IPhoto doesn't accept my iPhone photos.

I have an iPhone 4s and an iMac whith the new iPhoto, when I sicronized it it tells me that it can not be read by iPhoto becasue of its format, what can I do?

Close itunes and try.
Sometimes iTunes tried to access the iPhone at the same time and that it what causes issues.
There is a great app built into OSX that is rarely used but great to get photos off cameras or iPhones.
Look for Image Capture in your apps folder.
This can grab the photos and video off easily and much faster then iPhoto.
You could also use a wifi transfer app, wifi photo transfer is a great app that I use all the time.
Look at which photo or video is giving you the problem, and you could download just that one via Wifi Photo Transfer, and then delete it off the iPhone.
Then try with iPhoto again.

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