iPhone and turn on Photo Stream
iCloud Control Panel Download:
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1455
iCloud: Photo Stream:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4486

I created a new Lightroom catalog for iPhone photos. After importing files from iPhoto photos are randomly popping up and deleting other photos! Is this a virus? A bug? A corrupt catalog? How do I fix it? I just installed 5.6 and that didn't resolve it.

I updated my computer software...I don't know what else to do and I can't find any information about this online.
Please help! Thanks.

Geoff for a few years I used iPhoto for my iPhone files.
Now that I am not using iPhoto any longer I attempted to move my old iPhoto phone files into my Lightroom iPhone catalog.
A couple possibilities are that:
1) There was a problem with the export/import from iPhoto to Lightroom. I've been reading up on how to do it correctly...
One article said to make a copy of the master catalog in iPhoto, export it and then import it into Lightroom. This is what I did.
I read another article that said exporting as Original from iPhoto and then importing into LR also worked so I did that with another iPhone catalog from my laptop.
2) Maybe it's a file name situation? Perhaps the phone rolled over and there are old and new files with the same names.
The strange thing about that is that older photos are popping up and replacing/deleting newer ones.
I would think the newer files would replace older ones if that was the case.
Any thoughts? Suggestions? Thanks.

Photos won't import

Connected my iphone to sycnronize with itunes.
itunes/iphone did not recongnize device
Opened up image capture. Unplugged phone and re-plugged it and then device showed up in image capture.
Attemped to go through the process to pull photos off phone and import into iphoto.
iphoto pulled all photos successfully - I clicked "delete photos" from device after import. Photos sucessfuly deleted from phone.
Closed image capture
When back into iPhoto. When I clicked on "import photos" it would bounce to the "last import" screen and then an error message popped up that said jpg file is unrecgonizable. I tried several times. Even tried deleting photos that it highlighted as unrecognizable to no avail. Finally go frustrated and disconnected device and now the photos are gone. :-(
Are they gone gone? It looks like icloud did a back-up last night. If I restore my phone to the back-up on icloud will the pictures come back to camera roll?
How do I get them to import correctly?
I'm sick over this! Thanks!

Can you drag them to the Clips Pane? Sometimes the Timeline is fussy and won't import, but the Clips Pane should.
Are they accessible from the Media Pane in iMovie?
Do the photos function correctly inside iPhoto? Specifically, can you view them at full size, and will they open for editing?

Iphone photos won't import to iphoto

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for