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Same pictures multiple times in gallery

Ok so I'm running cog, the latest one, and when I go to the pics on my external sd, it is showing 4 of each pic. However, when I go to the folder there is only one copy. Anybody seem this or know how to fix it?
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 running Cognition.

I had the samething happen only way i could get it to go away is reflash the rom.
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It's the Gallery app bug in the leaked Froyo ROM we have. I know my JI6 had this problem from day one. There is no sure way to fix it.
The official Galaxy S Froyo ROM released in Europe is not better either. Its Gallery app has a nasty battery drain bug.

Try this without having to reflash.
Connect to PC and MOVE all of your pictures to your PC. Delete anything you see inside .thumbnails in the DCIM folder (from your default Camera storage). Move all of your pictures back to your phone. If you accidentally copied a .thumbnails folder, make sure you don't move that back in. Gallery will reindex all of your pictures and create new thumbnails.

Just deleting .thumbnails and a reboot works for me when/if this happens.

whiteguypl said:
Just deleting .thumbnails and a reboot works for me when/if this happens.
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That didn't work for me. I just tried it. My gallery started showing multiple photos again. I think this only happens when I connect to my PC at work (and/or home) and browse photos using Explorer.

same thing happening to me, i have 3 of each photo on the sd card

Try going to your picasa web albums at picasaweb.google.com/home
login with the gmail account you use on your phone and look at your web albums
By default the gallery app / android will sync with picasa web albums, so anything added there will appear in gallery.

I've never used picasa but I'm gonna give it a try.
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Move everything into your internal sd card. I know it sucks and it's not as secure but just make sure you backup regularly. It got really annoying deleting the thumbnails once a week and it hasn't happened since I shifted everything to my internal sd.

I had the same problem. Not once, but twice. The first time I deleted the copies from my PC then rebooted. For awhile that seem to work, but just today I had the same problem in multiples of 8 for each pic.
Hopefully someone finds a fix for this

FROYO.UCJI6 Rooted, same issue except I have multiple icons for same pics that dont even exist on the phone anymore. Ive killed gallery, deleted every copy of .thumbnails I can find, rebooted..etc. No avail, folders that no longer exist on the phone show up in gallery, with multiple thumbnails for the same pic, very annoying.

I've been flashing roms like crazy here recently and haven't has problem yet. Though it is said it a leaked rom bug so I'll see if out happens again.
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I also had that same problem with the cog ROMs. I tried many of the suggested solutions, including deleting .thumbnails. Unfortunately, nothing ever worked.
I have since switched to Perception, and I haven't had that problem since.

Ok..here is the fix from other thread
With root explorer delete:
- /dbdata/databases/com.android.providers.media/externalXXX.db
- /sdcard/Android/data/com.cooliris.media
reboot
Good luck

cgm8 said:
Ok..here is the fix from other thread
With root explorer delete:
- /dbdata/databases/com.android.providers.media/externalXXX.db
- /sdcard/Android/data/com.cooliris.media
reboot
Good luck
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that worked, thanks

Now if i do delete these strings will they affect any other programs?

cgm8 said:
Ok..here is the fix from other thread
With root explorer delete:
- /dbdata/databases/com.android.providers.media/externalXXX.db
- /sdcard/Android/data/com.cooliris.media
reboot
Good luck
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Worked for me too!!!
Thanks!!!

Pictures disappearing

I took a few pictures on Friday but now they aren't in my gallery. Anyone else have this issue?

few questions...
are you rooted? if so, which rom are you running?
also, have you used a file manager to browse and see if the files are still on your phone? normally scdard/media/dcim houses picture/video files made with the phone.

mattbollenbach said:
few questions...
are you rooted? if so, which rom are you running?
also, have you used a file manager to browse and see if the files are still on your phone? normally scdard/media/dcim houses picture/video files made with the phone.
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Not rooted, just plain old stock for the time being. Haven't searched for them like that yet. I just noticed they had disappeared from my gallery.

i would check to see if the files are still on the phone.

pside15 said:
Not rooted, just plain old stock for the time being. Haven't searched for them like that yet. I just noticed they had disappeared from my gallery.
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Not normal, yes as suggested browse through your gallery thoroughly or use a file manager app like Linda File Manager.
Through the camera app there is a way to view photos youve already taken.
If You can preview them they have to be somewhere within your Inspire

Very strange. They definitely were not in my gallery. I hooked up my phone to my laptop and there they were in the DCIM folder. Now they appear back in my gallery after disconnecting the phone from my laptop. Not exactly sure what was going on there.
Thanks for the help guys.

If it happens again bring the phone back for another one. It could also be the SD card. Try doing a full format on a computer for it and put the files back on.

Delete files .Thumbdata3 - 19xxxx (710MB!)

Inside the folder DCIM /.thumbnails there is a file .Thumbdata3 of 710MB!
I tried to delete it but it always returns the same size.
I also tried to delete all the photos from the DCIM folder but nothing has changed!
How is it that the file has a size so big?

MarkAndroid said:
Inside the folder DCIM /.thumbnails there is a file .Thumbdata3 of 710MB!
I tried to delete it but it always returns the same size.
I also tried to delete all the photos from the DCIM folder but nothing has changed!
How is it that the file has a size so big?
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That's probably the thumbnail data for your pictures. I'm assuming you have quite a few...?

I deleted all the images.
The folder .thumbnails no contains preview as I deleted everything.
There remains only the file to 711 MB

MarkAndroid said:
I deleted all the images.
The folder .thumbnails no contains preview as I deleted everything.
There remains only the file to 711 MB
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As the first reply already stated, this is a thumbnail file that is generated on the basis of all pictures on your device. Deleting all thumbnails doesn't really help, because the thumbnail cache will regenerate itself. If you want to diminish it in terms of size, you'll have to remove the actual pictures on your device (be it wallpapers, family pictures, Reddit downloads or porn). Only that will lessen the numbers of thumbnails generated and thus the size of this file.

As I said I deleted all the real pictures and not just the thumbnails!
When I open the gallery there is no picture or video!
I also raised the MicroSD to make sure there were no photographs or video to generate thumbnails.

Yes, I see what you mean. I have two, each about 600 Mb, one from 08/07/2012 and one from 19/10/2012. These appear to be the Thumbnail files from the media players.. So until you clear the librarycache from those, they'll keep reappearing.

I also had two files, then deleting all reappeared only one from 711MB!
You have lots of photos and videos?

MarkAndroid said:
I also had two files, then deleting all reappeared only one from 711MB!
You have lots of photos and videos?
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About 40gb internal, and another 40ish on SD's.

We are different!
My internal memory 45GB free!
MicroSD removed

Yes, quite obviously, you are different. Won't get you a Nobel Prize.
Did you clear the media player's data yet? I have device pretty chock full with all kinds of graphics and videos, and on the MicroSD, the thumbnails file is only slightly less than 12 MB.
ShadowLea probably has a lot more.....errrmmm...shadowy material than me, so I dare not compare us directly.
It seems likely though that you just had a lot of material to be indexed previously, and those caches are never emptied, neither are they touched upon a reinstall. You'll need to empty them by hand yourself.

Yes, obviously we're different. :cyclops:
MartyHulskemper said:
ShadowLea probably has a lot more.....errrmmm...shadowy material than me, so I dare not compare us directly.
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Well... I'm not paying for my Eweka payserver in the spirit of charity.

MartyHulskemper said:
Yes, quite obviously, you are different. Won't get you a Nobel Prize.
Did you clear the media player's data yet? I have device pretty chock full with all kinds of graphics and videos, and on the MicroSD, the thumbnails file is only slightly less than 12 MB.
ShadowLea probably has a lot more.....errrmmm...shadowy material than me, so I dare not compare us directly.
It seems likely though that you just had a lot of material to be indexed previously, and those caches are never emptied, neither are they touched upon a reinstall. You'll need to empty them by hand yourself.
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How can I manually clear the cache?

Usually through the settings in the apps themselves.

OK. So what application should I see? Gallery app or all photos and videos app? (Example QuickPic, Mxplayer)

All of them.

MarkAndroid said:
Inside the folder DCIM /.thumbnails there is a file .Thumbdata3 of 710MB!
I tried to delete it but it always returns the same size.
I also tried to delete all the photos from the DCIM folder but nothing has changed!
How is it that the file has a size so big?
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I had the same problem...my files was 1.6GB. I believe it has to do with thumbnails database off all pictues that have been on your phone or gallery, and even if you delete it, they keep track of the all and then recreates the thumbnails file.
My solution was to create a empty folder with the exact same name of the file, in the same location (after deleting the big file first)...did not need to change permissions or anything, just an plain empty folder with the same name replacing the file. I´ve rebooted several times/took lots of pictures and seems to prevent the file to re-create. Has worked so far.
Hope that helps

It seems to work!
Since I created two folders with the name of the file .thumbdata are no longer created the two large files and does not create even the thumbnails!
THANKS

MarkAndroid said:
It seems to work!
Since I created two folders with the name of the file .thumbdata are no longer created the two large files and does not create even the thumbnails!
THANKS
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Any abnormalities with your device since? Like opening the camera app, taking photos, accessing Gallery, and FCs?

I noticed this type of behavior back with my Motorola DROID. I realized that when I performed Factory resets it would not delete these files off of the SDCard, an I had 4 or 5 of them (when I was trying every ROM under the sun before CM7 was released).
I finally figured out that just deleting them would allow the apps to recreate what they needed - but yeah, some photos that I had moved to a 'hidden' location still had thumbnails showing. I finally figured out what ShadowLea is saying - you have to clear the cache components of the applications themselves and then let them rebuild. From there it is a piece of cake.

solved for Galaxy S3
Hello,
I had the same problem on my Samsung S3. The file was allways created with 1,74 GB and growed. when i deleted it by hand it was created a few minutes later again.
Here the solution that worked for me
1) copy file name
2) delte the file
3) create a folder with the filename (not a file!) *
4) take away all possible permissions for this folder (with total commander for andriod for example)
After that my camera and my picture viewer still works fine. the only "problem" i have is that i dont see a preview of my old pictures in the down left corner of the camera app.
*I also tried to create a file with the name and took the permissions from it but it was overwriten by the camera anyway.
cheers!

[Q] Gallery doesn't show all photo's

Hi All,
The gallery doesn't show all photo's which i've made...just a few photo's ( 30 ).
When i am mannually searching in the DCIM folder using a file manager, i see 74 photo's....
My S6 isn't rooted or something like that.
Anyone else who has this problem?
Cheers,

dawism1987 said:
Hi All, The gallery doesn't show all photo's which i've made...just a few photo's ( 30 ). When i am mannually searching in the DCIM folder using a file manager, i see 74 photo's.... My S6 isn't rooted or something like that. Anyone else who has this problem? Cheers,
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Confirmed. Gallery shows 96 photos and there are 105 in the DCIM folder. That's odd and not cool.

dawism1987 said:
Hi All,
The gallery doesn't show all photo's which i've made...just a few photo's ( 30 ).
When i am mannually searching in the DCIM folder using a file manager, i see 74 photo's....
My S6 isn't rooted or something like that.
Anyone else who has this problem?
Cheers,
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i've been having the same issue since day one. tried wiping data and cache from both "media storage" and "gallery" and then rescaning everything with media scanner app but it didn't work. hope someone will find a fix for this. i'm using quickpic for now.

Haven't done anything to test this. But have you checked to see if any of the photos in the gallery are burst shots? Gallery groups them as a single shot. I'm assuming DCIM folder shows them all individually. Just a thought and I could be totally wrong.

iNiREALiZED said:
Haven't done anything to test this. But have you checked to see if any of the photos in the gallery are burst shots? Gallery groups them as a single shot. I'm assuming DCIM folder shows them all individually. Just a thought and I could be totally wrong.
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Good call. Tested. That is exactly what is happening with mine. I didn't even realize burst was enabled - I must have shot some bursts without realizing it.

iNiREALiZED said:
Haven't done anything to test this. But have you checked to see if any of the photos in the gallery are burst shots? Gallery groups them as a single shot. I'm assuming DCIM folder shows them all individually. Just a thought and I could be totally wrong.
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Hi, None of them are burst shots...
But when i am using quickpic, i am able to see all the photo's. Even the photo's like whatsapp images's/downloaded photo's.
It's just with the gallery that i'm not able to see all photo's, just a few photo's....I have sorted the photo's as "time". When i'm sorting the photo's as "album" it is the same ( not able to see all of the photo's).... really strange.

Out of curiosity, if you use the Google "Photos" app, do you see all of them?

DevonSloan said:
Good call. Tested. That is exactly what is happening with mine. I didn't even realize burst was enabled - I must have shot some bursts without realizing it.
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You enable burst by just holding the shutter button, there is no burst function in the menu. Thats why a lot of people take burst shots without even knowing.

flu13 said:
Out of curiosity, if you use the Google "Photos" app, do you see all of them?
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when i am using google photo's it's the same! I only see a couple of picture's... (The same pictures)

helloooooo! !!
I fixed the problem! !!
first, plug it into a computer, and manually erase the .nomedia file.
second, go to app manager, clear cache/data from Gallery, and force stop it.
now, open the app again, and you must be able to see all pics and videos again

[Q] how recreate gallery thumbnails

I had to reset my phone. I then reloaded the camera photos I had taken before into dcim/camera. When I look in the gallery there are no thumbnails of these photos.
How can I get the phone to recreate the thumbnails?
Thanks.
Hal

halteach said:
I had to reset my phone. I then reloaded the camera photos I had taken before into dcim/camera. When I look in the gallery there are no thumbnails of these photos.
How can I get the phone to recreate the thumbnails?
Thanks.
Hal
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Probably just takes some time to generate them, if it's a TON of photos.

halteach said:
I had to reset my phone. I then reloaded the camera photos I had taken before into dcim/camera. When I look in the gallery there are no thumbnails of these photos.
How can I get the phone to recreate the thumbnails?
Thanks.
Hal
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Have you tried restarting your phone?

Japultra said:
Have you tried restarting your phone?
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yes. did nothing.
hal

ingenious247 said:
Probably just takes some time to generate them, if it's a TON of photos.
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not a ton, a few hundred. several days on no thumbnails.
hal

halteach said:
I had to reset my phone. I then reloaded the camera photos I had taken before into dcim/camera. When I look in the gallery there are no thumbnails of these photos.
How can I get the phone to recreate the thumbnails?
Thanks.
Hal
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You could try this Settings > Applications > Application Manager> All. Look for Media Storage and go into and hit Clear Data. It should rebuild the database, you may have to restart to trigger the database rebuild.

The Gallery not refreshing seems to be a common problem across devices and Android versions, to some extent. I assume this is more Android version related that device specific.
My situation: I am on a Samsung Note 4 with ~stock (MODestRom X), Android 6.0.1. The Gallery app (and Snap Gallery) would only show me a few folders and pictures from within my <SDcard>/DCIM/<many folders including Camera>. New pictures would go into the Camera folder and show up in the Gallery, but existing pictures in the Camera folder, and most all the other folders, would not show up. I find no new posts on this issue in the last year or so.
The fix that worked for me: On the SD card, rename DCIM to DCIM1. At that point, DCIM1 started to get indexed properly. I renamed it back to DCIM so that new camera shots would go into their proper default home (<SDcard>/DCIM/Camera) and I didn't end up with a parallel Camera folder.
Other stuff I tied that DID NOT HELP:
Reboot
Applications Manager > Gallery > Clear cache and data
I found a .nomedia file at the top of the SD card. Deleting it did not help. No .nomedia files within the DCIM tree.
Hooked it up to my computer and synched in a new .mp3 file, hoping this would trigger a media scan. No help.
Looked for media scanner apps in the App store. Did not try, but most reviews said Fail, and none I found specified what Android versions they were said to work on.
Waited a few days.
Swore.
Googled XDA and found almost no recent postings, so I responded to this one.
I did NOT try moving the pictures off and back onto the SD card.
May this post help someone else!