Doubles of Photos in iPhoto

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Doubles of Photos in iPhoto

Hi,

Every time that I plug my iPhone 5s into my Macbook Pro, to import my pictures into iPhoto it doubles every photo and video. I have a lot of pictures and it is really annoying to delete every double one by one. I have tried so many different things such as shutting off iCloud and changing the settings in iPhoto but nothing seems to work. I have read that a lot of other people have had the same issue but I can't seem to find a solution that actually works.

Thank you

iPhone 5s, iOS 8.1.3

Posted on Feb 27, 2015 9:03 AM

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Answer 1

LarryHN

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Feb 27, 2015 9:07 AM in response to libbeyjean

Some people report that connecting earphone then disconnecting and reconnecting - if yo do not actually have duplicates

And You may have duplicates - for example if you shoot HDR and keep both then you have two copies of each photo (not duplicates but two copies with different settings)

LN

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Old Toad

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Feb 27, 2015 9:24 AM in response to libbeyjean

I had the same issue with my iPhone 5s and all I needed to do was unplug the iPhone and reconnect. The duplicates went away and the import was normal.

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notcloudy

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Feb 27, 2015 9:52 AM in response to libbeyjean

is your macbook pro on Yosemite?

The way I understand the IOS 8/Yosemite ICLOUD is each device you have will be synchronized through the cloud - so the pictures you are trying to load from your IPHONE should have gone up to the ICLOUD and then down to the MAC -- don't know if you have to have IPHOTO open for completion - but it may be that in trying to import the old fashioned way is creating the duplicate.

If you have to have IPHOTO open for synchronization to complete - you may want to just try opening IPHOTO and then see if the new pictures show up on their own.

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