Photos missing randomly

I upgraded my iphone 3 to iOS 4 and some of the pics are missing from camera roll. The surprising fact is that the missing photos are random, I mean they not not most or least recent, nirther it is a contionous chunck of photos. For each of the events I have covered using my phone only acouple of photos are now available in camera roll.
Any one has seem this issue or how can I recover th missing photos.
KR,
Asad

erica.shell
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The ! or ? turns up when iPhoto loses the connection between the thumbnail in the iPhoto Window and the file it represents.
The most common cause of this is User Activity in the iPhoto Library Folder.
Have you altered, moved or renamed anything in the iPhoto Library Folder?
If you haven't, then try rebuilding the database. Hold down the apple and option (or alt) keys and launch iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild.
As to the apparent duplication of the pics in the iPhoto Library Folder: A Note about the iPhoto Library Folder:
In this folder there are various files, which are the Library itself and some ancillary files. Then you have three folders
Originals are the photos as they were downloaded from your camera or scanner.
(ii) Modified contains edited pics, shots that you have cropped, rotated or changed in any way.
This allows the Photos -> Revert to Original command - very useful if you don't like the changes you've made.
(iii) Data holds the thumbnails the the app needs to show you the photos in the iPhoto Window.
Regards
TD

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