My iphone photos are locked!

I can not figure out how to get my photos off my iphone except to email them to myself.  I used to be able to sync them with my old mac desktop (2009)  but that doesn't work anymore. 
When I tried to use window's live photogallery - it recognizes that the apple iphone camera is connected to import but says the device is locked.  when I used windows media player - it says there are no photos.  ( there are >4000 photos on my phone.). 
it is also too big to download to my dropbox account now.
my phone doesn't seem to be locked in any other way - and i can't find setting on the phone to unlock it. 
I think it is a Iphone 4 -- or 3 -- I got the phone in 2011.  I have not updated the operating system.
I plan to get a new phone soon - but I don't want to loose my pictures!
Advice?
thanks so much.

Another option to try would be the sections titled "Copy the photos to your computer using Windows Explorer" in Windows 8, 7, or XP sections of iOS: Import personal photos and videos from iOS devices to your computer
There are some other ideas in iOS: Unable to import photos to computer

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