
Tap on your iPhone’s name to open it and select Internal Storage. Click the arrow icon (>) next to This PC (or My Computer) in the left sidebar. Launch Windows Explorer from the desktop, Start menu, or taskbar. We are not concerned with iTunes for this particular operation. Once connected you might be prompted by iTunes, and if so, it launches by itself recognizing your iPhone. If you don’t have iTunes installed, Windows downloads and installs any necessary drivers Just connect the iPhone or iDevice with a cable. For copying images from your iPhone to Windows, connect your iPhone with the computer through the given USB cable. Instead, your Windows machine will identify any Live Photos as movies. Unfortunately, Windows PCs do not recognize Apple’s Live Photos. Finding Location and Timestamp of iPhone image. Here’s How to Transfer Photos Using Windows 10 Photos App. Seeing how there is no existing Photos library on the destination volume, I can only assume there are files within the "package" that have the same filename but different capitalizations, and the Finder can't handle it.Īlso, it is notable that my problem did not really originate with High Sierra but with iOS 11.
I tried copying the entire Photos library from the external HD to my Pictures directory on the iMac, but it stopped halfway through and gave an error message that "You can't copy 'Photos Library.photoslibrary' because it has the same name as another item on the destination volume, and that volume doesn't distinguish between upper- and lowercase letters in filenames." I tried converting the external HD to APFS but got an error in Disk Utility. It is MacOS Extended (Journaled) without case sensitivity. the Fusion Drive is not formatted APFS because that format is not yet supported. Then I can import into the Photos library. I can only retrieve Live Photos from my iPhone using the Image Capture app and downloading to the iMac's Fusion Drive. I assumed High Sierra would solve the problem on the iMac side, but it did not. I was able to download Live Photos to it until I upgraded my iPhone to iOS 11. My Photos library is on an external HD that's formatted MacOS Extended (Case-Sensitive, Journaled). I'm stuck in what seems like the same boat, but without a solution.