So a friend of mine had a problem where facebook stickers kept showing up in the gallery. The solution was simple, create a .nomedia file and put it into the com.facebook.orca folder in internal storage.
But since id forgotten initially where to put .nomedia, i put it in the root directory, and then the android/data directory.
Now my gallery is empty, even though i have deleted the .nomedia files since then.
I cleared the app data, disabled it, restarted, enabled it. Waited for a while, but nothing seems to bring them back. Not just gallery, but to any app.
Any suggestions, short of flashing?
Edit: Files in my external storage are visible. Files in my internal storage, that were there before i created .nomedia, are not visible. Files in my internal storage that were created afterwards are visible.
So its like my older whatsapp images are invisible and newer ones are visible.
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Ok, so I don't know what happened, but when i went to mount my phone with mtp, everything is gone. I have the camera folder but no pictures. I've lost all of my pictures, downloaded apks, videos... Everything. Someone please help me trouble shoot this. I tried to run programs like Pandora Recovery but since the GN doesn't mount to the computer with a drive letter, those types of file recovery programs aren't working.
Thanks in advance for the support.
Can you give us any more information about anything that you did or that happened between the last time you had the files and now? Also, are the files still on the phone, just not visible from the computer, or are you sure that they have been deleted from the phone?
Have you used/installed to your phone a program like ES File Explorer or Astro to browse the SD card folder to see if anything is listed there?
I even looked on Astro & Root Explorer.
Only folders that were left are empty but are "Android" "DCIM" "Notifications" "Pictures" "tmp"
Even my clockwork folder with my back up is gone.
Last thing I did was make a back-up then I wanted to copy over a new Rom to the phone so when i plugged it it, that's when it appeared that everything was gone.
I had apps and all that but what is killing me is the pictures of my son that I've been saving...
Hello guys,
I have a bigger problem I hope you can help me with...
My internal storage is somehow messed up. This has effects on MTP and on some apps like the stock camera.
When accessing my internal storage by MTP from PC, only a few folders and files are visible. In contrast, if I list the content of "/mnt/sdcard" or "/storage/sdcard0" they show all my files and folders as one would expect. Also, files visible on the PC are inside this path and even when i copy a file from the PC, it is placed here.
The more serious problem is, that some apps are not able to find their files and folders inside die storage anymore. As an example, the camera app asks me to insert a sd card before taking a picture and Winamp doesn't find my music anymore.
What i tried so far:
Copying files from and to storage with Dropsync, FolderSync and ES Explorer: works without problems
I checked the rights of the files with the terminal: nothing interesting there
I cleared my whole storage (thanks to Unlock procedure) and flashed a new Custom ROM
I drank a lot of coffee because it got late
Nothing worked.
Please help, Thanks!
So thats me again.
I finally found the correct allready existing post. In this thread user dlzinc describes that one has to fix the permissions for /data/media. Good to know that i was right with permissions, bad that i didn't go through with it in the first place.
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I have been trying to track down a culprit that has been creating over 1GB of thumbnails in the .thumbnails directory in the root (not off of DCIM). After much googling, I got nothing.
Basically, off of the phone's storage, sdcard0, there is a hidden .thumbnails directory. In there is a folder for every single video I have on my external SD card. The folder is named "Movie_6xxx", where 6xxx is a number, like "Movie_6634". In that folder are 13 files for each video - 12 named "filename.0000.lvl" to "filename.0011.lvl", plus a 13th file named "filename.ListView.lvl".
If I delete the files, it stays empty until the phone is put on the charger. Then the files are regenerated.
I have checked running programs and such, but I cannot find the culprit that is doing this. Gallery creates thumbnail files, but I think those are off of DCIM and are less than 100MB in size. This .thumbnails off of the root is 1.3GB in size - a definite problem.
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This guy had the exact same problem, with no apprent solution:
http://androidforums.com/samsung-galaxy-s3/640713-thumbnails-folder-explodes-while-charging.html
Anyone got any ideas?
I don't know what application do that, i simply delete the .thumbnails directory and create a .thumbnails empty file. Phone works well, with no problems with gallery or video player.
DaleReeck said:
Basically, off of the phone's storage, sdcard0, there is a hidden .thumbnails directory. In there is a folder for every single video I have on my external SD card. The folder is named "Movie_6xxx", where 6xxx is a number, like "Movie_6634". In that folder are 13 files for each video - 12 named "filename.0000.lvl" to "filename.0011.lvl", plus a 13th file named "filename.ListView.lvl".
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If you go into the "Thumbnails" tab of the stock video player, you will see that your video files are "animated". I rather suspect that the thumbnails you are talking about have been created by the media scanner to provide those animations.
No idea how to turn this behaviour off I'm afraid.
Regards,
Dave
foxmeister said:
If you go into the "Thumbnails" tab of the stock video player, you will see that your video files are "animated". I rather suspect that the thumbnails you are talking about have been created by the media scanner to provide those animations.
No idea how to turn this behaviour off I'm afraid.
Regards,
Dave
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I guess you're right, when i remove the directory and replace it a .thumbnails file, there is no more animated video files.
I was hoping for an actual fix/turn it off, but I'm afraid you are right, the ".thumbnails" file seems to be the only way...thanks all.
Hey guys, I recently transferred my photos from phone storage to sd card now it is not showing in my gallery. I am pretty certain I found the answer somewhere on here before but I can't find it anymore.
1. The pictures are there in my sd card I can view it in my a file explorer, but it does not show in "gallery"
2. I tried clearing data for gallery and media. I also tried force closing them, still a no go.
Any other suggestions?
Thanks!
You can always go to your DCIM (or DCMI i really forget) -> media ->whatevs folder you got and put your photos there. Some of my photos don't appear in the stock htc gallery either. Must be directory thing. I just use google photos but DCIM is the main directory so it should work.
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You can always go to your DCIM (or DCMI i really forget) -> media ->whatevs folder you got and put your photos there. Some of my photos don't appear in the stock htc gallery either. Must be directory thing. I just use google photos but DCIM is the main directory so it should work.
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Yeah I've done that before, but I remember the was a really simple solution. I think I came across it in one of the rom threads a few months ago, but can't remember.
Aside from restarting the phone there's always this.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.promethyl.force.media.scanner&hl=en
Clear the cache with an app like sdmaid.. It is probably retaining old links etc
I wish I stole my HTC M9.
Is there a ".nomedia" file hidden in the folder that contains your pictures? If yes your problems should be solved if you delete it.
Hi, 2 days ago 2 of my folders in gallery got suddenly disappeared. There was a 'Camera' folder and a 'Kamera' folder (in Turkish), and there was a 'Screenshots' folder and a 'Ekran Görüntüleri' folder. Folders named in Turkish (disappared ones) was like the real folders, they were the main ones. All my new taken screenshots and photos were in that folders. The other ones contain some old photos. I remember i deleted 2-3 videos but did not deleted any of that folders accidentally. I looked at google photos but there were only old pictures. I tried many recovery programs but they didnt work because they are not deleted, they got lost. Is there a way i can try? They were so important to me please help...
(Also i tried to find by connecting PC, but i dont want to try format because they could be in internal storage.)