Then (with the iphone mounted) from a terminal window change the current directory to the iPhone root directory and then run the script, giving the destination directory as the first argument to the script. Save the script as a file to your home directory, say called "photoSync.sh". Below is a sample bash script that I wrote for this purpose & it works for me. This file can then be used with the standard 'find' terminal command to copy only newer files than this file. ![]() So my suggestion is to use a bash script that saves zero-byte file on the phone where the timestamp of the file indicates when the photos were last synced. I don't know if this is a limitation of the program or of the disk format of the phone itself (I'm guessing the program). Though unlike FAT32 formatted memory cards, where (in my experience) the archive bit is set on the files that have been previously downloaded files/photos, there doesn't seem to be the ability to read or set an equivalent flag on the mounted iPhone disk. The next step then is to automate the copying process so that you copy only new files. Pictures & movies are stored in the familiar sounding DCIM folder on the iPhone. I've tried this using my non-jail broken iPhone 3GS and I can successfully navigate files on my iPhone using the Finder, including my pictures & movies (though some system files are remain hidden because my phone isn't jail broken). The program in question can be found here: and at the moment the authors are giving it away free, which is nice of them. LifeHacker recently posted an article describing a program that makes your iPhone appear as a normal mounted disk in the Finder: Here is a working solution but it's probably not the simplest. My current plan is to set up a workflow that removes photos from the Camera Roll as I download them, but then have iTunes sync them back on as albums based on folders - I may even automatically resize them so I have smaller versions on the iPhone and the original full size versions on my Mac (so conserve previous iPhone storage space) I guess I'd like to know if anyone has a similar workflow/requirements and how they do it. Picasa Import also loads/displays ALL photos on the iPhone (which is very cumbersome with so many images to load off the device.) I then have to know which was the last downloaded iPhone photo and download only the newer ones. Ideally, I'd like to just use OSX's built in ImageCapture.app to download iPhone photos, but it loads/displays ALL the photos, not just the new ones since last sync (as iPhoto does.). ![]() I'm finding that will 5000+ photos+videos on my iPhone, iPhoto generally takes a while (2-10 minutes) to 'find' my iPhone after I plug it in. Maintain all EXIF/GPS metadata at all costsĬurrently, I use regular folder structure + Picasa for all of my digital photos, however for my iPhone, I use iPhoto because it will "only display new items" when I go to import photos off my iPhone.Have all my iPhone-taken photos+video available to view on my iPhone.Avoid iPhoto, ideally, because it makes me a bit nervous. ![]()
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