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Help Photos disappearing from Gallery

FairyLights

FairyLights

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I have had my Desire HD for 2 or 3 weeks now. The first week I got it, I took 2 photos.

After that I had trouble with other things on my phone and had to reboot, but these 2 photos are still there.

Last week, I took another 2 photos. Last night when I looked in the gallery, these 2 photos are gone, but I did not delete them. Where are they? I took a photo last night as a test, and this morning it is also gone.

Has anyone had this before or know what to do? :confused:
 
The factory data reset probably installed a new/duplicate folder for the Gallery pics.

Sometimes it'll be named, "medias," with an "s" on the end, sometimes just "media," but with a newer creation date so the pics default to it as a measure to remedy possible corrupt old folders.

They should be in the /DCIM folder. You can access all of the folders on your SD card by attaching a USB cable to your device and computer, with "USB debugging" enabled in menu > settings > applications > development, as long as you have the drivers for your device installed on your computer.

If you don't have those drivers, you can use your stock file manager ("my files?" etc) to find the pics by doing a search in there, but start with the /DCIM folder. ;)
 
I have found them by going in to the phone through the computer.

Is there a way of making them available to in the Gallery on the phone as before?
 
i've had that problem a couple of times. download an app called sdrescan and it should force the phone to update the gallery. i still have to do it every now and again but it's much less hassle than unmounting & remounting the sd card
 
monkeh said:
i've had that problem a couple of times. download an app called sdrescan and it should force the phone to update the gallery. i still have to do it every now and again but it's much less hassle than unmounting & remounting the sd card
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I have the same problem, all photos disappear from the Gallery.
They show up in QuickPic (a Gallery alternative downloaded via the market), if I "unhide" the files...

If I take a new pic, it does show in Gallery, but if I do a scan with SDrescan all pics disappear again.

This is so annoying!

Any updates on this?
 
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