I have my phone setup so all camera images captured are saved to the SD card. Last night I started going through and moving pictures into respective albums and try to create some organization. Upon doing this I discovered the phone moved the pictures from my SD card to tthe phone storage in a folder titiled pictured and then in individual albums that matched what i created. I figured I could just use the my files app and simply move the folder back to the SD card. No such luck. It fails to move. Has anyone ran into this and know a solution?
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let me know if yall are seeing the same behavior...
I can take a video or picture and place it on my external SD card, then the preview(thumbnail) shows are error in my library. if i click on the picture or video, all is well and i can view it. then if i move the media to the internal memory, i have the preview with no errors.
im wondering if its the read speed from the external SD card, or the quality of card im using :/ just curious. i kinda like keeping media stuff (music, videos, pix) on the External SD card and leaving my phones memory free. but i also like having previews.
lroy said:
let me know if yall are seeing the same behavior...
I can take a video or picture and place it on my external SD card, then the preview(thumbnail) shows are error in my library. if i click on the picture or video, all is well and i can view it. then if i move the media to the internal memory, i have the preview with no errors.
im wondering if its the read speed from the external SD card, or the quality of card im using :/ just curious. i kinda like keeping media stuff (music, videos, pix) on the External SD card and leaving my phones memory free. but i also like having previews.
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Are you moving this video/picture after you take it? Like take the picture/video, then move it with like esfilexplorer? Or even get on you PC and move it by hand? I believe that if you do that you would be moving the location of the thumbnail. I noticed that there is a separate folder for thumbnails, so when you move a file it could mess that location up. I hope that isn't too confusing.
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sry for the late reply
i moved them by hand. i saved pictures from my EVO onto my SD card, and unless i move the pictures into the internal memory i will have no preview. i guess the phone creates thumbnails for pictures and videos placed inside the phone but does not create them for externally mounted pictures on a SD card.
I bought a 32gb card for my atrix today and decided to move the pics from the internal storage to the card. I used the files manager app to access the dcim folder and copied the pics to move them to the card. All the pics transferred over but when i attempted to view them i could only see the ones from the "thumbnails" folder and all the rest were just the stock icon. I figured it might have been something weird with the card so i moved them back to dcim but am still having the same problem. Any thoughts on how to fix this issue?
Went to look at some pics off my SD card last night and realized that the phone had deleted them.
But what was weird, beside the fact that they got deleted, was that the phone didn't delete all my pictures. Out of about 200 pics, it deleted around 190 of them. Very strange.
Has this happened to anyone else??
Not I. The SD Card and the pictures contained should be virtually untouchable without direct user interaction. Did you possibly put them on the external SD? Are you trusting Gallery or did you check with a file manager as well? Lastly, have you used HTC sync or any other tool that could copy/backup these pictures(and maybe delete them after sync)
Same thing happened to me. Lost about 90% of my pics. Don't know how it happened. Was able to recover most of them using a program that is on hirem's boot cd.
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MrSmith317 said:
Not I. The SD Card and the pictures contained should be virtually untouchable without direct user interaction. Did you possibly put them on the external SD? Are you trusting Gallery or did you check with a file manager as well? Lastly, have you used HTC sync or any other tool that could copy/backup these pictures(and maybe delete them after sync)
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I used ASTRO file manager to double check that the pictures were actually deleted.
I don't sync my phone with my computer so I don't know how the pictures would have been deleted.
Needless to say, it's very disconcerting that my SD card could be vulnerable to something like this. I can understand, somewhat, if it was the phones internal storage, but not my SD card.
Luckily I had backed up my SD card on my computer recently (copy and paste method) so I didn't lose too many pictures.
He didnt like your dirty pics
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VTENGR said:
I used ASTRO file manager to double check that the pictures were actually deleted.
I don't sync my phone with my computer so I don't know how the pictures would have been deleted.
Needless to say, it's very disconcerting that my SD card could be vulnerable to something like this. I can understand, somewhat, if it was the phones internal storage, but not my SD card.
Luckily I had backed up my SD card on my computer recently (copy and paste method) so I didn't lose too many pictures.
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I would say keep your SD backed up and if it happens again exchange the phone.
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I used ASTRO file manager to double check that the pictures were actually deleted.
I don't sync my phone with my computer so I don't know how the pictures would have been deleted.
Needless to say, it's very disconcerting that my SD card could be vulnerable to something like this. I can understand, somewhat, if it was the phones internal storage, but not my SD card.
Luckily I had backed up my SD card on my computer recently (copy and paste method) so I didn't lose too many pictures.
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as a backup method, you could use sugarsync. They have a 5gb free account and can back up all pictures and videos automatically.
Hey everybody, let me speak to this.
More than likely your pictures are NOT deleted.
This has happened to me several times. I'd open the gallery and would not see any of my pictures, save for a few that are on the Phone Storage.
All I did was 'unmount' and 'remount' the SD card in the settings menu under 'SD & Phone Storage.
I have not been able to pinpoint the exact cause of the external SD mount getting jacked, but it might be around the USB debugging, or setting your phone to usb disk drive mode.
Anyway, a quick unmount/remount, and all my pictures were back in the gallery. I hope the same works for you, good luck!
There was also an issue where if you where flashing boot.IMG through hboot they were being ereased. Check out dsb kernel thread over at team bamf.
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There was also an issue where if you where flashing boot.IMG through hboot they were being ereased. Check out dsb kernel thread over at team bamf.
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I was just reading that thread!
I think they were talking about the internal card and not the external though. Still, something to watch out for. Always good to make a back up of everything before flashing.
SoI wanted to benchmark my class 10 32GB SD card. I used AnTuTu. When you first boot it up an option pops up to use sd or sd_ext.
I assumed sd was the card. Got crazy read and write times. Come to find out that's the phones internal memory.
Go to settings and changed over to sd_ext. Got believable results. Then I went to my camera app directly after AnTuTu. Pics and videos all show a white background and an exclamation.
I figure it's a glitch with AnTuTu. I go back to it and switch the setting back to sd. Go back to gallery and now it's even worse.
Nothing. Not even thumbnails with the white background.
I reboot phone. Still nothing.
Unmount/remount sd card.
Nothing.
Reboot again.
Alas, nothing.
Looked at my DCIM and camera folder with ES File Explorer.
My pictures and videos are gone.
Deleted.
Balls.
Anyone know what happened?
All other files are on my sd card untouched.
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Are they new pictures are old if New ones they are probably on the phones internal memory and not the sd.card if they are old that is odd. Trying plugging the phone in and see if you see your pics
New and old.
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SoI wanted to benchmark my class 10 32GB SD card. I used AnTuTu. When you first boot it up an option pops up to use sd or sd_ext.
I assumed sd was the card. Got crazy read and write times. Come to find out that's the phones internal memory.
Go to settings and changed over to sd_ext. Got believable results. Then I went to my camera app directly after AnTuTu. Pics and videos all show a white background and an exclamation.
I figure it's a glitch with AnTuTu. I go back to it and switch the setting back to sd. Go back to gallery and now it's even worse.
Nothing. Not even thumbnails with the white background.
I reboot phone. Still nothing.
Unmount/remount sd card.
Nothing.
Reboot again.
Alas, nothing.
Looked at my DCIM and camera folder with ES File Explorer.
My pictures and videos are gone.
Deleted.
Balls.
Anyone know what happened?
All other files are on my sd card untouched.
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Have an htc flyer and when I bought an sd card for it gave me a confusing result as well I tried to clean up my sd cards both of them and then I discovered that there was an internal memory sd card 1 and sd card2. The extension sd card was a way for me to get from 1 to 2 through a lot of the apps that were on the hardware sometimes the things will not show up in your history and sometimes it will not show up in the gallery or some of the other apps maybe that has something to do with antutu not working correctly. I always use astro file explorer it seems to have a better user interface as well as being able to move in copy files much more cleanly. When I first put my sd card from my old evo 3d into my new phone I discover a lot of duplicate files and had to clean this up astro seems to be the easiest way to do I tried 3 other file explorers. Be careful while doing this as some of the extension paths make it confused
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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.
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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.
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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.