all photos not showing up when connected to PC?

I was trying to transfer my photos to my PC and when I open the folder on the PC, it doesn't show all the pictures. There are at least 50 more photos on the phone than are showing on the "folder view" on my PC.

what gives? and how can I get those more recent photos onto my PC?

3GS, iOS 4, Toshiba laptop/ Windows 7

Posted on Aug 1, 2010 8:02 AM

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Aug 2, 2010 8:18 AM in response to iggyandspike

iggyandspike wrote:
I was trying to transfer my photos to my PC and when I open the folder on the PC, it doesn't show all the pictures. There are at least 50 more photos on the phone than are showing on the "folder view" on my PC.

what gives? and how can I get those more recent photos onto my PC?


I notice you are a windows user... Are you importing them via the Digital camera wizard or file explorer?
This is what I'd try:
Import the ones you can see, then delete them from the iphone, then restart the iphone and reconnect it to the computer to see if the others show up.

Aug 2, 2010 8:19 AM in response to Douglas B. Evans

Douglas B. Evans wrote:
Same problem. Photos on my camera roll won't show up on my computer, no matter what I do.

Generally the iphone 4 does not sync photos to my computer. Very, very buggy.


Douglas; If you are trying to extract photos from the iphone camera roll, you need to import them as if from a digital camera. For windows, use camera wizard or file explorer.

If you'd like more specific help, please add your computer type and operating system to your profile.

Aug 2, 2010 1:39 PM in response to red555

I have had an iPhone for several years and have never had this problem before and have always used file explorer to import the photos.

I thought maybe the problem was that those photos came after I synced the phone last (never mattered before) but even after syncing the phone, they don't show up.

I just checked again and it's still doing the same thing, but now it's really strange. Yesterday, the last file shown on file explorer (with phone hooked up to PC) was 4574.MOV (last picture 4573.JPG) with a total of 1399 items. Today, the same file shows as the last file, but it says there are 1413 items.

this is really odd....

and the newer pictures still aren't showing up at all

Aug 6, 2010 8:29 PM in response to red555

I just realized that every time I delete all the photos off my phone, it starts the tile numbers back to 1000 or 1001, so if, say, I take some photos and put them in a folder on my PC and delete them off the phone, and then take some photos the next day of the same subject and want to put the pics in the same folder, I can't because the filename/number will be the same, so I end up having to make date subfolders.

Kindof a pain if u ask me...

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