Photo Usage

My daughter's iPad is showing I have 499 photos taking up 4.1 GB of photos on my iPad, but when I go into Photos, there are not any pictures on my iPad in Photos or Albums. I have turned off iCloud Photo Sharing and Photo Stream. Also, I do not have any photos sync'd on iTunes. She needs this space to install new apps and perform Software Update. Any suggestions? Have iOS 8.1.3

I figured it out for my iphone. Same issue: lots of usage (1gb) to 'photos and camera' under iPhones storage stats even though I have no photos or videos on my phone in any app. Solution for me:
I went to settings - general - usage - iCloud - manage storage - select ur phone then a list of all the things to be backed up appears, specifally camera roll. Turn off camera roll backup and when it asks if u want to delete the backup say yes since obviously nothing is on ur camera roll to back up now anyway even though it says a lot like mine said 1gb mistakingly. Of course then turn it back on. Then it will update to the current real size (went to .5mb but better than 1gb). And at that point my storage in general updated my 'photos and camera' size to .5mb as well. I guess the phone's storage count reflects iCloud's figures not what actually is on the phone.
And even before this solution iTunes said I had nothing in camera storage but there was 1gb 'other'. Now it's back to normal. All these problems started when i ran out of space even thiough my iphone said i had nearly 2gb free. but then iTunes said I had 4gb 'other' and 1.3gb free (which one is right, iPhone or iTunes stats?) so I restored as new and unfortunately my iCloud stored camera roll used to restore photos were all blurry and it was a pain to get them back on camera roll correct (had to use my computer's stored photos) and it lead to these more new issues. Store ur photos on ur computer too in case iCloud does this to you. But I still had that 1gb other until I tried the above!

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Disconnect all wired peripherals except those needed for the test, and remove all aftermarket expansion cards, if applicable. Start up in safe mode and log in to the account with the problem. You must hold down the shift key twice: once when you turn on the computer, and again when you log in.
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The login screen appears even if you usually login automatically. You must know your login password in order to log in. If you’ve forgotten the password, you will need to reset it before you begin.
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Marcin
Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
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Hello all,
I recently started using Aperture 3.4.5 and i like it a lot.
The only thing that is a bit frustrating is the fact that when I export additional files to my NAS and select already exported files, aperture just exports them without asking to overwrite the old ones or skip them. It just exports the files as "picture345 (1).jpg"
This means I have to manually delete the files afterwards.
Is there a way to prevent exporting pictures that were already exported.
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Jurgen,
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