Mac Users - Downloading pictures from my digital camera to iPhoto

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dbulak

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I have an Apple IMAC computer. Everytime I download pictures from my digital camera, IPHOTO down loads all the pictures that are in the camera. I have looked for settings to download just the most recent, but can't find it. I even tried the Apple website. Anyone have any advice?
Thanks in advance.
 
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Jim Wynne

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I have an Apple IMAC computer. Everytime I download pictures from my digital camera, IPHOTO down loads all the pictures that are in the camera. I have looked for settings to download just the most recent, but can't find it. I even tried the Apple website. Anyone have any advice?
Thanks in advance.
Use a card reader.
 

Jim Wynne

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I am not sure what you mean. I am looking for the settings in my computer to tell it not to download all the pictures stored in the camera. Is there settings I can go to, or is this something all Macs do?
After thinking about it I realize that the suggestion to use a card reader wouldn't help much anyway because your issue is with the software. Maybe this page from the Apple website will help.

BTW, a card reader is still a nice thing to have and doesn't require fumbling with the camera and using battery power when you transfer photos.
 

Marc

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I don't use iPhoto, but I did fire it up to see what's in it. I looked at it some years back and decided to keep using my camera software. I have an old Canon Digital Rebel XTi which came with software they call "EOS Utility". I download files into a "special" directory I set up.

The EOS Utility lets you download only the latest (since last download), all, or choose 1 or more specific photos. It also let's you set up a naming scheme. I have it set up to download and make folders (directories) for each day with the date as the name of the folder, and in it go each photo taken on that date with the photos also named by date. I like this method because it keeps every picture organized by date: e.g. 20110420_IMG_4258.JPG where 20110420 is the date the picture was taken and the 4258 is an incrementing by 1 number. The IMG is in every photo name so I can identify & search for pictures I know are from my camera.

Were I to use iPhoto I'd just import from the folder(s) I wanted indexed and stored in iPhoto.

As a "quick" test I just opened up iPhoto and chose my main Canon folder to Import. There are about 2900 pictures in that directory. They are large jpg files which are between 3MB and 10MB in size (I'm not into photos to the extent that I'm interested in RAW files). It took about 12 minutes to import all the pictures. Now in the Faces view (on the left in the sidebar) there is a ball spinning and the CPU is being hit pretty hard so it must be doing some sort of post-processing. I have no idea what the Faces view is all about.

I used Import from the iPhoto program menu. I don't know, but there may be a "Drag & Drop" way to import pictures.

Also, as a "Heads Up", if you're into photography there's a Photography Group here. It's not very active, but it's another aspect of the forum. Photo Freaks

And of course there are "User Albums" if you want to share any of your photos here.
 

Marc

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Ah - Just looked:

The Faces feature in iPhoto makes it easy to find and view the photos of your favorite people.

When you first open iPhoto ’09, iPhoto scans your photo library to detect all the faces in your photos, and then uses face-recognition technology to group likely matches together. After the scan, you put names to the faces of your family and friends. These people appear on the Faces corkboard, and iPhoto suggests additional photos for each person.

Sounds neat! I'm impressed, but 95% of my photos are of objects, nature, etc. Not many people.

Now I understand why the process is so CPU intense (it's still chugging away...).
 

Marc

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#7
<snip> IPHOTO down loads all the pictures that are in the camera. <snip>
Does it add duplicates, or is it just that it re-downloads all the pictures and throws away duplicates (a time issue)?
 

GStough

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Does it add duplicates, or is it just that it re-downloads all the pictures and throws away duplicates (a time issue)?
Marc, when a duplicate is detected, a message box pops up that asks if you want to transfer the duplicate, so you can skip it if you don't want dupes in the transfer.
 
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danielandrew

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I think that the way Apple intended for the software to be used is that a user would import all of the photos from their camera into iPhoto and then have iPhoto delete them once all have been imported. Of course not everyone uses the software regularly or in this way. I don't know what version of iPhoto you are using, but in iPhoto '09 when you connect your camera it shows up under Devices in the left pane of the iPhoto window. The main window contains thumbnails of all the photos on your camera. At the bottom right there should be two buttons, "Import Selected" and "Import All." If you just want to import a few photos, select those photos with your mouse (COMMAND+CLICK to select multiple photos) then click "Imported Selected." Only the selected photos will import, then iPhoto will ask "Delete Photos on your Camera." If you select "Delete Photos" it only deletes the photo(s) you just imported into iPhoto, not all of them.
 
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