Hundreds of photos have disappeared from iPhoto on iPhone4

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Hundreds of photos have disappeared from iPhoto on iPhone4

I was emailed 6 few hi res photos - average 4M each - when downloading they seem to have caused iPhoto to crash. Got a message "rebuilding library". When it was done the photos seemed all mixed and out of some 3000 photos only 1500 can be viewed. Have they been lost? How do I get them back?

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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.4), 2.4 GHz Intel Core i5, 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3

Posted on Jan 7, 2011 3:58 PM

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jlindh

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Jan 7, 2011 5:52 PM in response to tags23

I'm a bit confused here. You've posted that there are photos missing from iPhoto. This is an iPhone forum and iPhoto is a program which resides on your computer.

From where are the photos missing, your phone or computer???

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Jan 7, 2011 5:55 PM in response to tags23

You have or had 3000 photos in your iPhone's Camera Roll that have not been imported by your computer with iPhoto or with the Image Capture application?

If not, why on earth not?

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tags23 Author

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Jan 8, 2011 5:02 AM in response to Allan Sampson

Yes, my post can be confusing, as it's my girlfriend's iPhone 4 having the problem. I don't have an iPhone and am not familiar with the correct terminology. What I called iPhoto on iPhone must be the Camera Roll or the app that allows you to view photos either taken by the phone or emailed to it.

No downloading of photos to a computer have been attempted. The photos previously viewable on the iPhone cannot be seen. And this problem occurred when a few hi res photos were emailed to the phone.

She did it take to the Genius Bar but sadly this particular genius wasn't entirely a genius. Problem not resolved.

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Jan 8, 2011 5:41 AM in response to tags23

The iPhone's Camera Roll is for temporary storage only.

The Camera Roll stores photos/videos that were captured by the iPhone, and where photos saved from a website, from a recieved MMS, or from a received email are stored. Photos/videos in the Camera Roll can and should be imported by your computer as with any other digital camera. When there are photos/videos in the Camera Roll, the iPhone is also detected as a digital camera when connected to your computer and there is a reason for this as with any other digital camera.

Photos/videos in the Camera Roll are included with the iPhone's backup which is updated by iTunes as the first step during the iTunes sync process, but so is a significant amount of other data. If the iPhone has been synced regularly with iTunes on her computer and has not been synced with iTunes since the problem occurred, it may be possible to recover the photos from her iPhone's backup on her computer. There are a number of 3rd party utilities that provide for extracting select data from an iPhone's backup on your computer.

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tags23 Author

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Jan 8, 2011 7:22 AM in response to Allan Sampson

Thank you Allan.

We have not been very good backing up with iTunes. Last time July 10. We'll now try it and hopefully they 'missing' photos will show up.

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izrihel

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Jan 26, 2011 8:56 PM in response to tags23

I have the exact same problem. I took photos at a birthday party earlier today and sent 2 through email and now 12 recent pictures are gone... its like they were never there... This is very frustrating. I did nothing for these to be gone.

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