Solved – Mac OSX Image Capture does not recognize iPhone anymore
This has been wrecking my nerves for weeks. I don´t like the way iPhoto or Picasa manages my Photos so I like to rely on my own way of handling them in a plain file/foldersystem. I have been using Mac OSX´s Image Capture tool for this until recently it simply stopped working.
I am quite sure it happened after an update of either the iPhone or iTunes. Anyway, I surfed the web for ways to make it work again but nothing really worked. If you are in a similar situation – here is what made it working for me again (without any warranties).
- I deleted the Image Capture .plist file in the Library folder (search for “imagecapture” and “.plist”)
- I reseted the PRAM memory which is done by
- rebooting
- pressing CMD+Option Key+P+R before the grey screen appears
- stop pressing key combination after screen goes black
After starting up again and firing up Image Capture it first said “No device found” for 5 seconds AND then showed up the iPhone under Devices again. Hope it works for you too!
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Thank you! I deleted all my ImageCapture plist files and it showed up again! You don’t have to reset the PRAM.
Hello,
I’ve been going crazy trying to sort this out. My Image Capture has never been able to recognise the iphone. I tried searching for imagecapture files and .plist files, but I can’t find any!
Any idea why?
Thanks!
Maybe they are hidden? You need to enable full fiew on your file system in order to be able to see them, I guess. This has been ages ago and I don´t know how exactly I enabled this… maybe try to Google for somthing like “mac osx enable full system view” or something.