Invisible iPhone photos ***FIX***
Thursday, August 13, 2009 at 7:22PM | Glyn Evans You may recall I recently posted about a problem whereby if you had more than 10,000 photos on your iPhone, then any photo named IMG_10000 or higher would be invisible in the camera roll. Well whilst I have not experienced this problem myself, it looks like the Apple iPhone School may have found the following fix.
- Sync your iPhone to backup and copy all photos off your camera roll using your computer.
- Use a directory browser such as PhoneView for Mac, iPhone Browser for PC or SSH to delete these folders.
- Now just take a picture and you’ll see it shows up in the camera roll. I noticed that taking a screenshot still used the old numbering scheme. I went back and deleted everything again and rebooted my iPhone and then it works fine.
Note from Editor: I can not vouch that this will work, so anyone trying this does so at their own risk :)
UPDATE: Reader SCW pointed out in the previous post about this problem, that when you reach IMG_11526 the next shot IMG_11527 will become visible, so if the above does not work for you, then get shooting and all will be revealed again.
Hopefully this problem will be resolved in OS 3.1 due sometime in September.
Source: Apple iPhone School
Invisible iPhone photos in Tips
Reader Comments (7)
it worked for me, more or less. most pictures are visible now, but i'm getting the occasional odd thing happening, such as today i used polarize on a picture and only 1/3 of it entered the frame. the other 2/3 was blank. which, as i'm just manipulating stuff at the moment to see what i get, didn't bother me.
but still...other quirks as well, which i can't recall right now. mostly i'm wanting the camera to do what it's supposed to do.
btw, exactly what i did was this: i used ifile (cydia app) to go to /var/mobile/media/DCIM and deleted all folders there. all. i put my photos onto my mac first.
my phone was also storing old photos from months back, even after numerous restores, re-jailbreaks, and total upgrade to 3.0 and setting up as new phone on totally new mac.
it appears that deleting those folders fixed everything. i don't know it it created the little quirks i'm seeing now or if my phone's just wearing out from taking zillions of photos (i have a first gen).
correction: *all* photos i take show up. i said *most* for no reason at all. distracted, i guess.
Glyn,
I have phoneview & have done that everytime. Nothing worked.
Did you not read my reply to your original post about this where I mentioned the reason & the fix... Or method to get back to img_001
scw
@SCW. Just updated the post with your suggested fix, the downside to your fix, is the need to shoot another 1,500 photos :(
Yes I agree but... It happened & seems such an odd # then to reset after is just even more strange.
I had the same problem, I used Roll Swap to get the filmroll empty. Once empty you can take photo's again ...
The SSH thing did not work out for me at all....
Just picked up "Roll Swap" as Yves suggested and all is good now!