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How can I get all new photos/movies added to my iPhone to be auto-downloaded into a specified folder each time I connect the iPhone to my Mac? (without deleting the downloaded photos/movies from the iPhone)
The "Image Capture" and "AutoImporter" apps seem to only be able to download all photos each time, which means that unless I choose the "Delete after import" option, I get many duplicates for each import.
Try the free AVCHD to MOV Lite on the App Store to convert it to MOV format, and then import to Photos. This will remux the video (convert it without reprocessing/converting the audio or video) losslessly.
(Hat tip to How can I convert .MTS file (AVCHD) to .mp4 by ffmpeg without re-encoding H264 video stream? ).
I'd go for the 'not quite cave-man' approach - though still a bit manual...
Launch Image Capture.
Plug in iDevice
Select any/all photos you wish to delete
The Delete button is at the bottom of the window [the 'no-entry' sign]
After comments - the button is still there in Yosemite.
Update Nov 2015 - the button is still there in El Capitan, though it is now black & white, not red.
Picture updated to Image Capture 6.7 after further queries on the button not being there.
Update July 2016, as people are still missing this bit...
Best Answer
The forum build of DropBox will do that for you. I'm not sure if you can specify exactly what folder (by default it goes in a folder called 'Camera Imports' in your dropbox folder). It will even earn you more space.
http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=57787&replies=7