Iphoto wont tranfer pictures from iphone

I think it's because you are using I-cloud back-up. I switched mine off and was able to DL all photos (only photos that were taken after I switched it off). Otherwise you need to get them from iCloud.com. Go to settings, icloud, photos, then choose download and keep originals (vs optimize iPhone storage). Pain to get them from iCloud but moving forward you can download them easily.

I have an iphone 4S, and I am having the same problem. Can't import photos into iPhoto or Image capture. In Image capture, i get the error message "an error occured while importing. The item 'IMG_0071.MOV" was not imported." in iPhoto I get "iphoto cannot import your photos because there was a problem downloading the image"

I decided to use the USB cable that came with the iPhone instead of the cable I had been using before, which came with an ipod or something.
All the images and videos downloaded instantly. So, i wonder if those USB cables are significant to the device they came with. I noticed my iPad will only charge with the cable it came with. Even though all the apple USB cables look exactly the same.

Try using the cable the phone came with and see if that does the trick.

Thank you so much. I have spent hours trying to figure out what was wrong and it was such a simple thing. Of course it usually is.

I have the same problem to download images from my iPad to MB Pro over the Wi-Fi (cable doesn't work also).

I can work with them on iPad itself and can Bump them to iPhone. However computer refuse to download them.

what work for me was to turn off bluetooth when using a cable to connect your iphone to your laptop

tried all six cables I own, and turned off bt. nothing worked..... still get error message

Hi there...

I have had the same problem... I have been using my iphone camera for a few years without a problem. Suddenly one day I could not upload to iphoto. I tried everything you can imagine. Nothing. I even tried to upload to Picassa. No Joy. I called Apple support and they suggested I email to myself whatever photos I wanted to keep and delete the remaining and weed out the offending photo/file... This was not an option. I decided to trawl through my photos one by one and I suddenly noticed that some of my photos on iphone were taken in HD. I remembered I started taking some photos on HD just to try it out. I only had about a dozen of them. I then remembered that these photos were taken about the same time as I started having to upload problems. So I deleted all the HD photos. I re-connected to iphoto and guess what? .... IT WORKED! ..... Happy days! ... Try it and let me know if it works for you! Good luck!

Aidan, Dublin Ireland :-)

Here's what worked for me:

- I had 350 photos, and it errored out 12 times at various intervals, even after I rebooted everything.

- So I highlighted only the first 150 and they imported fine, then deleted them from phone. Then imported the next chunk, deleted from phone, etc. until all done.

It appears Apple couldn't handle the size of all of the pictures. After rebooting the devices, I got much further (almost to the end with only 24 pictures left to import) but then it errored out again, and none were imported. So, by importing in smaller chunks, it was able to handle it fine.

So, if all else fails, try that!

All my photos are taken in HD, so to delete all would not be an option. Although thanks for the suggestion. My fix actually matched the above, where importing 50at a time allowed all to go through. Seems apple products can't handle uploading in bulk!

Turning off bluetooth worked for me too...

After hours of getting error messages, I found this post re simply trying another cable - I don't have the original anymore, but simply switching from one one-original cable to another non-original cable immediately did the trick.

I had a similar issue, it would only import the first item.

In my case the issue was becuase i was trying to import the files to a network drive.

I selected a desktop folder and it imported fine.

I have been getting the same error message since switching to my iPhone 5. iPhoto wasn't able to import the photos but I was able to import them by opening image capture and selecting iPhoto from the "import to:" dropdown.

It seems strange having to use Image Capture to import photos into iPhoto, but it works!

Use a different cable. This error was driving me crazy because I could not get pictures/video off of my phone.

I never would have believed this but I switched to a lower guage USB (i.e. a thicker) cable non-Apple from Best Buy. It worked without incident.

I had the same issue.

OSX 10.8.2

iPhoto 9.4.2

iPhone 4s (IOS 5.1.1)

I did have about 8 photos in iPhoto. I kept getting "Unable to import files" File Type is Unrecognised... IMG_0016.JPG type error.

Tried turning Off BT - nope.

I just thought bugger it... need to create a new Library - this one might be corupt.

Selected "File > Switch to Library..." then selcted "Create New" button.

New Library Opened and I was able to import 840 Images and Movies from my iPhone 4s without any problems.