Why SO many random DCIM Folders? I want ONE!

Lawrence Finch wrote:

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Using the correct tools you do NOT have to import "every single* new picture since you last imported. Any photo management tool gives you an option of what to import. ....It works the same way with Windows Camera and Scanner wizard; once you enable it the first time it will automatically open and display the thumbnails of your images, and let you choose which to import.

You mean these completely worthless thumbnails shown below? Can you see which pictures and videos are which? And no, there isn't an option anywhere on the screen to change the view within the wizard.

Everyone please raise your hand if you think this Windows 8.1 built-in Photos app import wizard would be useful to you. Anyone? Bueller?.....

drume wrote:

Apple's Windows drivers could easily show a single folder to Windows File Explorer just as it shows a single folder on the device itself. It would not require a change to the operating system on the device. IOS could keep its hidden multi-subfolder structure.

Please tell me how that is done

drume wrote:

And please stop referencing a non-existent "windows Camera Wizard". It hasn't existed since Windows XP.

Don't tell me what to do, especially when you are full of it. It's available for Vista, 7 and 8, you really don't know what you are talking about. Bye.

Csound1 wrote:

drume wrote:

Apple's Windows drivers could easily show a single folder to Windows File Explorer just as it shows a single folder on the device itself. It would not require a change to the operating system on the device. IOS could keep its hidden multi-subfolder structure.

Please tell me how that is done

Remember that Windows 8.1 "Import Pictures and Videos" wizard that I explained in my previous post? It can show it as a single folder in chronological order. Remember the iPhone? It can show it as a single folder in chronological order. Solution: program the Windows driver to do the same thing. Not complicated.

Csound1 wrote:

drume wrote:

And please stop referencing a non-existent "windows Camera Wizard". It hasn't existed since Windows XP.

Don't tell me what to do, especially when you are full of it. It's available for Vista, 7 and 8, you really don't know what you are talking about. Bye.

Ah, yes, foiled by the double-whammy "full of it" and "not the boss of me" arguments.

Oh, and by the way genius, that's not an import wizard.

"Installation"

"Import"

Not synonymous.

punimitsu wrote:

Thanks Lawrence!

Great to see someone actually being *helpful* in this so-called community 😉

I didn't manage to read the 15 pages of comments, so this is a really useful summary...

I got to page 2, and was rather shocked by the nasty, unhelpful comments from TKBUSMC1973, Csound1 et al...

If you only read to page 2 you are lying now. I have exactly one post on those 2 pages, it's posted below for all to read. Tell me how it is nasty? Or are you just making things up as you have nothing truthful to post?

Hallelujah, guess I'm doing it the right way now. 77 Folders down to 4. Kudos to Apple and all of us PC users. The picture below prior to update only showed a few. Post update is all of them. Can't wait to explore further. Thanks Apple!

Post Update

You addressed it to me, so I assumed that you knew what you were doing, apparently that was a wrong assumption, I'll bear it in mind.

PS, I won't request that this post of yours be removed like the other one, it says so much about your competence, I think it should stay.

Toodlepip JD.

You aren't addressing Apple when you post on this forum, just users like you. If you want to contact Apple, use the Contact Us links at the bottom of each page of this forum. If you want to send them feedback, use this link: http://www.apple.com/feedback

Now that you have identified what it is that Apple should do have you considered telling them? We are just users, like you (most of us without the Windows baggage) and can not do anything about it.

Tell Apple About It Here

Lawrence Finch wrote:

You DO NOT need a 3rd party tool. Windows Camera and Scanner Wizard is built in to every version of Windows since Windows 2000.

You've mentioned this "Windows Camera and Scanner Wizard" dozens of times, but as far as I can tell, it does not exist after Windows XP. So either tell us where to find this, or stop referring to a nonexistent wizard.

If you mean the Windows 8.1 "Import Pictures and Videos" wizard that I explained in my previous post, then you should call it by its actual name and point to instructions since it's not a tool users can find through a start screen search.

Csound1 wrote:

That kills iPhoto, Photos, Aperture, windows Camera Wizard, Image Capture, well you get it.

How selfish is it to break it for millions of people because you can't be bothered to use the correct tools.

Wrong. This is about changing Windows drivers, not changing IOS. Apple's Windows drivers could easily show a single folder to Windows File Explorer just as it shows a single folder on the device itself. It would not require a change to the operating system on the device. IOS could keep its hidden multi-subfolder structure.

The driver could simply duplicate the view available in the Windows 8.1 "Import Pictures and Videos" wizard that I explained in my previous post. None of the tools you mentioned would be negatively affected.

This is Apple's problem. Apple decided to create a bad Windows driver for Apple devices. Apple's device doesn't require any change. But Apple's drivers and software for Windows stink.

And please stop referencing a non-existent "windows Camera Wizard". It hasn't existed since Windows XP.

You're NOT talking to Apple when you post here (as has been repeatedly mentioned and was also in the Terms of Use you signed) - in order for Apple to know how you feel about this issue, you'll need to give them feedback directly at this link: http://www.apple.com/feedback

We're all just volunteer users here and telling us to "fix it" isn't doing any good.

This is what I just sent to Apple...

I use my camera on my iPhone 6 daily for work, taking up to 100 pictures/day. When I bring my phone back to my office, connect to my PC and open the DCIM folder, I am bombarded with dozens of sub-folders titled 805AHGFE, 986UTCMH, 924ZVRZN, and this goes on and on...

ONE single folder holding all my pictures, with the most recent at the top would change my life, and a lot of others as I have been a part of a forum on Apple Support Communities.

Please look into this and see what can be done as an update.

Have a look at other peoples comments concerning the same issue...

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6722009?answerId=28520513022#28520513022

Cheers,

Mike

I'm not holding my breath, but at least I did my part...

Hi ARPU99,

The only way to get photos that are on your phone from your PC, and to keep the ones that are already there, is to import the photos on the device to your PC first, then to go into iTunes and sync. You would select the Photos Device Profile screen once you hooked up your phone to the PC and selected it in iTunes, and then select the photos you want sync'd back to the phone.

If you only want a specific subset of the photos housed in your Photos app on the PC to be sync'd back, create an album of those photos, and then just select that album for the sync.

Here are instructions for the import:

PHOTO IMPORT IOS TO MAC/PC

And here are the ones for the sync:

Sync photos from your computer to your iOS device using iTunes - Apple Support

Best of luck,

GB

No, it definitely IS a feature, that allows iOS to organize photos. You should never need to see a DCIM folder if you use the correct program on your computer to access the photos. But that horse has already been beaten to death in this thread. If you insist on using the wrong tools you will continue to have difficulty. This is the right way to access photos: Import photos and videos from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to your computer - Apple Support. If you follow the instructions in that link you will never see a DCIM folder.

I am in no way offended by your contribution here. I just disagree. Strongly.

My bad if you think refuting your position is cold or mean. Not my intent.

To throw off a comment like "a few good ideas" is, IMO, much colder and ignores reality. End it up with a veiled threat to walk to Android and I'm the mean one? "Won't be the first time they blew it?" "do it the Apple way?" Sorry, but your post is a rant. One of many we see here when an Apple process, feature or "way of doing" things is considered anti-user. Truth told, for every user left wanting for control, there are 1000s who are very content just using their devices. In a way that Apple has decided works best.

You can't forget that Mr. Jobs was known for dismissing technologies and features "he" considered dated or obsolete. He alone pushed users away from established standards many times. Floppy drives, SCSI, Firewire, Adobe Flash.

You didn't answer my questions though about your users rooting around in your tables. There is a system in place in your databases to ensure data integrity. If you don't like Apple's implementation of data integrity, don't use it.

Apple does watch what "we" say and how we feel.

Tell them what you feel here >>> http://www.apple.com/feedback/