Photos disappered after sync

First, let me apologize for the lack of details. My brother and sister in law both have iPhone 3G's. My brother preformed a sync to iTuenes with no problems. Later, he tried syncing his wife's phone. After a week, she noticed her pictures were gone. He looked on the Mac and found no trace of them (we've searched everywhere, but any suggestions are appreciated) Also, the contacts on the phone are now a combination of both phones. Odd thing is, when we attached her iphone up to the mac, it shows as an attached device, but it had the same name as my brothers phone (ie: Ken's iphone). I was able to change the name of the phone and they now show as different names when I swap them. When my brother hooked up the wifes phone, he swears he did not click on anything that said delete photos during the sync process. Any ideas.

All that happened because there are multi-iphones on that iTunes app! Also when you sync you iphone and if you click it (name of iphone) it should show the summary of your iphone. Next go to the option tab, music for example, if that is checked every idevice that connects to that iTunes app you on your computer it will sync every piece of music. To prevent this just uncheck that music tab for example. Also i would uncheck everything because you have multi-iphones going into that computer. hope this helps!

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