Photos take up too much space

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Photos take up too much space

With iOS 6 on my iPad 3 / HD the Photos & Cameras section in usage takes up 1.1GB of space. I have no Photos synced on the tablet and the Camera Roll is 1.0GB even through there is nothing on the camera roll. How can I redeem this space? Where has it gone? I tried swiping my finger to delete Camera Roll but it did nothing.

When I add a photo and then delete a photo, it changes from

Camera Roll 1.0GB

Photo Library 100kb

Photo Stream 4MB

to

Camera Roll 0 bytes

Photo Library 141MB

Photo Stream 936MB

and NO photos are in the photo app at all, nothing

iPad, iOS 6

Posted on Oct 8, 2012 1:38 AM

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Jun 10, 2013 5:58 AM in response to kaveman743

There are many similar requests here - here is my fix to the problem. I use the Camera Connection Kit to retrieve RAW photos from my camera memory cards. I had 2.0GB in the camera roll despite having only 6 photos on the roll. Rebooting, deleting camera roll had no effect.

I used the demo version of iExplorer (www.macroplant.com) to look at the files on my iPad. Under the DCIM directory, there were a number of directories representing attempts of the connection Kit to import files. Many of these had the raw file still in them despite all the imports being deleted, at 25MB per time. Deleted all of these individually - I now have 1.2GB of additional space with no impact on the camera roll function.

I have noticed that I had problems importing raw photos. Often I would click on import and the process would fail. I would then repeat until it worked. Potentially therefore these left-over files represent failed attempts to import photos where the file was taken on but where the import subsequently failed.

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