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[msbrenie]

New at posting here.... Sorry if the question has been asked before, I'm not finding an answer. Ok, I just received a replacement Bionic. When I put the SD card in new Bionic the only photos that are there are the photos that I haven't moved to folders. But when I look for photos on the old Bionic without the SD card they are All there. How do I get them to show up one the new Bionic? I use a file manager, Astro, and when I open Astro All of my files are there on the old Bionic but NOT the replacement Bionic without the SD card???
Please Help!!!! Thank You.

 

[lunatic59]

What you've got there is a classic case of SD card confusion.

Here's the long explanation if you're interested:

Spoiler

Newer phones that include large amounts (by current mobile standards) Like the Atrix (and my other phone, the Captivate) often partition them so that you don't have a huge amount of system memory that wouldn't be accessible for file storage. On the Captivate (and I am assuming it's similar with the Atrix) Samsung has a 2 GB partition for the system and the remaining 14 GB partitioned and recognized as an sd card by making its mount point /sdcard.

Therein lies the problem. The path to external storage within Android is /sdcard so apps that are installed to external storage will be there, which is the internal sd partition, not the removable sd card. On the Captivate the path to the removable sd card is /sdcard/sd_external, on my SGS2 it's /sdcard/external_sd and on my Transformer is /Removable/Microsd.

While the default location for file storage, including pictures is /sdcard, you are actually saving them to an internal sd card partition, not the removable MicroSD card.

The solution:

Using the USB cable, connect the old Bionic with the sd card inserted to a PC and put it into storage mode. You should see two removable disks pop up on the PC. One of them is your internal sd card partition and the other will be the card. Copy your photos off of the internal partition (usually in DCIM) and copy them to the card.

Then, when you place the card in the new Bionic your photos will be there.