Cannot access photos on the phone - iPhone 3G 16GB
Hi there
I am no longer able to access the photos on my phone - even though I have a suspicion they still exist. Background info as follows:
I was transferring photos from my iPhone 3G recently to my WinXP PC at work, I had about 200-odd photos (quite a few of which I wanted to keep), and the phone rebooted part-way through and stopped transferring. I got about 15 of my 200 photos. From memory, the Windows transfer wizard also froze. I read up on a few threads in this forum about the phone rebooting, but they didnt seem to help (unless i didnt find the right thread).
The problem I have is this:
I can no longer access the photos on the phone. If I go into the Photos from the home screen, I get "No photos. You can take photos using the camera or load photos onto your iPhone using iTunes" - much like there are no photos.
However, i'm suspicious they still exist, because occasionally i'll come across something in my phone that still displays one. Contacts - sure, because they're in the contact file. But surely things like my background/wallpaper arent, and that still currently shows a photo that was in my photo album.
In addition, the iPhone no longer appears as a camera device on my work computer, or my home computer, so something is obviously wrong. It just doesnt pop up. It does however show in iTunes, so the connection is fine.
I'm also looking forward to upgrading to iPhone OS 3.0 on public release, but should I hold off? Is this likely to extinguish any remaining existence of my photos when it updates?
I saw suggestions (via Google) of the photos being in a differently numbered folder - 999APPLE or similar that i'd be able to access via SFTP, SSH, etc. but these all seemed to apply to Jailbroken phones, which mine isn't, and I don't intend it to be.
Please help! I may have a few family members wanting to kill me if some of those photos are gone! All suggestions greatly appreciated.
Welcome to the discussions,
If you did not backup or sync your phone afterwards or have an old backup of your phone, your pictures are probably gone. And only photos taken with the phone would be part of the backup, in reduced quality, as all photos are optimized for viewing on the phone.
iTunes places the backup files in the following places:
On a Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/
On Windows XP: \Documents and Settings\(username)\Application Data\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\
On Windows Vista: \Users\(username)\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766
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