Iphoto can't import photos from iphone

Trying to import photos from my iPhone 4s like I do all the time and get this message: iPhoto cannot import your photos because there was a problem downloading an image.
What is the problem?

OK got it working. Quit iphoto twice. Unplugged iphone, plugged back in and now it works. Sheesh!

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Hi - using a MBP 2.2, Leopard, iLife 08 and an 8gb iPhone. iPhoto used to import photos from the iPhone no problem - now it won't import it at all. Says it's an unreadable file (though a normal jpg).
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I have this problem now. I have MacOS 10.5.1, iPhoto '08, and iPhone running 1.1.2.
In my "camera roll" on the iPhone are 260 photos, all the pics I have taken since I got the phone. I imported some of them weeks ago with no problems into iPhoto. But now iPhoto can't import anything from the iPhone.
iPhoto does know there are photos on the phone, because there is set of blank thumbnail squares that I can select to import. When I look at the photo info, I can see the file name, size, date, but all the other info is missing or incorrect. It doesn't have camera maker or model. Most worrying though is the height and width of the pictures are zero.
I am thinking that there is some cache file on the phone that got corrupted somehow. Resetting to factory settings might help, but I really don't want to lose all the photos that I took from the holidays.
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Hi ..
You can use the Image Capture app located in your Applications folder to import photos from iOS devices to iPhoto.
Help here > Using a camera with your Mac - Apple Support
iOS devices are not recognized by the Finder.

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Hello Everybody.
I just wondered why my iPhoto can't delete the photos from my iPhone 6.
When i have imported the photos from the iPhone, i get the opportunity to delete photos from iPhone device, but when i press delete nothing happends on my iPhone, and all the photo's are still in the camera roll.
My mac and iPhone 6 is running the latest version of iOS and Yosemite.
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Try restarting your Mac and the phone
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Hold down the option (or alt) key key and launch iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Create Library'
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Option 1
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Option 2
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IMG_0001.JPG.
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Amend to my post!
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If i try to do a batch import, it says there's a problem downloading an image. If I try to import one image, it says the file is in an recognizable format. It's a jpg.
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When googling the error number, the second and last result (your post is the first) on http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=946758&page=8 says :
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After doing some digging around i found this old (2006) response from the apple threads:
REFRESH PHONE
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It worked like a charm"
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I am using Iphone 5 running IOS 8.1.2.
I recently connected my Iphone to my friends windows laptop to import the photos and videos.
I observed a strange behaviour. I was able to import photos even when my Iphone was locked with passcode.
Can anyone explain me why and when can this happen?
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For importing photos I right clicked on my iphone in windows explorer and selected "Import photos and videos" contextual command.
I didn't open it to see DCIM folder.
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I don't know when this started. I'm not much of an iPhone photographer, so I don't normally have pics to import from it. But I now it use to work.
It has to be something about how the Mac sees the iPhone device. Something screwy there. Anyone have any input?
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Iphoto can't import photos from iphone

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