DISQUS

stefanjames · 5 months ago

Hi there,

I recently backed up my iPhone 3g using the 'sync' method and then restored it to factory defaults.
I now have noticed i cannot see any of my pictures from the Photos menu in iTunes and am wondering where my pictures have been synced(backed up) to?


If you have any idea let me know
cheers

Dale Dietrich · 5 months ago

If you had pictures on your iPhone and you sync'ed in the past, those pictures were likely copied over to your PC, even if you didn't have it set to delete them from your iPhone.

My suggestion is to take a picture, then do a sync, and follow were that picture goes. It's likely your other pictures are there too.

When the Import Wizard comes up, there is an "Import Settings" link (as you can see above - at least in Windows 7). When I click on that before importing the picture you can change the default location for pictures and videos. Whatever the default is set at is likely where your pictures are.

On a related note, I always find it amusing when my iPhone apps tell me to make sure to backup the apps data before upgrading the app. Well, how the hell do I do that? And, even if you could, there's no way a consumer can restore the data. I wish there was some directory in the iTunes directory structure that users could access to manually futz with their data and recover backed up data. I don't know of any.

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