sillyvalley
Level 1
(103 points)
Q: Image Capture can no longer download from iPhone
For some time - I think since Yosemite upgrade, I can no longer download photos from my iPhone 5. (I do not use iCloud, and there are some other issues with iPhoto so I haven't tried. iTunes can still perform backup.)
Back when, I was using Google Picasa as main tool to download from iOS to MacOS. For some time, maybe since a certain iOS (8?) update, Picasa would simply begin a download, and spill out an error upon the simplest job - like a single picture. As such, I went back to Apple's Image Capture and found it still worked. Until recently, that is. Now, Image Capture simply starts an "Import", shows a progress bar, but makes no progress whatsoever. When I retried Picasa, Picasa does the same, i.e., the error message is no more, replaced by a no-progress progress bar.
I usually only perform import when iPhone is filling up. So this is a devastating problem. Please help.
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)
sillyvalley
Level 1
(103 points)
Ironically, I eventually realised what the problem was with Picasa after problem in Image Capture mysteriously disappeared. In other words, No idea what failed Image Capture.
On the other hand, the reason why Picasa stopped downloading from iPhone: It just doesn't deal with cyclic use of numeric identifiers. If the phone holds photoes from two different 10,000 cycles, Picasa will refuse to download. Once older pictures are downloaded with Image Capture and deleted, Picasa immediately resumed downloading.
