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HELP !!!!!! What happend to all my sd files

all of a sudden all my folders on my sd card for my evo now end in .lnk extension i dont know what happened every single folder and file go converted in lost i dont understand i dont wanna loose all my data

kgdadon said:
all of a sudden all my folders on my sd card for my evo now end in .lnk extension i dont know what happened every single folder and file go converted in lost i dont understand i dont wanna loose all my data
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This just happened out of the blue? Had you downloaded and installed any new apps or anything like that? Were you making any changes or doing anything out of the ordinary when it happened? I've never heard of that before, and it's rather odd. Have you tried deleting the .lnk extensions from the files to see if you can still access them by deleting the extension?

k2buckley said:
This just happened out of the blue? Had you downloaded and installed any new apps or anything like that? Were you making any changes or doing anything out of the ordinary when it happened? I've never heard of that before, and it's rather odd. Have you tried deleting the .lnk extensions from the files to see if you can still access them by deleting the extension?
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WELL I REMEMBER SWITCHING TO A NEW ROM AND TRYING TO USE A NEW FORMAT ALL ZIP , THEN WHEN I FINALLY BOOTED INTO THE ROM ALL WAS OK BUT WHEN I WENT TO TRANSFER NEW FILES FROM MY PC TO MY SD CARD I FOUND ALL MY FOLDERS HAD THAT .lnk extension at the end .. i was like wtf ??? then i noticed i can acess all my files from with in the phone but not through my computer .. and when i connect to my pc a pop up pops up and says virus detected on sd drive. thats why i think its a virus but i dont understand how to fix it i dont wanna loose myy daughters pics.. everything else i dont care to loose

man what a bummer, now have you tried downloading the free lookout or avg from the market and checked your phone for viruses, see if they find any. if not have you tried to disable your antivirus in your computer and try to open the sd files then. if you can create a restore point in your computer before you disable the antivirus, to do this just click on start menu and on the black search space at the bottom type system restore and it will take you to where you can create a system restore in case there really was a virus

This may be a stupid question but can you just rename them? I mean erase the extension or something? I know on some of my hidden files that's all it does is rename the extra at the end. If I change it I can see the file.
Edit: Just re-read buckleys advice and it was the same thing. Sorry.
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[Q] Duplicate folders when phone plugged into computer

hey guys,
My issue is that when I plug my s3 into the computer. When I access the SD card from the file explorer on the computer, it comes up with duplicate folders. Just wanted to see if anyone else is having this issue. However if i browse the files through astro on my phone it looks just fine. I'm running AOKP Build 4.

So I saw this & hoped there was some extra infoon tthis topic cause I had the exact same issue. It was agrivating because I didn't know which folder to save to. Some of the folders had different data in them
My solution? I put the sd card in a multi reader & poof - no duplicate files.
BAD NEWS
Now my phone doesn't know where to find the sd card. Oh, it reads & writes just fine. I can see it in SUFBS & Astro file manager, copy files to/from with ease. But go to the gallery & I only see the phone memory. Ring tones are only found in phone memory. Downloading from any Web browser & it only goes to internal storage & I can't point to ext sd, but sms backup & restore saves to it just fine. My friend thinks the drive letter got changed but I have no idea how to find or change that in the phone. I's sad.
Sgs T-999
Cm10 nightly 10062012

Ive never seen this myself. But i only connect to my computer via usb when using Odin. For file transfers i use SwiFTP wireless transfer.
Search for sgs3 easy ums here on xda. Itll let you mount external sd as UMS rather than MTP which is probably whats causing it (maybe because you are non stock?).
Also you may have to reformat the card at this point. Not really sure about that though.
Sorry i dont have more for you, but in the future try those two apps i mentioned. Find Swiftp bt searching the themes and apps section.
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[Q] Xperia S - sdcard folders and files disappeared

Hello,
Today I was trying to copy some files to my Xperia S via USB from my WinXP PC. When trying to copy the files, I got the message "the device has either stopped responding or has been disconnected" with the option to skip or cancel. This happened several times, and I plugged and unplugged the cable between tries.
After giving it up, I went to the phone and found out that all my files were gone. The folders disappeared and I can't find any pictures or media files (as well as any of the files that existed before - and I have show hidden files enabled in Android File Manager app). In Settings > Storage > Internal it says that I have 25 GB free (when I should have only 2 or 3 GBs left). The current folder structure viewable in the app is probably the folders for apps that after restart, recreated the folders.
However, if I connect to PC again, I can see the old folder structure in Internal Storage and the listing of the files inside it (the photos, etc). If I try to copy inside the SDCARD or to the PC I get the same message "the device has either stopped responding or has been disconnected" and I can't open any kind of file.
I think the data is still in the SD Card, but not accessible anymore. Has anyone experienced this before and can help me?
Thanks,
andré

is your phone rooted?

mharckk said:
is your phone rooted?
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No, mharckk

Me Too
nariz said:
Hello,
After giving it up, I went to the phone and found out that all my files were gone. The folders disappeared
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I too have this problem with my Game ROMs folder with my SNES and Genesis games. I'll run the emulator and then when I go to find a game the folder has disappeared. I have them saved on my PC so I just copy it over but an actual solution would be nice. My phone is rooted and ROMed.
Oh and I tried Titanium Backups but they sometimes disappear as well. I've never had that app work for me anyways always freezes and the backup is never restored.
It seems to me large folders and files not involved in the phones dedicated folder structure seem to disappear.

The best thing for you to do would be to root your phone and try the SD card mounting app which mounts the SD card in mass storage mode. MTP mode always gives such problem so and is unreliable..
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abcdjdj said:
The best thing for you to do would be to root your phone and try the SD card mounting app which mounts the SD card in mass storage mode. MTP mode always gives such problem so and is unreliable..
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Exactly. MTP has lots of problem.
I don't understand why Android use it.

[q] i have 2 copys of cwm on ext sdcard and cant delete them

I have 2 clockworkmods on my external sdcard. One is of course clockworkmod and the other i named original clockworkmod. Firstly if i try restore them i get a md5 mismatch and yes i have opened the nandroid.md5 and wiped it, but the eror still occurs. So i dont want them. I keep deleteing them and not even 5 mins later they are back. I copyied everything to my pc and formatted my ext sdcard and copyied everything back but thos 2 directories. And know and god knows how they have came back again. I have disabled samsung link, google drive and all other programs as such. Could it be my gmail accounts. I hate sync and never used it but i synced my gmail accounts just last week. Could this be the problem. Plz any help would be great

shotgun1976 said:
I have 2 clockworkmods on my external sdcard. One is of course clockworkmod and the other i named original clockworkmod. Firstly if i try restore them i get a md5 mismatch and yes i have opened the nandroid.md5 and wiped it, but the eror still occurs. So i dont want them. I keep deleteing them and not even 5 mins later they are back. I copyied everything to my pc and formatted my ext sdcard and copyied everything back but thos 2 directories. And know and god knows how they have came back again. I have disabled samsung link, google drive and all other programs as such. Could it be my gmail accounts. I hate sync and never used it but i synced my gmail accounts just last week. Could this be the problem. Plz any help would be great
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Ahh, I see it's You back again
Gmail shouldn't sync anything, so it shouldn't be the reason.
Maybe those files are kept under "emulated/0/" or just in the "0" folder on the sdcard.
Make sure You delete them also (if You have "0" folder).

XDA sucks said:
Ahh, I see it's You back again
Gmail shouldn't sync anything, so it shouldn't be the reason.
Maybe those files are kept under "emulated/0/" or just in the "0" folder on the sdcard.
Make sure You delete them also (if You have "0" folder).
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I will give that a go but I think its my ext sdcard. I have had a another problem, I was at work and came across some damaged goods so I took a good 7 photos of them. I was looking at them for about 15 to 20 mins. a few hours later got back to work and came to show my boss and they were gone. I was thinking wtf so I took a few photos of just anything waited a while check and they also disappeared. I then took a photo and moved it to my internal memory and its fine. I am thinking my ext sdcard is corrupt or got a virus or something. anybody got any ideas or had the same problem ????? I just checked using root browser and found emulated/0 and they are not in there. under emulated I have a "0" directory and a "legacy" directory. both don't have any clockworkmod backups. man this really doing my head in

shotgun1976 said:
I will give that a go but I think its my ext sdcard. I have had a another problem, I was at work and came across some damaged goods so I took a good 7 photos of them. I was looking at them for about 15 to 20 mins. a few hours later got back to work and came to show my boss and they were gone. I was thinking wtf so I took a few photos of just anything waited a while check and they also disappeared. I then took a photo and moved it to my internal memory and its fine. I am thinking my ext sdcard is corrupt or got a virus or something. anybody got any ideas or had the same problem ????? I just checked using root browser and found emulated/0 and they are not in there. under emulated I have a "0" directory and a "legacy" directory. both don't have any clockworkmod backups. man this really doing my head in
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I think you must be using some sort of unwanted (or wrong configured) program.
Try freezing all of your apps, make a try with with files, defreeze some of the apps and repeat the whole procedure until You find a guilty program.
It takes a lot of time, but it's worth of it.
You can also try fining programs that can be guilty just by checking permissions, which apps are allowed to write on sdcard.
The sdcard can't delete files by itself, you must have some program that does that. Check all of Your apps if the configuration is right, idk. some backup programs, hosting programs and also make a virus check!
I hope You will be able to find it soon.

[APP] - Android File Transfer, issues on Note 3

***SOLUTION FOUND! I CAN NOW ACCESS THE FOLDER. SEE POST BELOW.***
Android File Transfer was working great up until a few days ago when it started to bug out, only for when trying to access the Camera folder on my exSD Card.
I can access everything else except when clicking on this folder the message pops up, which makes no sense because my screen isn't locked. (Screenshot attached.)
Could it be that the amount of pictures/videos on the exSD card is too much to handle for AFT? After all, it is a 64GB card...which is a lot of land to cover and load....hmmmm
I've tried this, but no luck.
Note: I'm aware of AirDroid etc...Personally I prefer to be plugged in direct via USB.

iunlock said:
Android File Transfer was working great up until a few days ago when it started to bug out, only for when trying to access the Camera folder on my exSD Card.
I can access everything else except when clicking on this folder the message pops up, which makes no sense because my screen isn't locked. (Screenshot attached.)
Could it be that the amount of pictures/videos on the exSD card is too much to handle for AFT? After all, it is a 64GB card...which is a lot of land to cover and load....hmmmm
I've tried this, but no luck.
Note: I'm aware of AirDroid etc...Personally I prefer to be plugged in direct via USB.
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Not really a theme Or app question but I'll give it a swing.
Can you access it on your phone fine?
Did you try using a card reader an see if you can access it that way?
If it's stating locked, it may have set permissions on your folder that inhibit access? Check those in a root explorer an see what they say too
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Mod, can you move this over to the proper forum. Thanks.
Possible causes / Things I've tried:
I do have some pictures in an App called: KeepSafe, where you have to enter in a pin code to access those pics, so then I was thinking maybe this was causing the problem. So I entered the App and tried connecting, but darn...same old thing. Doesn't work and I keep getting the same error message as the pic I have attached to the original thread.
I have also tried to reboot in Recovery (twrp) and tried to mount the exSD, but still nothing. Here's the message it gave me:
E: Unable to mount '/usbstorage'
This is driving me crazy. Anyone?
cbucz24 said:
Not really a theme Or app question but I'll give it a swing.
Can you access it on your phone fine? - Yes I can access it just fine through ES File Explorer. I've also checked the permissions.
Did you try using a card reader an see if you can access it that way? - I'm sure it'll work fine with a card reader, but that's not my preferred method. It's just frustrating for something to have worked and out of the blue stop.
If it's stating locked, it may have set permissions on your folder that inhibit access? Check those in a root explorer an see what they say too - I've uploaded a screen shot of the message that I'm receiving.
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Try moving the KeepSafe files to another directory.
Frank

Update 6/30/14
SUCCESS!
From the gallery on your phone, you can create folders and move (not copy) over pictures/videos and it'll be default save it to your phones internal SD card.
I didn't want to move all 4,000+ pics/vids so I just did it in little batches of 20 here 50 there and made just a few folders.
Then I connected the phone to my computer and accessed the Camera folder and....bam there it OPENS!
My theory:
If you have more than ~50% of your external SD card filled up then chances are your computer (Android File Transfer, for Mac users) will have a hard time trying to access that huge folder that is < 30+GB's ...
Therefore, you just have to lighten up the load on that folder so that it can be accessed with ease...
Pretty straight forward and simple.

Update 6/30/14
***SOLUTION FOUND! I CAN NOW ACCESS THE FOLDER. SEE POST BELOW.***
From the gallery on your phone, you can create folders and move (don't copy) over pictures/videos and it'll by default save it to your phones internal SD card.
I didn't want to move all 4,000+ pics/vids so I just moved about a couple hundred pictures to varies folders.
Then I connected the phone to my computer and accessed the Camera folder and....bam there it OPENS!
My theory:
If you have more than ~50% of your external SD card filled up then chances are your computer (Android File Transfer, for Mac users) will have a hard time trying to access that huge folder that is < 30+GB's ... (Windows wouldn't open it either.)
Therefore, you just have to lighten up the load on that folder so that it can be accessed with ease...
Pretty straight forward and simple. Hope this helps.

iunlock said:
My theory:
If you have more than ~50% of your external SD card filled up then chances are your computer (Android File Transfer, for Mac users) will have a hard time trying to access that huge folder that is < 30+GB's ...
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It is more likely that they thought it very unlikely that there would be more than the old limit of 2,000 files in a directory so they didn't allow for it in the program code.
Frank