More information might be needed here. See if these steps might help.
Go into the finder.
Click on Applications
Click on image capture. (Does your iPhone appear here as a camera?)
If you would like it to sync to iPhoto, in Image Capture go into the preferences.
Click on Image Capture next to the Blue Apple.
Click on preferences
You will see a area in the preferences window that says Camera. You will see a drop down menu and in there if you select iPhoto it should make iphoto open every time the phone is plugged in.
It should still sync in iPhoto if you open the iphoto application. It will be interesting to see if the phone is syncing with Image Capture.
and he was right. i erased some pictures that were fuzzy or duplicates, brought the number of pics down to 280-something and iPhoto then behaved normally.
if you guys were all sober when you took your pictures then you probably won't want to erase as many, best of luck.
Unplug the USB cord from the iPhone cradle, shake it 3 times to exorcise the demons(more than 3 shakes qualifies as a tantrum), then plug it directly into the iPhone.
Worked like magic for me... sometimes you just need to bring a new face into the network negotiation.
I had 368 photos on the iPhone camera roll, and iPhoto wouldn't recognize it. Most of them had already been imported into iPhoto. After reading some of the posts, I deleted those from the camera roll (one by one...), which left 67 new photos to import. I connected the iPhone by usb, iPhoto started up right away and recognized the iPhone. The import went smoothly, and I chose the delete option afterwards, so that no photos would be left in the camera roll.
i literally tried everything up until this post, and it worked!!!!!!! jesus, that was crazy.
i've had to use these boards before, but NEVER as often as for my iphone. i've got a lot of apple products and i'm probably the only mac user in the world who isn't obsessed. but this problem is stupid and i know it could have been avoided. hey apple, stop trying to fix the ringtone hacking issue and pay attention to the features of the phone!
I had the same problem and I read the article about making sure you use the cable that came with the iphone and not one you have laying around from an older ipod. This made it finally work.
I've tried everything listed here so far short of restoring the entire phone. I really don't want to do that. I think my case might be the worst of all. I haven't been able to sync my phone for some time now, hoping the problem would ''magically'' fix or some update would come out or something. I have racked up nearly 1600 pics on my phone now from traveling, and would really prefer not to lose them.
None of the solutions work for me. I've tried image capture, unplugging, using different cables, restarting everything, reopening everything in different order, and iPhone and MacBook software are both up to date.... Nothing works. And for me, it's not just the photos. My phone won't sync at all. iTunes is the only program that recognizes it, but even then, it just says ''Syncing Your iPhone'' as if initializing it, but it never goes pass that.
I don't think I'm the only one still having this problem, so I thought I'd post since so many others seem to have found closure. Where is Apple on this?!!
still no solutions? It's now clear that it's some kind of bug that shows up when you have a large number of photos (200+ ?) on your iphone.
I tried with 3 different macs and my iphone NEVER shows up in iphoto (not even in Image Capture).
I tried resetting iphone, restarting my mac, making sure I have the latest versions of everything, using another cable, following apple's knowledgebase instructions etc and the result is always the same. a friend of mine who has an iphone with only 50-60 pictures could use iphoto with no problems at all.
any clue??
