[Q] Video lost when transferring from my z3 to pc - Xperia Z3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hai all,
Last week, i have been using my phone to take pictures and videos until a message pop up that i should transfer some of the files from internal to external memory. and so i did.
after that, i wanted to transfer all the pictures and videos to pc. So i went to the memory card, find all the pictures and videos and cut paste to my pc. Unfortunately, all the videos went missing after all files were transfered. be noted that all pictures had been successfully transfered but only the video went missing.
is there any tool or recovery app that can help find the missing video. Or can someone show where the temp file.
Thanks in advance.

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Video from phone to pc

Hey,
I used the search function and did not find what I searched for so I hope I did not oversee something
I recorded some videos with my phone (HTC hero with the standart camera) and as I wanted to copy the files to my pc I could not find them. There is the option to share via gmail or bluetooth but the files are to big for gmail and my pc does not have bluetooth so how can I transfer these video files to my pc?
Is it even possible?
Thanks in advance
Nobody can help?
What about moving stuff to SD card and pulling card / using USB adapter to plug in PC? Plus it all depends on what format device records video in that will determine if you can play on PC.
good day.
I canĀ“t find it on my phone. I used Root Explorer to look for the videos but I dunno where they are saved, do you know what folder I have to look for?
Thx for the advice btw
Sorry winmo user. But after some searching the videos should be in the same folder as your pictures.
good day.
I guess I found the solution here:
http://androidforums.com/incredible...59-htc-incredible-file-structure-im-lost.html
Just posting it, in case anyone else has the problem. Thanks, seems your advise solved it.

Transferring Music

I have been working on trying to understand how to use the different SD cards, but seem to be having some trouble. The other day i plugged my phone to my laptop to put a movie on my phone. Put it in mass media storage mode, opened the drive on the computer, went to media, added a folder "video" and that seemed to work just fine. This time i wanted to put a bunch of music on the phone. So i connected it with mass media mode again, selceted the drive and selected the external card. When i transferred the music it seemed to be fine, but then on my phone i could not find it on the external sd card, nor anywhere else for that matter. I didn't want to plug it in with the kies option as i dont really plan to be using kies.
What am i doing wrong here?
Thanks for all the continued support.
I've transferred some music to my phone (to the main SD card). After I did, it scanned for media files like it always does once you disconnect from the mass media mode, and it was there. I've also transferred a video (to the external one), and it scanned for media files (like always) and it worked fine. Try rebooting your phone if the files ARE on there. Or just try transferring them again?
Where are you getting the music from. Did you purchase it off of itunes. That would cause it to not do it. Just a thought.
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The album i tried to transfer was not from itunes. It's weird because on my computer it showed it on there, but not when i searched on the phone. lugged it back into the computer and it still showed it... How would i need to transfer the music so that it will show on the external sd as well as when I go to music player? The only time i saw music is when i put it on my internal card as mentioned above. When i did it this way it also made a file for each song when i opened the gallery which is annoying.
Thanks again for the help!
Did you format the external SD card on the phone? Try that first, then transfer some files over.
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No I did not format it first. Should I just unmount it, then hit format? Then restart it? Thanks, hope that does the trick!
Do you have any apps to hide media?
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(((New User of Andriod Infuse)) - MUSIC * Video - works nicely
QUOTE: Heuser1 No I did not format it first. Should I just unmount it, then hit format? Then restart it? Thanks, hope that does the trick! /QUOTE
Heu*;
here are some steps for your "music" issues ( try these ) before you move to phone via USB cable
a) CD that you ripped = in MP3 format ATLEAST - maybe you can rip that CD again using Windows Media [FONT="Century Gothic[/SIZE]"](and makes sure its setup for MP with 128kpbs as min)[/FONT]
b) Than connect to PC/laptop via USB cable , and first thing to do = FORMAT SD card ( after mounting it etc etc
c) Move the files ( i nornmally create a folder etc jsut like the Itunes does in windows etcetc)
Works nicely!!!
However there are some files ( MP3 and few VIDEO formats) that wont play on andriod , eg RMVB and LOSLESS are the files i COULD NOT PLAY on my infuse
note:: SD cardhas to be seen by Andriod ( if its not comptable than you wont see it in the phone )

SD Card almost full, don't know why!

My sd card has progressively been losing more and more space. I flash ROMs, listen to streamed music via Rhapsody and Amazon MP3 Cloud Drive and back up my data. All of my apps are installed to internal phone memory.
I used to keep zip files on my sd card. I stopped doing that when things got cramped. Now, anything I flash comes off my sd card immediately.
I used to keep several ROM nandroids, now I keep only a couple.
I used to have music stored on my sd card. I just removed all mp3s and now use Amazon's Cloud Drive to stream my own music and stream other music through Rhapsody.
I used to have photos and videos on my sd card. Now I have removed everything and use my phone only as a means to transport the media I capture to Picasa, Facebook and Dropbox.
Despite taking these steps, I'm down to my last 5 GB of space on my sd card. I should have at least 20.
I have perused my sd card looking for *big* folders but cannot find any.
I'm wondering that since I've streamed so much Rhapsody, if there are major caches stored somewhere. I noticed that after I uploaded my music library to the Cloud Drive and played some music for several hours that my sd card went from over 7GB to 5GB. Nothing changed except for streaming music.
Can someone please point me in the right direction?!
when you stream music, the songs are stored in the sd card memory in a format that i cant remember off the top of my head. If you delete them, they will just be redownloaded if you stream again. Other than that idk whats taking up so much space.
Free app called disk usage might help see where the problem is.
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elmer1500 said:
Free app called disk usage might help see where the problem is.
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Thank you ever so much for that tip. That app found my problem in literally - seconds - after I installed it. My problem was my .trashes folder. There was 18 GB worth of trash in it. Computers were not able to see the contents. Now I have 24 GB on my sd card. THANK YOU!!!!!
Do you use boot manager? I know on mine it takes up alot of space on the sd card.
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djkeller3 said:
My sd card has progressively been losing more and more space. I flash ROMs, listen to streamed music via Rhapsody and Amazon MP3 Cloud Drive and back up my data. All of my apps are installed to internal phone memory.
I used to keep zip files on my sd card. I stopped doing that when things got cramped. Now, anything I flash comes off my sd card immediately.
I used to keep several ROM nandroids, now I keep only a couple.
I used to have music stored on my sd card. I just removed all mp3s and now use Amazon's Cloud Drive to stream my own music and stream other music through Rhapsody.
I used to have photos and videos on my sd card. Now I have removed everything and use my phone only as a means to transport the media I capture to Picasa, Facebook and Dropbox.
Despite taking these steps, I'm down to my last 5 GB of space on my sd card. I should have at least 20.
I have perused my sd card looking for *big* folders but cannot find any.
I'm wondering that since I've streamed so much Rhapsody, if there are major caches stored somewhere. I noticed that after I uploaded my music library to the Cloud Drive and played some music for several hours that my sd card went from over 7GB to 5GB. Nothing changed except for streaming music.
Can someone please point me in the right direction?!
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I know someone else suggested a solution, but here is another one if you use Astro. There is an option in tools that sorts folders and files by size.
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[Completed] Problem with SD card and audio files

I just bought a new SD card and have been transferring files from my old to the new one. It is mostly music, cca 30 gb from the old one and additional 10 to 15 from my pc. Anyway I transferred all of them and checked if they are there on my PC. IT said that i have some 20 gb fre of 64 gb. When I turned on the phone and went into Poweramp only a small amount of music was there. When I went to storage settings it said I only used 15 gb of my SD and going into file manager just showed folders but there were no files. I formatted the SD and copied all files again this time slowly copying 3-4 folders at a time and watching over the whole process and again the same thing. So I went over all those files and it turns out that those files are all my rips of cds that I did while I was still using iTunes and some of them with winamp. All torrented music was there. They are MPEG-4 audio files while torrents are mostly mp3. The thing all those same files still work on my old SD which is the same apart from capacity (class 10 32 gb). So it happens that files aren't transfered at all and not just that poweramp just doesn't recognize them and it worked fine for my old SD.
I'm using HTC One m8 on stock ROM android 5.0 with htc sense
thanks in advance for any insight you might have to fix this problem
I thought about that too but the thing is exactly the same files are missing twice while others are being copied.
Bump.
EDIT: just a small update, it's not about file type because some of the files that are mp3 are not copied while some mpeg-4 are. Anyway, all photos are transferred correctly but still audio files are sometimes copying and sometimes not
EDIT 2: so I just tried copying those songs that are missing once more for one album. they were copied and file manager said they are as big as they should be (around 10 mb) and poweramp recognize for their full running time. Bt only first few seconds of each song play and they are switched to the next one
Hi there
You'd be best served asking for help from the experts who own your device, here
[HELP THREAD] HTC One M8 - Ask any questions here!
Also please read carefully this guide about SD card issuess:
[GUIDE] The Generic SD Issue (READ FIRST)
Good luck

random files missing

Hello guys..... I think my files (mostly video and audio files) are missing randomly......
For video files sometimes it shows 'cant play file' in mx player. When i try to copy that video file to computer it shows ' media pool empty'. And the file will be having 0 kb in size.
Some of the Audio files are missing....not like the case of above mentioned video files...... Its completely missing....not even a trace of files.... anybody experiencing the same?? Any help will be greatful....
Jerryxl said:
Hello guys..... I think my files (mostly video and audio files) are missing randomly......
For video files sometimes it shows 'cant play file' in mx player. When i try to copy that video file to computer it shows ' media pool empty'. And the file will be having 0 kb in size.
Some of the Audio files are missing....not like the case of above mentioned video files...... Its completely missing....not even a trace of files.... anybody experiencing the same?? Any help will be greatful....
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Files don't just "disappear"... either something deleted them, the media database is out of sync, or you have a storage problem.
Storage is the most common one... Do you have as SD card installed? Is it setup as adopted (internal) storage or portable (external) storage? Adopted storage is problematic at best in this devices, and the devices are pretty inconsistently finicky with SD cards, one device will work great with Sandisk cards and the next will cause the card to fail in days. To be honest, even Moto support personnel suggest never using adopted storage and to maintain online backups of media with apps like Google Photo (always good idea, even on devices that don't have storage problems). If these are just on internal storage of the device and you don't have an SD card, well, it is entirely possible that the internal storage chip is going bad, which is not replaceable or repairable... so yeah, there is that. TBH, a storage issue is the most likely cause.
Media database is out of sync... No way to tell for sure, but you can rebuild the database by going to Settings - Apps and tapping the 3 dot overflow menu and selecting Show System, then find Media Storage and External Storage apps and open them, then select Storage, and Clear Data on both, then reboot and let the device sit for a minimum of 5-10 minutes without using it after it is fully booted so the databases can rebuild automatically (if you have an adb connection monitoring the logcat, you can see when it finishes, but most likely you don't so just be patient). Then see if they "reappear" and are playable (meaning the databases were out of sync), or the icons are just gone now (meaning the files were deleted but the database hadn't caught up yet).
Something deleted them... Not sure how to troubleshoot this one, could have a rogue app or spyware, but that is EXTREMELY rare, much more uncommon than people believe.

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