I had done a reboot before the last failed attempt, so this may not be the smoking gun., but this time, I rebooted, and made sure everything was closed, verifying in Activity Monitor (i also closed all apps on the phone too). This issue appears to be a resource issue on the Mac (maybe even a communication thing between Mac 7 iPhone? Handling lots of images. These commands from the 'terminals' O/S shell obviously).Īs others in this thread have alluded to. The almighty 'kill -9' on the process gave it an ugly stop., but at least didn't effect power on my device. Well there had been two failed attempts (and a few aborted), both of which imported about 250 - 300 photos, then simply quit, and the app became unresponsive, until I had to kill it from the process list (a 'kill -HUP' was unsuccessful. All of my photos were imported from the phone (iPhone 5S), and after that was completed, I opened my phone all on the phone, and essentially saw the photos disappear. Disgruntled IT Professional who usually prefers all things Apple & *Nix Help! apple products not able to handle iPhone content here. My Photos downloads with / without checking 'delete after done' gets through about 250 of over 3,000 images, and 'hangs' (and apparently, any deleting it does, won't happen until after the import? since the photos it DID import are still on my phone). Trying to open iPhotos from my Apps library, it wants me to upgrade to a version of iPhoto that's newer., but Apple has deprecated, and can't do that., so with Yosemite, for me, no way to go back.

But we need a turn-key solution as MacBook users. I was able to import all of my iPhone images via 'Image Download' onto a USB device plugged into my MacBook, but the photos remained / remain on the iPhone (I guess i can manually delete them off of the phone., reading about that today.

I opened several cases with Apple Support, which was worthless (even had one Apple support person advocate powering off my MacBook, with an unresponsive Photos app, until showed them how to safely kill off via back-end Terminal shell). Trying to deal with a lot of photos, and archive them, then upgrade my phone (a critical path item for something need to do with the phone).

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