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[Q] Default save path? I9505

I used my S4 without a MicroSD first. I just noticed that it emulated an SDCard in its Phone Device. Now I have my 32Gb memory. Still, the default save path is my Phone Storage? For example, I saved a photo from Facebook. Instead, the pic was saved in my Internal memory and created another Facebook folder in there? The same goes for Instagram? I installed a map, the maps is in the External, but the app wants it to be in the internal? Why is the default path the emulated SDCard(Internal)? How can I get rid of that? I'm on I9505 LTE. 4.3 stock. Rooted phone. THANKSS!!

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Backing up

Right so I'm currently running AOKP on my S4 i9505 which was running great at first but now it just keeps on hanging, freezing and force closing applications and so I've decided to switch to another ROM. My question is, what is the fastest and most efficient way of backing up all my pictures? I don't want to lose them and I'd prefer it if they were kept in their current respective folders and such, usually the way I'd go about doing this is to back them up into a folder on my laptop but it is taking way too long. Not all of the pictures are on my SD card, I have WhatsApp pictures etc. What can I do?

You can just copy all of the pics to the sd or pc this is the only solution

If never clear my internal sd when flashing, why would you?
You can just copy past it to your pc.

Automatically copy or change save folder

Hi, I recently tried to flash my Verizon GS4 with the latest update but I failed so, anyway, I did back up most of my data but there were a few things like pictures that were in my internal memory that I didn't save. For example, my Whatsapp folder and my saved photos from Facebook automatically save to my internal memory. I looked to change the settings to direct where I want to save the images/documents but I did not see any option in those apps.
I was wondering:
Can I change the automatic download drive/folder so that everything goes to external memory?
and/or, can my external memory automatically copy everything from my internal memory that is downloaded synchronously?

[Q] Help with recovery of photos!

Dear friends,
My family just came back from a trip to California. And I did a stupid thing that cost all the photos I took with my Samsung note 3. After I took a lot of photos, I want to transfer the photos from internal storage to the external micro SD card, which I've been using for more than 3 years. But the problem is, I did an system update pushed by AT&T to android 4.4.4(KitKat) a while ago. And I didn't know it prevent to write to the ext SD card. The app I used to transfer photos to ext SD card is, MyFiles, a stock app comes with the Samsung phone. The nightmare starts, the app, MyFiles, didn't give out any error/warning message, just pretend the "move" operation was done successfully and erase all the photos from the source, internal storage (DCIM/Camera). I've been working with a data recovery shop in San Francisco, but no luck. I'm wondering if I can find any help here. Any idea that might bring back the photos?
And also, in this case, is AT&T or Samsung or even Google responsible for my loss? Thank you in advance!
Best regards,
Joe

For future reference, there are SDFix apps on playstore to fix the 4.4.x problem with extSDCards.
I'd remove the card and use a adapter to insert into a PC or laptop and then run Recovery software from either Linux or Windows to see what you can get back. They will be .jpg files and most undelete programs will let you put in a mask to find only those files.
With any luck, Android simply deleted them and has NOT written over the space on the card - most OS's will leave recently deleted file space until after other free space has been written to, so the sooner the better.
Good luck.

[Q] Photos and Videos Lost on internal Memory - Storage Space is still Filled Up

All Photos and Videos are lost on my Galaxy S4 (i9500) although App Data and other files are intact.
BTW, Internal Storage Space is still filled up and I don't think that files are actually deleted.
after rooting the device I tried to recover files using an App (GT Recovery) but it was no good.
also tried using Wondershare Recovery but somehow the process didn't even start so I gave up on that.
any way I could get hands on my files again?
Additional info:
I also tried browsing phone memory with Root Explorer and ES File Explorer. no joy :crying:
Running Stock Android 5.0.1 - Build Number: I9500XXUHOH6

Try changing ROMs.
I had a similar problem. Some files would be visible on one ROM, but invisible on another ROM, but the space would still be occupied.