IPHOTO SYNCS 2 YEARS WORTH OF iPHONE PHOTOS EVERYTIME

Every time I sync my iPhone photos in iPhoto is syncs pretty much EVERYTHING!!! I have 20 copies of every photo. When I first connect it on the import screen it says it's syncing from 9/9/2008 to the current date. How can I change that so I quit having so many duplicates??

Bad news I'm afraid. iCloud only keeps the last 30 days of photos. Your device will keep some old iCloud photos around - up to 1000 photos - but those ones aren't actually on iCloud any more. It's one of my pet hates about iCloud Photostream, and it has caused a lot of people to lose data. It's a very bad design decision on Apple's part.
There are file recovery programs that might be able to recover the deleted photos from your handset, but I can't remember the names of any right now. Stop using the phone completely until you can run a file recovery program to maximise the number of photos it can restore. Preferably, switch it off completely.

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