upgraded phone and computer, and now no apps on computer can find any photos
For many years I have downloaded photos from my iPhone to my mac using iPhoto -- all I would do is launch iPhoto and plug in the phone and after a few seconds the phone would show up on the sidebar of iPhoto and I could click on it and then the photos would be there and I could drag/drop them in to iPhoto folders/albums. The last time I did this was early January, and in the meantime I have upgraded the computer from 10.6 to 10.9 and the phone to 8.2.
Today when I plug in the phone,
- It mounts in iTunes, and runs backup (I have iTunes set to back up when the phone connects)
- It appears in Image Capture on the list of devices, but when I click on it the window on the right is blank and all of the buttons greyed out as if there is nothing there.
- It is completely AWOL in iPhoto, with no sign that the phone is mounted at all.
I see some other applications (Photo, Aperture) mentioned when talking about downloading photos, but they don't seem to be on my machine. Perhaps they were added to a later version of the operating system?
I'm totally stumped -- can anybody tell me what I'm missing?
OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)