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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1901847" data-attributes="member: 396914">OK, that works, but you have a couple of steps you can avoid. First, you can import directly from her phone into Photos and skip the Image Capture/file/folder stuff altogether. Open Photos, click on File on the top bar, then Import. With her iPhone attached, you can then select in Photos what of her images you want to import. They end up in the Library from where you can create the date album and drag/drop the images to that album. Much easier set of steps. Now, if you follow that process, you won't have the images AS FILES on your Mac. You've stepped over that process and put the images directly into Photos. If you want them as files on the Mac, you can select them in Photos, then File/Export and pick where you want them to be saved on the Mac, including to an external drive if you want to have a backup like that. Hope that didn't confuse you too much, it's pretty straightforward.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1901847, member: 396914"] OK, that works, but you have a couple of steps you can avoid. First, you can import directly from her phone into Photos and skip the Image Capture/file/folder stuff altogether. Open Photos, click on File on the top bar, then Import. With her iPhone attached, you can then select in Photos what of her images you want to import. They end up in the Library from where you can create the date album and drag/drop the images to that album. Much easier set of steps. Now, if you follow that process, you won't have the images AS FILES on your Mac. You've stepped over that process and put the images directly into Photos. If you want them as files on the Mac, you can select them in Photos, then File/Export and pick where you want them to be saved on the Mac, including to an external drive if you want to have a backup like that. Hope that didn't confuse you too much, it's pretty straightforward. [/QUOTE]

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