TimRichards
Well-Known Member
Periodically I'll go out on a work assignment and take maybe 100 or 200 photos with my iphone in an hour or two. When I get home (or to the hotel) I have been connecting the phone to my MacBook Pro with a wire to quickly transfer the photos to my laptop. Today I finally realized the Mac is importing tons of duplicate photos each time I import over the wire, in addition to the photos taken on that day. A superficial look on the internet found one commenter saying effectively 'only use iCloud' to import your photos. Not really a solution to a bug. When I plug in the phone I get a dialogue box that specifically says' 'Import all new photos?", which leads me, forgive me, to assume that is is both possible and not harmful. So I am going with the thought that this is a handicap or bug or whatever and I'm wondering if anyone has a similar problem, or a solution. I prefer to quickly transfer the photos over the wire to my laptop, for various reasons, e.g. avoid burning cell data uploading the photos, not having a good wifi signal, being in a rush to get a report done using the photos...
So: 1.Why does Mac import duplicates in a seemingly random way? and
2. Does anyone have a resolution? and
3. Does anyone have a tested and true method of detecting and deleting the dupicates?
Many thanks for any helpful leads!
So: 1.Why does Mac import duplicates in a seemingly random way? and
2. Does anyone have a resolution? and
3. Does anyone have a tested and true method of detecting and deleting the dupicates?
Many thanks for any helpful leads!