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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.
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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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I bought the Aquos (reluctantly) a couple of weeks ago and am not overall impressed, but am stuck with it for now...so am dealing.
But I have having major anxiety (OK, maybe just major annoyance) about the storage issue. I have a 64gb card attached and it is fairly useless. I can't move apps over since the firmware doesn't support app2sd (i think that is what i saw one Dev put on their site).
OK, so I downloaded ES File Explorer and I can move things between the device storage and the SD card easy enough, but as soon as I move images - the gallery won't show them anymore.. They are there... I can navigate to them from apps... But just not the gallery.
In my gallery you can see folders i moved onto the card via taking the card our and putting it in a reader. So I know the gallery 'sees' the card.
I have even moved and/or saved a file into one of the folders on the card that is already showing... And they don't show in the gallery.
Is anyone else having this issue? Or is this maybe just my phone.. (I have tried 2 different SD cards, a 32gb and the 64gb and get the same results)
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I bought the Aquos (reluctantly) a couple of weeks ago and am not overall impressed, but am stuck with it for now...so am dealing.
But I have having major anxiety (OK, maybe just major annoyance) about the storage issue. I have a 64gb card attached and it is fairly useless. I can't move apps over since the firmware doesn't support app2sd (i think that is what i saw one Dev put on their site).
OK, so I downloaded ES File Explorer and I can move things between the device storage and the SD card easy enough, but as soon as I move images - the gallery won't show them anymore.. They are there... I can navigate to them from apps... But just not the gallery.
In my gallery you can see folders i moved onto the card via taking the card our and putting it in a reader. So I know the gallery 'sees' the card.
I have even moved and/or saved a file into one of the folders on the card that is already showing... And they don't show in the gallery.
Is anyone else having this issue? Or is this maybe just my phone.. (I have tried 2 different SD cards, a 32gb and the 64gb and get the same results)
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I have used ES File Explorer for years and haven't had this issue, even on the Crystal...
Are they images that other Image Browsers can view also? If the Gallery app is set to default, clear it, and try viewing the photos with ES, Google Photos, or other apps when it prompts you to choose an app to display the pic.
If that fails, try formatting the card through the phone and moving the photos again.
I use quickpic always an it always registers when I move anything over through es.
Always is a loaded word... If it always worked then why isn't It still working?
Before you give up on this phone I think you should try my above post or something else. Instead of factory resetting the phone as a last resort I think you should do so anyways to see if that will fix the freezes you've been having.
My personal opinion is that you should see if your problems go away by trying X (whatever that might be). My philosophy is that if something is broken I try and fix it. If I can fix it I'll be cautious to not repeat the initial problem. If I can't, whether it's not worth fixing after evaluation or too expensive to do so, I can have a clear-ish conscious towards disposing of it. In the end this is my opinion and you can do whatever you want with your stuff.
Well in the past 4 years quickpic is THE ONLY gallery app I'll use. ES and Quickpic are the first 2 things I install on any new ROM and phone. As far as always goes I just said that because I have never had an issue with it or es.
I don't know what to tell you...
I too use ES as my file manager and previously used that to transfer most of my images to my SD card. After I installed Quickpic I was able to view all the images I transferred to my SD card.
Gallery image fail
format your sd card on a pc then reinsert it into your phone it should work then.
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Deltax82 said:
format your sd card on a pc then reinsert it into your phone it should work then.
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I had this same problem and with ES files. Look through you're files and if you find files " .nomedia " delete them . I still don't know how the .nomedia files got on my phone but soon as I deleted them all my photos in Gallery showed back up. No more problems with photos.
Back last February I had a problem with files named
.nomedia and they caused problems with my photos stored on my phone. After I realized it was nomedia files causing the problem I deleted all nomedia files and all was good until last week. Now the nomedia files are showing up again. I delete them only to have the nomedia files return. Delete the file and it shows back up in a different place,in a different file. It's always someplace on my SD Card and I can't get rid of it.
I'm not sure what to do?
My device is
SAMSUNG-SM-G925A
S 6 EDGE
5.1.1
kernel 3.10.61
January 29 KST 2016
Thank you in advance for your time and help.
Randy6501
Thumbnails is making phone storage very low for new data
While I have 64gb sd card that I have to move stuff to it regularly
I want some way to make the sd card is the default for everything
Or at least for these huge thumbnails as a start
I have Xperia z2 3g lollipop 5.1.1. The A.1. 232 version
Same problem here
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Can you pinpoint the app that is storing such large tumbnail cache? This is not normal behaviour and can be considered as a bug. You can use CCleaner from the app store to clean this thumbnail cache. Try to do it regularly. I would uninstall the app that is causing this, this can happen if youre using more gallery apps or more file managers. You can use many cache cleaning apps like CM cleaner or Clean Master too to do this.
I think it is the Stock photo app
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I think it is the Stock photo app
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Then do a system cache cleaning, this is possible even trough recovery but the simplest way is to use CCleaner frim the app strore. Try it but if you get that huge cache again then something is definitely wrong.
Yeah some problem here, my thumbdata is only about 1gb but i don't have a ton of photos on my phone, i can imagine this file getting bigger if there are lot's of photos on the phone.
Deleting the files will not solve the problem as android will recreate them very fast. I see and understand the purpose of the thumbdata files but there should be a way to set max size and location for this files...
IF anyone figures a nice solution for this problem please post :good:
Edit: just had an ideia, maybe we could move the folder thumbnails to external sdcard and use foldermount or links2sd to link it to the internal memory? i can't test this right now cause i'm at work but i'll try it later if i have time.
Thanks.
I still insist this is too large thumbnail cache. There may be leftover pics thumbnails that are deleted but thumbs are still here and thats why I propose a cleaning. 5gb worth of thumbs would be equal to 50gb worth of pictures. Sony album app creates thumbs where images are located so its wise to move pics to sd card and set camera to store pics on the sd card and then thumbnails will be recreated on the sd card in DCIM folder.
- First remember the name of the /storage/sdcard0/DCIM/.thumbnails/.thumbdata file, f.e. .thumbdata3--1967290299
(if you have two files, like me, remember also the second name)
- delete this file (s)
- create a new file (or more) with the same name of the file (s) you just deleted, f.e. .thumbdata3--1967290299
that's it. Android from on is not able to create a new large thumbnail file.
Well, actually, this is not the solution for moving the .thumbnail file to sdcard, but it helps to free a lot of memory - forever.
My low budget old phone has limited internal storage and having less than 1 GB of free space i used cleaner apps to ged rid of unnecessary junk. One of the apps found 2 hidden .thumbdata files of 1.15 GB each.
I deleted them, but didn't get free space.
Tested the solutions found on the internet but it didn't work. A new file of aprox 68 MB was generated when gallery was opened again .
Because some people on the internet claim it's a sparse file, i wanted to check it by opening it in a text or hex editor. I managed to open
such a big file in a single one(NMM hex editor) and noticed there is some data only towards the end of the file, what is also confirmed by the "ls" and "du" command.
It is interesting what the editor info says - looks some kind of mounted partition/space(i don't know how to call it), other text editors call it 7190, so it's definety not a normal file with that size in the DCIM folder. Even when almost empty , the system "books" the space from the file and doesn't allow the phone user to benefit from it.
My opinion is that my first deleted files were also space left "mounted" after the erase of the 2 huge thumbdata files.
Has anyone an idea what it is ?
When using the stock Samsung camera and stored to my SD card, I use Google Photos to edit the photos, however, I get this error when trying to delete any photo:
"Photos doesn't have access to delete item on your SD card. Go to the Gallery app to continue deleting"
I checked the permissions of the Google Photos app, and it does in fact have access to the SD card.
What gives?
I got my S7e a week ago and I have the same problem. Really annoying, especially as this was working fine on my previous phone Moto X Style. with an external SD card. Apparently the app does this by design, just wondering why was it working ok on my other phone and if there is a way to change this behaviour.
I have no problem with either the gallery app or google photo's accessing my EXSD card. It is either there are not the correct permission granted, or your EXSD card is not formatted correctly?
This was a brand new 32Gb microsd card I have formatted in the phone. Is yours FAT32 or extFAT? Did you format it in a PC?
You have to create a new folder in SD card (anywhere but under DCIM folder) and move the pics there manually. Google photos cannot access the pics under DCIM folder of SD card. Once the new folder has been created, allow that folder to be uploaded in Google photos app under Device folder.
I know its a pain to move the pics every time but that's how it is.
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You have to create a new folder in SD card (anywhere but under DCIM folder) and move the pics there manually. Google photos cannot access the pics under DCIM folder of SD card. Once the new folder has been created, allow that folder to be uploaded in Google photos app under Device folder.
I know its a pain to move the pics every time but that's how it is.
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I'm only having issues when it comes to deleting pictures stored on external sd card from Google Photos. I'm trying to avoid the extra manual step involved when deleting files, not the end of the world.
I just can't explain why this worked without problems on my old Moto X Style but not on the S7 edge.
Hi, haing the same issue, did you find a solution?
This is by design. I believe the google photos app team said there is no way around this currently.
The way around it is granting g photos SD card access through one of the many available solutions for root users. One such solution is xinternalsd
tofu- said:
The way around it is granting g photos SD card access through one of the many available solutions for root users. One such solution is xinternalsd
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Some of us use Android Pay and other such things that simply don't work when the phone is rooted. And as of the August security patch from Google .. it's just more chasing the dragon as far as keeping AP and root. Those of us with not enough time in the day don't want to keep chasing it. It just kinda sucks that Googles own photo app has this issue. I guess they have to adhere to their own rules.
hello.
Im using my note 4 about 3 years.
From a month ago, my pictures started hiding one by one and I noticed that .nomedia files are created in every single folder.
I did an odin flash/ didnt work
Unistalled some apps /dw
Installed media rescan and deleted media storage data and scanned pics.
The pics showed up but reappeared again.
Its frustrating.
Any help pls?
Aaazv said:
hello.
Im using my note 4 about 3 years.
From a month ago, my pictures started hiding one by one and I noticed that .nomedia files are created in every single folder.
I did an odin flash/ didnt work
Unistalled some apps /dw
Installed media rescan and deleted media storage data and scanned pics.
The pics showed up but reappeared again.
Its frustrating.
Any help pls?
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you did something a month ago that caused this, probably a new app, if you are rooted backup your apps with titanium backup and uninstall them one by one to test which one is responsible for this problem
Also install various anti-virus apps from playstore and scan for viruses/malwares
Shahrokh.KING said:
you did something a month ago that caused this, probably a new app, if you are rooted backup your apps with titanium backup and uninstall them one by one to test which one is responsible for this problem
Also install various anti-virus apps from playstore and scan for viruses/malwares
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I have bitdefender paid.
When delete the nomedia's, takes some time for it to reappear. So I wont be able to test it by unistalling my whole apps one by one. Is it certainly caused by an app?
Solved!! (I think)
In my case, every time I used to add my sd card, the internal pictures started to hide. Even after deleting every .nomedia file and deleting Media Storage's data, and using Media re.scan, the pictures were shown up, but after a reset or reinserting the sd card, the pictures hid again!
Even unistalling apps, didnt work for me.
So I noticed that its a problem from the sd card!
I had nothing Special in sd, but an Android folder full of files and folders.
Deleted the whole "Android" file which was in sd card, and after that, my pictures are not hiding!!
THAT MEANS THAT SOMETHING **** WAS HIDING MY PICS FROM THE ANDROID FOLDER!
I hope this fixes problems of others!