Can not import photos from iphone in Picasa since iOS 4 update

it seems like a problem in the iOS4 I assume. I hope they come out with a fix soon. imho It shouldn't be something complicated, it has something to do with the thumbnails (as i read that this happened a while ago as well with previous versions of picasa). But i don't think everybody is affected by it, there should've been more fuss about it, after all there must be a lot of people using picasa (over iphoto) as well. I'm using Mac, didn't know people on Windows had the same issue. So it's a iOS4 - Picasa issue.
anyways, I have confident a solution will come soon 😀 until now I was able to import the files via a different way and move them around... so

Still no news apparently. I'm doing some searches quite frequently. I just bumped into a thread on a google support forum. A google employee who's working on picasa posted some information.
He says he has trouble simulating the same problem with similar hw/sw... it seems some users are affected, some others with exact same HW/SW versions.. are not. They are working on a Picasa 3.8 release for Mac which will be released 'soon' he mentioned.. but he couldn't guarantee this was going to fix the problem.

something weird ey. The only thing out of much older posts i found is that a similar error sometimes occurs when png files were mixed with jpg. If you take a screenshot (home button + standby button) with your phone these files are stored as png in the device. but after deleting those I still got the error so...

hope something will come up soon... I'm helping myself by using iphoto to import.. and moving pic's around manually but it's a bit annoying.. almost to the point that i was thinking of switching to iPhoto completely... but after some investigating on that... I'd feel way to cornered by Mac OS and would miss a Folder Structured tree overview... although it does do a random slideshow of your library... picasa?!

this is getting pretty annoying now... it's been 2 months!

wow... I was browsing some more on the web, and on a google thread I found a (temp) solution. Open iphoto and browse the pictures that are on the phone. There will be at least one picture which is not showing up and just showing as a white square (i had 3 in my library of 700 pics) you can import those with iphoto and then remove from iphone. Next time you will open picasa import works fine!! (so it has to do with certain formats of pictures or so, the square were 2 pics I imported via an e-mail and one I shot with the phone itself, i think)

I only found problems when I was using Picasa to import pictures on my iphone to my macbook pro. Never had problems importing with iphoto and ios4.

I wouldn't say it's just an apple problem (unless you can't import with iphoto). It's picasa not accepting a certain format or file from the phone. Although there is something fishy going on, because the pictures/files that cause the problem, also show up as 'empty white squares' in the preview download pane of iphoto. Once those are removed (you don't lose them, iphoto should be able to import them, and then you can view them), everything should work again with picasa.

Google is working on a 3.7 release, which I hope they sort some of these things out. In fact, I find downloading pictures from my iphone to picasa always a bit troublesome. I never delete them on my phone, I just like to update my library on my computer. So the preview thumbnails are quite long (almost 1000 pictures), and they are not all showed correctly, nor are they sorted correctly (per date as picasa suggests). I usually end up selecting the pictures manually with shift-click and download them to a correct folder.

I hope the next iteration of google's picture wizard will have some neat new features (a proper slideshow for your whole collection!!) and updates. cause I don't feel comfortable going to iPhoto all the way.

cheerios

woops... i just found out picasa 3.8 for mac has been released by google more then 2 weeks ago. Just downloading it now and will see what happens...