How To Fix Problems Importing Photos from iPhone to iPhoto

Author: erics, Posted April 13th, 2012 at 9:21:11am

I found this thread on the Apple Support forums and reposted the following procedure because it worked for my situation:

1. Quit iPhoto
2. Open Activity Monitor (Applications > Utilities > Activity Monitor.app)
3. In the search window at the top right, search for PTPCamera
4. Click on PTPCamera in the list of results to highlight it
5. Click on Quit Process (the red stopsign icon in the upper left of Activity Monitor)
6. Choose “Quit”
7. If you don’t already see “Image Capture Extension” in the list, search for it in the search box. Click on “Image Capture Extension” in the list of results to highlight it
8. Choose “Quit”
9. Go to Macintosh HD > System > Library > Image Capture > Devices and open PTPCamera.app back up
   Unplug and re-plug the iPhone 4. iPhoto should open, if you’ve set it to do so when a camera is plugged in. Otherwise, open it. You should see your media available for import from the iPhone 4 when you click on the iPhone 4 in the devices list.

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