Help Galaxy S5830i where have photos gone

[Seaham Linda]

I have a Samsung Galaxy Ace S5830i. I took about fifteen photographs whilst on holiday. Initially I could see thumbnails in "Gallery". Now however only three thumbnails show photos the rest are black with a icon figure and lightening mark. I have an SD card but they are not on there.

Whilst trying to find them I think I may have changed their file reference to move them to the SD card, things got worse at that point.

Can anyone please advise where I can retrieve these photographs and either transfer via bluetooth or save them to the SD card.

I look forward to your advice. Thank you.

 

[Seaham Linda]

Not sure what is going on. Messing about with the phone and found thumbnails somewhere else. Before my eyes, one by one they disappeared. Think my next phone will be based on windows and not android cos looking at forum this is where the problem lays.

 

[Atma]

Hi Seaham. If you connect your phone to your computer do your photos show up?

 

[Seaham Linda]

Hi - Thank yo for responding - Ive loaded the SD card into a card reader but Windows wont load it - Says its too large or corrupted. Each file is massive about 1400 KB unusual because others are only about 16 KB

 

[ayush29k]

Looks like the sd card is corrupted, no wonder your pics are messed up. You might also be having trouble updating/installing apps from the play store.
Cards usually get corrupted when they are not safely unmounted/removed from the phone/pc.
Backup whatever data you can on a computer and format the sd card, preferably from the phone.

 

[Seaham Linda]

Thanks for responding. Not taking any risks, just going to get a new SD card. Wont use camera on phone again. Will use a proper camera.

 

[socrates0]

Thanks for responding. Not taking any risks, just going to get a new SD card. Wont use camera on phone again. Will use a proper camera.

Occasionally memory cards do go bad what ayush suggested above is worth trying, if that does not work then a new card will be warranted.

 

[ayush29k]

Thanks for responding. Not taking any risks, just going to get a new SD card. Wont use camera on phone again. Will use a proper camera.

There are no risks involved, it will either work or it won't, if it works then you will save money buying a new card, if it doesn't then you will have no other option but to buy a new card.
And this does not happen on just android phones, its universal, even portable hard drives and pen drives get corrupted if they are not properly ejected from the system.