IPhoto not detecting iPhone 3gs

1. iPhoto isn't detecting my iPhone so i can't get my photos off the phone onto my computer.
2. read previous discussion about deleting pictures off iPhone from emails or web that were saved to it. did that and still no love.
3. in previous discussion it told me to open image capture and tell prefs to look for iPhoto when plugging in a camera.
(a.) there is not a "prefs" drop down on image capture shrug
I know this is probably something really simple. would be quite appreciative of the help.
thanks for listening.

You're welcome.
With the OS X and iPhoto version you are using, the option you mentioned is available at iPhoto > Preferences under the General tab. Under the General tab at "Connecting Camera Opens" is where you can select No Application, iPhoto, or Image Capture. This is for automatically launching your selected application only when a digital camera is connected. This does not automatically import photos - this launches the selected application only if not launched when a digital camera is connected. This has nothing to do with your iPhone not being detected as a digital camera by iPhoto.
3,273 photos? Wow, and you've never imported any of these photos by iPhoto - this is the first time you've tried doing this? That is a lot of photos. As with any other digital camera, photos captured by your iPhone should be imported on a regular basis for a number of reasons - with this being one of them. This also increases your iPhone's backup time with iTunes, which is updated as the first step during the iTunes sync process.
Photos in your iPhone's Camera Roll are included with your iPhone's backup. There are some 3rd party paid utilities that provide for extracting these photos from your iPhone's backup on your Mac. I'll check for some and report back unless someone here beats me to it.
If you are able to extract these photos from your iPhone's backup on your computer, I suggest restoring your iPhone with iTunes as a new iPhone or not from your iPhone's backup and in the future import photos captured by your iPhone on a regular basis - once a week at least followed by deleting the photos from your iPhone's Camera Roll after the import process is complete. iPhoto includes this option after importing photos from any digital camera.
If I want any of the photos I recently imported followed by being deleted from the Camera Roll available on my iPhone for viewing, I add the photos to a new iPhoto album in iPhoto. I select this album under the Photos tab for my iPhone sync preferences followed by a sync.
I'll check for some 3rd party utilities that allow for extracting photos from your iPhone's backup.

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