This questions may apply to all Android devices now, not just Sony: When I take a picture on a Z3, what file name will the phone give it? Is it possible to change the format? I returned my Z3 due to dissatisfaction with the camera so that's why I'm asking you guys.
When I moved photos from my Z3 to my computer, they appeared in the format "DSC_nnnn.jpg" For example, DSC_0024.jpg, which I presume was the 24th photo I took with the phone. Suppose I saved this photo onto my computer and deleted it from my phone. Will the next photo I take end in 0024 or 0025? Because if I try to move this new image into my computer, it may overwrite the previous image if the number is updated.
The reason why I'm asking this question is that on my first smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy Infuse, the photos were time stamped like a traditional camera so I didn't have to worry about overwriting images.
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Thought I would warn a few fellow wp7 users about this one I just tripped over:
It’s to do with renaming your phone and Losing ALL your photos synced on your PC
Steps
1) Set up your phone for the first time with name test1 on Zune
2) take some pics
3) sync with zune
4) check you now have c:\users\(username)\pictures\From test1\camera roll\
5) Reset phone
6) Set up your phone on Zune and name it test2
7) take some pics
8) sync with zune
9) check you now have c:\users\(username)\pictures\From test2\camera roll\
10) now rename your phone to Test1
all your photos you had stored in folder Test2 are deleted without notice.
My entire collection was deleted yesterday when I renamed my phone to an older name that already existed in my pictures folder. Fortunately I use Home server to back up so I had everything on back up.
nice bug though and will make a few ppl cry when they lose every picture they ever took,
I'm not sure if this happends in previous versions of zune.
Boysie
Werent the pictures still on your phone and transferred to the new folder?
Sounds like it recognises that youve wiped your phone and thus wipes what it has.
But either way, it should prompt you that its about to delete photos
efjay said:
Werent the pictures still on your phone and transferred to the new folder?
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And if they are not?
If you're like me you phone has been reset a few times and then lots of pictures and a few diffrent names used.
then one day you relise you can rename your phone and doing so deletes the pictures with out prompting on your PC irelevent if the phone has any or none!
Not a good situation to find your self in.
Obviously the only story is backups from there on and not every one does this, in my case I was lucky
Thoses less computer savy wont even know whats happened to their pics as they simply disapear!!
This one just bit me
In a perfect storm of circumstance, I just lost every picture I had taken on my HTC Titan I got in November, mostly pics of my now 9 month old son.
I was able to recover some files using Recuva software but none of the pics will open (aparently corrupted) even though recovery prognosis was listed as "excellent".
I am not happy...
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In a perfect storm of circumstance, I just lost every picture I had taken on my HTC Titan I got in November, mostly pics of my now 9 month old son.
I was able to recover some files using Recuva software but none of the pics will open (aparently corrupted) even though recovery prognosis was listed as "excellent".
I am not happy...
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Did you not allow them to sync to your computer or with SkyDrive?
Volume Shadow Copies, people. Best resore/undelete-type feature available for Windows that I know of, yet so few people seem to use it.
Right-click the folder that should have the files, and select the Previous Versions option. Works on NT 5.2 up (Server 2003, Vista/Server 2008, Win7/Server 2008 R2, and I think also on Win8). Requires that VSC (which are created at part of the System Restore feature) be set to create for personal files (not jsut system files), and the Windows Service for them not be disabled.
Saved my butt multiple times.
Hello all,
I have a problem with very important lost pictures on the SD card of my Samsung Galaxy S4.
Here's what happened...
I went out for New Year Eve, had a wonderful time and took many pictures. Upon reviewing my pictures, I noticed that about half of my pics were showing a blank icon with a lightning bolt in the top center. I was very upset about this, but said to myself "well, at least I have half of my pictures".
Then I took the SD card out of my phone and put it into a card reader and plugged it into my Windows 7 computer.
Upon doing so, I got the message ".......Scan and Fix (recommended) with the option to continue or cancel. I chose continue and all my pictures were deleted from New Years Eve.
I downloaded and tried 12 different data recovery software and it only found files that I had already copied over; no files from New Years Eve .
I read somewhere that there might be a place where the pictures may be in a hidden file system area under a different file extension and that all I had to do was change the file extension and I would get my pictures back.
Well, after a thorough search, I came up with no files.
I also tried to look for CHK files in order to change the extension, but; much to my disappointment, no CHK files were visibly present.
I have read about dirty bit, hidden partitions, chkdsk, clusters and more; some of which I am not knowledgeable enough to use.
This is a 64GB san disk card that was plugged into my Samsung Galaxy S4.
Thanks much,
duugg
Never never never never never never never let Windows 'scan and fix' a drive, card of device!!!!
Always cancel it!!!
I have lost a significant number of very important files because idiotic colleages clicked 'continue' immediately without reading and without asking.
Even specialists couldn't recover the files, they were completely gone.
Sent From My Samsung Galaxy Note 3 N9005 Using Tapatalk
Thanks for the response and sorry for the delay.
So, one little press of a button (a button that says "recommended" nonetheless) is enough to destroy files to a level not retrievable even with the toughest data recovery software.
If that is true, then data destruction software companies should take note of Microsoft's simple program that deletes data to a non-recoverable state with the click of just one button.
This is crazy.
Shouldn't the pictures still be there because new data was not written over them?
I'm confused and still sad about this .
BUMP
Anyone have any thoughts on this?
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Hi guys,
I use the Z5 for a lot of photos and some of the edits I do it on the camera itself because the app is powerful enough - I use the Built-In Photo editor instead of the Google Photos.
I am facing two issues and I was wondering if there is any solution under Android 5.0 or if the newly released update could solve any of the issues below:
- Edited photos as saved under Local Storage as opposed to SD Card, where original photos are saved. Not so bad but I need to move them periodically back to SD Card. Not sure why this happens because I am using all native photo apps (Sony Camera + Album + Photo Editor)
- Big Issue: edited photos completely lose EXIF info, like time taken and camera info. Big time problem for photographers. What is going on here?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
PS. The phone runs extremely well and stable, so I was NOT planning to update to 6.0 for the fun of it, but I need a solution for the issues below.
Any one else facing this issue with the EXIF file?
This morning I updated to Android 6.0 via Sony PC Companion 2.1 and tried editing a photo and same issue with saved file losing EXIF data. This is a bit ironic coming from a phone marketed as a Camera phone.
Any help regarding this would be greatly appreciated!
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Hello,
since Android 6 on my SGS7 i have a strange problem: Dropbox uploades some ot the images/videos again und again.
I installed a md5sum-app and something on the smartphone makes changes to the images from time to time. Sometimes there are changes on metadata, sometimes the content of the file changes too.
Then i have 2 picture on my computer in the dropbox camera-upload-older. For example: "xxx.jpg" and "xxx-1.jpg" up to "xxx-7.jpg" for older images.
This happens after viewing pictures or after turning the phone on (its turned off (shutdown) while i am working), also when i didnt view photos on the phone.
i use google photo viewer and samsung stock gallery app.
A reset and complete new start with the phone didnt help. I didnt notice this on SGS4 to SGS6.
Has someone an idea, how i can prevent changes on my images on the phone?
Best regards, A.
With the new Samsung S8+, it prompted me to import everything from my old phone (Samsung S6 Edge) into this new phone. And I followed the instructions and a major issue has now risen. Because Snapchat doesn't register a Date Taken for its photos, when it was imported to my new phone, all 10 000+ Snapchat photos have taken on the date and time that it was imported, meaning all my photos from Snapchat are no longer in order and is now impossible to look through as you can imagine with that many photos not sorted by its original date and time.
I have thought about this and was thinking that if i could change the date taken of these photos on my old photo to become the date taken, and replace the photos on my new phone, it will be arranged correctly again (correct me if I'm wrong). If this is a plausible method for me, how can I do that in bulk (because I don't have time to edit the date and time for 10 000 photos individually) on my old phone? Or are there other options I should be taking into consideration? Because right now the bulky 10 000+ photos registered under April 21st 2017 that are totally out of order is chaos.
Thank you so much in advance.
You could maybe do something with the batch processing feature in photoshop and then upload them to your S8. Aside from that I don't see how you could edit 10,000 photos at once.