I think my phone is deleting pictures. I have been taking a lot atleast 300 this week and 10 videos. on a 2GB sd but shouldn't internal takeover?
TramainM said:
I think my phone is deleting pictures. I have been taking a lot atleast 300 this week and 10 videos. on a 2GB sd but shouldn't internal takeover?
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I don't believe that the phone switches automatically. It might but it's never done it for me. Perhaps the sdcard is corrupt. Look for files in the lost+found directory.
Binary100100 said:
I don't believe that the phone switches automatically. It might but it's never done it for me. Perhaps the sdcard is corrupt. Look for files in the lost+found directory.
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Where is the root of that folder at?
TramainM said:
Where is the root of that folder at?
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/sdcard/lost+found
You might also have another folder called found.000 but you might have to select Show Hidden Files/Folders to see them.
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/sdcard/lost+found
You might also have another folder called found.000 but you might have to select Show Hidden Files/Folders to see them.
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Found it buts its empty do you think i just took to many photos?
TramainM said:
Found it buts its empty do you think i just took to many photos?
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It should tell you when your storage card is running low on space.
So, this may or may not be the same problem I'm having, but I've noticed that my pics will disappear and reappear in no apparent fashion. really frustrating. i've used two diff memory cards, and it's like the phone deletes the most recent ones, then brings them back? WTF? Try to unmount the SD card in the system settings and see if they come back.
seanvree said:
So, this may or may not be the same problem I'm having, but I've noticed that my pics will disappear and reappear in no apparent fashion. really frustrating. i've used two diff memory cards, and it's like the phone deletes the most recent ones, then brings them back? WTF? Try to unmount the SD card in the system settings and see if they come back.
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Tried it no luck.
TramainM said:
I think my phone is deleting pictures. I have been taking a lot atleast 300 this week and 10 videos. on a 2GB sd but shouldn't internal takeover?
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I didn't see any posts that you said pictures are actually missing, it seems you just think you would have filled your external..? You can try an app called file expert, choose "my files" then pictures, and it will find all the pictures on the phone.. or the app quickpic has an option to scan folders that have a .nomedia file in them, perhaps your pics are getting saved in a folder that doesn't show? Either way quickpic does a better job than gallery at finding all of your pics.
If you are thinking your sd card would be full from pictures, look at the size of your pictures files. At full resolution highest quality, I don't have any over 2 megs in size, so with an empty 2 gig sd card you would need to likely take over 1000 pictures to fill it up.
If you are sure you have lost pictures/videos that should be on your external, I would replace that sucker and take it as a lesson. Or save to internal, you aren't likely to lose those regardless..
Silentbtdeadly said:
I didn't see any posts that you said pictures are actually missing, it seems you just think you would have filled your external..? You can try an app called file expert, choose "my files" then pictures, and it will find all the pictures on the phone.. or the app quickpic has an option to scan folders that have a .nomedia file in them, perhaps your pics are getting saved in a folder that doesn't show? Either way quickpic does a better job than gallery at finding all of your pics.
If you are thinking your sd card would be full from pictures, look at the size of your pictures files. At full resolution highest quality, I don't have any over 2 megs in size, so with an empty 2 gig sd card you would need to likely take over 1000 pictures to fill it up.
If you are sure you have lost pictures/videos that should be on your external, I would replace that sucker and take it as a lesson. Or save to internal, you aren't likely to lose those regardless..
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Ill try quickpic, and then ill report back to you.
Silentbtdeadly said:
I didn't see any posts that you said pictures are actually missing, it seems you just think you would have filled your external..? You can try an app called file expert, choose "my files" then pictures, and it will find all the pictures on the phone.. or the app quickpic has an option to scan folders that have a .nomedia file in them, perhaps your pics are getting saved in a folder that doesn't show? Either way quickpic does a better job than gallery at finding all of your pics.
If you are thinking your sd card would be full from pictures, look at the size of your pictures files. At full resolution highest quality, I don't have any over 2 megs in size, so with an empty 2 gig sd card you would need to likely take over 1000 pictures to fill it up.
If you are sure you have lost pictures/videos that should be on your external, I would replace that sucker and take it as a lesson. Or save to internal, you aren't likely to lose those regardless..
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Nope still didn't find them =/
TramainM said:
Nope still didn't find them =/
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Did you hit menu>show hidden?
That will show you the pics if they are being saved in a hidden non-scannable folder..
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I've started moving over to QuickPic but if i use this program to edit, move or copy to another file (i.e. DCIM) then sense album just won't see it. Not really a big problem until i want to send it as a MMS because messages uses sense album to choose the image.
Even if i restart the phone or even delete the cache, sometimes the images just never show up.
The pictures are there, nothing wrong with the images, my file manager sees them no problem.
Another thing, HTC album widget doesn't see the changes if I use Quickpic to make any chages, i.e. cropping.
Is it just me? Any help?
cheers, john.
johnk1973 said:
I've started moving over to QuickPic but if i use this program to edit, move or copy to another file (i.e. DCIM) then sense album just won't see it. Not really a big problem until i want to send it as a MMS because messages uses sense album to choose the image.
Even if i restart the phone or even delete the cache, sometimes the images just never show up.
The pictures are there, nothing wrong with the images, my file manager sees them no problem.
Another thing, HTC album widget doesn't see the changes if I use Quickpic to make any chages, i.e. cropping.
Is it just me? Any help?
cheers, john.
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Same here. I just use quickpic all the time.
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Im not too sure but i think it has something to do with the phones built in "HTC Storage" and your external sd card. I think the phone is looking at one of the storages and not the other. What i did was completely ditch my 32gb sd card since i dont even use it much and use the phones internal 16gb storage instead. But with all the partitions or whatever i get like only 10gigs back
joeyrey said:
Im not too sure but i think it has something to do with the phones built in "HTC Storage" and your external sd card. I think the phone is looking at one of the storages and not the other. What i did was completely ditch my 32gb sd card since i dont even use it much and use the phones internal 16gb storage instead. But with all the partitions or whatever i get like only 10gigs back
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Do you use Quickpic? Or another photo editing software?
Sooooo... I just discovered that this stoooopid-ass phone of mine is storing downloaded photos to the phone's internal storage instead of the SD card. Is there anyway to fix this? I don't even think it's possible to move those photos from the phone to the SD card since my laptop can't even find the phone's internal photo storage folder. Seriously? WTF?!?!
carlos64030 said:
Sooooo... I just discovered that this stoooopid-ass phone of mine is storing downloaded photos to the phone's internal storage instead of the SD card. Is there anyway to fix this? I don't even think it's possible to move those photos from the phone to the SD card since my laptop can't even find the phone's internal photo storage folder. Seriously? WTF?!?!
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Please read the stickies and search before starting pointless threads. All of your issues are because you don't know what you're doing, and not the fault of the phone.
Here's the first one, answered in a thread conveniently titled "F.A.Q.s - Massive Question Round Up Thread".
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Q: Why are my pictures saved to the internal phone storage and how can I force it to save to the SD card?
A: When you first launched your camera app (assuming you had an SD card in) it should have asked you if you wanted to save to the SD card. Either way, the problem is easily fixed within the camera settings or by going to Settings> Storage> App storage locations and choosing Storage card for each option.
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When you connect your phone to your computer, if you select media sync instead of hard drive, it will give you access to both internal and external sdcard from your computer.
fachadick said:
Please read the stickies and search before starting pointless threads. All of your issues are because you don't know what you're doing, and not the fault of the phone.
Here's the first one, answered in a thread conveniently titled "F.A.Q.s - Massive Question Round Up Thread".
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Thanks, Einstein, but apparently YOU'RE the one that can't read. My issue has NOTHING to do with pictures that's been taken with the camera. Read my post again and then come back with another smart-ass and useless post. Thanks.
cruise350 said:
When you connect your phone to your computer, if you select media sync instead of hard drive, it will give you access to both internal and external sdcard from your computer.
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Thanks... that takes care of that problem. I never even thought about using that 'Media Sync' option to find files. I still can't find a way to force downloading photos to the SD card though.
carlos64030 said:
Thanks, Einstein, but apparently YOU'RE the one that can't read. My issue has NOTHING to do with pictures that's been taken with the camera. Read my post again and then come back with another smart-ass and useless post. Thanks.
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Hahaha, totally missed the word downloaded. Gotta stop visiting the site after a drink. My bad bro, sorry about that. The media Sync thing though you could have searched for.
fachadick said:
Hahaha, totally missed the word downloaded. Gotta stop visiting the site after a drink. My bad bro, sorry about that. The media Sync thing though you could have searched for.
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No biggie. I really wasn't too concerned with the 'Media Sync' thingy since I ended up deleting the downloaded photos from the phone's internal memory. That wasn't that big of a deal, however... I have bigger fish to fry with my original issue.
carlos64030 said:
No biggie. I really wasn't too concerned with the 'Media Sync' thingy since I ended up deleting the downloaded photos from the phone's internal memory. That wasn't that big of a deal, however... I have bigger fish to fry with my original issue.
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thanks for being cool - so where are you downloading the photos from? if you're downloading with the stock browser, you can go to settings, advanced, download storage, and change phone storage to storage card. Is that what you meant?
fachadick said:
thanks for being cool - so where are you downloading the photos from? if you're downloading with the stock browser, you can go to settings, advanced, download storage, and change phone storage to storage card. Is that what you meant?
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Yes, that's what I'm talking about. I use the Dolphin HD browser and SOMETIMES Google Chrome (which still has a lot of bugs). I have all of the settings set in the Dolphin HD browser to download photos to the SD card, but they still go to the phone's internal storage. If I remember correctly, Google Chrome doesn't even offer that option. It really doesn't offer it's users that many adjustments at all, actually.
carlos64030 said:
Yes, that's what I'm talking about. I use the Dolphin HD browser and SOMETIMES Google Chrome (which still has a lot of bugs). I have all of the settings set in the Dolphin HD browser to download photos to the SD card, but they still go to the phone's internal storage. If I remember correctly, Google Chrome doesn't even offer that option. It really doesn't offer it's users that many adjustments at all, actually.
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don't know about chrome, but I use dolphin hd also, and I was able to change the download directory to the sdcard by going to settings, privacy and personal data, download directory, and changing that entry to /mnt/sdcard/ext_sd/download. Is that how yours is set up? I just tested it and its working correctly on my end.
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don't know about chrome, but I use dolphin hd also, and I was able to change the download directory to the sdcard by going to settings, privacy and personal data, download directory, and changing that entry to /mnt/sdcard/ext_sd/download. Is that how yours is set up? I just tested it and its working correctly on my end.
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Yeah, that's how mine's read. I don't see any other settings in the browser OR on the phone to change the directory path. I don't have this problem on any of my other phones. All the downloaded photos goes straight to the SD card. Oh well...
Ok so tonight, I decided to clean up my SD card. I had noticed that some how I had 1500 pics on my internal SD card, SO I moved them over to my external one and cleaned everything up a bit, combining all the folders. Now when I go into my phone and SD card, all the pics are TINY in size. LIke if the pic before was the size of the screen, now its 1x1 inch. I use wallpaper wizzadrii to set my wallpapers and its setting them all for TINY as well.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
you probably copied the thumbnails
I did now what?
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If you deleted the actual pictures and are just now stuck with the thumbnails try an app called DiskDigger. It'll find your deleted photos if it was just recently done. It won't go as far back as a PC would. But give it a shot. Oh yea, must be rooted for it I believe.
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I wouldn't use an android app, I'd connect the phone to a PC, mount it, then use Recuva to scan it.
scy1192 said:
I wouldn't use an android app, I'd connect the phone to a PC, mount it, then use Recuva to scan it.
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going to try that now.
Also, I just realized that all the pics were on my internal storage. I know I never set it up that way. I have always put them on my SD card. For future reference, how do i get everything to be automatically saved to the external SD card?
You mentioned that you cleaned up the images by copying them from your internal SD to your external one - if what you're trying doesn't work, do you remember which folder the files came from? You can just move them back but I have a sinking feeling that you're going to go to your Gallery and when you review your images, you'll see a bunch of white boxes with and 'x' inside which indicates that you're missing the image that was where it was supposed to be when the Gallery accessed your photos. I did something similar a while ago, trying to consolidate photos into a folder on my SD and when I moved the files, I had the white boxes I mentioned. The fastest way to fix the issue is to move ALL images off your SD, go to Gallery, erase ALL, then mount the SD card onto the PC and move images back onto the SD, go to Gallery, and let the thumbnails regenerate.
It's a pain but if you do this once, you'll not do it by accident again. Android does something similar to Apple's iTunes. You can have files in several folders and the program will 'find them' for you but if you move them, you can cause yourself quite a headache.
Good luck!
putney1477 said:
going to try that now.
Also, I just realized that all the pics were on my internal storage. I know I never set it up that way. I have always put them on my SD card. For future reference, how do i get everything to be automatically saved to the external SD card?
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The app I posted works fine, I've used it before. It looks for only photos whole recuva will find any file ever...
For setting it to external SD that's an option in the camera
Another program you can try is testdisk. It's free and it has recovered everything I've ever needed and then some. I've accessed files on a drive that both windows and OS X told me was not formatted. Got all 450gb off of it and could also retrieve tons of deleted files. It's a computer app, not a phone app.
I have an HTC one s, had it for a few months and just today it started to eat up all the memory on the "external card".
It is located in DCIM .thumbnails.
I know there is a fix of changing the folder to read only and sorts.(changing the file to read only works for a few moments then a new file generates with a new number.
But I do not just want to do a fix, I would like to know how I can trace what is causing it and fix it
the thumbnail file keeps increasing in size when I erase more files, right now it is at 1.2gb.
If you can guide me on what is causing it, it would be helpful.
So my question, What is causing the thumbnail to be getting to 1.2gb, a larger size then my photos stored.
code13red said:
I have an HTC one s, had it for a few months and just today it started to eat up all the memory on the "external card".
It is located in DCIM .thumbnails.
I know there is a fix of changing the folder to read only and sorts.(changing the file to read only works for a few moments then a new file generates with a new number.
But I do not just want to do a fix, I would like to know how I can trace what is causing it and fix it
the thumbnail file keeps increasing in size when I erase more files, right now it is at 1.2gb.
If you can guide me on what is causing it, it would be helpful.
So my question, What is causing the thumbnail to be getting to 1.2gb, a larger size then my photos stored.
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it might be so because the thumbnails are not deleted if you delete the original picture..
say if i have a picture "a" now the system will make a thumbnail of it as "a*"
now if i delete "a",its thumbnail "a*" wouldnt be deleted..
So i would recommend you to delete the thumbnail folder and let the system recreate it afreash..
Thank you for your response.
Let me explain further.
I usually run my phone super low on memory since it does not have an expandable memory slot.
So it is usually around 40 mb, then one day it said it was full so I scan my phone to find my biggest downloads and transfer them to the computer, well I did that several times, removing over 500 mb, then a few seconds later it says it is full again.
I repeated to erase more downloaded files and it continues to get full, that was when i found the thumbnail file.
If it has never even been the size of 500 mb, how can it jump from one day to the next to over 1.2 gigs and continue to create the file after it is erased?
dagger said:
it might be so because the thumbnails are not deleted if you delete the original picture..
say if i have a picture "a" now the system will make a thumbnail of it as "a*"
now if i delete "a",its thumbnail "a*" wouldnt be deleted..
So i would recommend you to delete the thumbnail folder and let the system recreate it afreash..
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Once try what i said..
Sorry, I thought I had placed that I had erased the thumbnail folder, but I just stated the files.
I have erased the thumbnails folder several times and it works longer than just erasing the files.
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Once try what i said..
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I looked at my storage of the phone and the gallery is using almost 3gbs. However, all of my photos and videos are saved to my SD card. Not sure why. Just wondering if anyone knows why and can help free up that storage.
Do you have a lot of screen shots? Those, I believe, get stored on internal storage.
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jpen said:
I looked at my storage of the phone and the gallery is using almost 3gbs. However, all of my photos and videos are saved to my SD card. Not sure why. Just wondering if anyone knows why and can help free up that storage.
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SD card and extsdcard are two different things - are they stored to your external sd card?
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SD card and extsdcard are two different things - are they stored to your external sd card?
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^^^ Good question!
I have it on the extsdcard. I just searched my whole Sd Card and there aren't any pictures really on it. Only 10 screenshots which is like 7mb only. There are some .thumbnails folders. One is 400mb and another is 350mb. Not sure if those are safe to delete. Regardless it is still at 2.49 gb.
Can u give us a screenshot
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jpen said:
I have it on the extsdcard. I just searched my whole Sd Card and there aren't any pictures really on it. Only 10 screenshots which is like 7mb only. There are some .thumbnails folders. One is 400mb and another is 350mb. Not sure if those are safe to delete. Regardless it is still at 2.49 gb.
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Install DiskUsage from the play store. It lets you see what the major space users are and drill down to find the files responsible.
k1mu said:
Install DiskUsage from the play store. It lets you see what the major space users are and drill down to find the files responsible.
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reinaldistic said:
Can u give us a screenshot
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Here is a screenshot using diskusage. Not sure what to do from here.
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jpen said:
Here is a screenshot using diskusage. Not sure what to do from here.
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Tap on the "Gallery" area. It'll expand to the right to show you what's using the space. Then, you can use the two-finger spread to expand the list of files (i.e. the motion you use to zoom in on a picture).
Basically, that screenshot confirms the fact that you've got a whole bunch of space consumed in the Gallery folder, so zoom in to see what it is.
Edit: looking at that again, the "data" appears to be one big file - click and zoom that area to see details. Seems like Gallery is keeping something huge there.
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Tap on the "Gallery" area. It'll expand to the right to show you what's using the space. Then, you can use the two-finger spread to expand the list of files (i.e. the motion you use to zoom in on a picture).
Basically, that screenshot confirms the fact that you've got a whole bunch of space consumed in the Gallery folder, so zoom in to see what it is.
Edit: looking at that again, the "data" appears to be one big file - click and zoom that area to see details. Seems like Gallery is keeping something huge there.
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I tried to zoom but all it does is make the box with "data" in it bigger, but doesn't show anything different then "data 2542MiB". If I clear data in the app info would that delete all my pics even though they are on extsdcard?
jpen said:
I tried to zoom but all it does is make the box with "data" in it bigger, but doesn't show anything different then "data 2542MiB". If I clear data in the app info would that delete all my pics even though they are on extsdcard?
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It shouldn't delete the pictures, but you'll have to rescan them.
What I'd do is to eject your external SD card, then clear data in Gallery, then re-insert the SD card.
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It shouldn't delete the pictures, but you'll have to rescan them.
What I'd do is to eject your external SD card, then clear data in Gallery, then re-insert the SD card.
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Ahhh genius! I was going to backup my phone then clear data. But removing SD card then clearing data worked and was a lot easier. Thanks a lot! Not sure why it was hogging all that storage. It is now only at 20MiB. What a big difference.
jpen said:
Ahhh genius! I was going to backup my phone then clear data. But removing SD card then clearing data worked and was a lot easier. Thanks a lot! Not sure why it was hogging all that storage. It is now only at 20MiB. What a big difference.
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Yea that's a whole lot of wasted space. I'm glad it was easy to clear up! Now, don't forget to click thanks.