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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Taking a long time to import photo(graph)s especially only for new ones...
Date: 5 Jun 2014 05:11:39 GMT
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On 2014-06-05, Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> iPhoto '11 takes a long time to import from a Sony digital camera has 
> thousands of photo(graphs). Most of them were already imported, but why 
> does it need to rescan all of them to import the new ones (e.g., 250 of 
> them)?

Because they still exist on the camera, and you are asking iPhoto to
import what is on the camera. ; )

> Is the only way to skip is to remove these old ones from the 
> digital camera's memory?

Yep. Otherwise you'll have to wait while iPhoto compares what is on the
phone with what is on your computer, to skip importing duplicates.

> Thank you in advance. :)

iPhoto asks you whether you want to delete them after importing. Just
choose to delete them:

<http://support.apple.com/kb/ph2352>

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