Moving or copying photos
I am all thumbs with iphoto and want to get a bunch of photos from my iphone 5 over to hard disk. Is there another way to copy them rather than using iphoto?
I also want to delete the copies photos from my phone, but they seem to make it back after a sync.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks.
I have no idea what your issue is
When you import photos from the iPhone into iPhoto you can delete the photos from the phone
In iPhoto you can delete photos by dragging them from an event to the iPhoto trash and emptying the iPhoto trash and the system trash. This has no effect on the source photos on the iPhone
You first say you want to move photos from the phone to disk. Now you say you want to delete photos on the phone
Please clearly tell us what you are trying to accomplish
LN
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Found it. Hold down the Command Key while dragging.
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You could try trashing the preferences.
Many weird things happen as a result of corrupt preferences which can create a vast range of different symptoms, so whenever FCP X stops working properly in any way, trashing the preferences should be the first thing you do using this free app.
http://www.digitalrebellion.com/prefman/
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2. Click Trash
The job is done instantly and you can re-open FCP X.
There is absolutely no danger in trashing preferences and you can do it as often as you like.
The preferences are kept separately from FCP X and if there aren't any when FCP X opens it automatically creates new ones . . . instantly. -
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Does iPhoto copy photos into the iPhoto library or move them in?
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Would there be anything in iPhoto that it may not have copied?
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TD -
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http://owl.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/
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