Same BS totally crippled OSX Mail until I happened to have a stroke of genius and discovered that it was just an asininely hard-coded timeout causing ALL my email to be inaccessible. (the “solution” is to keep resetting your clock back 20sec every 20sec so that the stupid Mail stopwatch never reaches 30 until after it’s started downloading email again – how IDIOTIC is THAT?!?)

Apple makes beautiful hardware, but their Software Engineers seem to all be on crank.

1. Backup/Sync your phone just-in-case

2. Use a directory browser such as PhoneView or some other tool (Download the trial of PhoneView: http://www.ecamm.com/mac/phoneview/)

3. In PhoneView Browse to the /Disc/DCIM/ folder and delete the entire .MISC folder. (I actually deleted everything in the DCIM folder)

This solved the issue for me without having to resort to a restore. Also, using those programs you can recover any photos/videos that were taken that you could not get to.

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2. Open up the File folder DCIM/.MISC/Info.plist

I couldnt find it over PC suite if thats what he/she meant!

http://ifolio.idfact.net/?p=1137

Worked in one second without SSH things. Maybe it is helpful for people who have no idea how to use SSH.

Step 3:

Reset the <key> and reset </integer&gt to zero and save the file, ie:

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC “-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN” “http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd”>
<plist version=”1.0″>
<dict>
<key>LastFileGroupNumber-100</key>
<integer>0</integer>
</dict>
</plist>

Hope my html appears!

I had 2000+ photos, decided to “drag + drop” from “Apple Camera” in My Computer when you plug in the iPhone via USB, to a seemingly innocent “photos” folder, and saw many duplicates, and have lost many precious photos? Why precious? We’ve heard of missing some moments, but this was of my dad and his brother who have hardly met or, least to say, taken a photo together since perhaps the 1970s. I promised to email my uncle the photo. Sadly now the image only resides in my memory, and they both did not really see the photo, and my dad has glaukoma – he’s gradually losing his sight.

And so I WISH THAT SOLUTION OF YOURS IS SEEN BY EVERYONE WHO HAS THE SAME PROBLEM!!!!!!!!! By the way my phone IS jailbroken, and version so I didn’t have to restore, or delete any files. I just reset the counter to 0.
(For the benefit of anyone else who has this problem…)

Using zenx’s solution:

1. Download & install iPhone PC Suite. (or other iPhone file browsing software)
2. Open up the File folder DCIM/.MISC/Info.plist
3. Set the and to zero and save the file, ie:

LastFileGroupNumber-100
0

4. Delete the extra folders (leaving only .MISC and 100APPLE in DCIM)

I didn’t check if step 4 is necessary, just by logical deduction. FYI iPhone PC Suite is mostly in Chinese, so I didn’t understand it, just needed a quick fix. The icons are in English, just look out for the FILE icon on the left bar.

-ean.
p.s: Once again, thanks for this post and the kind ppl who commented and now finally the iPhone is a wonderful again (yes, in denial) I created the problem, not the amazing iPhone. :P I feel lucky that I stumbled upon this post after days of searching for a solution.

PS ignore the first/last tags