I am running Windows 7 Pro and have a new Samsung S7 phone. when I connect the phone to my usb port I see a new "drive" within windows explorer. So far so good. I open it up and see my SD card, open that up and note my DCIM folder and underneath that a sub-folder with a bunch of pictures I put on the SD card. Still good. But the right context menu is not what I expect. And when I click on a JPG file, instead of opening in my default picture program, it opens up in Window's viewer instead. And none of the normal right click menu items are there.
If I try to delete a file from within the phone (not from the pc) it won't let me without giving permissions to the photo app I use (Quickpic). but it has permission to the sd card already. So it looks like if I want to mess around with photos on the sd card, I have to first pull the card from the phone.
Any thoughts on this? Is it "normal"?
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I have an annoying problem that stems from the fact that my device renamed my memorycard from "memorycard" to "memorycard2".
I run a Swedish device, but I will try to rename to the best of my abilities.
I have a Polaris with the standard ROM, but this problem is more general in nature. I synced my memorycard with the camera, so that the photos I take are put on the card. I could then view my photos in the "camera album" software. Then I removed the card and after replacing it, it got the new name "memorycard2".
I still have the DCIM folder on the memorycard and the photos are still stored on the card in that folder. But I can't view them since they aren't loaded into the software. All the new photos aren't detected either.
I can still use the file explorer or the software called "photos and videos", but it's still a lot of work for a simple task.
So is there a way to A)get the software to load the picture already on the card and/or B)re-detect the folder so that the new pictures at least gets loaded in the software?
Thanks in advance!
Small bumb, sorry for that but it's an annoying problem.
Have tried a few trick myself, like renaming the DCIM folder in order to force the phone to create a new one. It worked, but "photo album" will still not show the pictures...
So please, help me if you can! As of now it's a bit hard to use the phone as a camera.
Apparently I'm cursed with Android phone. My last SGS suddenly erased half of itself and I ended up having to take it back to where I bought it from, and it turned out to be faulty.
Now I'm using a HTC Inspire 4G (Desire HD) with the stock 8Gb micro sd card.
I just wanted to see one of my videos in my gallery and the gallery was empty.
All I saw was were two folders: One was "All photos", with 3 photos and one had a blank name with 3 photos.
When I go into "All Photos", I see the 3 photos which are just placeholders. It looks like an icon for a photo - sort of like monochrome hills with a circle for the sun or something, with a little exclamation mark down the bottom right. That's all I see for the 3 photos. If I tap them, nothing happens. If I tap and hold, I can see its size, date, resolution is 0x0, but it can't seem to find the path of the image.
If I open up my DCIM folder in ES File Explorer, then I can browse to DCIM and some (not all) of my images (and none of my videos) are there. I can open the images in ES.
I have images/videos in other folders on my SD card, and some (not all) of the photos from those locations are present, and again no videos are there.
If I take a photo or make a video, that one photo/video will appear in the gallery and in the DCIM folder until the SD card mounts/unmounts (for example if I do it manually, or if I connect it to my PC as a mass storage device). Then, I can still see the photo in ES but not in gallery.
Additionally, my google latitude widget and google places widget on my far right home screen had error placeholders. I can't remember the exactly message but something like "this widget cannot be displayed". I deleted the widgets and re-added them and they seem to be ok now.
I'm running my HTC Inspire 4G (Desire HD) with Revolution 3.3 ROM. I have SetCPU and Llama profiles running persistently in the background.
Any idea why this happened? Is my media lost? Any program I can try to recover them? I had some things there which I would really have preferred to keep.
Thanks.
Okay, so in answer to my own question...
This issue has nothing to do with Revolution 4G ROM, nor with HTC.
Apparently the issue is that Google are douchebags who have known about this issue for almost two years and have done nothing about it.
To reproduce the problem:
First back up you SD card, just in case.
Create a new folder on you SD card... call it "test" or something, and dump some jpegs and videos there. Go into Gallery and let it index the folder. You can see there that there are a number of jpegs and videos.
Go into ES or Astro or whatever and create a new file called .nomedia in the folder.
Force a rescan somehow. I did it by unmounting/remounting the SD card.
Go into Gallery – see the folder is not there. This is the expected result.
Go into ES or Astro to your test folder. Notice that the video files have been DELETED.
Just got a Verizon GS3; and, put the Micro SD card from my Droid X into it.
When I access that card via Windows Explorer on my laptop via USB (the laptop runs Win7 64-bit), it shows all the files.
But, when I click on DCIM\Camera, even if I select 'Icons' (Med, Lg, X-Lg) it just shows tiles/titles (see attached jpg)...even if I try to open them with Corel Photo-Paint.
Just to make sure that the files weren't corrupted, I copied/pasted several of them into 'My Photos' in Win7, and looked at them there with Win Explorer. The thumbnail images showed without any problems.
Any thoughts?
Thanks, in advance.
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Hello, XDA. I'm trying to find a way to do something fairly simple, repeatedly, and I need your help.
The short version:
I want a way to move all files of a certain file type that exist in one folder (but not subfolders) to another folder, either (a) automatically every X minutes, or (b) with an easy manual trigger. (Option A would be preferred).
The long version:
I've had Dropbox on my Galaxy Note II for a while, and have rather enjoyed its ability to automatically upload pictures taken with the phone (or my Galaxy Gear, which was a pleasant surprise) to my Dropbox account.
I just got an Eye-Fi wi-fi SD card, which can automatically transfer pictures via Wi-Fi Direct to my phone. I was hoping the Eye-Fi app on the phone would deposit the received pictures into a subdirectory of the normal camera/DCIM directory, so Dropbox would, in turn, see them and sync them to the cloud; alas, Eye-Fi drops the pictures into its own directory. I'm looking for a way to easily move the pics from the Eye-Fi directory to the normal camera directory, without having to open up my file manager, browse, select, cut, browse, paste every time.
Any suggestions?
OK. So far I am aware of 2 download locations.
The first is the SD card, which I have transferred all files to my computer to make space on the card. I did that easily through windows explorer when my phone was connected to the PC. The path is Computer\Xperia Z3\Internal storage\Download. Or sdcard1/ I believe on my phone.
Next is the INTERNAL storage download location. For the life of me I cannot find this ANYWHERE. It doesn't show up on my PC file explorer, because I guess it's in the root of the phone, and I can't find it with root file explorer either. There's absolutely no indication as to where it is actually located on my phone. I have 5GB+ of apps and pics I want to transfer to my PC, but I can't do that until I know the path!
Here's a photo of the app that brings me to that location (bottom of the screen, "downloads")
And this is what it looks like when I open the app, and pull the menu over. As you can see, download...
This has been racking my brain for almost 4 hours now. Please please help me out.
I am using an Xperia Z3 with KitKat
As you can see, this is my downloads that I want to transfer, as seen from the "downloads" app in my...
And THIS is the new Asus file manager I am trying out, and I HAVE THE EXACT SAME ISSUE (The download...
Please tell me what I am doing wrong?
I just tried another app. SAME PROBLEM AGAIN.
Left is my downloads folder (it doesn't tell me what the path is and that's what I NEED) And on the right is the app, Solid Explorer. WHY IS IT EMPTY WHEN THE LEFT PICTURE CLEARLY SHOWS I HAVE FILES????