Blank files in DCIM folder

I wanted to copy the photos / videos from the iPod Touch onto my PC's external hard drive. When I opened one of the folders, I noticed that there were 82 "files" that had no name, no extension, but all in the range of 700 - 740 kB each. They won't open.
What are they, and how to do I safely clear them from the device?

What shows under the Photos app on the iPod?
Can you delete them from the DCIM folder?
Connect the iPod to your computer and look at the storage used by the various categories as shown in the colored bargarph in iTunes.
Come back with the results.
An "other" larger than about 1 1/2 GB indicates corrupted files.
What is the Other on my iPhone and How to Remove It

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I have 2 iphones syncing on one computer and on the same apple ID. Before i updatad my Itunes to the last available update and my Iphones to 5.01 i had no problem draging jpg. and mp3 files into my iphones DCIM folder (the picture folder that opens when c

I have 2 iphones syncing on one computer and on the same apple ID.
Before i updatad my Itunes to the last available update and my Iphones to 5.01
i had no problem draging jpg. and mp3 files into my iphones DCIM folder (the picture folder that opens
when conecting to Itunes). Since my updates Itune wont let me drag and drop any files' even pictures that
were taken with my Iphone on 4.3.3.
Please help as we have no itunes music in Israel, only apps and i cant copy any of my old music from my computer
to my iphones.
If it helps, i am using a pc with 32 bit windows 7.
Other from the obove Itunes works fine and does sync pictures from my computer to my Iphone from "my pictures" folder.
Thank you for your time
Yoni Bliss
[email protected]

The title of my initial post is a bit misleading. I already took a chance deleting one of the iPhones, hoping if I deleted the wrong one, I can still reauthorize it (all with the same Apple ID acct, so not subject to 90-day waiting period, right?) The iTunes database just updated itself, and it says I have 4 "devices" "in the Cloud", but 5 "computers" associated w my account. How can I find out what computers are associated? Isn't there a list I can see? I dont have a clue what computers they might be. If I use the "Deauthorize All" option, is it a pain to add them all back in. I assume I would have to log in from each computer to reauthorize each one. Would I have to be running the newest OS or version of iTunes to reauthorize? I think I have a PowerBook G4 Titanium with an older OS and iTunes. I'd like to keep that authorized, if possible.

Blank files appearing in User Folder???

Hello,
I'm not quite sure what to call it, but my "user folder" contains Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Movies, Music, etc. in Finder. It's the folder that is my name.
Anyway, I've noted that there are a bunch of random blank files that have appeared in this folder, such as:
}%FB%F500
1%BC[
9$%92%E2%8F%F9prS}{r%92
YZh2%D6
It says there are all plain text, and zero KB.
Does anyone know what these are and why they have appeared? Will it mess anything up if I just delete them?
Thanks!

I remember having things like that pop up when using some open source app.
I can't recall which one it was, but something to do with time management or mind mapping.
I guess (at least in my case) it was probably sloppy programming leaving behind empty temp files.
I'd just trash them.

Plug iphone 4S in PC with Win 7 showing empty DCIM folder, but up one level see the Internal storage with multi tens GB occupied. how to fix? thx

1/ plug in my iphone 4S (iOS 6.1.3) unlocked to PC (window 7)
2/ window explorer open and see "Apple iPhone" icon and clicked
3/ see internal storage icon telling me GBs of ize used
4/ click in and see DCIM folder
5/ double click and nothing inside
can anyone help please?

Are there pictures in your camera roll? Windows does not handle viewing the iPhone in Explorer very well. It will give you an idea of how much space is being utilized in the phone, but it is not really that accurate. You do not have access to anything else via Explorer except photos that are in the Camera Roll. No other files can be accessed and you cannot add files to the phone via Explorer.

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HT4101 Camera connector kit not working with ipad3. Not at all able to see any photo . Have tried both the USB connector directly with camera and thru card reader. Tried by copying photos to DCIM folder also.

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Hey, thanks for your updates.
The photos are 8 character long and extension is .jpg
The file names are 8 characters long with 3 as alphapet followed by an "_" and then 4 numbers.
Initially the photos were in a folder inside DCIM folder. I manually copied them to DCIM folder, still no result.
Can you advice.

Why can I only view the DCIM folder?

Im trying to back up my music from my ipod to my windows 7 but when i go to the folders in the ipod i only see the DCIM folder and I noticed it's categorized as a digital camera... Is there anyway i can change this so i can move my songs back onto my computer?

Did you install iTunes? iTunes is the only way to back things up and sync content, unless your device is jailbroken. But that's a different story.
The reason why you only see the DCIM folder is mainly for security. You don't want a virus on your computer to mess around with the system files in your shiny iDevice, don't you? What you see instead is just a list of photos that you have saved from the internet or taken with the camera.

HT1766 how do i restore the dcim folder?

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MDIS skipping import of blank files

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I have a situation where in the Inbound Port at times a blank text file /0KB file arrives . Since the port is set for automated polling the blank file also gets picked up and moves to the Archive . However there is an integration process which needs to write contents /data in that file .This process of writing has a time lag of few seconds . Since the file has moved to Archive by that time the process do not find place to write its content .
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I would suggest if you are using PI as middle ware to send this 0 kb xml file at ready folder, you can stop this in PI.
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I have a requirement in witch i have to pick 7 different file from seven different folder.
for this I am using advance selection tab and defining all the other folder path.
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