Questions tagged [import]
Transfer data from a source data store or device into a destination data store or device. Can for example be used in the context of a photo or music library (e.g. "importing photos").
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Best way to import user profile on Mac from external HDD after data recovery on Windows?
For an iMac that had a crashed fusion drive due to damages in fusion data structures, I had to perform a data recovery on Windows.
From the data recovery software, the user profile (let's call it &...
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Photos library on Catalina does not allow HEIC/Live Photo imports
Due to storage limitations we outsourced my mothers photo library to an external hard drive. This was still on her MacBook Air Early 2015 running on High Sierra. Later, we updated her machine to ...
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Import CSV/TSV into plain sheet in Numbers?
When I open a CSV/TSV in numbers it is imported into the default template, where the first row and the A-column are "headers". Most of the time I open such files the first row and A-column ...
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Is it possible to import/restore photo albums from an old, recently imported Library?
I recently helped a friend import a large, 541GB iPhoto library into Photos on Ventura.
The files were imported, but the photo albums were not.
Now we're wondering if there is a way to get the albums.
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Python script hangs on importing rasterio
I'm a recent migrant from Linux to OSX, and the transition so far has been quite smooth, until this particular issue.
On a MacBook Pro with the M1 chip, running Ventura 13.1, and with both Python 3.9 ...
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Make Photos recognize several separate photos as a Burst?
I am importing several photos from an external source (ex. a non-iPhone camera, or in my case, variants of a digital painting) and would like Photos.app to treat them as a "burst" photo, ...
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How to LOCATE photos, on iPhone, which aren't importing to my Mac?
There are a few old-ish photos (2019 or so) from the previous (family) user of my iPhone which just refuse to import into Photos on my Mac. That's fine; my 17-year-old sister has thousands of photos ...
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Photos app - import into specific folder
When I import a folder of photos into the Photos app there is an option at the top of the import window that says "Import to:" and there is an option Library where there is a dropdown of ...
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How to import music into iPhone Music player without using a computer
How to import music into an iPhone music player without using a computer (iTunes)?
I want to play and use songs downloaded from the internet to phone directly inside my phone.
Normally I use VLC ...
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Pictures not showing up in Photos after import
I recently imported photos from my iPhone to my MacBook and using the "delete after import" function.
Now the photos aren't in the Photos library but it's not in my phone either. I've tried ...
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Sort iOS Photos by metadata (to remove imported WhatsApp media)
Migrating from an Android phone to an iPhone, I attempted to automatically transfer camera photos across. Unfortunately, this also imported unwanted media from other applications (e.g. WhatsApp). How ...
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Create an Automator action to insert a PDF table in Excel using data from picture
I'd like some help to create an Automator workflow to carry out the following please:
Select a PDF file containing a table of data
Convert the PDF file to an image
Open Microsoft Excel and import the ...
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HTML on USB stick can not be rendered after editing
I received a bunch of HTML files recently on a USB stick (FAT32), which were created on a Windows system, but with LF-line endings. I checked them in my browser (Firefox) on MacOS 10.14, and since on ...
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How can I import a vCard without getting duplicated fields?
The vCard format has a UID field which should uniquely identify a contact to avoid duplicates. This works: when importing the same vCard twice with multiple contacts inside and a fixed UID for each, ...
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Importing photos from Windows PC to Photos
I need to transfer all my picture collection, which is stored on a Windows PC, to a brand new Mac (Monterey)
On my PC, pictures are stored in folders, and correctly EXIF tagged (DateTimeOriginal), ...
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Filemaker How to Import into related tables
I recently purchased FileMaker Pro and created a new database with the "Contact" template. I have a CSV file with Names, addresses and phone numbers. When I choose import, the dialog only ...
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Work with .vcf contacts without merging into my computer's Contacts
macOS 11.6, Contacts.app 13.0
I have a .vcf file of Contact cards from another computer. I wish to work with them on my computer without merging them with the cards already in my computer's Contacts. ...
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Nikon Tethered to iPad, iPhone on import, duplicate images appear
I am using a Nikon Z7 and Z7II. Connected via the Apple camera connection kit to an iPad Mini 5 (14.7.1) and an iPhone 6s Plus (14.7.1). As I shoot, the images will appear in the "import" ...
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How to use XLD's "import tags from a text [file]" feature
I have a batch of AIFF files I am trying to transcode to mp3 and tag using XLD (X Lossless Decoder). I have all the tag metadata in a text file like so:
01 AUDIO "Package" "Peter Howard&...
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Can't import FaceTime Live Photos to Windows 10
I have an iPhone XS max (iOS 14.6) and I'm trying to import photos taken during a FaceTime call to my PC running windows 10.
Using the photos app on windows 10, I can import photos and videos fine, ...
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What is the best method of syncing photos from iPhone to (windows) desktop?
My parents use windows and iPhone, and I have to run tech support for them.
The windows photo import tool fails, because the photo's arn't really on the device, and apple lies to windows saying that ...
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Does importing an .ics calendar resend all invites?
I have exported an .ics calendar which includes past events with previously send out invites to other people.
When I now important this calendar to a new account in Apple Calendar on my Mac, does it ...
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How can I troubleshoot or fix when macOS Photos app import from a connected iPhone gets stuck on "Preparing to import from..."?
How can I troubleshoot or fix when macOS Photos app import from a connected iPhone gets stuck on "Preparing to import from..."?
Devices:
iMac Retina 5K 27-inch 2017, macOS Big Sur 11.2.3
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Need to download iMovie '09 on MacBook Pro 16" with iMovie 10
I would like to transfer old Hi8 tapes onto my new MacBook using FireWire. I have an old Digital Sony Handycam and all of the required adapters to connect it to my MacBook USB-C ports. I tried ...
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How can I backup my Icloud synced notes locally?
I have both a macbook running 11.1 Big Sur and iPhone running iOS 14.
I have lots of notes that I'd like to locally backup just in case. Ideally I can export them to a folder so I’m sure they are ...
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iMovie does not see my Mini DV tapes
I am trying to import Mini DV on my 2020 MacBook Pro. My camera is a 22 year old Sony HDR-HC7E. I have a 400 to 800 Firewire cable, and 2 Apple adaptors - Firewire 800 to Thunderbolt 2 and ...
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How do I have both custom show tv art and custom episode thumbnails?
I have a homemade tv show that I want to add to the Apple TV app on my Mac. I've imported the show, added all the metadata I want to, and I want to add thumbnails for each individual episode, as well ...
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OpenToonz: How to install ffmpeg for mac osx el capitan when only static ffmpeg builds for macOS 64-bit are available at ffmpeg.org?
I'm trying to install ffmpeg on my mac OS X El Capitan version 10.11.6 Mid 2009 so I can use it's libraries: ffmpeg.exe, ffplay.exe, ffprobe.exe and be able to import/export mp4 and gif files to ...
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Importing album art from ripped music
I have over 130+ artists with 1000s of tracks all sorted and with valid metadata externally to the Music / iTune app on my Mac (Catalina). The folder layout is Artist / Album / CD in Album (ranges 1-...
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Import mailbox from Mail (with no mail account access) to Gmail
On my iPhone on Mail, I have a mailbox from a provider that I no longer have access to (emails were downloaded via POP while I still had access). I don't want to lose those emails. Is there a way I ...
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How to skip using Photos app whem importing photos
I prefer to keep sorted/labeled folders of all of my iphone photos via finder and a NAS system. With more and more system updates and phone/iMac changes, I am finding that now when I go to import ...
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Photos app not importing all files
I have over 58,000 photos stored on a HD from the past 15 or so years. I now have a brand new Macbook pro and I have been trying to import all these photos into the Photos app. I have been importing ...
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mail.app import error fails - home folder full
I was getting an error in Mail.app that the home folder is full. Yet the volume has 256G
of space. I've done this support process from Apple. Now I get a failure during import. I'm importing 250K of ...
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Photos: imported AVI file from old camera has wrong date taken (day of import), but all metadata seems to be correct
I'm trying to import all my photo library to Photos.app. I have several videos, which were taken in 2007 in AVI format on old digital camera. And that videos after imported appears in Photos.app like ...
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Unable to Import to MacOS Photos from external drive
Getting non-tech spouse setup to sort 20 years of pics using Photos. Worked well for the first four years of pics, then only part of year five was imported. Tried "repair photo library" and "...
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Import a Takeout of Photos?
I have an iCloud account for my iPhone. My computer is Linux. I have in hand a Google Takeout of about 600 photos. How can I import them into iCloud? I would like to preserve the metadata that is ...
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Unable to import notebook from my desktop "MAC"
I recently switched from a Windows PC to a MacBook Pro at my job. It's been extremely difficult to try and get my notebooks imported to onenote on my new mac. For someone reason, I don't see any ...
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Error importing videos to Photos in Catalina: Unsupported resource set: video,xmp
I have several Photos libraries; my system library that's synced with iCloud, and some additional libraries for things that I want to keep but don't need to have available all the time. Here's my ...
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importing wav music files in iTunes
I download an album in wav format.
I would like to import it in iTunes and upload it to my iphone 8 plus.
I am using iTunes version 12.10.2.3 on Windows 7.
For some reasons I can't import the album ...
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Import into macOS 10.15 Catalina's Apple Music does not work: unknown error -54; likely root cause: file access permissions
Something is wrong with my version of Apple Music following an upgrade to macOS 10.15 Catalina. Importing songs fails with error "Copying files failed. An unknown error occured (-54)".
The problem ...
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Move Secure Notes items from Keychain of one Mac to another?
I have a keychain created, to hold a bunch of Secure Notes items. These are not in the default keychain files created by Apple.
In previous versions of macOS, I was able simply drag the keychain file ...
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How to import photos from new iPad 5 Mini to old 2015 MacBook Air, OSX 10.9.5
I'm trying to import photos from a new iPad that uses the newer Photos app to an old 2015 MacBook Air (OSX 10.9.5) that only has the old iPhotos app, but it's not working.
I keep getting an error on ...
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Bulk Delete Nest Albums in Photos by Pattern?
I made the mistake of importing my photo archive for over 11 years which I had organized by year and then by dated events from years of manual collecting with maybe 10-20 folders of photo "albums" per ...
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Can Mail fetch email signature set using Google Mail?
My organisation's people use a mixture of Apple Mail and Gmail.com as a client for our Gmail addresses. We use a GSuite app to set peoples' Gmail signatures, which works great for those sending email ...
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How can I export only my notes from the Notes app and import to another Mac?
Rather than set up iCloud sync, I’d like to export / import notes.
Is there a way to export all my notes written in the Notes app in any format so that I can import them to another Mac?
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Problem importing images into iMovie 10
I've recently encountered an issue importing images into iMovie 10 on some of our computers. The machines are running High Sierra and iMovie 10.1.6.
On effected units, some imported images appear as ...
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Transfer some photos/videos from one iPhone to another
I want to add some photos and videos from someone else’s iPhone to my iPhone’s photo library.
I want to keep the photo’s dates so that they appear at the right time chronologically in my library.
I ...
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How to import photos to iPhone without getting unable to delete them?
I use iTunes and AnyTrans, but the photos can’t be deleted.
Is there a program to import photos without getting unable to delete them?
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Can't import photos from iPhone 6 to Mac
I have taken a lot of photos on my iPhone. But when I connect it to my Mac, the photos do not show up in Preview. I can see the photos on the iPhone, but they are simply not recognised when I plug the ...
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How does one import an old Exchange email archive into Apple Mail?
I have an archive of old emails from a former project that I worked on. On that project, I was given my own Exchange email address and subsequently have a ton of emails for which I created an archive. ...
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