Empty picture folder n8 belle

Hi all.
Unfortunately, I made the error of upgrading my N8 to belle.
Among many other DISASTERS of this ***bleep*** system, when I now connect the phone to my computer (in any way you like: mass storage, OVI, Bluetooth, either in MAC or Windows ambients) there is no way of seeing ALL the photos I have in the telephone. Some of them appear, some don't.
Please, please people from Nokia: could you tell whether there is any way of seeing and transferring them all?
Please, Nokia people: just acknowledge the fact that you inserted a BIG BUG (actually, more than one, but let's talk about this one for the moment) in belle. Please do it, and fix it quickly. Believe me: having lost the possibility of transferring photos is little more than extremely annoying.
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Dear Mr. Tesla,
thank you for you reply and suggestions. I have succeded in finding the pictures in the DCIM folder. However I did this in a way that, please forgive me, is rather absurd. Let me explain.
Under Wndows 7, I connected the telephone and the Nokia Suite (version 3.3.89) popped up.
Only some of the pictures in my telephone were displayed when looking at the picture icon of Nokia Suite (don't know why some appear and some don't).
In addition, I found no ways to access the DCIM folder through Nokia Suite. Rather, I had to go to the Windows Start button, looked under "Computer", found the N8 inside it, browsed the N8 and finally found the DCIM folder.
No doubts that doing this is nothing bad, but isn't it absurd that I can not use the Nokia Suite to browse a Nokia telephone?
As for the idea of reinstalling Belle or even hard-resetting the phone... I hope you will again forgive me, but in no ways I am keen to do this. I have payed, downloaded and installed some apps on the telephone. Once, when I trusted Nokia enough, I could be sure that all the apps would have gone back to their functionality after reisntallation. Now - forgive me - I believe that I am lucky enough to have found a way to sneak through the bugs, and I prefer to stick to this state rather than getting into new troubles.

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And the confusion over time about which Photo is the real one.
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That imports your old library into iPhoto and will give you duplicates of all photos and triplicates of modified photos - the way to move your iPhoto library to a new machine is to connect the machines together - via a network or firewire target mode - drag the iPhoto library (if there is one) on the new machine to the desktop and drag the old iPhoto library intact as a single entity to the pictures folder of the new Mac and launching iPhoto on the new machine - there is no importing involved
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How to delete my pictures folder[about180GB]

how to delete my pictures folder[about180GB]

Quit iPhoto, Preview, and all other applications that might have opened one of the files. Drag the folder to the Trash and empty.

Pictures folder has turned into a package!

I'm hoping someone may be able to help with a strange problem. My Pictures folder has transformed itself into a 'package' and wants an application to open it, but there isn't an option to select the finder! I can open it by right clicking and everything is there, but it isn't accessible from 'Image Capture' or for iphoto, which appears to have started a new library for itself, perhaps mistaking the 'picture' package for the library as there are files in there which are usually in the iphoto package. Is there any way to tell the folder not to be a package any more??? It seems to have happened after I restarted the computer (which I did because there were some photo files in the trash which I couldn't empty, and restarting sorted that!!)

Thank you. I tried deleting the plist as you suggested but no change unfortunately. I also tried repairing permissions, and there are some items it says cannot be repaired but no idea what they are?
"Permissions differ on "private/var/log/secure.log", should be -rw------- , they are -rw-r----- .
Permissions differ on "System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.usbmuxd.plist", should be -rw-r--r-- , they are -rwxr-xr-x .
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/Filesystems/AppleShare/afpLoad" has been modified and will not be repaired.
Warning: SUID file "usr/bin/setregion" has been modified and will not be repaired.
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Install.framework/Versions/A/Resources/runner " has been modified and will not be repaired.
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/Printers/IOMs/LPRIOM.plugin/Contents/MacOS/LPRIOMHelper" has been modified and will not be repaired.
Group differs on "private/etc/cups", should be 0, group is 26.
Permissions differ on "private/var/spool/cups/cache/rss", should be drwxr-xr-x , they are drwxrwxr-x .
Permissions differ on "Library", should be drwxrwxr-t , they are drwxrwxr-x .
Permissions repair complete"

"My Pictures" folder deleted/moved from My Favorites sidebar in Finder – How to retrieve?

I accidentally moved "My Pictures" folder from the My Favorites sidebar in Finder, and I can no longer find the folder. I've searched "all my files" for a My Pictures folder and nothing has come up, not even in the trash (that I haven't yet emptied). I am wondering if there is anyway of getting this folder back, as I had several pictures and folders organized within that My Pictures folder. All of my pictures are somewhere still on my computer but even they are hard to locate now without them being in any folder. Would be a HUGE pain to have to re-organize every single thing that was in that folder. Please if somebody has a solution, do share! Thank you!!!

Okay, so I actually just figured it out.... If anybody is wondering/has the same problem with any folder:
I went into Finder>All my files> Search and typed in "Pictures" and then went to the "gear looking icon" and clicked Search Criteria. Then changed the second option from "Document" to "Folder". (This explains why none of the folders were showing up). I then dragged the following folder back into "Favorites" sidebar. See Pictures attached.
Thanks for the help anyway.

Lost Pictures Folder

I inadvertently deleted my pictures folder in an attempt to free up space. Fortunately I was able to retrieve them out of the trash and put them back in iPhoto. There are now duplicates of all photos. When I delete doubles to trash and then empty trash it deletes both copies.
!. How to I recreate pictures folder
2. What can I do about all the doubles
Help!

Your lucky you saved them, I lost all of mine!

Automatically import photos from Desktop Pictures folder

I've already seen that the "Auto Import" requires an empty folder in order to work. This doubles the amount of work required to add photos. Photos have to be moved from the camera to the empty folder, then after Lightroom autoimports, the images have to be moved to the appropriate folder in Lightroom and on the desktop. Boy, that's a great timesaver Adobe.
I have nearly 20,000 photos in my Pictures folders. These are obviously organized into folders. The largest of my folders is my Travel Photos folder, because I'm a travel writer. In the Travel subfolder, I have subfolders for each county, state/province, and city I've visited. When I return from a trip, I move the photos into the appropriate subfolder.
How to I get Lightroom to automatically find these new photos without going through the manual import process -- which is far more efficient than the Auto Import?

I want autoimport to monitor my Pictures folder (E:\Pictures). When I try to modify the settings, it tells me that I can only direct autoimport to an empty folder. With 19,000+ images, my Pictures folder is far from empty.
There appears to be no workarounds according to the Lightroom user manual from Adobe. The manual says that autoimport cannot read subfolders.
This is definitely an upgrade that's needed. I can't imagine how any photographer would want to go through all the extra work for the autoimport.

Empty picture folder n8 belle

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