How to import photos/events/albums/faces from iPhone to Mac

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How to import photos/events/albums/faces from iPhone to Mac

I have iPhone and had MacBook.

I imported photos from iPhone (Camera Roll) to Mac (iPhoto), sorted it by events and albums and synced back to iPhone.

Now my Macbook SSD dead. I could not restore photos from Macbook.

How can I transfer photos/events/albums and other data from iPhone to new Macbook? Image Capture can only import photos from Camera Roll. But my photos not in Camera Roll and this type of import can't import events.

MacBook Air, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)

Posted on Jul 1, 2013 12:49 PM

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Answer 1

Old Toad

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Jul 1, 2013 1:43 PM in response to michaelkech

How can I transfer photos/events/albums and other data from iPhone

Are these in your iPhoto library on your iPhone?

OT

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michaelkech Author

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Jul 1, 2013 1:46 PM in response to Old Toad

Yes. I have iPhoto App on iPhone and photos are in this app too.

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Old Toad

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Jul 1, 2013 1:49 PM in response to michaelkech

Can help you there. I'll ask to have this topic moved to the iPhoto for iOS community where users there will be more familar with moving photos around.

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Oct 30, 2013 12:55 PM in response to michaelkech

Did you find any solution cause I've been searching for more than 2 weeks and found no solution.

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michaelkech Author

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Oct 30, 2013 1:14 PM in response to Johnie Bee

Hi. I found solution last week.

I bought iExplorer ($50 or so).

Connect iPhone to PC (or Mac). Launch iExplorer.

Find Photo Library on my phone and click "Export Entire Library".

Each event/album/face/tag creates separate folder with photos. So I manually import photos to my Mac iPhoto (by the way, when you drag and drop folder to iPhoto it creates separate event with folder name).

Not best solution but it saves my photos.

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Oct 30, 2013 1:32 PM in response to michaelkech

Actually it's almost the same with another software like that named iPhoneExplorer.

The problem is that I can see the Photostream pictures,the camera roll pictures but NOT the "Events" album from My Mac...

Any idea?

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michaelkech Author

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Oct 30, 2013 10:58 PM in response to Johnie Bee

Maybe there are differences between programs, because I tried to use different types of same programs and iExplorer found events. Other programs only saw directory with unsorted photos, or other types of structures.

My "pre conditions" was:

- iPhone 4S

- iOS7

- Photo Stream not enabled

- iPhoto for iOS7 installed

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