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iphoto not recognizing iphone?

I cant get iphone to download photos not even an option in iphoto.

imac g5, Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Posted on Aug 5, 2007 4:51 PM

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Posted on Aug 6, 2007 7:00 AM

Akaynyc,

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.
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Aug 6, 2007 7:00 AM in response to akaynyc

Akaynyc,

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.

Aug 16, 2007 9:21 PM in response to akaynyc

I'm having the exact same problem! HELP! I just took about 300 photos in Las Vegas this week and now my computer will not recognize the iphone in iphoto so I have no way of getting the pictures off of the phone!

iPhoto does not recognize that my iPhone is attached, I then opened up Image Capture and it says "no image capture device connected." I'm also running software version 1.0.1 which should have fixed this problem as I understand. Everything else works fine including all of the sync functions for music, movies, etc. in iTunes, it's just the photo capture device not being recognized that's the problem.

Aug 20, 2007 8:08 AM in response to perelectra

Here is what I did and it worked...
desconnected the iphone -> reset the iphone (Pressing home+sleep untill the apple logo comes up...
restart the computer them conecting the iphone. them made sure that on itunes once it loaded, the photos tab on the iphone was set to open iphoto...
and it worked..
It lounched iphoto

hope it helps..

Aug 20, 2007 6:25 PM in response to pimentel

No, this did not help.

I have not been able to sync any photos from my iphone to iphoto at all. The program will not recognize the device. Image Capture has not recognized the device.

I also have the 1.0.1 firmware update for the iphone device.

I have reset the device, unplugged the device, restarted the computer, reconnected and nothing.

I am using a BRAND NEW Intel G5 tower 2x2 Ghz Dual-Core Intel Xeon.

This just does not add up. If I am told I have to buy iLife 08 for this to work, I will flip some S *. Why in the world this device does not work as a simple portable hard drive like an ipod, I will never know. Instead I have to sync information and files, which is some seriously backwards mentality.

Oh by the way, I can sync the photo albums from iphoto to the phone, but not the other way around. Completely mind-numbing.

Aug 20, 2007 7:55 PM in response to akaynyc

Same, same. All tried, though I'm experimenting with order of steps. And it DID work to begin with — with old iPhoto, before all this. Obviously there's a problem — if anybody hears of a fix, or if anybody from Apple is reading, we're dying out here — and there are a lot of pictures on my phone (the emailed ones are, in the end, very unsatisfying).

Aug 22, 2007 5:26 AM in response to perelectra

I had same problem. Updated software for iPhoto and iPhone, but I still got no download connection. Then with iPhoto opened and the iPhone on I simply disconnected the USB cord from the computer and reconnected -- voila, iPhoto went to work and recognized my iPhone. This reconfirmed my long-standing belief that computers and software are 50 percent science and 50 percent magic -- with the magic part being benevolent about half the time and malevolent the rest!

Aug 24, 2007 11:05 AM in response to perelectra

Same problem here, photo sync used to work fine, stopped all of a sudden. I wanted to sync before the 1.0.2 update just in case, and I had about 200 photos outstanding. Plugged in phone, not recognized in iPhoto or image capture. Rebooted mac (G5 dual), reset iPhone, plugged in again, nothing. There were a couple of timeouts on the USB bus in the log that looked suspicious.

I was now at the "grasping at straws" stage, so I grabbed the USB cable that was included in the iPhone box and tried that (I had been using the USB cable that came with an iPod). This was -really- grasping at straws and really hoping for magic, since the phone with the other cable was working fine syncing with iTunes....just not the photos.

So unplugged the old cable, used the new one, and it worked. Freaky. To double-verify, I went back to the iPod cable, and it also worked now. Double freaky.

So, who knows. But it might be worth a shot to try the original cable if you're using a different one. Switching USB ports maybe would help as well? Or just plug it in, leave it for a few seconds, and then unplug both ends of the cable and plug it back. Nothing makes much sense, but these activities apparently fixed it for me.

Aug 24, 2007 5:32 PM in response to Mark Qandil

This seems to be a larger problem, just to add my two cents worth I have a number of photo's on my iphone which will not sync with Aperture, the last time I tried it took forever to update at which point Aperture stated they were an unidentified format.

They are family photos which I have no intention of losing. Everything was working fine until I installed the update.

I'm running Imac with all the latest updates.

Hopefully a firmware update is on the way

Aug 24, 2007 5:42 PM in response to Ashaan

I also have the same exact problem.

I have iPhoto (07) and it did not recognize, I downgraded and update it to iPhoto 6.0.6 and it did not work either. Image Capture did not detect it at all, only iTunes.

I have my iPhone updated to 1.0.2 all this time.

I can sync photos from iTunes from my iPhoto album to the iPhone, but not from the iPhone to my iPhoto, or the computer in any way.

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