Q: Storage query?

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.