Importing photos from iPhone to iPhoto on my MacBook Pro very slow

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Importing photos from iPhone to iPhoto on my MacBook Pro very slow

It's taking the best part of thirty minutes to import the photos from my iPhone 5 (iOS 6.1.4) into iPhoto (version 9.4.3) using my MacBook Pro (10.8.2). I've tried rebuilding the iPhoto databse which didn't have any positive effect to the process. I've got 8000 photos in iPhoto and 1700 on the iPhone. I'm doing the import everyday so there's usually not more than 20-30 photos to import, any idea why it is taking so long and what I can do to speed it up?

Posted on May 26, 2013 7:24 AM

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Answer 1

léonie

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May 26, 2013 9:02 AM in response to iSilver

How full is your system drive? Can it be that you are running out of disk space?

Has it always been this slow to import from your iPhone, or only recently?

If it is a recent problem, what has changed lately? Have you installed, uninstalled, or updated any software?

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iSilver Author

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Jun 6, 2013 5:45 AM in response to léonie

186GB Free, so plenty of space available! I don't know how long it usually takes, I don't do it very often, it takes only a few seconds to transfer photos from my digital camera though.

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léonie

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Jun 6, 2013 6:07 AM in response to iSilver

There may be video or a photo on yuor iPhone's camera roll, that is unreadable. In that case, iPhoto can hang and try over and over agai to process the bad file.

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Old Toad

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Jun 6, 2013 9:36 AM in response to iSilver

Have you tried rebooting your iPhone?

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