Camera Roll Can’t Handle 10,000 Pictures *FIXED*

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1. willie on July 30th, 2009 11:42 am:
   

   10000 pics on your phone? That’s the problem. The solution is take the pictures off the phone every now and then. Why would you want so many pictures on your phone? Doesn’t it take for ever to scroll down to the bottom 8000 or so pics?

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   Douglas on July 30th, 2009 8:35 pm:

   There is not actually 10,000 picture on there now. I take them off over time. There was only a few hundred at the time. I’ve just taken over 10,000 pictures/screenshots and the file names got that high. The iPhone stops displaying the images in the camera roll once the file number gets over 9,999.

   

   Phil Honore on August 8th, 2009 5:57 am:

   Hey guys I have “swapcameraroll” from cydia. It gives me two separate camera rolls would that mean I could take 20,000 pics! LOL
2. Ben on July 30th, 2009 3:21 pm:
   

   Thanks! Had the same problem and tried everything but the last step a few weeks ago. No everything’s back to normal.

   Greetings from Germany,
   Ben

   @ willie

   At some point the counter doesn’t work correctly anymore since FW 3.0. … So that weren’t actually 10.000 pics.

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3. Sal on July 30th, 2009 5:36 pm:
   

   Good Tip.

   But yea,not sure why you want so many pictures on there.

   But hey,it is your iphone not ours right.

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4. Justin on July 30th, 2009 9:38 pm:
   

   I was going to get an iPhone too.

   Oh well…;)

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5. EYEPhone on July 30th, 2009 9:50 pm:
   

   Needless to say! The answer is under your chin!

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6. Cihan on July 31st, 2009 9:09 am:
   

   i had the same problem a year ago, after installing snapture. the pics were missing after shooting. i’ve ssh’ed (or browsed with-in iphone can’t remember) to dcim folder and saw there were a few empty folders. I’ve deleted them and everything was back to normal.

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   Steven Hale on October 12th, 2009 8:41 am:

   Please explain how to do this.
   What is ssh?
   What is dcim folder? Where is it?
   Obviously I’m not a techie-someone help please!
   Healingmeditation@hotmail.com
   Thanks,
   Steven
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8. brauner on August 3rd, 2009 3:17 pm:
   

   I had the same problem, and you fix worked PERFECTLY. Thanks a TON for sharing!

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9. Rachel P on August 7th, 2009 7:37 pm:
   

   THANK YOU SO MUCH!!

   I had the same problem. While I only had 80 photos in the Camera Roll at the time, I’ve taken so many in the past that the file name exceeded 10000. But after deleting the 100 APPLE folder (which was empty anyway), it reset the file counting and now the file name is down to 0001! Don’t think I’ll have to worry about this problem for a while. =)

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   REUBENZiNO on August 26th, 2009 1:01 am:

   hey, this is really buggin’ me!… it won’t let me delete that specific folder, (100 apple) or any of them… did that happen with you?…
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14. Richard Mackney on August 15th, 2009 5:25 pm:
    

    Hi, I have this problem tonight. I only have 20 photos in the camera roll! I remove the photos every month, but have still only taken 1,000 not 10,000 photos.

    I’ve checked and have a load of empty folders -I’ll delete and hopefully this will sort the issue.

    Thanks for the post

    @richardmackney

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    Steven Hale on October 12th, 2009 8:22 am:

    I have the same thing – took about 750 photos but only 515 show up on the screen.
    I don’t know what “ssh” means or even how to do what you’ve instructed to fix it. Can anyone help?
    Thanks,
    Steven
15. kgh on August 15th, 2009 11:39 pm:
    

    thank you!!!

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17. Andrew on August 19th, 2009 1:48 am:
    

    I just had this same problem. I had taken photos off of my iPhone and moved them to a flash drive I have. I was using my mom’s computer that I got her since it has Vista and you can copy photos, as I’m sure you know your iPhone will restart if you delete an image with XP.

    Well, I thought I messed up my phone and I was going to have to restore. All of the fixes I found used a mac-specific program (phoneview). I saw this and tried iPhonebrowser to no avail. Then I realized, iTunes may need to be installed first (remember, I’m using my mom’s computer, not mine) . I installed iTunes and reopened iPhoneBrower and it worked!

    Thanks for the very helpful information!

    ~Andrew

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18. Alex on August 24th, 2009 3:58 pm:
    

    Yes! I bought PhoneView in July but only got around to using it today (8.24.2009). As Douglas posted (July 30, 2009), I had a whole slew of those “100Apple to 999Apple” folders. First, I moved all 3,000+ photos and screenshots from the Camera Roll to a folder on my MacBook hard drive. Then I deleted them from the iPhone 3G. This was *much* easier and faster than using iPhoto’09, which tends to crash if I try to delete more than 150 images at a time.

    Then I simply selected all the 100Apple to 999Apple” folders using PhoneView 2.2.3, clicked Delete, and disconnected the iPhone 3G. I shut it off and turned it back on for good measure. My camera photos and screenshots show up fine now.

    PhoneView is very handy for many other tasks, and I recommend investing a $20 for it. Anyone who can afford an iPhone, or just a good case for an iPhone, can afford that.

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19. Rufus on August 30th, 2009 7:25 am:
    

    A way to view all pictures again on your iPhone is to use the free App PIXELPIPE. This is a temporary fix for viewIng and mailing/uploading them in case you are travelong withouthaving access to your computer.

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20. Mandy Van Cleave on September 2nd, 2009 6:27 am:
    

    I had this problem with only 1650 pics. No where near my 16GB capacity. It’s faster easier to “Keep all photos” rather than delete allthem put some back, although I have made a folder I sync called Put Back on iPhone

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21. Richard Mackney on September 13th, 2009 4:27 am:
    

    Just a quick followup on my last post.

    I used an App called Mobile Studio to delete the empty 100APPLE folder (plus others) and now the camera is taking pictures and storing them correctly. It’s naming the pics from 1 again so don’t overwrite any you may of already saved with the same file name on your desktop.

    I was glad to fix this while on the move, as I was on holiday with no desktop access!

    Thanks for the post.

    @richardmackney

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22. David on September 18th, 2009 6:37 am:
    

    What is SSH?
    I see the folders in Vista but it does not allow me to delete them.
    Would iPhonebrowser resolve this?

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23. David on September 18th, 2009 7:52 pm:
    

    iPhonebroswer worked flawlessly.

    Thanks for the help.

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24. Steven Hale on October 12th, 2009 8:05 am:
    

    I am Thrilled that you found a fix for this. I’m a photographer and I take many, many photos and soon enough I’ll reach 10000. I don’t know what that software for the mac is but i’ll look for it.
    I had already called Apple Inc. and out of three tech support people, two had absolutely no idea what I was talking about and the third said he was an engineer and this problem was just announced at it’s last update meeting, and as of now there are NO plans to do anything about this, “…because it is of such low priority and very rare…”
    That was discouraging. In a short time the problem will affect droves and droves of heavy camera users. Sooner or later Apple will have to do something about it.
    But your fix is encouraging. Thank you.
    Steven

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25. tonestones on October 17th, 2009 4:57 pm:
    

    Freakin’ awesome!!great fix Thank you soooo much!!

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27. Listy on October 26th, 2009 4:23 am:
    

    Is there anyway to restore the photos using iPhonebroswer?

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