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What's wrong? Files in DCIM\100MEDIA not showing up. Not even in File Explorer

Everything WAS working fine. Then suddenly none of my images in the 100MEDIA folder will even show up. They wont show up in HTC Browser nor will they show up in File Explorer. Explorer shows there are no files in there. I thought they got deleted so I took the SD card out and put it in my computer. Sure enough, every file is THERE. Whew.. I backed them up and re-inserted into phone, then booted phone back up. They still aren't showing up. One problem I noticed was that I had a duplicate 100MEDIA folder in the root directory of the storage card. I forgot I made a backup folder one time and forgot to delete the copy I moved. I noticed on the computer that every picture that was saved in the main 100MEDIA folder , duplicated itself in the copy folder. Yes, even the most recent pics I took long after I copied that folder. I deleted that copy and rebooted... still, they are not showing up. I took 3 pics earlier today, the very last one is in the 100MEDIA folder, but the other 2 are missing. They arent even on the device memory. I dont know where they went.
How do I get the images to show up again? What is screwed up? There is no longer a duplicate folder. Yeah, I had figured somehow the dup screwed it up. I just don't know why I cant see any of the files in there now.

Never mind, I fixed it. The dupe didn't screw it up, the folder just wouldn't show up, now would any of the files. I had to delete it, then open the camera , set settings to save in storage card, take a pic then go to view it in the browser. No idea why it did this. Wouldn't even see the files using File Explorer.They were there, just wouldn't show them. Dumb. Apparently some WM phones had this problem in the past on the Touch Pro and Touch. Deleting the folder is the only way to get it to work again.

this can happen if you unplug your TP2 too quickly from the pc/laptop, Tp2 wont see the sd anymore and will create anohther SD folder (empty)...just could be man...good you got yours fixed

How to delete duplicate files
Here is a good tool to find and delete duplicate files
www . duplicateFilesDeleter . com

Hello, if it create another SD folder, would my previous one wipe out ? All my pictures are gone.
hbenz2008 said:
this can happen if you unplug your TP2 too quickly from the pc/laptop, Tp2 wont see the sd anymore and will create anohther SD folder (empty)...just could be man...good you got yours fixed
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Hide media folders

Looking for an app, mod, commandline, something, that can make a folder on my SD card, not be read by the gallery.
Id like some stuff to not show up in the gallery by default. The same would be nice for music as well, something that will allow you to select a folder on the SD card to not include music files in the music app.
Anyone know of anything like this, whether it be an ADB command line, something i can do in terminal with su, an app, a mod, etc etc?

Create a file named ".nomedia" and put it in the folder you are trying to omit

Another tip to stop a folders contents showing in Gallery is to simply put a "." (a fullstop/period) infront of the folder name.

Also, to refresh the galleries once you've done the above, go into Dev Tools and run 'Media Scanner'

Thanks for the replies... seems simple enough. Thank you for all the suggestions.

Just to give you a little more breakdown, the easiest way to do this (from a Windows PC) is to create a blank text file on your PC and copy it to the folder on your SD Card, then use an explorer app like Astro File Manager to rename it to .nomedia (since Windows won't let you name a file .nomedia).

Just to give you a little more breakdown, the easiest way to do this (from a Windows PC) is to create a blank text file on your PC and copy it to the folder on your SD Card, then use an explorer app like Astro File Manager to rename it to .nomedia (since Windows won't let you name a file .nomedia).
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That's exactly what I did. Once on my SD card, I used astro to copy paste it to the other directories I wanted to exclude.
Again, thanks for the help.

stshannon said:
That's exactly what I did. Once on my SD card, I used astro to copy paste it to the other directories I wanted to exclude.
Again, thanks for the help.
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would that be a working work-around solution for such badly written apps such as Asphalt 5 (which makes its music & sounds appear in the Music playlist)?

Answer and suggestions provided; thread closed.

[Q] file locations

ive downloaded some ringtones/notifications and they automatically show up in the respective fields when going to select them as such, but for the life of me i cannot find them anywhere on the phones internal and external memory (i want to delete the ones i dont like). i have a folder setup on my sd card for such items. i know on my desire everything i downloaded showed up in a download folder on my sd card but with the mesmerize only pictures that i download show up there. i've tried locating them with root explorer and file manager but not having any luck. any insight or advice would be greatly appreciated

detroyt said:
ive downloaded some ringtones/notifications and they automatically show up in the respective fields when going to select them as such, but for the life of me i cannot find them anywhere on the phones internal and external memory (i want to delete the ones i dont like). i have a folder setup on my sd card for such items. i know on my desire everything i downloaded showed up in a download folder on my sd card but with the mesmerize only pictures that i download show up there. i've tried locating them with root explorer and file manager but not having any luck. any insight or advice would be greatly appreciated
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If you downloaded them from your phone onto your phone, they'll be in your download folder on your sdcard. If it was from an app, that app might have made a folder on your sd card, titanium backup made one on mine.

I know that's where they should go but if I download from myxer.com it automatically goes into the ringtones/notifications under settings and yesterday when I unzip a file that contained sounds it did the same thing. I can't find them in my system memory in the audio folder or on my SD cards audio folder.

try looking in sdcard/media/audio/(ringtones/alarms/notifications)

/system/media/audio
is the location of the default sounds
You could also try running a search like *.mp3 or *.ogg

Tried looking every where I could think of and suggested I even tried searching for then, still no luck locating them. If all else fails I'm just going to do a factory reset just to rid myself of this annoyance.

files disappeared when moving to external sd

I was moving some files to free up some space on my sd card. I use root explorer to cut and paste a group of files. When I pasted the files I got an error saying" file too large". I thought that the files didn't get transferred but I noticed that the storage had gone down. I've searched everywhere in root explorer to try to locate files but could not. I use the app undelete to try to find the files but could not. Where did the files go?

If you were moving a large file, like movies, it's a big chance that during the file move it couldn't go from ext to fat32 and it corrupted and that's why it got whipped out.
It shouldn't happen but it's a great possibility. Word to the wise always copy the files then delete the source and careful with the large files, it's easy to forget when changing file systems.
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So there's no way to recover them? I am going to start backing up more often.

[Q] Space not freed after messing with .thumbnails

Heya guys,
this is mostly a copy of a thread I created in a device-specific forum (original thread), but since nobody was able to answer the question there and considering it doesn't seem to be device-specific after all, I figured I'd go ahead and ask here as well. The copy & paste part begins here, with slight modifications:
A few days ago, I found that I was in dire need of some more free space on my Samsung Galaxy S4 / GT-I9505's internal storage and found that only the contents of /sdcard/DCIM/.thumbnails were taking up space. After a while of trying to get rid of those files that kept creating themselves again, I followed some advice I read on an Android forum: I deleted the contents of the .thumbnail folder, went to Settings -> Apps and cleared the data of the Gallery and Media Storage apps, respectively, before rebooting the phone.
The contents did disappear for good, but neither Total Commander nor the list of installed apps in the settings nor the Storage summary in the settings showed any different amount of free space than before. To make matters worse, the number didn't even change after I found and deleted about 1 GB of files left by an already uninstalled app, i.e. it seems to be stuck on that value. At the same time, SD Maid tells me that I should have a good 5 GB of free space more than the system is showing. Neither restarting nor wiping the cache and dalvik cache helped.
My rooted GT-I9505 is running this unofficial port of AOKP 4.3, Milestone 1, and version 6.15.6 of PhilZ/CWM Advanced. I'm not sure whether there's more information I might need to provide, other than that the size of the thumbnails files apparently exploded (about 4 GB) when I moved quite a lot of data and obb folders to my external storage using FolderMount.
I didn't find any information about this kind of problem anywhere and am afraid I messed up so badly that I might need to reflash...or worse. Do you have an idea how I can try to fix it?

You could try installing Disable Service and forcing the media indexing service to never run.

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You could try installing Disable Service and forcing the media indexing service to never run.
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Thanks for the input! That sounds like a plan, but I'm not really sure whether I'm doing it right. I got the app, figured the media indexing service had to be found in the Media Storage app's entry, but I only found "MediaScannerService" and "MtpService" there. Since I try to be more careful now, I'd rather not deactivate any of those without being sure that it is what I am aiming for.
So, long story short: Is either of those the media indexing service or do I have to look somewhere else?

Best thing to do is delete the .thumbnails folder in DCIM folder. After this create a new file with the name .thumbnails in the DCIM folder.
Note: You have too delete .thumbnails FOLDER and create .thumbnails FILE. You can use es file explorer to do this.
It is based on the simple principle that in Linux ext file system a file and folder cannot have the same name.
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osamaanjum said:
Best thing to do is delete the .thumbnails folder in DCIM folder. After this create a new file with the name .thumbnails in the DCIM folder.
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While I wasn't sure it would help, I tried what you suggested. Alas, it didn't work; the .thumbnails folder is empty without freeing the space taken by its former contents since I did what I described in my original post, after all. However, should I manage to fix this problem with a reflash, I suppose I'll do just that, replacing the folder with an empty file of the same name. Thanks.

It works for me.
I 've uploaded the image of DCIM directory (folder). In place of .thumbnails folder you can notice .thumbnails file.