What is the DCIM folder in any smartphone or camera and why…?

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You must have seen a folder of DCIM in your smartphone or digital camera. Have you ever wondered why this folder named DCIM is there in every smartphone and camera..? If you didn’t or you didn’t know then let us tell you. Actually, the full form of DCIM is Digital Camera Images.

DCIM Every digital camera in the world has a default directory structure. It is a structure in which a picture taken with any digital camera is automatically saved. This digital camera can be in any device, whether it is a DSLR or a smartphone camera.

Importance of DCIM Folder

If you go to the file manager of your smartphone, then you will definitely see a folder of DCIM. There may also be some sub-foldf inside it. It is not necessary to have a sub-folder, but the main folder of DCIM is definitely there. In this folder, whatever pictures you click with your phone camera, it is automatically saved.

Apart from this, if you click pictures from DSLR, then that too will be saved directly in the folder of DCIM. If you look at the memory card of the DSLR by putting it in the camera screen or computer, then you will see its name DCIM. You can’t even change it. This folder is created automatically.

What will happen after deleting DCIM..?

In such a situation, the question arises that what will happen if we delete this folder of DCIM from smartphone or digital camera. Yes, if you want, you can delete this folder, but after that the folder of DCIM is automatically created in your smartphone or DSLR. After that, whatever image you have clicked, it is again saved in the same folder.

You must be wondering why it is considered a standard rule to automatically create a DCIM folder in the camera of every smartphone as the default directory structure. For this you have to understand one term DCF. The full form of DCF is Design rule for Camera File system. With this full form, you must have understood what it means.

DCF is a rule due to which the pictures taken with any digital camera are fully optimized. Through this system, each camera decides in which location to keep its pictures, how to save it so that the pictures taken with that digital camera can be easily recognized. The rule of DCF has been made by JEITA i.e. Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association.

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Story first published: Tuesday, July 2, 2019, 18:20 [IST]



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