Photos are split between multiple DCIM folders in Windows

That's perfect! Thank you.

As a summary for everyone, to get the files listed and to do it in the order the photos were created:

Connect your iPhone to your PC

Go to your iPhone folder under "This PC"

Go to "Internal Storage". You'll see the PCIM folder.

In the Search bar, enter "*" (without the quotes). You'll see all your files listed, plus the folders that contain those files.

Click the View tab and select Details

Click the View tab, click Sort By, and click the Date Created AND check the Ascending.

You should see all the files in the order they were created.

If you want to copy just the photos to your PC, be sure that the FOLDERS are NOT selected before copying them; ONLY the photos to copy should be selected. Otherwise, you'll end up with double the data.

Dont think there is anything u can do to make all the photos in the same folder. apple has done this to make it faster.

also one of the folders is now just for videos i have noticed.

U could always add them to apps like facebook and save them again to your cam roll. a long process tho.

I have a safe photo app(not the name of the app i have). that is good to move pic back to the cam roll as i can select alot of photos at a time.

you can add photo to this app by itunes. or add photos from your iphone within the app its self.

Yeah i am facing this problem too. a few others as well. it is just so sick with all those weird folders inside DCIM where you can't even rename them or delete them.

Is there really no solution for this?

By the way, this only happened when i connect to my laptop at home (windows7 32 bit). It didn't happen when i connect to my PC at work (windows XP). But if you are saying that all those weird folders also appeared on your phone then it's scary man! So far it's looks fine on my phone.

Come on apple, please do something. This is really a bug to be fixed.

It seems like this is a solution:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3413263

but I am too nervous to do it and to messing around with the files....

SERIOUSLY APPLE ARE YOU GOING TO EVER ADDRESS THIS? THIS HAS BEEN A PROBLEM FOR OVER TWO YEARS.

sorry for the caplocks. 🙂

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pixelchild wrote:

SERIOUSLY APPLE ARE YOU GOING TO EVER ADDRESS THIS? THIS HAS BEEN A PROBLEM FOR OVER TWO YEARS.

sorry for the caplocks. 🙂

This is only a problem if you don't understand how digital cameras work or are intended to be used. The DCIM folders on your computer are created by the program that you used to import the photos. They have nothing to do with the iPhone, and it will happen with every digital camera that you import photos from. DCIM folders are intended to be TEMPORARY STORAGE; you are expected to move your images to organized albums and delete the DCIM folers after you have done so. sorry for the caps.

ah. doh thanks.

hi lawrence. first off thanks for your help and reply. secondly i've had several digital cameras and they haven't exhibited this behavior.

the main issue we have is that this happens almost without fail when the firmware is upgraded. i am not sure why this does it but between that time, i can take 1000 pictures and the folders never split. then when our phones are upgraded, it splits in three or four folders.

Dear all.

i think it is a matter of windows only

im facing same things and i discovered the following :

1- the folders in DCIM is deviding the pictures based on picture no.

in my case it is devided like this:

img_199 till img_999 for folder MZO

IMg_1006 till IMg_1999 for folder GTMA

and so on

i think pictures between 1001 and 1005 deleted by me one day.

anybody have same situation ?

My Nikon D5000 DSLR does exactly the same thing. I suspect it is because access to folders slows down the more files you have in the folder, so splitting them makes sense.

But what difference does it make? You should never have over 1000 photos on your phone in the Camera Roll. You should transfer them to your computer frequently, then add just the ones you want to keep on the phone to albums in the Photo app. If you leave them on the phone and don't back up regularly eventually something will happen and you will lose them. If you do back up regularly 1000 photos will take forever to back up and take huge amounts of storage on your computer in the backup.