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    Default Where is the "photo album" located in iphone 3gs

    I want to back up all the photo in the 3gs but there is a "camera roll" and " "photo libary" I can only back up the photo in "camera roll" but I dont know the location of the "photo library/photo almbum" any1 know where is it?

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    /var/mobile/media/photos/thumbs......look inside those folders u

    Oops...u will see many folders F01-Fxx...they r inside there...but I believe those are modified smaller files of originals that should be on your pc...so I don't understand why u wouldn't all ready have them 'backed up' somewhere...

    What I do with my 3GS is when I take pics with it, I plug in to sync. Windows will sees the phone in my computer as a mapped drive...I dig down into it till I find the pics in camera roll, and drag them into the My Pictures folder...then delete them from camera roll..then sync phone. iTunes syncs them back to phone smaller size...saves space on phone..I also have my My Pictures folder on pc copied to another hd, so I have the full size originals backed up...
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    my phone has 2 folders, one is called "camera rolls" and the second one called " photo library" in side the photo library is another sub folder named " photo album" . I did what you've done. plugin windows and a pop up iphone drive pop up, I wen there an copy all pics in there to my pc already. but that's only pic on the camera roll folder. The pics in photo library/photo album are not there.

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    Ok..I guess I made some assumptions.. Plug in phone. In iTunes click on photo tab. You should see a check box sync photos from...the default is My Pictures, which is in your windows profile and may differ slightly depending on what ver of windows u have.. In win7 it under your ID folder called My Pictures. Is that where all your pics are stored?

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    Camera roll is on the phone. That's where the phone stores the pics u take with it. Photo library is the top folder/compilation of all pics synced from pc.. That Photo album folder u see is a folder on your pc somewhere..need to find that.. But not sure really what u are trying to do...

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