Photos disappearing?? Why???

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Can someone please shed some light on this?

I have, several times over the last few years, done big photo dumps from my iphone to a laptop and a usb storage stick.

Now when I look back through these folders the majority of the pictures are gone. WHY?

In a given month – say April 2019 – there will be a handful of pics. Say, 10 screenshots, a couple of pictures of the dog and 7 selfies.

But I went to France for 5 days that month. I took a million pics.

Every month is the same – another month in 2020 I went on holiday with my partner, and according to the folder I took only 4 pics in 10 days.

I’ve long suspected that apple encodes files in some way that makes this happen, in order to discourage transfer away from their cloud storage.

As I say, it’s not just one device this is happening on – I started using USB sticks when I noticed thus happening on my laptop. And it’s the same.

Can anyone with some technical knowledge shed some light on this????

Have you been buying your USB sticks on amazon? Some of these have issues with their actual capacity due to a scam.

It won't be this if it's happening on your laptop as well, though.

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Thanks for sharing. I don’t recall where the usb was bought. I would have checked at the time that everything had been transferred and saved. But when I look back in the folder there are only a handful of pics.

And the exact same story on my laptop.

It’s always the random scrappy photos left as well – stuff like pictures of passwords or clothes to sell on ebay. All the holiday pics and events have like one picture left from them.

No one else has access to my devices.

Very strange. I hope you get an answer. It has not happened to me, but I have not had an iPhone. I think I have some iPhone photos on my computer but they are very old - it would have been an iPhone 3G which I think predates the cloud storage, back then you had to do the backups manually on iTunes.

Bump!!