Iphoto wont tranfer pictures from iphone

haha, yes I was desperately trying to create a photo-album for my boyfriend's present before he got home and that error message really stumped me. What working in the end was changing the destination folder from the default HD/Users/YouXXX/PicturesXXXX to a folder I chose myself. Prima, worked straight away, thank goodness 🙂

The cable is the issue. I had similar problem of which i can't upload pictures from my iphone to iphoto. Before i was using after market cable. Change it back to the original cable, all is well!!

This was happening to me until i made some space on my hard drive to save the photos. Then it worked just fine!!!! Good Luck!

This does the trick everytime iphoto has problems importing photo's from iphone.

I recently used this to import over 4500 photo's from my daughters iphone 4. Iphoto refused to continue with the import and freezes. Then i used Image Capture and selected "import to iPhoto" and no problems whatsoever.

Seems iPhoto is pretty crappy software.

Thanks!

Turning Bluetooth off just worked for me on my iPhone 6+. This is a pretty ridiculous error !

*** Solution*** At least for me anyway. I tried all of the suggestions without any effect and would still get an error as described by OP. To me it seems that the issue is relating to how Mac handles memory. I had photoshop open with a few photos. Two things happen, I was very low on disk space but had enough to download the video I needed thought but closed photoshop so that it can free up disk space as it normally uses a considerable amount of swap and free disk space. As soon as I closed it, I saw my disk space go from under 2 gb free to 15 gb free and my swap have less on it (using activity monitor).

I did nothing else NOTHING else this time around and it transferred flawlessly. Here is my theory, when transferring it probably buffers to a temp file while transfering if your RAM is low and if your swap space can't grow or the temp file can't be written due to disk space problems the video will just error out. I will test this theory by opening photoshop, a bunch of .psd files to fill up swap but also delete some files so that I have more than enough for the transfer 3 times and see that happens. Them I will make sure that I have no disk space (except for the amount needed for the file 2 times) but plenty of space in the swapfile and see which one of the two fails.

Hope this helps someone. So in conclusion, have plenty of disk space available and close all programs and the transfer will work.

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I had this same problem and finally figured out (after turning off bluetooth, changing multiples cables, etc) that the problem was that until each photo icon in Image Capture had loaded I couldn't transfer them. If you have many photos like I do, you have to slowly scroll through them on Image Capture until their icon loads, then go back and select what you want to import. Tedious but worthwhile to backup all my precious photos. Hope this makes sense and is helpful!

Uploading them via Image Capture worked for me!! Thank you! 🙂

This is crazy. After a week of pulling my hair out, I switched cables and I was able to import my photos, both to image capture and Iphoto. Why this defies logic for me is that I've been able to import video from my Iphone 5c into Final Cut Pro X without a problem. I want someone to explain how a larger video file is able to pass successfully through a cord yet a smaller .jpg file can't!

I had the same problem, had about 1800 photos and videos, I started to download them in patches and then found the fault! it seems when i download a snap video or photo more than once, I would have two files wit the same name and iphoto will stop downloading the same error message. I deleted one of the copy and tried again to download with Iphoto and it worked. In my case it was snap chat downloading its videos and images to my iphone with the same file name, a bug that will need to be fixed by snapchat at some point. hope this helped.

good luck

genius idea ! Worked for me when trying to import 11,000+ photos into iPhoto that it clearly could not handle. I'm using an iphone 6S. Thanks for the tip!