iphoto corrupting photos from iPhone while importing

FWIW, I may have found somthing on this...

I've had this problem for quite a while, and always recopying individual pictures resolved the individual problems. Last night, I did a huge picture transfer (>1000 pictures) via Image Capture from my iPhone 4S, and had a number of these corrupted files, plus a number of larger video files that would not copy over. Instead of going through the tedious process of finding each of the corrupted files, I used the app "DiskAid" (free version) and recopied all of the pictures and videos directly from the phone to a different drive location, and everything seems to have come across clean. The only difference that I can figure is the use of the DiskAid app (by the way, this is NOT an advertisement for that program!!), and the fact that I transferred the files to a drive which was connected directly to my iMac, rather than a network attached storage disk. Maybe this problem has something to do with Image Capture or iPhoto trying to store the picture files to a network drive and running into transfer speed issues?

iPhoto trying to store the picture files to a network drive

Not sure what you are saying here but be aware that the iPhoto library must be on a volume formatted Mac OS extended (journaled) - if you have your library on a NAS then that is very likely to be the problem

LN

i have had the same problem when syncing from iphone to iphoto

i discovered i was allowing to sync via wifi

i switched off this option in itunes

now it seems ok

Hi I just wanted you all to know I've experienced the same problem.

once in January 2013, videos were corrupted (color blocks, pixelated etc.) from an iPhone 4s combined with the latest version of iPhoto running for Lion

And once today, using a DSLR, Sony alpha 330, on my grandmother's desktop computer (snow leopard) who wanted me to transfer pictures I'd taken of her with her horse. The pictures appeared just fine on the camera preview, but when I tried transfering them, some appeared corrupt on the computer, along with a number of pictures that were declared too corrupt to import. I tried again to no avail.

Then I tried doing it on my laptop, which is running on Lion, with the same results. It's at that point that I noticed that iPhoto had actually corrupted the pictures on the darn SD card. All the ones that had come up weird (color blocks/lines etc.) were now pixelated on the camera with some of them not appearing at all for it was unable to read the file.

This is a serious problem for me as I partially make a living as a semi-pro photographer, I highly doubt it's the card, because it's one of the most stable and reliable ones on the market, and it is specific to sony even.

Unlikely. iPhoto never writes to the card, so I don't see how it could corrupt the images on it. Also, what you see in the camera is not your photo, but a tiny preview of it written to the file by the camera. You may doubt it's the card but any card can suffer directory damage. When's the last time you reformatted it?

Blimey, nearly three years later, OS X Mavericks and this issue still persists. My iMac i5 and iPhone 4s still seeing these corrupt images on iPhoto import.

Any one have a fix for this? Apple clearly aren't bothered...

Thanks

Blimey did you read the thread?

Haha, indeed I did Terence.

Some interesting approaches there, but it seems like everyone has been trying workarounds while Apple ignore the issue. Would really like to avoid having to rebuild my 200GB+ iPhoto library.

What worked for you?

Thanks

1. I never had the problem.

2. Apple addressed the issue with an update.

3. You are free to wait for a further update if you so wish, but given that neither Mavericks nor iPhoto are in development any longer you might be disappointed.

4. Therefore you just might need to address the issue yourself. If you do, start by sharing the version of the OS, iOS and iPhoto that you have.

Apple didn't do a very good job addressing that update cause it just happened to me an hour ago.

For this information to have any benefit you need to tell us the version of iPhoto and the OS you are using. I would note that there hasn't been a report of this since... 2014.

Well I'm reporting it now. It looks just like the photos posted except mostly a solid gray. I'm in the most updated version of Photos

I'm in the most updated version of Photos

That's an entirely different app from iPhoto.

It's still the exact same problem and was solved by the exact same solution as posted 2 posts ago.

Yes, but best to post solutions to Photos issues on the Photos forum and iPhoto ones here. Less confusing for other users.