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Gallery multiple pictures

Hi
I have a problem with the Gallery with my SGS on JPC. It shows each picture 4 times, it begun with showing pictures double, but on the sd card i only have it once. Very strange. Dont know the reason why this happens.
Hope someone could help me.

delete thumbnails
try deleting thumbnail cache images:
/sdcard/DCIM/.thumbnails/
I'm using Ghost Commander.
Best of luck!

Didnt work.

What operating system do you use on your computer? If you're using Linux (and I suppose Mac might do the same thing) to manage your photos be sure to empty the trash, or delete the .trash folder on whichever of the phone's drives you're using to store photos.
If you are using one of those OSs I they place a copy of deleted files in .trash, and the Galaxy (or any android phone) will read those files.
If you aren't using Linux or Mac then I have no useful suggestions.

Im on Win7 and trash are deleted.
Ist very strange that only i have this problem.

gpnda said:
Im on Win7 and trash are deleted.
Ist very strange that only i have this problem.
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I found this problem too, in gallery show double picture. I delete thumnails but cannot fix it.

delete everything off gallery and transfer your pictures again, had the problem last night, all's good after doing that.

Odd gallery issue

My gallery app has a horrible tendency of creating folders that definitely don't exist on my internal memory.
I have at least 20 folders simply named things like:
1
10
11
12
15
18
This has been going on for a while now, but it's never REALLY bothered me until now. Any idea how to fix it?

This happens to me sometimes. I think they are thumbnails from the web or some other source.
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App

I agree ^
One of your apps might be creating folders, to name a few examples Heroes of Sparta creates a folder with a new video. NFS downloads a whole bunch of music, Bestube downloads a lot of pictures (useless), etc. So it might not be the gallery but a third party app.

It's not any of my apps.
The pictures in that folder are pictures I've taken with my camera or downloaded from people who have texted them to me. They just appear as duplicates in the gallery, even though when I look at the files on the memory stick and phone, they only exist once in the Camera/Downloads folder.
Edit: Some of these pictures SHOULD be in my downloads folder because I saved them from an MMS but aren't.
I can't seem to find the folder they're actually stored IN, though...

You can try backing up the files you know you want to keep, format the internal sd through the phone, then restore your files. That should remove any dupes on your sd. You may want to do the same with the external sd as well.
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Br1cK'd said:
You can try backing up the files you know you want to keep, format the internal sd through the phone, then restore your files. That should remove any dupes on your sd. You may want to do the same with the external sd as well.
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That's a great idea, thanks!
Before I do that though, there are pictures that SHOULD be in the downloads folder, but are in those weird folders. However, I can't find those anywhere with any file managers. Any idea how to find those pictures and move them to the downloads folder?

Guticb said:
That's a great idea, thanks!
Before I do that though, there are pictures that SHOULD be in the downloads folder, but are in those weird folders. However, I can't find those anywhere with any file managers. Any idea how to find those pictures and move them to the downloads folder?
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That I don't have a clue, I'm ocd about my files, they get put where I need them as soon as they hit my phone. If you're seeing them in the gallery, they have to be stored somewhere, sorry I can't offer any advice on that part.
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[Q] Gallery

I'm currently experiencing a very annoying problem with the gallery. When I press on Gallery, it takes a very long time before it loads the pictures. Same deal after taking a picture, if I want to view it, it takes me to a black screen, but if I wait for like 5 minutes, I can view all the pictures on my Camera folder. This is very annoying. Where in the SD am I supposed to place my pictures?

Bump, hope someone can help.

carazy1 said:
Bump, hope someone can help.
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hmmmmmmmmmmmmm?

carazy1 said:
I'm currently experiencing a very annoying problem with the gallery. When I press on Gallery, it takes a very long time before it loads the pictures. Same deal after taking a picture, if I want to view it, it takes me to a black screen, but if I wait for like 5 minutes, I can view all the pictures on my Camera folder. This is very annoying. Where in the SD am I supposed to place my pictures?
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Try using SD Speed Increase to potentially increase the read/write speed of ur sd card...Works 4 me..

voncrane said:
Try using SD Speed Increase to potentially increase the read/write speed of ur sd card...Works 4 me..
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Installed it, doesn't help for me.

Hmmm...i tk it u tried all four possible changes while rebooting each time to see if it worked?...Unless u have a ton of pictures on ur card then maybe u should consider getting a higher class SD card then...

Try QuickPic from market, its for free.
Its better than the stock gallery:
- faster
- you can exclude or even hide folders beeing showed
- ...

Yes very true use QuickPic. Much better than stock.

ok, none of the answers listed above worked for me. nothing against the posters. I was having the same problem with my hd2 running android. I just read an article and it said to create a ".nomedia" file (in notepad on your pc) and transfer it into the folder you don't want shown. NOTE: if you do a search for ".nomedia" there might be one already created in another file. You can cut and paste it if you don't feel like making one).
My gallery ALWAYS crashed when I tried to add .gifs to an mms. I would be able to scroll once and then the gallery would get stuck and force close. Since I added the .nomedia file to the .thumbnails file in dcim (where there were 2,550 thumbnails) I can at least scroll through the full gallery WITHOUT a gallery force close. Again, it is not perfect or extremely fast, but it is now functional. Hope this helps someone else.

try a faster sd card
and OP please dont bump your posts after 1 hour or so of posting

I would also say: try a faster card - seems there is the problem - although the gallery appears quite often slow, when it is loaded for the first time and full with pictures from the pc.

steve austin said:
ok, none of the answers listed above worked for me. nothing against the posters. I was having the same problem with my hd2 running android. I just read an article and it said to create a ".nomedia" file (in notepad on your pc) and transfer it into the folder you don't want shown. NOTE: if you do a search for ".nomedia" there might be one already created in another file. You can cut and paste it if you don't feel like making one).
My gallery ALWAYS crashed when I tried to add .gifs to an mms. I would be able to scroll once and then the gallery would get stuck and force close. Since I added the .nomedia file to the .thumbnails file in dcim (where there were 2,550 thumbnails) I can at least scroll through the full gallery WITHOUT a gallery force close. Again, it is not perfect or extremely fast, but it is now functional. Hope this helps someone else.
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Everyone, my problem is fixed. Download this:
https://market.android.com/details?id=de.mrfloppycoding.galleryexcluder
It helped.

[Q] Where do my video files go?

I can't find them anywhere...i thought they would just show up with the photos in the gallery.
While we're on it, not a fan of whatever the stock gallery is i have on here to view photos...seems to take forever.
Any help with both these issues much appreciated

Im not a fan of this post. First, where did you put the video files?
About the Gallery, are you using an sd card? Read this.

Ha, sorry you don't like my post, but i appreciate you coming in to respond!
I will read that article you linked...
I didn't PUT the video files anywhere. i shot some on my phone but once they were done shooting (i hit the stop button) i had no idea where to find them to view. I think i have like 10-20 videos that i just don't know where they would be stored

if you have an sd card it's by default in /mnt/sdcard-ext/dcim/Camera. If you don't have an sdcard mounted then it's in /mnt/sdcard/dcim/Camera. If you connect your phone to your computer and set the USB mode to mass storage then you will just see the DCIM folder.

Dillsnik said:
Ha, sorry you don't like my post, but i appreciate you coming in to respond!
I will read that article you linked...
I didn't PUT the video files anywhere. i shot some on my phone but once they were done shooting (i hit the stop button) i had no idea where to find them to view. I think i have like 10-20 videos that i just don't know where they would be stored
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Haha, good times. I understand now you are talking about video shot with the phone. I didnt know if you were downloading it or transfering it or what.. In my Gallery vids I shot are in a folder called "Camera Roll". If you are using an ext sd, the linked article will explain how you can increase the size of the cache. Im assuming that is why you dont like the gallery and it takes forever to load.? My gallery is plenty fast loading thumbnails and folders, and I have a bunch.

Device memory not adding up (applications and pictures, videos sizes are bigger than)

Didn't really know what to search for to get any results, but the automatic title search helped with that. Still the threads were of no help!
I'm adding a couple of pictures of my issue, don't really know what to think of it, but I don't want to see it anymore.
The pictures, videos size was 7,7GB under a minute before I took the screen shot, I have ~99% of my pictures on my new 64GB microSDXC, but still, it show 18+GB. Also all the bigger apps that I have are moved to the SD, and I don't have many nor really big ones at the moment. I can get rid of the pictures videos size by clearing the gallery's data (gallery's data at the moment is 7,5GB) - I'm guessing that is because of the phantom thumbnails files in DCIM/.thumbnails - I recently got two .thumb.... files there, both 7,5GB!
Still what to do to get the apps part to refresh itself or to show correct data?
Any help/thoughts appreciated (on both the huge sizes and the phantom files in DCIM/.thumbnails as I haven't found anything that helps permanently with those)

got some views, but just going to try to bring this back to someone's attention who can hopefully shed some light on what's going on or what to do with this.....also if anyone has a similar issue??

Dude if u use foldermount it can do that
because the symlinks created are detected by the settings apps so it counts it in but if u want to see ur memory stat for real just disable the links in fokdermount and see settings again

qazmed said:
Dude if u use foldermount it can do that
because the symlinks created are detected by the settings apps so it counts it in but if u want to see ur memory stat for real just disable the links in fokdermount and see settings again
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I've read a bit about foldermount....it requires root, doesn't it?
If I didn't mention in my first post, then my bad, have had a lot on my mind with school and the medical examination for the army....
I'm completely stock, haven't rooted (yet), no custom kernel, no hocus-pocus with the memory except a new microSD (64GB SanDisk)
Thanks for the reply anyways and I'll try to remember that and not freak out once I finally root my S4 and see that...