#MAC IMAGE CAPTURE PATCH#
An app called Graphic Converter seems to be one possible method for circumventing this problem until such time as Apple is able to patch the issue in a future update. It's unclear what exactly is causing the issue, but it only seems to affect transferring photos from other Apple devices, not a digital camera. The blog notes that this bug would mean 1000 photos could eat up 1.5GB of extra storage. Step 2 Choose the file format from the left menu, which you can select photos, music, videos, contacts, messages and others.
When you need to convert the HEIC photos, you can click the Toolbox option. Connect the iPhone to your MacBook with the original USB cable.
#MAC IMAGE CAPTURE FOR MAC#
This requires you to uncheck the "Keep Originals" option in the settings for that iOS device, as shown here.Īpple's Image Capture will then happily convert the HEIF files to JPG format for you when they are copied to your Mac.īut what is also does is to add 1.5 MB of totally empty data to every single photo file it creates! Step 1 Download and install the Image Capture for Mac alternative, launch the program on your MacBook. Top: In many ways, Image Capture is like a mini iPhoto use the slider in the lower right to change the thumbnail sizes. Reply Helpful (1) Thread reply - more options. Look at these options in Image Capture to turn it off: Regards, Colin R. iPhoto can do that nowadays, but sometimes that’s like using a bulldozer to get out a splinter. 7:32 AM in response to joaomcarvalho In response to joaomcarvalho. If you connect an iPhone or iPad to your Mac, and use Image Capture to transfer the photos you took with the device to the Mac, you have the option to convert the HEIC photos taken by iOS to more standard JPG files. Image Capture is a smaller, faster app for downloading all or only some pictures from your camera ( Figure 10-14 ).
A new bug in Image Capture seems to be adding 1.5MB of empty data to photo files, filling up your Mac hard drive.Īs reported by MacRumors, the bug was discovered by NeoFinder Blog which states:īy pure chance, we have discovered a very disturbing bug recently that is able to quickly fill your macOS volumes with empty data.