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Nov 11, 2010 9:40 PM in response to mcs37by Craig Stanton,Have you tried using Disk Utility to fix permissions? My iPhoto was stuck like yours and that fixed most of it. I still can't sync with Facebook but I can import from SD cards and my iPhone -
Nov 12, 2010 11:30 AM in response to mcs37by Jan Martin Kuitert,same here, would be nice to know how to solve this,
i don't have a backup and every time i start iphoto the same spinning indefinetly
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Nov 14, 2010 12:54 PM in response to mcs37by mcs37,I haven't used disk utility but that doesn't seem like a very Apple design workflow:
1) Launch iPhoto
2) Hook up your iPhone
3) Launch Disk Utility
4) Click Device -> Permissions -> Edit
5) Change permissions to xyz
6) Click Apply
7) Return to iPhoto
8) Unplug your iPhone
9) Plug your iPhone back in
10) Use iPhoto
What's bizarre is that it works sometimes and then not other times. It seems like this would be a very standard use case, and it's not like I'm on old hardware. My MBP is under 12 months old, I'm on the latest Snow Leopard, and I'm using an iPhone 4 on the latest software with the latest version of iPhoto. -
Nov 21, 2010 10:34 PM in response to mcs37by Swaabi,I have had exactly the same issue and found the answer in Apple support article TA24412 (http://support.apple.com/kb/TA24412) headed "Unimported photos found in library when iphoto is launched"
Basically it is saying to move the "import" folder from the iphoto library folder to the desktop and then relaunch iphoto and try importing again.
The import process creates this folder and then deletes it when it is finished. If for some reason it is not deleted, it thinks it has already imported the current photos.
This worked for me. So hopefully it will fix your issue also.
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Jul 8, 2014 7:56 PM in response to mcs37by rohtakdev,★HelpfulI was able to solve this issue by doing a "Force Quit" (using Activity Monitor) )of iPhoto app and then restarting it. When you restart it's going to import the photos stuck somehow and get over with it.
Hope this helps someone.
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Oct 25, 2014 9:40 AM in response to rohtakdevby Brian Glover,The "Force Quit" solution worked for me as well. I could not locate an Import folder.
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Feb 18, 2015 4:54 PM in response to Swaabiby mlowickr,Hi, would you help me find the import folder? I've tried everything and nothing works, I'm going nuts! Thanks!!!!
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Feb 18, 2015 7:55 PM in response to mlowickrby LarryHN,right click on the iPhoto library and show package contents - make no other changes as they will damage the iphoto library if yo do
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May 4, 2015 6:57 PM in response to mcs37by volleysyd,what do you do if you don't have a disk utility or am i just not seeing it help me please!!!!
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May 4, 2015 10:25 PM in response to volleysydby Terence Devlin,Disk Utility is a standard part of every OS X install. It's in your Applications folder.
However, that fix is now 4.5 years old, refers to a much older version of the OS, iPhoto and the iPhone and its OS. You might be best to seek a fix that's more up-to-date.
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Jul 19, 2016 6:18 AM in response to mcs37by Tracey2914,I had the same problem. I tried some of the things that were posted here but nothing worked. In the end the thing that did work was unplugging and turning off my iphone. Turning off the computer by pressing and holding down the button at the back of my iMac until it turned off. I waited a minute then turned it back on. A box came up with the words 'iphoto detected a problem' and to press 'Repair' button on the screen. I pressed the 'Repair' button and it immediately went into 'Repairing Library Database' mode which took about 20 minutes (maybe because I have 23,000 photos on my computer). That did it...all is well!
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Jul 19, 2016 6:24 AM in response to Terence Devlinby Csound1,Terence Devlin wrote:
Disk Utility is a standard part of every OS X install. It's in your Applications folder.
However, that fix is now 4.5 years old, refers to a much older version of the OS, iPhoto and the iPhone and its OS. You might be best to seek a fix that's more up-to-date.
Sorry to be persnickerty but I think you will find that Disk Utility is in the applications/utilities folder, and the fix is still old (older in fact)
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Jul 19, 2016 11:07 AM in response to Csound1by Terence Devlin,By all means be persnickerty in a timely manner. What's fourteen months between friends?