iPhone DCIM Folder

Andybtsn · 8 Aug 2018 at 23:33

Hi all,

This has happened as long as I can remember but does anyone know why a number of folders are created in the DCIM?

I copy pictures off my iPhone regularly and store them on my Laptop. I lose track of what has been moved off as I'm not copying them from one folder! It's really frustrating, I have scrutinised both 117APPLE and 118APPLE and can't work out why there isn't just one folder storing all the pics?

Thanks,

Andybtsn · 9 Aug 2018 at 19:49

Thanks for the responses.

Cloud storage for photos is an option but then I’m extremely anal about folders and I have around 350gb with of pics. I have a pretty extensive backup solution at home too. Granted cloud storage would benefit but that much storage would be expensive.

The DCIM is my only bug bear as I have to cut all the pics rather than copying them off the phone.

Andybtsn · 9 Aug 2018 at 21:52

Combat squirrel said:
Huh? Why not just copy off the phone.... ?

I think icloud 2tb is something like £7 a month so not to bad, could be wrong lol

I want to copy off the phone and move them into their appropriate folders on the laptop. I then do it again in a few months time but going back to loads of folders within DCIM and I have no idea what IO have copied etc, hard to explain.

Andybtsn · 9 Aug 2018 at 21:58

Combat squirrel said:
You sound old school picture horder lol - just do it via icloud and have peace of mind they are backed up in the cloud, if you want to copy the lot, do so and sort by date created.

Yeah I am, you should see the amount of folders I have!

I am looking into 1TB of storage one Onedrive now, £6.99 seems fair p/m.

Andybtsn · 9 Aug 2018 at 22:16

Combat squirrel said:
Huh ?? Why not go icloud at 2TB for the same price?! - Also microsoft are not the best at privacy at least apple is quite big on privacy - icloud 2tb is £6.99 / Month

I am a full time tog so know full well all about sorting and ordering pics - I just do it date wise, year, month, day number day name etc

But icloud does great for my phone stuff so just use that, trust me!

Good shout, you wouldn't think I worked in IT

Andybtsn · 9 Aug 2018 at 22:37

How is iCloud for creating folders etc? That's why I liked onedrive! It was just like Windows folders.

Edit: Meh, why ask questions when I can just use it.

Andybtsn · 9 Aug 2018 at 22:53

Crikey, calm down old boy. I manage a big team of engineers who support hosted platforms each day

I know the tech is there, I just have a pretty hefty setup at home with big enough storage so that I can do it all my way. I have a very particular set of folders for easy viewings, if I wanted pics of my eldest's birthday I know where to look. I get stressed out by people having NO organisation, just a folder of a million pictures copied off their phone

Anyway, thanks for the help. I probably will go with the cloud solution mainly for the resilience and I can get rid of my NAS, the prices have certainly come down since I looked a couple of years back.

Andybtsn · 10 Aug 2018 at 07:56

Jimbeam3678 said:
@Andybtsn incase you're not clear use just use Icloud! I have Google photos on my Iphone as well - just put it outside of the normal screen you look at and they back up into your Google account free of charge without you doing a thing.

If its pictures of family better to have backup as well

I think it's a control thing with me, I like to be the one doing it all despite the time it may take me.

I'm getting there with this although trying to move all my data to the iCloud drive is proving difficult. Keeps telling me I don't have enough free space despite my clearing seeing i just have short of 2TB free! Left it over night and still the same issue. Both phone and the iCloud app storage says I have 2TB free so not sure why it's crying about me moving a 60gb folder to the drive in Windows.

Andybtsn · 10 Aug 2018 at 13:07

Chris1712 said:
You're doing it wrong . You're copying into your local iCloud folder there, which exists on C: (probably) so you've no space. It's a folder like you said but it exists on the cloud and locally (if you've chosen to do so). Probably want to move your iCloud directory to the root of your photos?

The problem is, your old folder system has actually put you in a hard position to move to iCloud, upload wise. You might find it easier to upload via the browser, though I'd do it slowly!

Cheers, so does it always need to sync with data on my C: drive? Is there no way I can just cut all my data onto the iCloud folder? This is how I imagined this isn't working how I anticipated. There doesn't seem to be much customisation like OneDrive, I'll see if I change the directory!

Andybtsn · 10 Aug 2018 at 17:59

Combat squirrel said:
The way you backup your data is bizarre in this day and age

Eh? I backup my data to a NAS using a scheduled task each week.

You have a problem how I organise pictures but if someone asked me if they could see pictures of my eldest's 2nd birthday, I can find it in seconds. Which is what viewing pictures all about - organisation.

I don't mind using a cloud platform to do the same, mainly for the reliability but if doesn't allow the same functionality and/or it's clunkier than I will happily go back to my original way that has worked for the past 15 years. You forget my original post was just about an iPhone annoyance that I have lived with ever since they came out.

Andybtsn · 10 Aug 2018 at 18:12

I'd be interested to see how people store their pictures who have kids, travel a lot. I like looking back at 'events' rather than just a date of when you took a picture.

Andybtsn · 10 Aug 2018 at 18:24

Feek said:
In the Photos app, I simply create an 'album' which is effectively an event and add pictures to it. Dead easy.

Suspect this is easier with a Mac in that I could potentially move pictures that are stored on the local drive into the albums created on the iPhone?

If you could have folders in Photos this would be very easy for me to replicate my structure.

I think I need to see people's Photos to see how they sort things out for holidays, family pics, weddings, birthdays, weekends away etc etc - and most crucially years worth of these!

Andybtsn · 10 Aug 2018 at 18:58

Jimbeam3678 said:
Andy honestly if you are using a PC and an Iphone I would just use Google photos its free assuming you don't want full on high quality professional standard pics. That tells you where and when any photo is taken pretty much instantly. You can use the slider on the right of your screen for the date and assuming you have geotags you can just search for a place.

I travel a lot for work and pleasure I've used both Icloud and Google both work well. Only reason why I use Icloud because we have Mac's and my mam uses my storage for her Ipad.

I don't mind change, certainly 95% of my pics are taken with an iPhone now and that's not going to change so I like the longevity of it all. The wife has always seen me looking through historic albums on the phone and is intrigued.

There is one major issue I've found, when uploading an album that was already on my Laptop iCloud takes the modified date as the picture taken? So I had an album from 21st April of a weekend away with the family, some pics were modified on 22nd and 24th and iCloud sorts them as that as the date taken.

Andybtsn · 10 Aug 2018 at 21:42

It's not pointless for mobile phone pictures, just because its your career, most mobile phones capabilities are fantastic nowadays and I certainly keep and appreciate the pictures I have taken.

Let's agree to disagree, I will never organise a folder of images by just dates.

I'm going with OneDrive so I can have my folders

I hope you can sleep tonight thinking about that