Does MacOS Photos iPhone Import Preview Not Differentiate Between Pictures & Videos?!

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Does MacOS Photos iPhone Import Preview Not Differentiate Between Pictures & Videos?!

Hello friends. I need your help on something new.

I had many reasons I had stayed away from Photos considering how crippled it was compared to iPhoto in capabilities. Then I was totally frustrated when the MacOS Sierra MacBook Pro's iPhoto suddenly was missing a critical functionality, of being able to select photos and videos from my iOS devices and delete those just imported into iPhoto.

With that BASIC capability killed (to make the user experience significantly worse) I had to try Photos. I bit the bullet and ran it today on my 2017 MacBook Pro with MacOS Sierra. It migrated my photolibrary file.

Then I went to import some of the photos and videos from my iPhone 7+ and was flabbergasted that the even more basic capability of decades, seeing if an item is a video or a photo, is completely missing from Photos in middle of 2017 !

I MUST be missing something. Surely some Apple Product Manager did not sit in a meeting and say, "What user ever needs to decide whether they need to import only photos or only videos or any mixture?"

Please tell me I am wrong in that impression and how to identify photos vs. videos in selection of what to import from an iOS device iPad/iPhone, etc. Thank you!

IMRAN

MacBook Pro TouchBar and Touch ID, macOS Sierra (10.12.5), iPhone7+ 2x6S+ iPad3 Watch2

Posted on Jul 2, 2017 9:19 PM

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Answer 1

IMRAN Author

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Jul 2, 2017 10:08 PM in response to IMRAN

iPhoto Does Identify Videos With Duration vs Photos on iPhone BUT Does NOT Offer Delete After Import As It Used To.

Photos Does NOT Identify Videos With Duration vs Photos on iPhone But Does Offer Delete After Import

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léonie

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Jul 2, 2017 10:57 PM in response to IMRAN

You are right - in previous versions of Photos the Import panel has been showing a camera badge overplayed in the thumbnails in the Import panel. This way we could tell, if the item to import is a video or image file. This badge is now missing. if you select a single item in the Import panel and open the Info for the selected item, you can see the details - filename, camera, etc. But as soon as you select more than one item, it is no longer possible to see the file info in the Info panel.

It is easier to see the details of the items, if you open Image Capture as well. In Image Capture you can see the files on the card or device in a list view. Sort it by the "Kind" and you can easily find the videos. You can import from Image Capture to photos as well.

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LarryHN

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Jul 2, 2017 9:47 PM in response to IMRAN

You post make no sense at all

Photos is much more capable than iPhoto )different and with different work flows but much more capable)

And videos are all found in the videos album - pretty simple - plus in moments they have the length of the video in the lower right clearly making them different from photos

Try asking a clear question with no editorials to confuse the reader

LN

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IMRAN Author

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Jul 2, 2017 10:13 PM in response to LarryHN

Your response does not address the question I asked. I will be happy to further clarify the text and even post 2 screenshots to show the difference, but the heading states:

Does MacOS Photos iPhone Import Preview Not Differentiate Between Pictures & Videos?!

The topic being related to IMPORTING of pictures/videos is also mentioned in 3 places in the post.

Please show me how you identify whether an item to be imported into MacOS Photos from an iPhone is a video or a photo so a user can choose whether to import only a photo(s) or only a video(s) of a similar scene.

Try looking at the specific question in the headline AND several mentions of the topic in the body text before posting an unhelpful and trolling response. Thank you.

I.

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IMRAN Author

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Jul 2, 2017 11:04 PM in response to léonie

Thank you. Exactly. That is the frustrating method we are now expected to use.

Essential existing functionality of Apple's OWN apps is removed, and a basically one-step process now requires two apps and multiple steps.

It gets more like the way Windows users had to do things like that in the past that we MacUsers would make fun of and easily do in a single click or two.

Regards,

I.

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