Hi All,

I am a bit of an IT idiot. I am trying to download thousands of photo's from an iphone 4 to an imac but I do not want to keep them on the iphone 4. I don't want to "synchronize" - I want to download and delete.

When finished, I want all the photo's from the iphone, and all the photo's that are on the imac to be on the imac only - and no duplicates.

Please please please could someone walk me through how to do this. I am scared to lose years worth of family photo's.

My motive here:

1. If the phone was lost or damaged, then......

2. The phone is so full of crap that it is really slow..... I want to take it to pantip or somewhere and get them to wipe it so it is like new.

Thanks in advance.

You get one chance to do it. After that its manual delete.

well, its a Apple .. so you wont loose anything

you refering to a imac .. so i just assume you also Run OSX on it.

do you use iPhoto ?

if yes you can just automimport everything downloaded from the phone.

but for the sake of speed id suggest you use the Image Importer

- create a folder on your desktop "import iphone"

- connect the phone

- if ANYTHING autostarts ... quit it and make sure its quit

- start Applications -> Image Capture

- select the new created folder in Location

- check Delete after import

- click Import all

wait a few sec, and all is gone.

but that works for items in the photo Roll ONLY !

if you have manaully sortet photos on the phone they wont be importet.

nothing to worry .. since you have already imported and deleted the photoroll following the steps above.

now just move the "sorted" items back to the photo roll (you have to do that on the phone)

and do the same thing again .. by simply reconnecting the phone back to the computer.

if you do use iPhoto .. just import them in iphoto ..

and then on the next itunes sync (after you have importet everything) select the albums on iphoto you want to sync back to the phone ..

so you have the important items on the phone .. and not loose anything.

i do it the same way .. i have a smart folder in iPhoto .. holding everything from the last 18 Months ..

and this folder will be synced ... so my iphone is "kept clean"

some older pics i still want to have .. so i just check the individual iphoto album to be synced as well.

rest is done automatically. (moreless)