Salvaging photos from iPhone?

[seawasp]

Here's a puzzler: As those reading here probably saw, Kathleen's computer lost its hard drive. While some photos were lost, there's a LOT of them on her iPhone, because she used to store copies on the phone for convenience, etc. I can still SEE the photos on her phone, so I know they still exist.

The problem is that transferring them seems to be... difficult. iPhoto and ImageCapture only find about 800+ photos -- I think the ones that were actually taken *by* the iPhone, rather than by some other mechanism -- where there are something like four to five THOUSAND photos in actuality.

How do I get ALL of the photos back out of the phone and onto Kathy's new hard drive?

Comments

[muirecan.livejournal.com]

You might want to consider Aiseesoft's software for Idevices. I used one of their products to recover my ebooks from my ipad after breaking the external hard drive I had my library on. It did a pretty good job of letting me access stuff directly on the iPad. They have 2 iPhone transfer products on their site that I see thought you could probably get away with their ultimate version rather than the platinum one. It looks like the platinum version just includes DVD conversion utilities for putting your movies on your iPhone as the reason for the extra cost. The ultimate transfer product is $29.

[groblek.livejournal.com]

I use Phone Disk from Macroplant to mount the phone as a disk drive and copy movies, it should let you browse for photos too. It looks like they've replaced it with a program that does several other things too, but I doubt it works any less well for this purpose. Info here. http://www.macroplant.com/phonedisk/

[kjn]

Do a backup from the iPhone to the new computer (take care not to do anything to the phone here). Then it might be possible to use an iPhone backup extractor.

http://supercrazyawesome.com/ seems to have some good tips.