Camera roll

My camera roll is 17GB for only 177 photos. Why is it so large?

how big are the individual files you're dealing with? The size of the individual files determines the size of them as a whole. So if you have a bunch of 20 meg photos, it'll chew through the memory faster than 2 meg photos.

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Emails from camera roll saved to wrong folder -- IMAP Path Prefix Problem

I think there's a problem with the behaviour of the way picture emails are saved when you have an IMAP Path Prefix.
I have an IMAP Path Prefix of "INBOX"... i.e. my sent folder is Inbox/Sent. Any plaintext emails I send from the email application from the iPhone are correctly saved to that folder and I can see them in that folder immediately via the iPhone's interface.
When I navigate to the camera roll or photo album and send a picture email to somebody, and use the iPhone to go view the sent folder, they never appear in the sent folder. For a while I thought they weren't being saved at all, but I just discovered from my home PC that the camera roll app is indeed saving them somewhere: in Inbox/Inbox/Sent.
That's right--I now have a new Inbox folder inside my Inbox folder, with just a Drafts and Sent folder. Drafts is Empty, Sent has all the picture emails I've ever sent with the iPhone.
Bug? I think so... Emails emanating from the camera app are taking the IMAP Path Prefix twice instead of once, and then creating that Path Prefix folder if it doesn't already exist.
Anybody else with an IMAP Path Prefix experiencing this with picture emails from the camera roll?
Thanks,
Andi
Windows XP Pro

Ahhh interesting to find someone else with the same problem! It definitely happens when you send a photo message. My mac mail it shows my Inbox with a new nested sent items folder. I am using fusemail and the iPhone seriously messes with the folder structure. All sent items folders vanished for some reason on the mail server (but not in mac mail oddly) and I had to call technical support to make them reappear. I think this happened when I altered the Settings, Mail, Advanced settings, Mail box behaviour folders after having this problem with sent photo messages.
Now fusemail's webserver shows TWO Inboxes, one nested inside the other, and a "Sent Items" folder within the "new" inboxes.
Totally strange. I think there is a bug or two in the iPhone's IMAP software. Hoping for a bug fix soon, but until then perhaps a good work around might be to set the iPhone to store sent messages locally?

AiO remote can't send multiple photos to camera roll

After scanning 25 photos using AiO remote I want to send them to camera roll, but have to send each photo one at a time?
I can press edit which allows me to select all, but this does nothing, except DELETE? Also can't email multiples or send them to Dropbox in multiples, is that weird or what?
Any know how to contact HP about this? It does need fixing.
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@StanTheManII
Thank you for your feedback regarding the AiO app. I will be sure to direct this to the AiO app team.
In answer to your questions....
The app is working as designed. There is no current option to allow to multiple seletions to be copied to the gallery. The current design is to be done one at a time.
When emailing an attachment, you need to:
     1. make sure that your email is set up
     2. tap the share button while viewing the image, document or saved file
     3. tap email, compe and send the meail message
This allows for only the one image, document or file to be attached to the email. Again, the app is working as designed.
Again, I will direct your feedback regarding the additional features to the AiO app. Thank you for taking the time to post.
I am an HP employee.
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Why is my iCloud backup for photos 3.3 Gbs but I only have 12 photos in my camera roll?

After purchasing my iPhone 4S I performed a restore from backup that I had from my iPhone 4 (running iOS 4.3.5). Prior to doing this restore, I did not realize that my photos were not being synchronized from my iOS device and saved in that backup. So, the hundreds of photos I had on my iPhone 4 were lost in the transfer to my 4S; but then I noticed something odd. Upon closer inspection of my iCloud backup, my storage usage says my camera roll is taking up 3.3 Gbs of my backup! When I did the backup, I had only taken about 12 pictures on my 4S, there was absolutely no way those photos were taking up 3.3 Gbs of space. I was hoping that after synchronizing with iCloud that I would see all my old photos slowly pour in from the Photo Stream; but to no avail.
Is it possible that my iPhone 4 photos were in fact carried with that restore from backup, but are not showing up in my camera roll? If so, how do I retrieve my photos? So many lost memories!

That's odd. I can't imagine what else would take up so much space.
Have you any other Apps that have downloaded data
.. appdata and settings of apps, "preferences", saved games "levels reached" , and downlaoded stuff that are stored within an app ", for example videodownloading app that has stored content in the iOS are uploaded ..
Apps themself /Books/Music/etc are not uploaded to your personal cloud, they are held back by Apple in the store for future re-downloading options. So this can't also be the culprit.

Camera roll is no longer being copied to my computer.

Up until last week, my computer would copy my iPhones camera roll when I plugged in my phone to my computer using the USB cord. My computer used to see my phone as apple iPhone in "my computer". I haven't changed any settings in autoplay. I uninstalled iTunes and everything associated with it, but my computer still doesn't copy my camera roll nor does my computer see my apple iPhone. ITunes syncs my phone just fine, but I'd like to get my photos off my phone without having to delete every picture. Any suggestions would be helpful thanks!

This has nothing to do with iTunes. iTunes is not involved with the importing of photos from your iPhone's Camera Roll.
Have you tried using the Windows scanner and camera wizard?
When there are photos in your iPhone's camera roll, it should be detected as a digital camera also when connected to your computer.
What do you use on your computer for importing photos from any other digital camera?

HT4847 Camera Roll

Hi, if I store my entire Camera Roll on iCloud, and I have an additional storage plan that allows me to back up more data to iCloud then I can store on my iPhone, and then I delete pictures from my Camera Roll on my device, because I'm running out of space, will the backed up picture still be in iCloud?

The Camera Roll is only kept in the iPhone backup, while it is a backup, it is not a good place to keep your irreplaceable photos. If you lose photos and sync before you realize it, the old backup is replaced with a new backup which doesn't have the photos you lost. In my opinion even the iPhone backup should not be considered as a soul backup but more of a fast way to recover a messed up device. All content you do not want to lose should have multiple backups on your computer along with it's backups.
Photo Stream also has limitations and with many of the iCloud features it is intended more for sharing and syncing content between devices rather than backing it up.
Camera Roll on iOS devices should be treated like the old film cameras. Once you take pictures you should "develop" them on your computer and organize them using software on your computer. Keep the Camera Rool clean and only holding new photos till you can get them into the library on a computer. The organized photos can then be syncing back to Photos on an iOS device for showing off. Once on the computer these photos should then be backed up to external drives and optional cloud services such as Carbonite.

How can i delete photos in a folder from my Iphone 4s. when it was synced, the photos went to two folders and not to the camera roll

How can I delter photos in a folder from my Iphone 4s? When I synced the new phone from the Itunes, the photos went to two folders and not the camera roll.

thanks, should I delete all the phones on Itunes and re sync the old phone, then resync the new phone to get the pictures? Will they go to camera roll instead of a folder?

I am unable to email an image from camera roll. the image gets "stuck". cannot input email address or subject line. am unable to cancel and go back to camera roll

i am unable to email images from my camera roll. the image gets "stuck". cannot insert email address or subject line. cannot cancel... return to camera roll.
what to do. i tries taking new picture and sending it in an email... same thing... gets "stuck "
Waht to do ?

Hello lohmann8,
Thank you for providing so much detail about the issue you are experiencing with emailing photos from the Camera Roll.
The first thing I recommend is quitting and relaunching the applications on your iPhone:
Double-click the Home button.
Swipe left or right until you have located the app you wish to close.
Swipe the app up to close it.
You can find the full article here:
iOS: Force an app to close
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5137
If you are still seeing the same issue after quitting and relaunching the Photos and Camera app, I recommend restarting your phone and then resetting if it's still not working:
Restarting your device
Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button for a few seconds until the red "slide to power off" slider appears, and then slide the slider.
Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button until the Apple logo appears.
Note: Reset your device only if you are unable to restart it.
Resetting your device
Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button together for at least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
You can find the full article here:
iPhone, iPad, iPod touch: Turning off and on (restarting) and resetting
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1430
If the issue persists, the last thing I recommend is backing up and restoring your iPhone:
iOS: How to back up and restore your content
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766
iTunes: Restoring iOS software
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
Best,
Sheila M.

The difference between Camera Roll and Photo Library

I am a bit confused. I have, on my iPhone, pictures in 3 places: Camera Roll, Photo Library, and Photo Stream. I am not sure why iPhone make these distinctions but I want them all to end up in one place: my iMac central photo library.
I only have 3 devices, an iPhone an iPad and a desktop iMac. I manually sync my photos to my computer from my iPhone, and do not really worry that all photos get to all devices immediately. My question is this: How do I make sure ALL the photos from my iPhohe end up in my 'main' photo library on my iMac? Without causing duplicates. It seems like some of the iPhone photo storage locations sync and some do not; occasionally I get a ton of duplicates. It is confusing and I was hoping someone could help me streamline it. I know the iCloud is trying to make things easier, but sometimes it does not seem that way
Thanks!
Andy

I am a bit confused. I have, on my iPhone, pictures in 3 places: Camera Roll, Photo Library, and Photo Stream. I am not sure why iPhone make these distinctions but I want them all to end up in one place: my iMac central photo library.
I only have 3 devices, an iPhone an iPad and a desktop iMac. I manually sync my photos to my computer from my iPhone, and do not really worry that all photos get to all devices immediately. My question is this: How do I make sure ALL the photos from my iPhohe end up in my 'main' photo library on my iMac? Without causing duplicates. It seems like some of the iPhone photo storage locations sync and some do not; occasionally I get a ton of duplicates. It is confusing and I was hoping someone could help me streamline it. I know the iCloud is trying to make things easier, but sometimes it does not seem that way
Thanks!
Andy

How can I find/sync my old iPhone camera roll photos?

I've searched about 5 different ways here on the forums and can't find an answer to this question. I recently upgraded my iPhone 3Gs to an iPhone 4. I backed up the old phone and just sold it a couple of days ago. Here's my problem: I can't find the folder containing my (old) camera roll photos so I can sync them to my new iPhone. I'm aware that iTunes doesn't back up camera roll photos, however I understand they are saved as part of the standard backup process. Are they included in the "iPod Photo Cache" and, if so, can I use this to copy them onto my new phone? Note that I was unaware until today that I can save camera roll photos on my PC using Windows Camera and Scanner or Adobe Photoshop; I'll start doing that tonight so I'll have them in a separate folder from now on. I'm running Windows Vista on my PC, FYI.
Thanks,
Steve

Is there a way for me to save what's currently on my phone?
No. If you restore your new phone from a previous backup, all data on your phone will be erased & replaced with the data from your backup. However, if you don't want to do that you can see if this will recover the photos in question from your 3GS backup:
http://www.iphonebackupextractor.com/

I transferred some photos to my iphone via email and they come up in camera roll as low resolution. How do I fix this?

I transferred some photos to my iphone via email and they have very low resolution. First I sent them from iPhoto with highest resolution, then I transferred them to my desktop in highest resolution and added them to an email, opened the email and saved to my Camera roll. They all look like low resolution photos.This is the exact method I have used to transfer photos in the past with my 4S and never had a problem. What am I doing wrong? Is this a bad camera? HELP please! Thank you!

My husband has the same phone, we purchased them at the same time. I sent him the same photos in the same email that I downloaded them from and on his phone they show up with the normal higher resolution. Is it possible that there is something wrong with my iPhone or is there a setting that can be changed? I'm still learning to use it. All my other photos are of normal resolution. Does this make any sense to anyone?
Please help!
Deb

How can I get a video from my iMac onto my iPhone Camera Roll

I recently bought a Go-Pro, and make time lapse videos, but those are made on my iMac, and I want to transfer them to my iPhone's Camera Roll.
I can easily get them in the "Videos" folder, but problem is, I want to upload them to my Instagram account, so they have to be in the Camera Roll.
I read a few other topics that suggested using "DropBox" which I tried, but when I try to save the video on my phone, it either says "Exporting" for a few minutes then an error, or it says this type of file cannot be saved. Its a ".mov" file.

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Lost photos / camera roll after restore and update.

As the title says , I recently had to restore my iphone 3gs due to having problems with MAIL (problem fixed now.) but after doing a full backup and restore on the phone and update to the iOS 4 ( i think>) , I lost all of the photos that I had in the camera roll album folder , now I have loads of photos there that I do not want to loose ! I know there should be a way of getting them back from the backup but how ? Plus to prove even more that they are still there somwhere , when I connect it to the iTunes on my PC (Windows Vista) , under the yellow section bar it shows there are 315 (1.26 gb) photos on my device...but when I disconnect it and go into the album , there are 0 ! Now I have been reading about this online and people say that you basically take the images off your pc and sync them back onto the phone...but I havent got them saved on my pc anywhere...so where are they? PLEASE HELP me out on this one ,
thank you in advance.

The only place they may be is in a previous backup from before the restore. No Apple tool that I know of accesses these files within the backup file. There are reportedly some 3rd party tools that can get to the photos imbeded in the backup. The other option is to restore the old backup and then import the camera roll via iphoto or some other tool.
If you have no copy of the old backup, I think you are out of luck.
As you know by now, the iPhone's camera roll is treated as a digital camera, not as part of the sync.
For the second post, if you'd like Apple to add the import to the sync process, you can request that via the www.apple.com/feedback web site.
Thanks.

New Camera Roll backup/restore issue...

Hello,
I have a massive problem and cannot find an answer to this anywhere....so, i'm hoping someone here can help. (I'm not great with computers!)
I upgraded from iphone4 to 4S in February. I set-up with icloud, but turned off both the Camera Roll and a secret folder app to save icloud memory as they were enormous. I have regularly synced my iphone with my computer (windows, not Mac). I assumed that this saved all photos into itunes and onto my computer.
Today i got a replacement handset due to a faulty one. I made sure to backup to icloud and sync my iphone before going to the Apple store. I restored the new one from icloud in the store and plugged the handset into my itunes when i got home to retrieve my photos... Then the problems began...
I have lost all photos from the camera roll and secret photo app. I am desperate to retrieve them. The only backup my computer shows in itunes is February, when I first recieved and registered the iphone 4s... The last one i did this morning is gone, as are all the others
Have I been wrong to assume that if the photos are not stored to icloud, they are stored automatically to itunes? Are the photos lost completely or are they hiding somewhere? Any help would be much appreciated!!
I really dont want to have lost them!
Thank you

Dparrish209 wrote:
I went to iTunes, edit, preferences, device, and it showed my recent backups, and the back up i made is listed. Are you saying that even though this backup is on my computer, there is no way to access the picture files and transfer them to the phone?
You can try it.
Hopefully it will work, but thisd is not how you should keep your pics.

Removing photos/images from Photo Library (not camera roll) on the 3g iphon

Okay,
So i have removed all photos from camera roll one by one......... Now for the photo library, i want remove all pics from that,some are photos i took, some are shots i saved off facebook etcc.... while on the iphone safari browser.
but i have no idea what to do as there is no delete option on the phone for that folder....there is for camera roll, why they didnt have that function in photo library is beyond me...............
So basically could anyone tell me how to solve this problem, im desperate at this stage.
Im using a pc by the way, but dont hate on me for that

really the photos in photo library are only ones that were sent from my laptop to iphone during sync with itunes???
Correct.
If i contect my fone to itunes and just untick the synch folders box in photo tab should it remove all those pictures?????
Correct.

We can't get to the camera roll right now

I have a dell Latitude 10 table with Windows 8.1 RT. Last week I decided to unload all the pictures from the camera roll to my PC and I did it without a problem, but in the process I removed the camera roll folder under the public pictures library. Since
then, the camera app is not working and it gives me the following message: "We can't get to the camera roll right now". I've re-created the folder, set the default save location and public save locations to the Public Pictures folder but the error
keeps popping up every time I open the camera application. If I try to shoot a photo or a video it tells me that it couldn't be saved. How do I set the camera app to use the new folder?

I had the same Problem, and all experts could not help. I even dowloaded tools that say thy would fix the problem. Anyway as a matter of fact it still is a computer, no magic.
I found a way: Open regedit, search for "User Shell Folders".
Then check all the directories.
In my case one of the directories refered to the one I deleted. I just changed it and restarted my computer.
On my iconia it saves into this key:
I changed it | Keep the Name of the folder "Camera Roll" depending on your language it will rename the folder in the Explorer library automaticly. (in Germany to Eigene Aufnahmen)
{AB5FB87B-7CE2-4F83-915D-550846C9537B}
D:\backup pics\Camera Roll

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