The Braseltons

Ok, Tammy already had this problem.  I fixed it.  I forgot how I did it and then I had the same problem.  Sheesh.  I’ll write it down now.  I hope this can help someone.

iPhone model: iPhone 3GS/3.0 software.

Problem: You have several pictures in your camera roll and take another picture.  The picture does not appear to have saved to the phone.  You can connect the phone to your computer and import the photos that you took but they still do not appear on the phone.

Solution (Mac only – sorry Winders): Download the demo version of an application called PhoneView.  Run the application with the phone connected.  Change the preferences of the application by clicking “Show Entire Disk (Advanced Disk Mode)”

Click "Show Entire Disk..."

Close that and now you can look at the iPhone as a normal volume.  Your objective is to delete “/DCIM/.MISC” from the phone.  To do this, double click “DCIM”.  Then, highlight “.MISC” and click the delete button at the top of the PhoneView application.  That’s it.  Use your phone as a camera again.  All is good!

There was a write-up that I got that information from but it said to delete the entire “DCIM” directory.  This would cause you to lose your photos.  I did not want that so I played and did the minimum to make it work again and also not losing the valuable photos on the phone.

Observation: The last two operations that I did with the camera that could have caused this problem were – Trim a video and also save a picture from Mail.app that my wife sent (from another iPhone 3GS/3.0 software).  I suspect the database file that maintains thumbnail information is corrupted.  I would assume that either of the operations that I did before the problem could have caused the problem.