Photos in "Photo Library" folder undeleteable? - iPhone 3G

wildonrio · 07-26-2007, 07:34 PM

Ok, in my Photo Albums there are two folders - "Camera Roll" which has all of the pictures I've taken with my phone, and then there's one called "Photo Library". In there right now is a HIDEOUS picture of a friend I have on facebook. I don't have a clue how it got in there, but what's worse is that there is no way to delete it! There is no trash can anywhere to click or an edit button of any kind. How do I delete this photo?

So you can understand my pain, here is the picture that is polluting my iPhone:

Tinman · 07-26-2007, 08:04 PM

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Originally Posted by wildonrio

Ok, in my Photo Albums there are two folders - "Camera Roll" which has all of the pictures I've taken with my phone, and then there's one called "Photo Library". In there right now is a HIDEOUS picture of a friend I have on facebook. I don't have a clue how it got in there, but what's worse is that there is no way to delete it! There is no trash can anywhere to click or an edit button of any kind. How do I delete this photo?

So you can understand my pain, here is the picture that is polluting my iPhone:

Ugh, poke my eye out with a sharp stick, why dontcha!

Are you sure you only have those two albums on your iPhone? On mine Photo Library merely shows every photo from every album on my iPhone. If there's something in there it is in one of my other albums.

Also don't think you can delete photos from albums on the iPhone itself. I can only get photos off of my iPhone by unchecking its folder (which removes all photos in that folder from the iPhone) or by going to the folder the photo is in and either deleting it, or moving it to a folder that is not synced with my iPhone.

Again, this is on a PC.

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Mike

wildonrio · 07-26-2007, 08:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Tinman

Ugh, poke my eye out with a sharp stick, why dontcha!

Are you sure you only have those two albums on your iPhone? On mine Photo Library merely shows every photo from every album on my iPhone. If there's something in there it is in one of my other albums.

Also don't think you can delete photos from albums on the iPhone itself. I can only get photos off of my iPhone by unchecking its folder (which removes all photos in that folder from the iPhone) or by going to the folder the photo is in and either deleting it, or moving it to a folder that is not synced with my iPhone.

Again, this is on a PC.
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Mike

Well if I go into Camera Roll there is a little trash can in the lower right hand corner but Photo Library has nothing. And why would that picture be in there? I've never even looked at it on my iPhone or anything.

So you're saying I have to go into iTunes to delete that picture...

Tinman · 07-26-2007, 08:21 PM

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Originally Posted by wildonrio

Well if I go into Camera Roll there is a little trash can in the lower right hand corner but Photo Library has nothing. And why would that picture be in there? I've never even looked at it on my iPhone or anything.

So you're saying I have to go into iTunes to delete that picture...

Yes, I think so.

I would assume it's in a folder you have set to sync with iTunes. Either don't sync that folder or remove the offending pic from it. Next sync it'll be removed from you iPhone.

I have about 3,000 photos that I have synced to my iPhone and have probably only viewed 200 of them--and even out of that 200 there were a few "surprises."

In my case I keep a lot of my photos (on my PC) in the My Pictures folder. This is the folder I have selected in iTunes to sync to. iTunes then lists the folders within My Pictures with checkboxes to enable/disable syncing to those individual folders (the folders in My Pictures).

Unfortunately, iTunes does not allow me to select folders below folders within My Pictures. This is wasteful in my case since I might have My Pictures\2007\June\Web and that folder has everything that My Pictures\2007\June has, only at reduced resolution. Yet on my iPhone I get them all.

Looks like I'll need to create folders just for my iPhone, as My Pictures ain't working out. It was nice having all most of my photos with me, but the dups are just too much to deal with. (And now I use SoonR and can get to ALL photos on my PC.)

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Mike

wildonrio · 07-26-2007, 08:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Tinman

Yes, I think so.

I would assume it's in a folder you have set to sync with iTunes. Either don't sync that folder or remove the offending pic from it. Next sync it'll be removed from you iPhone.

I have about 3,000 photos that I have synced to my iPhone and have probably only viewed 200 of them--and even out of that 200 there were a few "surprises."

In my case I keep a lot of my photos (on my PC) in the My Pictures folder. This is the folder I have selected in iTunes to sync to. iTunes then lists the folders within My Pictures with checkboxes to enable/disable syncing to those individual folders (the folders in My Pictures).

Unfortunately, iTunes does not allow me to select folders below folders within My Pictures. This is wasteful in my case since I might have My Pictures\2007\June\Web and that folder has everything that My Pictures\2007\June has, only at reduced resolution. Yet on my iPhone I get them all.

Looks like I'll need to create folders just for my iPhone, as My Pictures ain't working out. It was nice having all most of my photos with me, but the dups are just too much to deal with. (And now I use SoonR and can get to ALL photos on my PC.)

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Mike

Ok so the picture was probably in my My Pictures folder for some reason, ok that makes sense. Thanks again.

network23 · 08-02-2007, 05:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Tinman

Yes, I think so.

I would assume it's in a folder you have set to sync with iTunes. Either don't sync that folder or remove the offending pic from it. Next sync it'll be removed from you iPhone.

I have about 3,000 photos that I have synced to my iPhone and have probably only viewed 200 of them--and even out of that 200 there were a few "surprises."

In my case I keep a lot of my photos (on my PC) in the My Pictures folder. This is the folder I have selected in iTunes to sync to. iTunes then lists the folders within My Pictures with checkboxes to enable/disable syncing to those individual folders (the folders in My Pictures).

Unfortunately, iTunes does not allow me to select folders below folders within My Pictures. This is wasteful in my case since I might have My Pictures\2007\June\Web and that folder has everything that My Pictures\2007\June has, only at reduced resolution. Yet on my iPhone I get them all.

Looks like I'll need to create folders just for my iPhone, as My Pictures ain't working out. It was nice having all most of my photos with me, but the dups are just too much to deal with. (And now I use SoonR and can get to ALL photos on my PC.)

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Mike

I'm not at my Mac, so I can't check this, but I have the same problem. The photos in my undeletable Photo Library are from the first set I took with my iPhone. When I transferred them to my Mac, I told iTunes NOT to delete them after the copy...now I can't delete them at all (ever, apparently). No, it's not an album I set up to sync with iPhone either. I only set up one album to sync with (named iPhone) the iPhone. I've looked everywhere I could in iTunes and could not find a place to delete them there either.

Very frustrating.

Okay. I spent a couple more minutes looking at the albums and I think you are indeed correct. Just by adding up the photos in my 3 synced albums, the total number adds up to the number of photos in the Photo Library, which is, as you said, just a "view all" display of all the images (outside the current Camera Roll) synced to the iPhone. Good to know. I thought it was extra pictures I wanted to delete to save space.

TPO_Hisself · 08-03-2007, 08:40 PM

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Originally Posted by network23

Okay. I spent a couple more minutes looking at the albums and I think you are indeed correct. Just by adding up the photos in my 3 synced albums, the total number adds up to the number of photos in the Photo Library, which is, as you said, just a "view all" display of all the images (outside the current Camera Roll) synced to the iPhone. Good to know. I thought it was extra pictures I wanted to delete to save space.

this library folder is a real pain, anyone got any ideas on how NOT to have a folder with all the pics in it?

All I want are my sub dirs with their associated photos. I think the darned thing is actually doubling the storage space too. keeping an actual copy of the photos in both locations.

when I set up a Portfolio dir and sub dirs called A and B each with 100 photos, iPhoto converted 400 photos.... (Yawwwwn....)

any ideas? surely there's someone out there that's smarter than me who's solved this by now.

722ish · 09-01-2007, 08:45 AM

i have no idea how to get rid of them either, is there anyone that can help with this?

i have a pc, and i have a helluva time syncing the two, its odd.

Tinman · 09-01-2007, 05:28 PM

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Originally Posted by 722ish

i have no idea how to get rid of them either, is there anyone that can help with this?

i have a pc, and i have a helluva time syncing the two, its odd.

You can't get rid of them, since they are only on the iPhone once. The Library album is merely a view of all albums combined--it isn't a duplicate of all photos.

If you get into the photos directly, with an app like Tanzee iPhone Transfer Photo, you would see the photos are stored numerically as 100.jpg, 101.jpg, all the way up to the last photo (e.g., 1878.jpg).

During the conversion process there are extra thumbnails created, but this is to speed the viewing of thumbs--it has nothing to do with the Photo Album album..

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Mike

Norwest · 09-01-2007, 10:31 PM

For the guy with 3000 photos...

Try Goggle Picasa to organize them into folders and then only sync the ones you want. Nice photo organizational tool.

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