Q: Importing from Photos missing many photos
When i plug in my iphone to my MacBook Pro, the app photos pops up to import photos. Great, this is what I want! I just want all the photo files in a folder where I can plug it into Picasa, which is simultaneously a location I backup from, etc. I don't mind duplicates, but I don't want to miss anything.
But when I go to the import tab, it shows my iphone but there are only 42 "New Photos" to import. My phone lists 610 photos under "All Photos". I want to re-import all of these to make sure I didn't miss any. I know some are duplicates, I will sort that out later with other techniques. But I can find only these 42 random photos that it thinks are new.. where di the rest go!? Reboot of both mac and phone didn't change anything.
The history of where I've imported photos from this phone previously is complicated. Probably I got confused at one point and abandoned an import part way, etc. (so many apps to try to do this.. photos, previously iphoto, sometimes iCloud, sometimes AirDrop, .... oh my). And I've definately imported to a PC many times to clear the phone's memory which I cannot do this time due to access restrictions on that computer. So that part is my fault.
Is there a way to "reset" which photos are seen on this phone as new by Photos app? I've googled endlessly for this solution, which seems only to show solutions for PCs where I delete .db files. But no solutions I've seen worked for the mac and the memory is getting full.
MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6), iphone 6s 9.3.5
Posted on Sep 30, 2016 2:27 PM
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