Xperia Photo Transfer... to where?

[Stephanella]

Hello everyone,

Today I upgraded the OS on the Mac and I immediately hit a snag when Sony Bridge for Mac, which I use to create back-ups of my Sony Xperia phone and to transfer files, would not find my phone any longer. I eventually got rid of the software completely as Apple was useless when I contacted them for advice.

I downloaded Xperia Companion and proceeded to a transfer of 1700+ images from my phone to Photos. It completed without any issue, except... I cannot find my images in Photos. Can anyone please advise me on where the actually files are found in the Mac? If Xperia Companion states the transfer completed, then the images must have gone somewhere on the Mac, even though I cannot see them through the Photos interface. Even though I selected 'Photos', it really doesn't look like they went there.

Thank you!

Steph

 

[IWT]

Hi Steph, and welcome.

I'll do my best to answer your question, then maybe you will permit me a few additional comments.

1700 pictures are not easily lost!

So one way of looking for them is:

Open Finder. On the ver far right, top, is the Search Field.

type in - kind:jpeg or kind:jpg

Over to your left you will see "Search" and next to it "This Mac" and possibly other choices. Click on This Mac.

You will now be presented with every file (photo) which is in the jpeg/jpg format.

Scroll down the list till you recognise a photo from your iPhone. To do this, you will need to Click to highlight the images.

When you find one from the iPhone, Click on it and it will reveal the Path to its destination at the bottom of the Finder Window. That's where they are.

(The most likely destinations (apart from Photos app where you have looked already), are Pictures, usually found in Mac HD > Users > Your Name > Pictures. Or in a File created by Experia, which could be anywhere but possibly in the same list as Pictures.)

So try that and report back, please.

My comments: why not just connect your iPhone via USB cable to the Mac, Open Photos app and Import? No need for third party apps.

Anyway, first things first. How did the search go?

Ian

 

[badshoehabit]

Following on from what Ian says, open Finder and have a look in both 'Most Recent' and 'Pictures'.

 

[IWT]

Actually, Sue, that's a faster and easier way. Should have thought of that myself.

Although my way will work fine, I should have suggested that she should Click on the "Arrange By" icon and choose Date to bring up the most recent.

I have this slight niggling doubt that the photographs may not have been transferred to the Mac - don't know why.

Ian

 

[Stephanella]

Thank you all.

I am at a bit of a loss to be honest... Ian, I have followed your suggestion and have located the photos, although only SOME of them. First of all, I am not on an iPhone, as I said in opening, I use a Sony Xperia and therefore I cannot import images straight from the phone to the Mac, I have to use secondary software, be this Xperia Companion [which I have] or Android File Transfer [which I never tried]. That being said, all of this palaver started today after I installed that blasted new Apple OS [I should know better than to do something like this the first time I get prompted... I should wait for the software to be stable, argh, will I never learn!].

So, once Xperia Companion worked, it said it had transferred ALL pics and videos [1700+] to Photos, as I had instructed it to do. Except I have nothing of this import in Photos. The files have ended up in a random folder on the desktop. Not all files have been transferred there, only a few hundreds. All others are nowhere to be found [other than on the phone itself].

I have had a look at Photos itself as I also have an iCloud account and have noted that in recent times [three weeks ago or so, when I last did this] approximately 2500 files did NOT uploaded to iCloud. No idea why.

Currently the situation is as follows:

I cannot try and perform another transfer from Sony Xperia to Mac because Xperia Companion tells me that the Mac is running out of space [too right, there are already 22000 files in Photos];
I cannot find the other files from today's transfer that, apparently, went into the Mac, except not in the same folder as the others I located earlier [so where are they?];
I am trying to transfer these 1700+ files to the Amazon Photos cloud but, apparently, it is only trying to upload 756 instead of all of them [why I don't know].

In short, I need to clear my phone because it is close to bursting [the Xperia takes 23mp images, you can imagine the SIZE of the lot in there], AND I need to chuck these files from Mac to cloud, any cloud, because my Mac too is close to bursting. It used to work just fine and now it's a mess.

I should also state the obvious: I have nothing related to this recent upload in folder Pictures. Does anyone know where the files in Photos go? Which folder? I can only access them in Photos but where do they RESIDE?

Many thanks again.

 

[IWT]

Does anyone know where the files in Photos go? Which folder? I can only access them in Photos but where do they RESIDE?

Oh, that bit's easy. Your Photos app puts all its contents into the Photos Library which be found and accessed here:

Open Finder > Macintosh HD > Users > YourName > Pictures > Photos Library.photoslibrary

The rest of your horrible experience is more difficult to sort out. I apologise for assuming your phone was an iPhone.

Steph, I know you recently upgraded your Mac and I can see your specs under your Avatar, but which OS did you have before and which do you have now? macOS Mojave I presume?

And it might help if you can tell us how much storage you have and how much of that is free/unused. Opening Disk Utility (found in Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility) and Clicking on your Mac HD will provide the info.

I suppose I must also ask you what your Backup (BU) strategy is: Time Machine? Cloned BU, eg Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper!?

Ian

 

[ferrarr]

Maybe try Image Capture (in your Applications folder)? It will transfer from most storage devices, and put the photos where you direct it. Then, when you want, you can add them to Photos.

 

[Stephanella]

I have 251GB of storage of which 32GB is available. Approximately 103GB are docs, practically all video/images. I quite simply would like to get rid of them from the machine so that I gain space for music creation which at the moment takes up 66GB and counting. I don't need all of these 24000 files on here but I would like a bit of a better system... I don't like it that I have half a year on Amazon Cloud, 22000 files on iCloud [why not the other 2500 anyway], some in a random folder... on and on.

I used to have High Sierra and now I am on Mojave yes.

As for Image Capture, according to it, there is no device connected [nonsense, of course there is, it's sitting right here with its USB cable plugged in!].

I have an external HD [2 or 3TB going by memory], but I have put nothing on it as yet, and really ought to. I only have images to back-up, although I must confess that I have 10 years on discs. Yes, a HARD COPY BACK-UP. Yikes. You can tell I used floppy discs... LOL!!!

Thanks for your patience... I just want all of my pics in one place, iCloud would do, but even that isn't complete. *kicks chair*

 

[ferrarr]

As for Image Capture, according to it, there is no device connected [nonsense, of course there is, it's sitting right here with its USB cable plugged in!].

The phone needs to be turned on, for Image Capture to see it.

What I did was get a seperate external drive, and I moved al of my media files onto it.

 

[Stephanella]

Yes, sure, the phone is on and unlocked, but according to Image Capture there is no device at all connected. I will go the separate drive route too because, frankly, I am sick of uploads that get me only half-way there...

 

[harryb2448]

Steph if you upgraded to say Mojave, maybe the Sony software also needs an update. Shoot them an email and asks what gives. It was a non worker with Sierra OS X.12 on release so who knows? read this:-


https://briansmith.com/mac-os-10-12-sierra-warning-sony-camera-users/