How can I copy selected photos from iPhoto on my iMac to my iPhone 6?

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How can I copy selected photos from iPhoto on my iMac to my iPhone 6?

I used to have many photos on my iPhone 6. I also have thousands of photos on my iMac. After iDrive became available I decided to try it, and uploaded my large photos library to my iPhone and iPad. After using it for awhile I decided against keeping all these photos on my other devices. I removed everything from iDrive and my IOS devices. Now I'd like to find a way to restore some of my photos to IOS devices.

I'd appreciate any suggestions on how to do that.

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iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)

Posted on Apr 21, 2015 10:18 PM

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Answer 1

Yer_Man

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Apr 21, 2015 10:41 PM in response to MarcinOC

Turn off iCloud library and sync via iTunes.

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MarcinOC Author

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Apr 26, 2015 9:54 AM in response to Yer_Man

I turned off iCloud Drive, but I can't figure out how to synch selected photos to my iPhone 6 from iPhoto on my iMac using iTunes.

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Old Toad

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Apr 26, 2015 10:03 AM in response to MarcinOC

Put the photos you want to upload to your iPhone in an album in iPhoto. Connect the iPhone to the Mac and launch iTunes.

Click on your iPhone icon

and then on Photos

Next check Sync Photos and Selected albums. Find the album with the photos you want to upload and select it.

Lastly click on the Sync button.

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MarcinOC Author

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Apr 28, 2015 8:49 AM in response to Old Toad

Thanks for your information, but I still am having an issue. I followed these instructions, but of about two hundred photos that I wanted to copy to my iPhone, only 100 or so were copied. I tried to re-start the copy process, but it did not help. Copying additional photos seems to "hang". Says it's copying, but no additional photos are copied. Any idea why?

Thanks!

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Old Toad

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Apr 28, 2015 9:01 AM in response to MarcinOC

Are any of those photos that aren't copying "referenced" photos, i.e. not copied into the library during import?

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MarcinOC Author

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Apr 28, 2015 9:12 AM in response to Old Toad

No, all of these photos reside in my iPhoto library.

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Old Toad

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Apr 28, 2015 9:40 AM in response to MarcinOC

Are you able to view them full size or in the edit mode?

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MarcinOC Author

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Apr 28, 2015 10:54 AM in response to Old Toad

Seems like I'm able to view them full size

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Old Toad

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Apr 28, 2015 11:21 AM in response to MarcinOC

Well that shoots down that brilliant theory. 😟 Give this a try:

1 - launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys held down to open the First Aid window. Be sure to follow the circled recommendation in the screenshot.

2 - apply Option #1, Repair Permissions.

3 - try the upload to the iPhone again for those photos.

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MarcinOC Author

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Apr 28, 2015 2:25 PM in response to Old Toad

Trying that now. iTunes says it's importing photos from the Album I have checked, to my iPhone. I'll let that run awhile and let you know how it goes.

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MarcinOC Author

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Apr 28, 2015 2:47 PM in response to MarcinOC

Synching/Importing photos has been active for about 20 minutes. No photos have shown up on iPhone as yet.

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