HT201302: Import photos and videos from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
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Q: how do i delete picture folders from my iphone 5C?
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Feb 13, 2015 10:08 PMby ChrisJ4203,Synced photos have to be removed the same way they are added. Connect the device to iTunes, select the device, go to the Photo tab and remove the checkmark by the folders. Sync again, they should be gone.
And what do you mean you manage them manually. You cannot add photos to the phone manually.
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Feb 14, 2015 12:05 PMby beatwithit,since I have no picture folders checked to sync, should I sync with the choose folders to sync tab on and try to remove that way? i don't want to have any photos synced, and since the folders that did somehow sync have the names of existing folders from my computer, but have random pictures from my camera roll in them, i want to make sure I don't mess up the original folders.
what i mean by manage manually is that I pull pix that I want to save from the phone to the computer, not the other way around.
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Feb 14, 2015 1:24 PMby ChrisJ4203,Checking and unchecking photo folders in iTunes will not affect the photos that exist on your computer. You cannot delete photos from the computer that way. I'm not sure exactly how you ended up with the photos on the phone, but if you do not have a checkmark by sync photos, then create an empty folder on the computer in the area where iTunes is recognizing photos. On Windows that is generally in the Photos folder. Then with the device connected to iTunes, select the phone, then select the photo tab, and put a checkmark by the empty folder, then sync. That should sync the empty folder, so no photos will sync and it should remove what photos are there. Then you can go back into iTunes remove the checkmark from that folder and then sync again, which will remove the empty folder.
I would say that manually moving photos from the DCIM folder on the phone to the computer, via Windows Explorer can cause issues. Others have reported issues with handling photos in that manner with the newer Windows. I would suggest using the Windows Import utility and you can even delete photos with the utility when you import them.
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Feb 14, 2015 1:43 PMby beatwithit,that sounds like a great idea with the empty folder. i'll give that a try.
as far as manually moving pictures, i do it that way, so when saving pictures from my phone, i can put them directly into the different photo folders on my computer.
Plus, unless i am not understanding correctly (which is entirely possible), when you sync, isn't it an all or nothing transfer based on folders you have checked? I have about 200 photos that i keep on my phone to be able to access and show people. If i sync, will i have to manually update the photos on the phone?
likewise, if i use the import tool, won't it grab all of my photos, and not just the most recent pictures.
you mentioned the DCIM folder on the phone. I had one folder for the longest time, now i have nine folders in the phone, some with three pix, some with 40 pix, and all of them with multiple hard drive icons in the folder as well. is this happening due to my manual actions? I don't know what to delete or not....
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Feb 14, 2015 6:38 PMby ChrisJ4203,Syncing photos will sync whatever photos you choose from your computer and sync to the phone. If these 200 photos are from the computer, you had to have moved them there somehow. I have thousands of pictures on my computer, but only a small selection on my phone. I created a couple of folders that I put photos in for my phone. Some that are family, and then a folder of others, so if I decide to share with others, I can determine what folder to open for them to see. If these photos for you to show are in the Camera Roll, that is a different story. The sync process is the only way to get photos back to the phone from the computer.
As far as the import, to me it is much easier to manipulate locations from the computer. I import all of the photos from the phone. That puts them in a single folder named with the date imported. I can then move them into different folders there, instead of having to view through the phone, or trying to figure out what is where in the DCIM folder in Explorer. However, once you import photos they are marked by the computer as imported. Then the next time you decide to import, it will only import those you have not already imported. This would be important for you if you decide to leave them in the Camera Roll. The other thing is, the phone storage for photos is rather dangerous. If something happens to the phone and you have not been importing/copying them to the computer on a regular basis, you risk losing important photos. I cannot count how many times I have read users commenting how they had important photos on their phones, in the thousands and have never copied/imported them to the computer and lose everything when something happens to the phone.
The mess you are seeing in the DCIM folder can be one of several reasons. If you edit photos on the phone, it seems the newer iOS and newer Windows has created these additional folders and things and they are displaying things as multiple hard drive icons in Explorer. That is one of the reasons I don't pick and choose in Explorer so that I do not corrupt the photo file storage on the phone. If you are taking a photo or two out from a folder contained there, it will leave some there and then create a new folder. This action is similar to the way a digital camera creates the folder system on an SD card. Usually a folder is good for a certain number of pictures and a new one is created when the numbering system gets to a certain point, generally every one hundred pictures or so. Each operating system is different.
I realize some of this information is my opinion, and you do not have to take any of it, but I hope I answered your questions.
