ITunes converted my photos and I can't find the original files.
I installed iTunes on Windows Vista and synced my photos with iTunes. Now the photos are gone and some .ithmb files exist which I cannot look at. Also The structure I had organized my original photos in is gone. How can I get my photos back?
The ithmb files should be in the photo cache folder that iTunes creates when syncing the photos to your device, and your originals should still be in their original folders. If you go up a couple of directories from where you're looking at an .ithmb file then you should see the folders that you synced.
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