Import ALL photos (including photos from iTunes backup) from iphone to mac

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Import ALL photos (including photos from iTunes backup) from iphone to mac

Hi!

I need support, o rather I believe I am going insane and I need help to make sure I am not.

My phones camera roll as 500 photos. If I connect it to my Mac start Photos / Lightroom / Whatever and do an import. only 150 of these are imported.

The 150 photos that appears in the import dialogue are photos I have taken with my current phone. The other 350 photos are photos I took with my old phone that I restored to my new phone. Thats only a coincidence, right? Because otherwise I am going completely crazy. The world is strange and Apple is complete and total nuthouse devoid of logic and intelligence. I really dont want that to be the case.

Because WHAT person would come up with the idea that you should not be able to import a photo currently in your camera roll because it was earlier in a backup?

A photo is a photo, and image file is an image file, data is data. Atleast it was until now, and that is why I am going insane. With this new Apple logic a Photo is not data but just some random symbolic link to something that doesnt exist and the user cannot download to his computer.

Is this the case? Please, say it is not so

If this is the case and Apple devs are devoid of logical reasoning.

How Can I "recover" my actual files from the iTunes backup from my old file and integrate those physical image files into my iPhone photos so that they are treated as actual photos in my Camera roll so that I will be able to import them as any other Photo?

Thanks

iPhone 5, iOS 8.4.1

Posted on Jul 13, 2016 3:15 PM

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Answer 1

Chris CA

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Jul 13, 2016 3:31 PM in response to stormfrog

Connect the iPhone to you Mac.

Open Image Capture on your Mac and import the photos and delete them from your iPhone.

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elcpu

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Jul 13, 2016 5:09 PM in response to Chris CA

Chris, I have been doing some research trying to help this user and also to learn for myself. I have a Mac and a PC but I use the PC for my main Photo Library. When I import photos from my iPhone to the PC using the import function, Windows 10 keeps a cache that remembers the photos that have been imported previously so they don't re-import. I can post the path here but no need, the cache is a file called "PreviouslyAcquired.db". If I delete photos from my PC that were previously imported and then want to re-import them I have to reset that cache (delete it) in order for the photos to re-import again. Otherwise they are ignored.

The reason for this post is that I am wondering if OS X has the same type of cache and I also wonder if that is the reason the OP cannot import the photos that were on their old iPhone. If OS X has such a cache, do you know where it is located? I have looked on mine but to no avail. It is not be the iPod Photo Cache - that one is associated with iTunes syncs only. I also launched Image Capture but cannot see any setting to that effect.

Any info appreciated... 🙂

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Answer 3

Chris CA

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Jul 13, 2016 5:34 PM in response to elcpu

Good questions.

Sadly, I do not know the answers.

Pictures between iOS and computer still needs a lot of work.

When using Photo Stream, the photos from the phone get imported.

Then when you connect the phone to computer and open Photos, you can import them (again) and delete them from phone but then have duplicates in Photos.

But if you don’t want to import them (again), you have to use Image Capture to delete them.

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