For some reason, my jailbroken iPhone has never played nice with iPhoto or iView Media Pro for downloading photos from the camera, I have just relied on command line scp or finder based afp sharing to get the images off my phone, and to delete them.

But today, I crossed a new threshold, I have shot more than 1000 photos with my iPhone, so a new directory appeared in my /var/mobile/Media/DCIM/ directory, it is 101APPLE/ which just starts the IMG_0001.jpg counting over again. I didn’t want the camera to become confused, so I deleted both 100APPLE & 101APPLE hoping the phone would just create a new directory. Well, it wasn’t so smooth, a new directory didn’t appear, and adding my own, and doing some chmod experiments also failed (new photos simply went off into space, not saved, not accessible).

I was almost ready to freak out. Then success!: just rm -r the whole DCIM/ directory, the phone will then handle the creation of a new structure just fine. phew!

also, just look at this cute thing: