Backing Up Iphone Photos

1. Open up iTunes with the iPhone plugged in.
2. Click the iPhone in the sidebar and then go to the Photo tab.
3. Find the folder where the pictures are located. The default location that pictures are saved would be "C:\Users\accountname\Pictures" in Windows or /Users/accountname/Pictures on a Mac
4. Click the checkbox next to "Sync Photos from" and Choose the folder that contains the pictures.
5. Click "Apply" and iTunes should automatically start syncing your pictures from that folder to your iPhone.

What it did when you updated the iphone software is that it created a backup within iTunes. You can see it if you go to Edit>Preferences and then click the Devices tab. On a mac go to iTunes>Preferences and Devices tab. It will show the iphone name and date of the backup.

So what you want to do is right click on the device name on the left of iTunes and choose "restore from backup". Then choose the file showing on the date of when you guys updated the iphone software. This will then add the information from the backup including photos that were taken with the iphone (not ones that were synced from a computer) and put those back on it.

For more info follow this articles and will show you what I just explained and also where the backups are located depending on the computer and OS that you have.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766

They are in file on the computer that can be seen but i dont think you can access the information inside the file itself. The information is in this article.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766

or here

On a Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/

On Windows XP: \Documents and Settings\(username)\Application Data\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\

On Windows Vista: \Users\(username)\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\

Make sure that "show hidden files and folder" is selected under Tools>Folder Options> and View tab.

No these files could be accessed with your iphone disconnected at any time. As long as the folders and files exist on the computer then you would be able to access them.

FYI:

When you find the backup file, you won't be able to do anything with it, it's a SQLite database file & unless you have special skills and software, there's nothing you'll be able to extract from it, if that's what you were thinking of doing. The only program I'm aware of that can extract from that file is a Mac only program:

http://supercrazyawesome.com/