how do i delete my camera roll to free up usage space

Thanks, Tim - this worked for me!

I had the same problem with JPG, Tim's post solved my problem.

(i delete about 1GB of thumbnails too, maybe created by iphoto)

If you are using your iPad with a Mac, as opposed to a Windows box, you should try the MobileGo for iOS application. Multi-select and deleting is much easier using it.

I also have a Camera Roll with apparently 4.3 GB of photos - I had only five photos. I have used iExplorer (via my MBA) to view this and sure enough the photos only took up very very little space. Then I deleted the photos - in photos on iPad Camera Roll now did not appear I assume because it was empty but in settings / storage it still showed up as 4.3GB, iExplorer showed no folder. I then used iPad to take a new photo which went into Camera Roll and shows as a 1.2MB file in iExplorer. I import via camera connection kit a fair number of JPEG photos (no RAW) over last few months (some with GPS data) most of which are then deleted? I am at a loss as to how to recover the 4.3GB that Camera Roll is taking up - fair amount of 60 odd GB available. Any suggestions?

with iexplorer go to ipad/photos/DCIM, here you should find some directories called 101apple, 102apple... some of these directories will be empty, but some will be full of your 4.3gb of photos.

Mauro thanks for the tip but it does not work. When I go via iExplorer ipad/photos/DCIM I cannot find any folders / directories named 101apple, 102apple etc. I can find one folder called 100APPLE if I go ipad/media/DCIM in same tree there are many folders starting 100IMPRT, 101IMPRT etc some are empty some have JPG photos. I did try and delete some as a test but even with clicking "delete" on the warning "are you sure you want to premantly delete ...." pop up it does not delete - could be because I am using a trial version of iExplore?

Thanks for the help - need to get rid of the 4.3GB!

So , i had the same problem

Syncing almost 3000 pictures from iPhoto from all the events ,

Everytime it asked me to delete the pictured from camera roll i opted NO.

To clear out all the pictures in camera roll , First sync all the photos in iphoto then it asks to delete the photo click yes ,, then when it doesnt find new photos to sync it shows a button like saying "delete photos from your IpHone" click on it and then delete photos and your camera roll is zero.

Worked for me , almost 5gigs of space cleared since i just hav a 16gig iPhone

Thanks Ishiboy ,

That helped me 🙂

This worked for me:

Iexplorer demo version

Go to this folder:

Media\PhotoData\Thumnails

I had 500MB+ of thumnails in about 4 files.

Delete them all.

Don't know how they got there. Everything working fine thumbnails wise. Maybe some old photo app did something whacky that I don't use anymore.

Thank you for this thread! Iexplorer was the way to go.

Hi I was just wondering how you deleted the files? did you use iexplorer or something else because the demo version does not allow me to do this

After plugging in and connecting your iPhone to iTunes, go to the photos tab. There, it says "Sync photos from" at the top. I had the bullet for All Photos, Albums, Events, and Faces checked. When I selected "Selected albums, Events, and Faces, and automatically include" and NO EVENTS present in the scroll menu, it got rid of all of the streams of photos and freed up 3GB of space on my iPhone without having to download a program or delete anything.

Just thought I would share since I'm trying to free up space on my iPhone for iOS7! FINALLY.

🙂

ishiboy's solution worked for me. Deleted all of the photos on my camera roll, but it still showed 2.8mGB of usage for it. Connected ipad to mac, opened iPhoto, went to iPad device. Clicked import, even though there was nothing to import. Got the "delete photos?" dialogue and clicked yes. Camera roll usage went to zero.

I was able to do it on demo version of iexplorer running on a pc

Tim - How did you delete from the DCIM file? I bought the license version and still can't do it. Have 5.1 GB of old photos I need to clear in this file. Can anyone help on this?? Thank you!

Thank you Tim!! This problem was bugging me for a while...

Right, for anyone still unsure exactly what to do...

1. First download iExplorer from www.macroplant.com.

2. Once this is done, open the programme and select 'Continue to run demo version', and connect your iPhone/iPad to your PC/MAC.

3. Once your devise is visible in iExplorer, select the dropdown arrow beside 'Media' on the left hand menu, and then select the DCIM folder.

4. I'm not sure whether the amount of photos you had determines the amount of sub-folders in the DCIM folder, but for me, there were 4 folders called APPLE100 - APPLE104 (from memory).

5. Open these folders and all your photos (that are causing the usage to show photo content) should be there. To delete these, RIGHT CLICK and select DELETE. You can delete the whole folder of photos without effecting the device function. This is all available in the demo version, as this is what I did.

6. Check your usage, hopefully you should see the 2858203GB of non existant photos has disappeared!