I (purposely) never transitioned from iPhotos to Photos. Other than the entirely artificial, Apple-inflicted loss of the ability to delete iPhone photos after importing them into iPhoto (now I just do it by hand), everything has worked fine.
Recently, I took a 3:37 video with my iPhone, which doesn't sound long but is much longer than I am I the habit of taking. , Tonight, I plugged in my iPhone to the USB port and opened iPhoto to upload the photos. iPhoto just says Apple iPhone New Photos loading… forever, and nothing else. I figure, maybe it's the big video jamming the pipe somehow. So I quit iPhoto and open Image Capture. It says, "Please unlock 'Apple iPhone.'" Note that the phone is NOT locked. I've plugged and unplugged the cord, quit and relaunched both apps, started with the phone locked and unlocked, and rebooted the phone. Nothing changes. I've even deleted the unlock passcode from my phone so there isn't one… I still get the above messages. One other detail that looks wrong here is that I'm pretty sure these apps used to identify the NAME of the phone (Macs R We's iPhone) instead of "Apple iPhone," but they aren't now. I've verified on my iPhone that that is still the name of my iPhone. Something evil is going on here, and I don't know where to stab it. I did find an antique copy of DiskAid (for iPhone) in my Applications folder. It didn't even recognize when the device was plugged in, but suggested I upgrade to the replacement package, iMazing. iMazing detected the actual name of my phone, and let me export the photos to a folder. It offered to delete the photos after downloading, and it thinks it's doing it, but nothing is happening. Also, it transferred the video as .MOV, but iPhoto won't import it and QuickTime Player and QuickTime Player 7 both refuse to play it (VLC will play it, though). Things are pretty punk when Apple's software screws the pooch completely, but a third-party package gets most of the job done. _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
