Iphone Photo organization - Help!!

So....this is my 3rd iphone and obviously things have changed over the years with firmware updates & such.

For photos - I take a lot of useless photos, so I'm not connected to iCloud for photos and I don't upload them to my computer (because majority of the photos are junk and I don't keep them. I delete them frequently from the phone). When I need a photo on the computer, I just hookup the phone to the computer and drag & drop the photo onto the computer.

I can't remember when things have changed - because this has been driving me crazy for a while and I've googled & searched and can't seem to find out what I need to do.... I have iphone 6 with version 8.3.

On the phone - when I open my photos, click 'Camera Roll' and all my most recent photos are right there to find easily. Easy Peasy....

But when I hook it up to the computer..... I get 'Internal Storage' , DCIM (folder), and within that...is a shit-ton of folders with all sorts of different numbers & letters. For example: 930SAWNU, 861VULLR, 818YYAAG.... etc. All folders are dated exactly the same. There will be a few pictures in each folder and a bunch in other folders. I don't understand what its doing ..and why. And most frustrating....I can't find the most recent photos. I could click on every folder and spend all day trying to find the newest photos.
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I've looked at all the settings in the iphone and can't pinpoint anything that would be obvious. I'm not sure if itunes has any settings and there's no 'properties' I can pick in the folders. I don't know enough about Windows (8) to know if there's something in Windows settings.

Have any of you had trouble with this? If there a setting I'm missing? Or is there an obvious way to read the letters & numbers that will give me a clue?

Thanks!!

 

What kind of computer are you hooking it up to?

 

Oh just saw windows 8. Windows and iOS hate each other. It may be that your computer is saving the photos by date synced and not the time stamp from your phone.

 

Figures...wouldn't surprise me. The folder names aren't anything I can pinpoint for any type of sequence. Photos I just took today are in the 930SAWNU folder.
A similar number folder 933KIFOS is dated July 2014. 992OVTUB is dated November 14.

My God...there's gotta be a better way!! LOL
Thanks!

 

Yeah sorry I can't be too much help. I have a macbook and it does a fine job but that is because it has the same photo app as the iPhone. Try syncing your photos to iTunes then exporting from there. Your iTunes should be able to figure out the correct dates.

 

I have the same issue. Very frustrating going through those randomly named folders to find photos.

 

Sounds like a $1500 problem...

We had the same issue with the iPhone to Winerdows.
We switched to Mac Book Pro and never looked back at that Pentium nonsense, virus that, critical vulnerability update that (My neighbors work at MS, so they know what's up)
While it might hurt the pocketbook for a little while and have to relearn some keystrokes, the swap was worth it.

When you connect your iPhone on a Mac Book, iTunes is launched as is iPhoto.
You are prompted to download the photos on your phone to the Finder directory by the day you download them.
The day the photo was taken is also retained so they are in separate albums but under the directory of which day you downloaded them off your iPhone.
You are also prompted if you would like to retain ALL or NONE on your iPhone.

From iPhoto, you can upload photos that you have saved off elsewhere on the Mac Book.

Also, if you are having storage issues with your iPhone and you have an update, you can download the update via iTunes and while connected with your iPhone, you can update the OS without having to deleting or downloading to iPhoto.

Photo management is less than optimal on MS anything...

 

You could always just send them to your email than save them from the computer that way? Or something like photobucket? May be easier than the mess ya got? Just an idea

 

If you are unable to work that out, use iCloud or something like Dropbox. You'll have to manually clean it out every now and then, but you'll easily have all of your photos on your PC - and they'll all be backed up in the event your phone goes in the shitter.

If you use Dropbox - I know that you can turn off automatic upload, so it won't send everything. Then you can just share individual files when you want them, with your PC.