Ever since my 2.2 stock update my gallery shows duplicate images, then triplicate and now 4 copies of each.
I verified that I only have 1 copy of each one (all stored on my external sd card).
Has anyone else experienced this?
Does anyone know how to reset the Gallery cache (clearing it via settings-manage apps does nothing)?
I don't have this issue but I do not have external SD in my Captivate.
Since no one is replying I'm assuming you may have an unique issue here but I would connect the Captivate to your PC and browse to remove the pictures if they are truly duplicate and reboot your phone to see if the issue will resolve after that.
Or remove your external SD, reboot your phone to see if all pictures goes away or 3 copies remains in your Internal SD.
Just my 2 cents.
I had this problem first with my music, then with my photos. I've fixed the problem for my music files showing as duplicates. All I did was hook up to my PC, transfer the music folder off my phone, let the media scanner do its thing, then I transferred them back onto the phone. That did the trick. I haven't had time to try this with my photos yet, but I am hopeful that it works the same...
Hope this helps!
This remind me that I did had similar issue right after my phone boot up from Froyo update. But everything went back to normal after 2 other reboot.
So, first self reboot after Froyo updated. System lag like crazy. Let it run about 30 minutes and media scan completed.
Second reboot, Runs a bit better but still sort of laggy and battery done to 35% after just 2 1/2 hour of usage. Plug in to my laptop's USB to charge and as soon as prompt to run kies or mass media come up my phone went blank.
Third reboot. Wait 15 minutes until Media scan is completed. Plug into my USB port and charge with my laptop at work. No more issue found other then battery sucks big time for this day.
Everything back to normal and battery is back to normal again the next day.
bb6vtec said:
I don't have this issue but I do not have external SD in my Captivate.
Since no one is replying I'm assuming you may have an unique issue here but I would connect the Captivate to your PC and browse to remove the pictures if they are truly duplicate and reboot your phone to see if the issue will resolve after that.
Or remove your external SD, reboot your phone to see if all pictures goes away or 3 copies remains in your Internal SD.
Just my 2 cents.
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One thing I should mention, which I think is triggering the bug is that I have my camera set to save on the external card. I'm not sure if this is the problem, but it appears that Froyo keeps a gallery cache on the internal and external card. Perhaps the info is getting duplicated in both files.
I moved all images off to my PC, then disconnected from the PC. Going into the Gallery, I still saw placeholders for all of the images - but they were black (no image to display).
I found that on each sd card (internal and external), there is a DCIM folder that contains a .thumbnails folder. Inside of this folder is a THUMBDATAxxxxx file. I had to delete both of these files to clear out the Gallery placeholders. I then copied the images back to the external card. Both DCIM THUMBDATAxxxx files were recreated. My images are no longer duplicated. We'll see if the problem reappears.
Does anyone else have their camera set to "Memory Card" Storage?
Thanks,
Rich
Fix for this is easy. Open sgs tools 4.5(I think that's the most recent) go to apply scripts>clean_thumb_db.txt then reboot. Issue solved. I'm not sure what causes this but its happened to me many times and that is the easiest fix.
Is there any other way of doing this? Every time I run that script it deletes all my custom ringtones from my contacts, my custom sms tones from my handcent conversations, and all of my playlists from the media player....
You're not missing anything. The script didn't remove the duplicate images for me.
The easiest way I've dealt with this is go to manage applications and delete data in the media storage app. Problem is it does do away with customized ringtones, playlists..so have to rebuild that
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I experienced the same problem with pictures in the gallery, I checked my folders and did not have any duplicates. After reading some of your posts and poking around I decided to try resetting the gallery app from the manage applications menu with no success. I then tried deleting the contents of .thumbnails files on the internal and external sd cards (in the DCIM directory). I experienced no loss of data as far as i can tell but the duplicates did disappear. I went from 6 copies to a single image. I rebooted the phone 3 times and the images did not duplicate in the gallery but the .thumbnails directory was repopulated. I powered down the phone and removed my external sd card, all external pictures disappeared from gallery. I reinstalled the card with the phone powered on and presto 6 copies of all external sd card images! I'm not sure why this is occurring but I just deleted the .thumbnails directory contents again and hope that the problem does not recur as long as i don't remove my external card. Hope this helps!
I would just delete media storage and move on. You may have to re-do ringtones tho..and playlists
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One thing I should mention, which I think is triggering the bug is that I have my camera set to save on the external card. I'm not sure if this is the problem, but it appears that Froyo keeps a gallery cache on the internal and external card. Perhaps the info is getting duplicated in both files.
I moved all images off to my PC, then disconnected from the PC. Going into the Gallery, I still saw placeholders for all of the images - but they were black (no image to display).
I found that on each sd card (internal and external), there is a DCIM folder that contains a .thumbnails folder. Inside of this folder is a THUMBDATAxxxxx file. I had to delete both of these files to clear out the Gallery placeholders. I then copied the images back to the external card. Both DCIM THUMBDATAxxxx files were recreated. My images are no longer duplicated. We'll see if the problem reappears.
Does anyone else have their camera set to "Memory Card" Storage?
Thanks,
Rich
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Deleting "media storage" did not work for me. What I did was similar to Rich (I also have mine set to store to the external SD) -
Removed all photos from SD card. When I remounted the card, I noticed I was now down to 2 copies of each photo rather than 3.
Next step: Applications > My Files. Deleted the entire DCIM folder.
Now I'm down to 1 copy of each photo.
Applications > My Files > external_sd. Once again, deleted the entire DCIM folder (loading the sd card on my computer, the thumbnails dir wasn't even showing up, as I'd deleted it... sneaky little thing!).
Hey, look, no pictures!
Recreated DCIM folder on my SD card (I did all of this by unmounting/removing the card and using a card reader on my PC - not sure if it would have worked using the cable-PC connect, as I don't have my cable on me), moved all my photos back in... and now I have my photos, only one copy of each. Hopefully this doesn't reoccur or the bug gets fixed, as that was quite a pain!
I had this problem as well, and it annoyed the **** out of me. No matter how many times I removed the external card and did the scanner trick, they kept coming back. I used to run the SGSTools script, but got tired of redoing all my ringtones every day. I even deleted the thumbnails folders over and pver again, but they still kept coming back.
The only thing I found works long term was to give in and keep the pics on the internal memory. It seems like Froyo can't accept having them on the external card for me.
I had the exact same issue, 36 images virtually duplicated to 360. Possible cause could be haste when phone is scanning the sd card or force quitting when running the application or messing around while the phone is connected to pc.
I was able to fix the issue by copying the Dcim folder to my pc > then deleting the original one on the phone > and then making moving it back to the phone. Once done let it finish the scan and then go to the gallery.
RESOLVED: Duplicate thumbs in Samsung Captivate
Just delete all the files in "sdcard/android/data/com.cooliris.media/cache/hires-image-cache" directory. Then delete all the files in
"com.cooliris.media/cache/local-album-cache" which includes any "index" files and "chunk_##" and delete files in "local-image-thumbs". Disconnect phone from computer and let the phone do the media scan, your pictures will return to single again.
This happens when your phone does a media scan after connecting to a computer as a mass storage device and you change data in the parent directories that you have picture, video and sometimes music media. Any questions or concerns you can also contact me via [email protected] and your appraise are also welcome. Enjoy
Most bizarre thing I have ever seen. I connect my Inspire to my PC as a hard drive. Copy music to it but when I try to access the music from the phone, the folder is empty. I can copy ZIP files or APK files to the phone with no problem. But the MP3 files magically disappear. I have copied music to it before. I even formated it again. It lets me copy everything except the music. I tried fixing permissions but still it does it. Anyone ever experience anything like this?
I have kinda the same problem. My phone does not display anything when i click on the music app icon it says there is none even though the my file manager shows there are? My Ringtones are the same way, I've even reformatted the card twice now and it still says there are no mp3's on my card.
A lil more info would help like, what rom, stock, rooted, etc...
I've been trying to install the Rugby World Cup app from the market, but every time it gets to "installing", I get a message saying the SD card has been removed.
I don't know what's actually been removed, as all my music is still accessible and I can browse the SD card in OI File Manager, but then, some apps aren't working, and I have to reboot to get it back.
Any ideas what might be causing this? I've tried updating existing apps, and that works fine...
Thanks!
This happened yesterday, I was out and my charge got over so as soon as I reached home I connected my HTC desire Eye to the charger. After I turned it on, all the Media (Photos Videos Music and Some documents) which get saved to my Adaptable storage [SD Card (I had formatted it as my internal storage before)].
Everything related to Media files just vanished but the space is still occupied by them. And the apps (Mc5, Snapchat) are still there.
I tried opening albums in my gallery those photos appear for a fraction of a second and they disappear again.
And I did try clearing the cache of my gallery app, and tried to find the files on my PC when I check for amount of space occupied by them imgur(dot)com/a/zIusp through my pc it shows 68MB. imgur(dot)com/a/wA9gb
Is there any way to get them back? Please help.