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????