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Q: iPhoto Yosemite duplicates Photos while importing from iPhone

Hi guys,

I have one open issue, with iPhone after Yosemite upgrade: if I connect my iPhone 5s and import pictures, I find a new event but all the imported photos are duplicated.

It's very annoying because I have to remove them manually and I wonder why it happens.

Before Yosemite, everything was working fine.

 

Thanks for support.

My iPhone release is 9.6 (build 910.29)

 

Kind Regards,

francesco

iMac, iOS 8.1

Posted on Nov 10, 2014 10:27 AM

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  • by Terence Devlin,Helpful

    Terence Devlin Terence Devlin Mar 22, 2015 12:27 PM in response to endoman67
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    Mar 22, 2015 12:27 PM in response to endoman67

    People have dealt with this in two main ways

     

    1. make sure you've have the camera app open on the phone when you connect

     

    or

     

    2. Connect the phone. When the duplicates appear, disconnect it and reconnect it again

  • by Marimon8,

    Marimon8 Marimon8 Mar 24, 2015 7:55 AM in response to léonie
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    Mar 24, 2015 7:55 AM in response to léonie

    I have exact same problem!!!

    Every time I plug my iPhone to the computer it downloads every single photo, at least, double. And afterwards I have to delet them manually, which its a pain because it takes me like 2hs every time!!!

     

    Please, what to do???

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Mar 24, 2015 8:53 AM in response to Marimon8
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    Mar 24, 2015 8:53 AM in response to Marimon8

    Have you tried the solutions above, that TD mentioned? Open the Camera.app before connecting the iPhone, to prevent the Photo Stream photos from being show, or disconnecting the iPhone again, when duplicates appear?

     

    If that does not solve it, you may have HDR enabled. Then all or many photos will show twice, once the HDR versioning once the normal JPEG, if you have the option enabled "Keep normal version" in your Photos.app.

  • by Marimon8,

    Marimon8 Marimon8 Mar 24, 2015 10:36 AM in response to léonie
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    Mar 24, 2015 10:36 AM in response to léonie

    Yeah, I have tried everything possible. I went through all my settings and I ended up downloading "Photo Sweeper", so far its working very good. However I would much rather not having to use it every time honestly...!

  • by LarryHN,

    LarryHN LarryHN Mar 24, 2015 10:45 AM in response to Marimon8
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    Mar 24, 2015 10:45 AM in response to Marimon8

    I have tried everything possible.

     

    In that case the only answer is that it is impossible to resolve  since there are no more possibilities to try

     

    LN

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Mar 24, 2015 11:06 AM in response to Marimon8
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    Mar 24, 2015 11:06 AM in response to Marimon8

    If all fails, disconnect your iPhone, put your iPhone in Airplane mode, wait a few minutes, then connect again. That should prevent any cloud communication for sure.

  • by charlie_ve,

    charlie_ve charlie_ve Apr 7, 2015 7:51 PM in response to Terence Devlin
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    Apr 7, 2015 7:51 PM in response to Terence Devlin

    following your advice I did this and worked:

     

    1. connect iphone

    2. open itunes and select iphone on the left tab (shows all photos twice= duplicate problem)

    3. open the camera app on the iphone

    4. unplug the usb cable without hesitation

    5. leaving the camera app open plug back the iphone into your computer using the usb cable.

    6. iphoto now shows only one image for each photo that needs to be imported (problem solved)

  • by leoniejoy,

    leoniejoy leoniejoy Apr 8, 2015 2:49 AM in response to mdccalvo
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    Apr 8, 2015 2:49 AM in response to mdccalvo

    Thank you so much, this worked for me it was sooooo  annoying when it was duplicating every photo, Thank you.

  • by Caitlinem,

    Caitlinem Caitlinem Apr 8, 2015 8:28 AM in response to Marimon8
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    Apr 8, 2015 8:28 AM in response to Marimon8

    The solution of plugging the phone in and having iPhoto open, then don't start to import the pics, just unplug the phone, then plug it in again. The duplicates are gone. Yes, we shouldn't have to do this, but it works! And it's much less painful then having to go through and weed out the duplicates on our own!

  • by elbenoit,

    elbenoit elbenoit Apr 8, 2015 10:42 AM in response to pontix
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    Apr 8, 2015 10:42 AM in response to pontix

    I have this annoying problem too.

     

    I use Photostream so most of my photos have already been imported to the Mac by the time I plug my phone in.

     

    I mainly plug in to import movies, which are all duplicated on import.

     

    Has anyone tried the new Photos app to see if this is fixed there?

  • by anuravi,

    anuravi anuravi Apr 18, 2015 5:44 AM in response to Terence Devlin
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    Apr 18, 2015 5:44 AM in response to Terence Devlin

    2nd Option helped. Thanks!

     

    Ravi

  • by Cristal.J,

    Cristal.J Cristal.J May 27, 2015 4:30 PM in response to pontix
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    May 27, 2015 4:30 PM in response to pontix

    I FIXED IT!

     

    1 Open Iphoto

    2 Click Preferences

    3 Click Advanced

    4 and then unclick where it says (Importing: Copy items to the Iphoto Library)

    THAT WILL FIX YOUR PROBLEM!

  • by Terence Devlin,

    Terence Devlin Terence Devlin May 27, 2015 10:29 PM in response to Cristal.J
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    May 27, 2015 10:29 PM in response to Cristal.J

    Not sure what problem you're trying to fix here, but that's not a fix for the issue in this thread. It can also lead to dataloss, so you really need to explain to people that, should they use your suggestion, they need to entirely rethink how they manage their photos. I cannot stress this enough. Simply unchecking that box without re-working your entire way of using iPhoto will lead to significan t dataloss.

     

    For more on iPhoto and file management see this User Tip:

     

    https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-6361

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie May 27, 2015 11:32 PM in response to Cristal.J
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    May 27, 2015 11:32 PM in response to Cristal.J
    THAT WILL FIX YOUR PROBLEM!

    That will add an even bigger problem.  If you really did this, fix it by consolidating your library.

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