Photos keep seeing old pics as new, importing ad nauseum.

This feed has no more activity because apple fixed the duplicate issue with the new photos app in Sierra

I'm not able to upgrade to Sierra at this point. I'm using a number of applications that aren't compatible yet.

This feed gets no more activity because Sierra fix d the issue.

OH. My bad. Than it is a disaster. Glad you found a fix.

Not the case, I have this issue on Sierra with Photos 2.0. Given the age of this problem, it's more likely that posters (and people who find this post) have voted with their feet and switched to another photo app.

I have been having this problem for the past year or so. I am not sure if you have resolved it or not but since I just figured out how I thought I would share with you just in case.

Today I tried importing those pictures that kept saying they were new (38 of them) one by one but selecting each one and importing them individually - this did not take more than a few minutes at the most. This seemed to have solved the problem. I disconnected my iPhone and reconnected it after doing this and the problem was no longer there! I had no new photos to import!!! I was so excited.

Hopefully this helps if you haven't already found an way of resolving this problem!

Stefanie

My 'workaround' has been to delete the photos after importing. I know. It's lame! 🙂

if you are able, update your Mac to Sierra and your phone to iOS 10.

I have an early 2011 MacBook pro and I'm still having this issue. Every time I plug my iPhone in it tries to import the same old photos. I have sierra and iOS 10. iCloud photo is turned on. I had to download an app called duplicate photo fixer pro because I had let the problem get out of control. I had around 30,000 photos, a little more than half were duplicates. I have since moved more than half out of the photos app and into the finder. I kept a little over 3,000 in photos app. Even still photos would like to import old photos. It does however give the files new names and marks the date as December 31, 1969. I don't know what to do.

Why exactly are you plugging your phone into your Mac if you are using iCloud Photo Library 9there is no service named iCloud photos so I'm guessing that ICPL is what you mean) -- generally if you use ICPL you do not plug your phone into the Mac and you certainly would not ever import photos from the Phone since they already have been synced by ICPL

LN

If you're using iCloud Photo Library, the simplest fix to try is to create a new library.

Hold down the option key and open the Photos app (either by double clicking Photos in the Finder or single clicking Photos in the dock). A dialogue box will open and give you the option of creating a new library. The welcome screen gives you the option to "Turn on iCloud Photo Library in Preferences". Do this.

Photos will then download all your photos from iCloud. So it should end up being the same as your old library.

You can keep your old library and open it any time by holding down the option key when starting up Photos.

I plug it in because I have around 80 gb of music and I rather back my phone up to my computer than to iCloud. Its faster. But that shouldn't matter, the photos shouldn't be trying to import if there are already there. I forgot to add that my wife has the same issue and she never plugs her phone into her computer.

Also all the photos at this point are all coming from my computer. I've wiped my phone and iCloud at least twice now. Then I turn iCloud back on let the photos upload then start my iPhone fresh and sync all the photos to it. And still when I plug in the iPhone it tries to sync photos to my mac. None of the numbers match. The iphone and my mac have a ten photo count difference all the time. But my mac and and iCloud show the same numbers. When i plug my iPhone in it doesn't just try to import 10 photos, its hundreds.

I am still having the same problem even with macosSierra and IOS10 on a 6S. I am using a workaround that I found on a previous post. I am using Image Capture to bring the latest images into a folder. Then I am importing from it to Photos. It may not be as elegant as just importing from the iPhone but it beats bringing in all of those duplicate images.

This is the third time I've posted this fix for the duplicate photo import problem.

If you use ICPL (iCloud Photo Library) the simplest and easiest fix is to create a new library, then re-import all your photos from ICPL.

- Hold down the option key when launching Photos

- Select new library, then follow the prompts to download your photos from iCloud.

In my case, the duplicated import problem stopped, my library was recreated (except for Faces) and is the same as my old library (which I backed up).

The best part is you don't even need to back up your old library. Your new library can exist on your computer side by side with your old library, and you can back up or delete it once you confirm that your new library is good.