iPhoto shows and imports triplicates (triple duplicates) of iPhone photos – On iPhone only single photos shown

I'm curious as to why you think iPhoto is making these triplicates? It can't make triplicates - or anything else - on your iPhone. It sees them - before you import, right? In the Preview window? - so does Image Capture. It sure sounds to me like the iPhone is making them and that's where your problem lies. I would hazard a guess that regarless of your HDR settings on the phone, it's still shooting them. That's where you need to look for a resolution to this issue.

Regards

TD

There is a certain paid cydia photo app that may cause the problem

the app probably changes the structure of the camara-roll and picture locations

I am seeing this problem still, even after trying the Photo stream toggle trick that was mentioned. I have one otehr observation to add.

If I "Command"+select the first of each photo in iPhoto and then import those (choosing to Delete after import), then the next refresh of iPhone pictures oniPhoto will show all the photos (including the duplicates) gone. So basically something like this.

1) iPhoto - I see triplicates of pictures on my iPhone.

2) Command+Select the first instance of each duplicated picture.

3) Import the selected pictures. Choose to Delete the pictures after import.

4) Go back to iPhone in iPhoto. No more duplicates of the pictures I imported.

So this doesn't fix the problem as all the unimported photos still show triplicates, but al least I don't have to run a de-duper on my laptop now to eliminate triplicates.

This eliminates some of the hassle, but it's still a hassle.

I hope someone figures this out completely because it's making me hate iPhoto just a little bit.

Song

And again, why do you think this is iPhoto's doing and not the Phone?

Terence, I don't discount the possibility that this could be an iPhone issue. The fact is that I only ever see this behaviour in the interaction between the iPhone and iPhoto. As these are both developed by Apple, I was hoping that some folks on this forum or thread could provide some guidance.

I don't see these problems when I use an SD card from my camera, nor do I see this if I tether the iPhone to a Windows machine.

In any case, one can still hope for a solution that the community can provide.

SInce it appears to be an iPhone issue and certainly has nothing to do with iPhoto I'd suggest that you ty the iPhone forum

The solution is going to be on the iPhone - either removing an App or not shooting HDR or ???

iPhoto is not triplicating photos - it simply copies what is there

LN

Larry, that's an interesting response. The "issue" has something to do with the interaction of iPhone and iPhoto. If I remove iPhoto from the equation, then the problem doesn't exist. If I were to post on the iPhone forum, I am addressing a large population of users who may not ever experience this interaction.

Now, I'd bet that there are many iPhoto users that use iPhones. So I would think my odds of finding an applicable response would lie in this forum. No?

In any case, I'm just out scouring for some actionable feedback. It'd be nice to understand what's up here.

There is a certain paid cydia photo app that may cause the problem

the app probably changes the structure of the camara-roll and picture locations

That'll do it.

I think the sync app in either the Mac OS or iOS is doing it. The duplicate/triplicates show up in Mac OS device and not in the iOS device. Even though this post is a couple of years old, I saw this happen just today when my neighbor asked for help because she was seeing the problem. Her iPhone has the latest iOS and her Mac OS is Yosemite. I checked all of her iCloud and iPhone and MacAir settings and everything appeared ok. Then I connected her iPhone to her MacAir and did a sync and many (not all) photo produced another copy (making them triplicates). I'm searching the discussion board to see if I can find a solution. So far, nothing.

Where do you see the triplicates? Are you sure the neighbour is not shooting HDR or bursts?

If your neighbor is using iCloud Photo Library on the iPhone, the downloads the iPhone is making from iCloud will continually appear as new photos on the iPhone. if yshe is syncing with iCloud, the direct import from the iPhone is no longer well supported, because the duplicate detection cannot recognize the iCloud downloads as duplicates. I would simply not use the USB import, when having set up icloud Photo Library or ignore the older photos in the Import panel.

Thanks léonie, I think they were both using Photos and not iPhotos but I'll look it for her today. Thanks again (what you say sounds logical).

BTW, is it possible that she could have both an iPhoto library and a Photos library on one of her devices? And, if so, is it possible to get all of the photos from the older iPhotos to the newer Photos?

BTW, is it possible that she could have both an iPhoto library and a Photos library on one of her devices? And, if so, is it possible to get all of the photos from the older iPhotos to the newer Photos?

Yes, you can use both iPhoto and Photos in El Capitan. Only iPhoto 9.6.1 can run on el Capitan.

If there are older iPhoto Libraries, they can be opened in Photos by dragging the iPhoto Library onto the Photos icon.

But iphoto cannot open Photos Libraries. The migration is oneway.

very old iPhoto Libraries - iPhoto 7.1.2 or older - need the iPhoto Library Upgrader before they can be openedmin Photos. iPhoto '11: About the Library Upgrader

Thanks again léonie. I'll check with her again (still early here 😎 )