'Photo Library' vs. 'My iPhone photos'

When I sync my pictures, it appears both in Photo Library and as the synced folder - is there any way to avoid this?

In a word, no.
All photos transferred from your computer via the iTunes sync process are stored in the Photo Library. If you transfer multiple folders or albums of photos, the photos in the folders or albums are not duplicated. The photos in the folders or albums include a pointer to the original photos stored in the Photo Library. This way you can view the photos in a folder or album only by selecting the folder or album, or you can view all photos available in all folders or albums by selecting Photo Library. This does not make as much sense when transferring a single folder or albums of photos, but you cannot avoid this and no harm done since the photos are not duplicated as in taking up double the storage space.
This is no different from an iTunes playlist, an iPhoto album, or an Address Book Group. Music placed in an iTunes playlist is not duplicated. The same for a photo placed in an iPhoto album, or a contact placed in an Address Book Group. A song cannot be in an iTunes playlist unless the song is in the main iTunes library, a photo cannot be in an iPhoto album unless it is in the main iPhoto library, an a contact cannot be in an Address Book Group unless the contact is in the main Address Book database.

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    OT

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    I have gone into iTunes library to delete it from there, but I don't have a "photo" option.
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  • HT4528 How do you delete pictures from your photo library on your Iphone 5?

    I would like someone to please explain to me how you delete pictures from your photo library on you Iphone 5.

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  • How can i delete the photo library in my iphone 4 with ios6

    how can i delete the photo library in my iphone 4 with ios6

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  • Need to backup and remove photo library form my iphone.  This library was previously backup on a hard drive that crashed.  So these photos are only in the photo library and not in the camera roll.  If I do a full backup, it only takes the camera roll.

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    Let this be a very important lesson learned.
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  • How can I delete photos from photo library on my Iphone 4s?

    Hello,
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    I have looked on line for some solution but am confused by the answers given I am using a laptop not Mac.
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    If the photos that you are wanting to delete are also in your Camera Roll then you can delete them from the camera roll

  • Hi,  iTunes is no longer syncing my iPhoto library to my iPhone 4. Everything was syncing fine when I first got the phone, but, over the past week or so, it's stopped syncing photos.   Now, after attempting to start from scratch by deleting all the photos

    Hi,
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    Now, after attempting to start from scratch by deleting all the photos on my iPhone, iTunes won't sync ANY photos from iPhoto back to my iPhone. I've restarted my phone, computer, etc., force quit all photo-related apps on my iPhone, and tried various combinations of turning iTunes' photo syncing on/off, switching photo sync folders, etc., all to no avail -- I can't get my iPhoto library back on to my iPhone no matter what I do.
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    Try deleting what is called the iPod Photo Cache. 
    http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1314

  • HT201302 i can not delete photos from photo library from my iPhone 4

    i can not delete photos from photo library and onother folder contain same photo in the photo library from my iPhone 4
    thnx

    Delete them the same way you put them there.  The sync process.  Deselectg the album in itunes and sync.
    Photo Album contains ALL synced photos and you can also view those exact same photos, not duplicates, from the albums.

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    TD

  • After updating to IOS 6.0.1 I cannot copy photos from the iPhoto library to the iPhone. The events appear correctly but the photo count in all the Events is 0

    After updating to IOS 6.0.1 I cannot copy photos from the iPhoto library to the iPhone. The events appear correctly but the photo count in all the Events is 0

    Same problem here, and it's not isolated.
    https://discussions.apple.com/message/20228281#20228281
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  • HT4236 (PC) When I sync a folder of photos, they sync to the generic photo library on my iPhone, but it creates another folder with duplicates of the pictures. How do I prevent/get rid of this second folder?

    (PC) When I sync a folder of photos, they sync to the generic photo library on my iPhone, but it creates another folder with duplicates of the pictures. How do I prevent/get rid of this second folder?

    Um... that does not contain "duplicates".
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