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help memory card in pro

it happend with me more than 4 times
somehow when i make a folder on my micro sd card.....songs or else
after a couple of days i didn't find the folder and all my music stuff is gone
what shall i do and what is the reason of this
some body help me plz

your card may be corrupted. Have you tried reformatting it? Do you have issues with other cards? Ever explored the card and saw nothing but gibberish?

I ve had the same error with a sandisk micro sd 8 GB: some times i lost files and folders ... more times formattet with panasonic tool, but always the same: lost dates, now with kingston: no prob ...
Greetz
Boris

thnx all but i really make format..but no good news
it makes the same problem...
shalll it be a problem in the card it self or what?
known that i do my file transfering with sync..

iam.what.iam said:
thnx all but i really make format..but no good news
it makes the same problem...
shalll it be a problem in the card it self or what?
known that i do my file transfering with sync..
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Hi,
File transfer doesn't always play nice with files... When you remove files from your computer, they get removed from your phone as well. The same happens when you delete a song from the iTunes library. The same song gets deleted from your iPod upon a sync. You should check the preferences of your sync program whether there is some option to prevent this.
Rahza

Rahza said:
Hi,
File transfer doesn't always play nice with files... When you remove files from your computer, they get removed from your phone as well. The same happens when you delete a song from the iTunes library. The same song gets deleted from your iPod upon a sync. You should check the preferences of your sync program whether there is some option to prevent this.
Rahza
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Do you have a file extension and have to check show all files under the menu in the file explorer.

slawcop` said:
Do you have a file extension and have to check show all files under the menu in the file explorer.
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I'm sorry, but what are you talking about?

How to hide media from the gallery?

I used to be able to do it on 2.2, 2.1, etc. Just create a directory with a dot in front of it ".temps", and use astro to find the files, but maybe something is different with honeycomb? I'm doing the same thing, but gallery still sees all of my files. Thanks.
*Can't figure out how to delete this post, but go ahead and delete it, my mistake.*

maybe just use a specific micro-sd card for your porn.

toddmp said:
maybe just use a specific micro-sd card for your porn.
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lol - that's what we were all thinking!

lockheedload said:
I used to be able to do it on 2.2, 2.1, etc. Just create a directory with a dot in front of it ".temps", and use astro to find the files, but maybe something is different with honeycomb? I'm doing the same thing, but gallery still sees all of my files. Thanks.
*Can't figure out how to delete this post, but go ahead and delete it, my mistake.*
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.nomedia file in the directrory

toddmp said:
maybe just use a specific micro-sd card for your porn.
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Lmao.
Clear cache and reboot -

Ya yesterday I googled this and found some said make a file called .nomedia in the folder and others said to put a . in the folder name so I did both and it didn't work, but then I reboot the TF and then it worked so not sure which one actually did it or if both did.

.nomedia does work. The thing is the media scan only run when you rebooted. I think DevTools or SpareParts (don't have my TF with me right now) has an option to force a media scan so youdon't need to reboot.

I have a similar question, but it might be different case though.
Anyway, I have a lot music folder containing mp3 songs and in each folder there is a file called folder.jpg. I created those folder.jpg files manually to assign each music folder a cover picture. They are all shown up properly in the Music player.
(I had this for long time already for my Windows phone, Android phone, Windows PCs).
The problem I have is that, those folder.jpg files are also shown in the Gallery (for Pictures) and I do not know how to exclude/hide those folder.jpg files from the Gallery.
Any clue will be appreciated.

Spawned a good idea. Given .nomedia is supported, the android devs should expand the idea to help you solve your problem. Something like .nophotos in any music folder you don't want photos to be noticed in, and .nomusic, .novideos, .nodocuments, etc..?

When you say reboot, do you mean power off/on? I use Quickpic to browse photos since it doesn't include album art, but I like the default pic viewer and would like it exclude album art as well. I added the *.nomedia to my /music directory and it still shows album art.

Try changing the name of file from folder.jpg to albumart.jpg. It worked on Android 2.x

Empty playlists on SD card

I am having an issue with playlists. I am currently running on TouchMIUIwiz v2.0. I have never encountered this problem before.
Anyway, in a nutshell, my playlists are deleting whenever mediascan runs upon boot. If they don't delete, or even when they do, the playlists are still read in music players, like PowerAmp, AOSP music player, MIUI player, etc., but are completely empty. Playlists show but with no tracks.
Playlists were generated by mounting the phone as mass storage and saving playlists in the same folder as my music (sdcard/Music). I use Winamp to make and save playlists.
I tried formatting my memory card to no avail. I read that this problem happened on some forum after deleting "albumthumbs" folder. But I had that folder deleted on my Optimus V's sd card and it had no problem. Copying that backed up folder to my sd card didn't work.
I tried searching for solutions on many forums. I tried syncing with players, like mediamonkey. The problem still persists.
Is this a ROM issue? Or is it an sd card issue? Would Odin'ing work to fix the situation?
Edit: I have flashed Revolution's and John_2K2's Sensekick v1.0 rom and did not have this problem. It lies within TouchMIUIwiz. Though, it's weird. I had v1.1 and did not experience the problem. Now on v2.0 it happens. When restoring my v1.1 nandroid the problem exists. I tested the problem after a fresh install of TouchMIUIwiz v2.0 and it was still there. It must be some error in the rom. I'm hoping for a a fix.
Edit 2: Nevermind. Sensekick has deleted playlists as well. But media scanning isn't as bad. The playlist may be deleted but it still shows on music players with the tracks intact. I'm going to Odin to see if it will resolve the issue.

Sorry posted by accident was gonna reply then saw the edit
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I'm going to Odin. Sensekick finally replicated the problem. So the issue may be lying within my phone itself.
Edit: I Odin'ed and flashed back to TouchMIUIwiz v2.0 and the problem still persists. I have no idea what's wrong. I also formatted my sd card via phone settings and still had the same problem. I don't know what to do at this point.

badboi_zero said:
I'm going to Odin. Sensekick finally replicated the problem. So the issue may be lying within my phone itself.
Edit: I Odin'ed and flashed back to TouchMIUIwiz v2.0 and the problem still persists. I have no idea what's wrong. I also formatted my sd card via phone settings and still had the same problem. I don't know what to do at this point.
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I redid everything you did, and im having the same problem..im confused as well, i hate the stock ringtones and rely on my phone for music. when i use Astro to check if the music is even there, it is, and so are my ringtones. i just cant play them using "Music" from google (or anything else) and i cant select my custom ringtones.. some times if i connect my phone to my computer and go to /sdcard then discconect, my music is there and it works for X amount of time (always different) then it cant see them again..

It's a problem with the TMW rom. Ayoteddy says he's looking into it. I ultimately reverted back to the stock deodexed KG2 rom. No problems whatsoever. No cool themes like TMW and may not be as fast. But at least my music, which I hold very important, plays fine with playlists.
The reason custom ringtones didn't work either is because of media scan. The way media scan runs on TMW is flawed somehow. The way it reads media is off. It won't start at boot, it misreads or deletes playlists, etc.
I miss using TMW. But until it gets fixed I'll have to stick to the old trusty stock KG2.

It's been fixed, try this http://www.multiupload.com/TQRZPPP411
This fixes the media scanning issue, and may also fix the gallery deletion issue.

I don't know the technical stuff behind this, I think I figured out the cause of the deletion of playlists. It happens when I restore a TB backup of Poweramp. Upon flashing a rom, media scan scans my sd card to see what files and playlists are on it and so on. So that playlist file path is saved. When I restore Poweramp, the restore file has the playlist saved within it already. So when I restore, it duplicates the playlist entry under one file path (again, this is my explanation, as I don't know the technical stuff behind it. Pretty much my educated guess). This causes a conflict and so while the playlist may still be existent within media players, the actual file is deleted due to the same file path conflict.
In TWM, media scan was edited in some script or something, explained by teddy and sduvick. It wouldn't scan on bootup. But after that was fixed, the playlist conflict was still existent.
Right now I am on GCv2 (GingerClone v2). Media scan worked fine and playlists read upon flashing. But deletion occurred after restoring Poweramp via TB. To fix this, I went into TB and wiped data for [PLAYLISTS] Media Storage 2.2.1. After that my playlists weren't deleted.
Sorry if it seemed I made it look like the TMW rom was at fault. I knew it had to be something on my end, one of my settings or backup restores. So thanks to everyone who helped try to solve this issue for me.

A temporary .nomedia file permanently hid everything

Hey everyone,
I was reorganizing my pictures on the sdcard when I began testing CM's new Gallery app (GalleryNext). At that time, I decided I wanted to reorganize my files. I used ES file explorer to search for a .nomedia file and copied the first result to the root of the sdcard while I looked a permanent place to put it after deleting and moving pictures. Looking back at the gallery, I noticed suddenly that all pictures disappeared from my gallery, which I expected.
However, after I moved the .nomedia file AND rebooted (several times), I've noticed my gallery is STILL empty. I also noticed PlayerPro doesn't see any music. My alarm app (Gentle Alarm) however still plays music to wake me up and the MediaMonkey app can see the music. What is going on? ES is set to show hidden files, the .nomedia files are where they need to be. I first cleared data on both Google and CM galleries (which didn't work), then I uninstalled Gallery Next (didn't work), and I tried SD Scanner which is an app that can trigger media scan on KK (I know the old methods don't work on KK). I also reflashed my ROM. After reflashing, I got ONE photo from my gallery to appear.
"What to do?"

rockingondrums said:
Hey everyone,
I was reorganizing my pictures on the sdcard when I began testing CM's new Gallery app (GalleryNext). At that time, I decided I wanted to reorganize my files. I used ES file explorer to search for a .nomedia file and copied the first result to the root of the sdcard while I looked a permanent place to put it after deleting and moving pictures. Looking back at the gallery, I noticed suddenly that all pictures disappeared from my gallery, which I expected.
However, after I moved the .nomedia file AND rebooted (several times), I've noticed my gallery is STILL empty. I also noticed PlayerPro doesn't see any music. My alarm app (Gentle Alarm) however still plays music to wake me up and the MediaMonkey app can see the music. What is going on? ES is set to show hidden files, the .nomedia files are where they need to be. I first cleared data on both Google and CM galleries (which didn't work), then I uninstalled Gallery Next (didn't work), and I tried SD Scanner which is an app that can trigger media scan on KK (I know the old methods don't work on KK). I also reflashed my ROM. After reflashing, I got ONE photo from my gallery to appear.
"What to do?"
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I also got this problem. My solution is transfer all files to computer, then format sd card. BUT all data will gone if you not backup first.such as RR3 data.

lala458 said:
I also got this problem. My solution is transfer all files to computer, then format sd card. BUT all data will gone if you not backup first.such as RR3 data.
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Yeah I just ended up copying everything elsewhere and reflashing the factory image, then re-doing everything. Although, it would have been nice not to. Just part of the gamble when using nightlies I guess.

I had the same problem few days ago.
I deleted appdata from settings, apps, all apps, gallery, then rebooted and used this app to fix it:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=burrows.apps.sdcard
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Android 11 and .nomedia file

I was about to post a question about this, but I just figured this out myself. My phone recently updated to Android 11. I have an SD-Card which has music on it - along with a lot of album art. Since the update, all these album art photos have been cluttering up my gallery. Every time I add a .nomedia file in here (which also was there before the update), it seems to get automatically deleted (no, not hidden). I tried copying a .nomedia file from elsewhere on the phone. I even tried popping out the SD-Card and adding the file via PC. As soon as Android touches it, it deletes the file again.
So, here is the issue. With Android 11, it is creating some default folders (I wish it wouldn't clutter up things with these empty folders that I never need or use). Those default folders include: Music, Pictures, Movies. These are created at the top level on the SD-Card and on internal storage. So, if you are also using one of those folders for something, it's going to auto delete the .nomedia file. In my case, I just moved my music into a Musics folder instead(and ensured it has a .nomedia file, of course.
Hopefully this will save someone else from wasting their time trying to figure out why this is happening!

pacaveli420 said:
I was about to post a question about this, but I just figured this out myself. My phone recently updated to Android 11. I have an SD-Card which has music on it - along with a lot of album art. Since the update, all these album art photos have been cluttering up my gallery. Every time I add a .nomedia file in here (which also was there before the update), it seems to get automatically deleted (no, not hidden). I tried copying a .nomedia file from elsewhere on the phone. I even tried popping out the SD-Card and adding the file via PC. As soon as Android touches it, it deletes the file again.
So, here is the issue. With Android 11, it is creating some default folders (I wish it wouldn't clutter up things with these empty folders that I never need or use). Those default folders include: Music, Pictures, Movies. These are created at the top level on the SD-Card and on internal storage. So, if you are also using one of those folders for something, it's going to auto delete the .nomedia file. In my case, I just moved my music into a Musics folder instead(and ensured it has a .nomedia file, of course.
Hopefully this will save someone else from wasting their time trying to figure out why this is happening!
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This makes no sense, please explain in more detail.

android1977 said:
This makes no sense, please explain in more detail.
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If you're storing your music files in any of the default folders, Android is going to auto delete your .nomedia file if you try to put one there. Ergo, the solution is you need to store your music in a folder named something else.

pacaveli420 said:
If you're storing your music files in any of the default folders, Android is going to auto delete your .nomedia file if you try to put one there. Ergo, the solution is you need to store your music in a folder named something else.
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Thanks that's what I did and got lucky, I was so desperate I signed up to XDA just to comment I gotta say XDA I love your site and been reading for a couple year's now, enjoy the information provided, thanks guy's for all your hard work

pacaveli420 said:
If you're storing your music files in any of the default folders, Android is going to auto delete your .nomedia file if you try to put one there. Ergo, the solution is you need to store your music in a folder named something else.
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Thank you for saving my media library! I've been tortured by this issue since using the new phone, finally!

hello, i just get Android 11 on my MI A3, and those folders ( music, pictures, movies )appears on my sd card, they are useless for me, is there a way to delete them?
before Android 11, i didn't have this problem because i choosed " use sd as external support " instead of "use sd as extended memory" when inserting the sd card, but now even if i make the same choice, the folders are there and i can't delete them.

Sort of off topic but not really:
How do I stop it from creating these default folders? It's extremely annoying. I don't have my SD card structured that way and never have. I've deleted the default music, movies, etc folders numerous times now as they just clutter up the root directory and they keep reappearing. Is there a solution to this?

This seems to be a part of Android 11s default folder structure which no one ever bothered to do something about. I wouldn't be surprised if it's there for "security reasons" as well as a communist one. As in you only have the option to use these "secure" folders or else it won't show up in your apps at all.
This might be a way for Google to slowly faze out SDCards entirely while only giving you the option to use said folders for your "private" stuff akin to how IOS (kinda) works. In other words, they are doing it on purpose and no one ever bothered to read the fine print.
Obviously private music and other media collections is the root (see what I did there) cause of the problem. They don't want you to have those at all, And want you to use streaming services instead (tinfoil hat). Which is probably what these folders will probably end up being used for.
Netflix and Spotify allow you to store music on your device, but it's encrypted and will probably end up there at some point in Androids lifecycle. Obviously these files don't need .nomedia since the files are encrypted and will only show up in said app either way which makes the above meaningless.
Most of this is speculation obviously, but we've slowly been moving towards this trend if you look at how System apps were split into app and priv-app and so on. At some point in time only certain apps that has had the blessing of Google will be allowed to read anything off your storage. This happened with Chrome not to long ago where they blocked side-loaded extensions from running.
You will slowly see Android turning into IOS because they (Google) and big-tech in general wants 100% control of what you can and can't do. And everything based on AOSP or LOS is gonna follow suit because no one gives a flying fudge because that's too bothersome. The fragmentation of custom builds based on LOS/AOSP in general already shows that this has always been the case for the last 10 years. Linux in general is no different either as can be seen with wokeism. Except that was through decimation via woke people and not big-tech.

I was going crazy thinking this issue was specific to my samsung's stock rom. I started searching about this once I noticed it on LOS 18. Glad I'm not alone
I tend to be a little OCD about my folder structures but at this point I don't mind making a separate folder to avoid album arts in my gallery.

I believe I found a solution to this. It's been about a week or two with no further incident now. My solution was to delete the default folders from the root of the SD card because I don't use them, then create blank files that used those names. Haven't had a problem since.
I use the top level pictures folder because of a compatibility issue with programs that have small file path character limits that cause the program to hang. I don't use them anymore but I haven't had a reason to move it back where I had it previously and that would only make the default folder issue worse if I did. Or at least it would have until now with this discovery.
I do not use the movies and music folders, and if I move my pictures folder back where I had it I won't use that one either. Having them pop up on their own to clutter my root directory on both my SD card and my phone itself was very annoying. After deleting the movies and music folders off of the root of my SD card for the billionth time and getting rid of the empty default folders on my phone again, I created two blank files on my SD card root called Music and Movies. Ever since then the default folders haven't reappeared. On top of that, it hasn't created any ".thumbnails" folders all over the place like it always used to do either. That includes doing so on the internal phone storage. Creating those files on the SD card seems to have broken the whole process. I imagine the same would work vice versa for OP since it sounds like they use those default folders. Find an empty default folder on internal storage, delete it, create a file and name it the name of the folder you deleted (case sensitive), and that should disable the annoying default folder management process too. I can't vouch for that method, but I can vouch for it working when you do so on the SD card.

I just noticed this today on my tab s7+.
From what I can tell, the .nomedia file nolonger does anything on its own. However, if I add the .nomedia file to a folder, then rename the folder placing a . in front, of course it hides the entire folder. When I rename the folder again, removing the ., the .nomedia file now works. No matter how many times I rename the folder, the gallery does not see it until I remove the .nomedia file.

pool_shark said:
I just noticed this today on my tab s7+.
From what I can tell, the .nomedia file nolonger does anything on its own. However, if I add the .nomedia file to a folder, then rename the folder placing a . in front, of course it hides the entire folder. When I rename the folder again, removing the ., the .nomedia file now works. No matter how many times I rename the folder, the gallery does not see it until I remove the .nomedia file.
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thank you pool shark.. i tried what you did/suggested and it worked. thanks.