Help Duplicate Folders in Gallery

[Saskya]

I am using the stock gallery app on my Moto Droid (2.2). Personally, I love it even if it is occasionally slow to load.

My issue is that it is showing duplicate folders. For example, I like to take photos of products i'd like to do research on before i purchase, and the gallery is showing two copies of that folder - although they have slightly different content.

There are not two copies of the folder in My Media. Nor is there a copy in the media folder. Nor is there a copy in the default camera image folder. Nor any of the other camera apps I have installed. I've done a search via ES File Explorer to no avail. I've deleted everything in my Picasa account. My Flickr account doesn't have a copy of the folder. I've tried clearing the cache. I've restarted/rebooted. I've mounted the SD card and completely removed all of the media and folders in the My Media folder. (And then put back the important-to-me folders.) I've put the .nomedia file in my dropbox folders.

I am seriously at a loss, and searching the forum hasn't helped.

Any suggestions?

I appreciate your time in advance. Thank you so much.
~Saskya

 

[rcourt529]

If you plug your phone into your computer, mount it, and go into your phones SD card, you can go into a folder called "DCIM"(Digital Camera IMages) and in there you create/delete any folders you want or don't want.

 

[dbvirago]

I found this looking for info re the same problem. No matter what software I use on the droid or PC to browse folders, the dupes don't appear under Pictures/Misc/Droid where the original folders are.

Only folders under DCIM are .spmo, .thumbnails, and Camera - where images shot with the camera are.

Docked and using search on the pc only finds the original files and folders. Nothing is finding the dupes.

 

[johnlgalt]

Since this is occurring only under the gallery and not when viewing the folders themselves, I wonder if the gallery is reporting virtual folders b/c of unsynchronized info in either of those files that begin with a . (period)?