Other More than 9999 pictures on iPhone?

[gdourado]

Hello, how are you?
So I am thinking about a small project to organize all the pictures taken with my various smartphones over the years and place them all on my iPhone.

The plan is to have them all sorted by date taken, then rename all the files in order according to the iPhone name convention.
Then use imazing to access the file system of the iPhone, clear the current camera roll, then upload the new one and finally delete de SQLite file to force a camera roll rebuild.

I had this all worked out in my mind, but then I saw my iPhone names the files as IMG_0001 and so on.
That means I can batch rename all my sorted pictures on the computer up to IMG_9999.
But I have more than 9999 pictures.
How do I do this?
Anyone know the naming scheme and folder structure I should use for my plan to work?

Thank you.
Best regards

 

[BugeyeSTI]

I’m assuming your iPhone is jailbroken, you might want to ask on that forum
https://forums.macrumors.com/forums/jailbreaks-and-ios-hacks.105/

 

[gdourado]

I’m assuming your iPhone is jailbroken, you might want to ask on that forum
https://forums.macrumors.com/forums/jailbreaks-and-ios-hacks.105/

It is not jail broken.
It is stock with iOS 12.1.4.
With imazing I can have access to the file system to copy pictures to and from the camera folder.

 

[Newtons Apple]

Best to organize off you phone. Never meant to have that many images on your iPhone to organize.

You have been around here long enough to know that.

 

[Mr_Brightside_@]

Does IMG_10000 not work?

 

[Falhófnir]

Best to organize off you phone. Never meant to have that many images on your iPhone to organize.

You have been around here long enough to know that.

512GB (and even 256GB) storage options disagree. You can easily fit 10K photos on a 128GB iPhone, offering up to 4x that amount should mean the photos software should be designed to handle much larger volumes of photos.

 

[Mr_Brightside_@]

512GB (and even 256GB) storage options disagree. You can easily fit 10K photos on a 128GB iPhone, offering up to 4x that amount should mean the photos software should be designed to handle much larger volumes of photos.

My use case exactly.

 

[gdourado]

Best to organize off you phone. Never meant to have that many images on your iPhone to organize.

You have been around here long enough to know that.

I am organizing on my computer.
But then I want to import all the organized pictures to my iphone.
I like the photos app and want to have all my photos there to be able to use people albuns, places, moments and all that.

The pictures from my android phones are all with the filenames IMG_YMD_HMS.jgp. That is IMG_ Year, Month, Day, Hour, Minute and second of the picture taken.

Pictures from my old Iphones 5 and 5s are in apples IMG_000X.jpg format.
The backup from my 5 and 5s was pulled directly from the phone.
The folder structure is 100APPLE, 101APPLE, 102APPLE and so on.
Inside 100APPLE it has files from IMG_0001.jpg to IMG_1000.jpg. 101APPLE has files from IMG_1001.jpg to IMG_2000.jpg and so on.

So I am guessing I rename the first 9999 pictures up to IMG_9999.jpg and place them on folders from 100APPLE to 109APPLE.

Then on the 10000 picture, I start again from IMG_0001.jpg but start placing them on 110APPLE folder.

Then once all is done, place the whole folder structure on the iphone.
Is this correct?

Also, I have around 15000 pictures currently but they only take aroung 45gb.
So with current iphones on 256 and 512gb, this should be no problem.

My plan is to do this now, have it working on my current iphone and from then on, just use itunes backup and restore for future phone upgrades, so to always have my whole smartphone photo library on my current phone.

Cheers!

 

[Mr_Brightside_@]

I highly recommend backing up all your existing DCIM folders and SQLite files exactly as they are as I’ve mucked about plenty in there myself and haven’t had a lot of luck “recreating” the camera roll.

 

[jpn]

Best to organize off you phone. Never meant to have that many images on your iPhone to organize.

You have been around here long enough to know that.

ahem. i have 15,576 photos on my iPhone. and they are not even optimized.
been working fine. syncs great.

 

[gdourado]

I highly recommend backing up all your existing DCIM folders and SQLite files exactly as they are as I’ve mucked about plenty in there myself and haven’t had a lot of luck “recreating” the camera roll.

Thank you for the heads up.
Can you please elaborate on the issues you found?
So i can try to work around them.
Thanks

 

[Newtons Apple]

ahem. i have 15,576 photos on my iPhone. and they are not even optimized.
been working fine. syncs great.

Good for you!

Hope you keep them backed up!

 

[jpn]

Good for you!

Hope you keep them backed up!

i do. in several places, across 3 types of media.
iCloud is not a backup. it syncs.

 

[now i see it]

It doesn't matter what you rename your photos. The photos app will rename them again according to its convention upon being imported and you'll lose all your file names. File names of photos were never intended to be seen by the end user. That's why the photos app messes them all up and renames them to whatever it wants.

 

[gdourado]

It doesn't matter what you rename your photos. The photos app will rename them again according to its convention upon being imported and you'll lose all your file names. File names of photos were never intended to be seen by the end user. That's why the photos app messes them all up and renames them to whatever it wants.

I want to rename my files on the pc first according to the apple dcim standard to then copy them directly to the dcim folder on the iPhone storage itself.
So that for the phone it should be as if the pictures where taken by the phone itself, so luckily the camera roll should be correctly sorted.

 

[BigMcGuire]

65,000+ photos and videos here. Over 100gb. No problems. And yes, backed up to 3 different places and locations. . iCloud photos works really well. I’m happy with it. Mac has full database and iPhone does too. iPad is on optimize.

 

[44267547]

65,000+ photos and videos here. Over 100gb. No problems. And yes, backed up to 3 different places and locations. . iCloud photos works really well. I’m happy with it. Mac has full database and iPhone does too. iPad is on optimize.

That’s impressive. May I ask that if you’re a side photographer or just a hobbyist with that many photos? The most I have heard from a user was around 40,000, but you have nearly 25,000 more, which is extensive, but you have a strategic plan of how you manage it, which is excellent.

 

[BigMcGuire]

That’s impressive. May I ask that if you’re a side photographer or just a hobbyist with that many photos? The most I have heard from a user was around 40,000, but you have nearly 25,000 more, which is extensive, but you have a strategic plan of how you manage it, which is excellent.

Thank you. It's a long story. Ever since my dad got a Sony camera back in the 90s I was hooked as a kid. From a Canon Powershot in the mid to late 90s I went to a Canon Rebel XT. Here I found Flickr and started a serious hobby in photography (nature and landscape mostly) - stopped Flickr in 2011. 2007 I got a Canon 40d with a Tamron 18-380mm and did 20k photos in a few years. It wasn't till I got my iPhone 4s that I decided that carrying around a DSLR just didn't suit me. My 6+ was my primary camera, 6s+ enforced that. I only shoot with my iPhone now (8+, and now Xs Max).

2011 I moved to Google and Google Photos when it came out. Because Google photo storage was free, I took pictures of everything, everyone, 100s of pictures during birthdays, etc... Never organized them, tagged them, or anything (much to my regret later on). I became the unofficial historian for my family (and sunset/sunrise/flower/nature/landscape photographer).

2018 I decided to leave Google and downloaded my 172GB 97,000 picture/video database with Google Takeout. I then spent weeks getting this into an iCloud Photo database and into iCloud and then onto my Xs MAX. Adventure here: #71 (warning, it is lengthy).

Found that Google doubled the photos when sharing into a shared album. Also found that Google's autocorrect also doubled photos. So, I've spent the last several months going through 97,000 photos/videos and deleting the duplicates.

I'm currently at around 58,000 photos and videos and 96GB. I estimate I'm 93% done with deleting duplicates. I wish I had tagged and organized my photos better because, I'm having to do so now by hand. One of my 2019 New Years resolutions was to finally organize this. Spent hours yesterday deleting photos.

I journal a lot in Day One. Taking photos helps me remember my day and helps me if I need to recall something later. I take 3-5 photos a day, and during birthdays, family events, etc... I'll take 10-30 photos. I rarely take pictures as a hobby anymore, but I do want to get back into it. I'll snap a sunset/sunrise/flower/lake/animal now and then.

iCloud is great. Take a photo and it is available on all my devices. And it is the original photo. Time Machine, CCC, and BackBlaze backs it up instantly. I couldn't do this with Google Photos.

Been looking for a place to show my photos again, but haven't had the time to look for one or get back into my hobby (and actually put my photos back into public space again).