I'm having a problem I think is due to MTP.
I have an app I am trying to backup the data for, stored in /sdcard0/ProgramData/Android/Language/.fr
Problem is, on the S3 all these files seem to be hidden.
In my older HTC phones I could still mount in Windows and view all my files, nothing was hidden.
But now nearly everything is hidden. I was able to find the files via ES File Explorer, and I copied the folder I wanted over the my sd card, still was hidden in windows. Seems like the "."prefix was why it was hidden, so I renamed it withou it.
Now the folder shows up in windows but all the subfolders (they don't have a "." prefix) and all the contents are still hidden.
Is there anyway to get around this behavior? Is there any way I can change the properties of the entire folder and subfolders via a file viewer or the like to not be hidden?
I know I can unhide everything from inside the app first, but that takes a ton of time to unhide just to backup and rehide it all.
Eh, nevermind.
A bit more time searching yielded:
http://www.xda-developers.com/andro...and-media-transfer-protocol-xda-developer-tv/
While doesn't fix the issue it explained it. Working on trying Easy UMS, just doing the backup the hard way for the moment though.
I have used microsoft autoplay for years transferring photos and videos to my PC from my camera and my phone. The phone is working fine with one exception.
1) I'm able using autoplay on my PC to set a destination directory on the PC i.e. C:\Users\Mike\Pictures\2015
2) I can also tag them with event details or simply let them the folder be auto named to the date of transfer.
3) Deleting the source is also optional, saying no, simply lets them remain on the phone.
What I have noted since I got my S6, is the S6 will not simply transfer the videos and photos in the /DCIM/Camera folder, but it will transfer TTS files from the navigation software Waze under the Android/Wave folder and other files from assorted game apps also under the android folder.
So I have two questions:
1) Is there anyway to tell the phone to only share the folders under "DCIM" during sync / transfer?
2) Is there any other way to hide folders on the phone other than "private mode", this does not work as the navigation software does not see it's TTS files and simply transfers them again?
This seems to be a pretty simple issue, yet its stumped me and Samsung was no help either, they suggested their smart switch software, which is more for backup than transferring periodically.
Thanks
Mike
Question about the Secure Folder. I tried to open the guide on this site but for some reason it would not open.
Got the new s8+ And like they said amazed.
Pretty much set everything up OK.
I have given the Secure Folder a password.
I have made a few notes in the Samsung Notes but cannot work out how to move them to the secure folder.
Advice much appreciated.
If there's no menu option on an individual note to move it, then probably you can't. What you'd have to do instead is install the Samsung Notes app separately as a Secure Folder app, and use it there when you want a note to be in the Secure Folder.
I believe you can go into samsung my files and add it to secure folder from there.
Hello, everyone,
Unfortunately, something "bad" happened to us two days ago.
My wife still has an "old" Samsung Galaxy S7 without root and with the actual standard rom.
Instead of copying the pictures and videos (the first 6 months of our child's life), we moved the data.
Now we have JPEG and movie files on the PC, but they show as 9 GB each (but they only occupy a 4kb block on the disk) - With the HEX editor I could see that except a block of 4KB it contains only 0-byte "info".
Unfortunately a recovery with tools like "Recuva" does not work, because the device is not recognized as a mass storage device (even in USB debug mode).
Other free tools which supposedly recover files on the device without root have not found any data.
Do you have an idea how we can recover the photos and videos?
We switched off the mobile phone for safety reasons, so that nothing is "overwritten" by mistake. Or a TRIM-mechanism for damage to the possibly still existing data fragments so called
My root experience with Android unfortunately dates back to the "KitKat" age and at that time, as far as I remember, the data had to be wiped after the root process.
In general, we are have no Problem, if there is no other possibility to root the device to try out local data recovery tools?
Do you have any ideas how we can somehow recover the really emotionally important data?
Thank you very much for your help!
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Hello, everyone,
Unfortunately, something "bad" happened to us two days ago.
My wife still has an "old" Samsung Galaxy S7 without root and with the actual standard rom.
Instead of copying the pictures and videos (the first 6 months of our child's life), we moved the data.
Now we have JPEG and movie files on the PC, but they show as 9 GB each (but they only occupy a 4kb block on the disk) - With the HEX editor I could see that except a block of 4KB it contains only 0-byte "info".
Unfortunately a recovery with tools like "Recuva" does not work, because the device is not recognized as a mass storage device (even in USB debug mode).
Other free tools which supposedly recover files on the device without root have not found any data.
Do you have an idea how we can recover the photos and videos?
We switched off the mobile phone for safety reasons, so that nothing is "overwritten" by mistake. Or a TRIM-mechanism for damage to the possibly still existing data fragments so called
My root experience with Android unfortunately dates back to the "KitKat" age and at that time, as far as I remember, the data had to be wiped after the root process.
In general, we are have no Problem, if there is no other possibility to root the device to try out local data recovery tools?
Do you have any ideas how we can somehow recover the really emotionally important data?
Thank you very much for your help!
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Can you still access the photos on the phone?
cooltt said:
Can you still access the photos on the phone?
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I'm afraid not.
We have transferred the photos with "move" instead of "copy".
From the perspective of the phone, the files were successfully transferred, even if they arrived corrupted on the Windows system.
AgentFrost said:
I'm afraid not.
We have transferred the photos with "move" instead of "copy".
From the perspective of the phone, the files were successfully transferred, even if they arrived corrupted on the Windows system.
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Well all that would have been moved is a folder with all the files in. Windows should be able to open jpegs and videos easily. You possibly didn't move the correct folder.
Download Samsung USB drivers for your pc and install them.
Connect phone, wait for Windows to show in folder panel then choose allow data transfer on the phone itself.
You can then explore the various folders on the phone.
Vidoes and pictures are stored in the DCIM folder on the phone or SD card. Sometimes in folder called "Pictures".
It's highly unlikely you've lost those files if all you did was move the folder.
Even move the folder on the pc back to the phone where it came from?
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Well all that would have been moved is a folder with all the files in. Windows should be able to open jpegs and videos easily. You possibly didn't move the correct folder.
Download Samsung USB drivers for your pc and install them.
Connect phone, wait for Windows to show in folder panel then choose allow data transfer on the phone itself.
You can then explore the various folders on the phone.
Vidoes and pictures are stored in the DCIM folder on the phone or SD card. Sometimes in folder called "Pictures".
It's highly unlikely you've lost those files if all you did was move the folder.
Even move the folder on the pc back to the phone where it came from?
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The photos have been transferred from the DCIM folder to a Windows PC.
However, there seem to have been problems during the transfer, as the files in Windows are each over 9GB in size (over 5TB of photos and videos in total) - this can't be right, of course. In the file properties of Windows it is shown that the 9GB file only takes up 4KB of space on the hard disk. Even when i inspect one of those files with an HEX-Viewer i can see, that there is only a 4KB -Data Block at the End of the .jpeg file with no content.
As I said, it looks like the files were somehow badly damaged during transfer. And the phone thinks that the files have been moved successfully and accordingly the files are no longer findable in the Android file system or, as usual when moving, deleted from the source.
Since Windows believes that a file alone is 9GB, we are not able to transfer the file back to the device.
Is there any way to restore the files on the Android device?
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The photos have been transferred from the DCIM folder to a Windows PC.
Is there any way to restore the files on the Android device?
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Only if you set it to back up with the Google account which stores a copy of all photos video and files.
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Only if you set it to back up with the Google account which stores a copy of all photos video and files.
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Sadly no Cloud Backup of the files.
That's why we already tried to recover the files with Recuva (which doesn't work because of the missing USB mass storage mode) and other tools.
In the meantime I have also read that a recovery of data on the mobile phone only works with root access.
I can no longer find the media files that used to be in /storage/emulated/0/WhatsApp until Android 10. I've searched the following locations with no luck:
/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/com.whatsapp
/storage/0BD9-A981/Android/data/com.whatsapp
/data/data/com.whatsapp
/data/user/0/com.whatsapp
/data/user_de/0/com.whatsapp
Any help is welcome. Thank you!
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I can no longer find the media files that used to be in /storage/emulated/0/WhatsApp until Android 10. I've searched the following locations with no luck:
/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/com.whatsapp
/storage/0BD9-A981/Android/data/com.whatsapp
/data/data/com.whatsapp
/data/user/0/com.whatsapp
/data/user_de/0/com.whatsapp
Any help is welcome. Thank you!
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Try to locate the folder using the command:
Code:
ls /data/data/com.whatsapp*
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Try to locate the folder using the command:
Code:
ls /data/data/com.whatsapp*
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I just found the folder. But thanks anyway. Here's the location for those who also need it:
/storage/emulated/0/Android/media/com.whatsapp/WhatsApp
Hi.. In Android 10, Whatsapp folder used to be in root folder (emulated/0), but in Android 11, it has moved to Android/media folder. The big problem it has is - everytime you wipe data to install a ROM, Whatsapp along with media needs to be backed up. Does someone know a workaround here so that WhatsApp has its folder in the root directory? Thanks.
I wouldn't call /sdcard (/storage/emulated/0) the root directory, but ok. Whether the whatsapp folder is placed directly in /sdcard or in /sdcard/Android/media doesn't make a difference as to whether you have to back it up, as it will be on the userdata partition in both cases.
how about my case, im using samsung android 11, and i clone whatsapp with the built-in app = dualapp, but the problem is i can't received a media file from other people like document, images, videos, etc. and cannot sending any files too from my device, i've checked the dualapp\android\media and there is no com.whatsapp folder inside. anyone can help me with this case?
thanks before.
maleforwork said:
how about my case, im using samsung android 11, and i clone whatsapp with the built-in app = dualapp, but the problem is i can't received a media file from other people like document, images, videos, etc. and cannot sending any files too from my device, i've checked the dualapp\android\media and there is no com.whatsapp folder inside. anyone can help me with this case?
thanks before.
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I am in the same boat. I can no longer find the dual WhatsApp files, and that version is like a redhead stepchild, cannot add stickers, doesn't recognize file types, etc. All since Android 11 moved the dual app files "somewhere".
maleforwork said:
how about my case, im using samsung android 11, and i clone whatsapp with the built-in app = dualapp, but the problem is i can't received a media file from other people like document, images, videos, etc. and cannot sending any files too from my device, i've checked the dualapp\android\media and there is no com.whatsapp folder inside. anyone can help me with this case?
thanks before.
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Same here, it happened this morning. I am having my exams and because of this I can't access my pdf notes anymore. All of this is so frustrating :/
Someone also got trouble with loading the "WhatsApp Images" Folder over a File Explorer?
When i wanna access it from several Apps like File Explorer or Backup Apps, it will load like endless, some minutes at least.
Have mor than 10 000 Pictures in it but before it loaded always immediately.
If i am in TWRP i can access the Folder but don't scroll down with the bar, just around 1/3 of the Page. Only if i scroll over the Display every File it will show me someting, otherwise it shows just Empty over some Files, like there would be a File Limitation?
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Someone also got trouble with loading the "WhatsApp Images" Folder over a File Explorer?
When i wanna access it from several Apps like File Explorer or Backup Apps, it will load like endless, some minutes at least.
Have mor than 10 000 Pictures in it but before it loaded always immediately.
If i am in TWRP i can access the Folder but don't scroll down with the bar, just around 1/3 of the Page. Only if i scroll over the Display every File it will show me someting, otherwise it shows just Empty over some Files, like there would be a File Limitation?
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Exactly the same here. Switched to Samsung android 11 3 weeks ago and since a few days Whatapp app backup (80mb) took an hour instead of less than 2 minutes. Quickly found out that WA folder had been moved and that it now takes 10-60 seconds to open WA images folder (9400 pics) instead of < 1sec at previous location. Yesterday I reinstalled WA and everything was placed back in the original folder (0/WhatsApp) and everything was fast again. But tonight (00:00) everything has been moved to Android/media/com.whatsapp and the backup of whatapp is already running for 50 minutes now. The status for a very long time is: "Prepairing google drive backup".
This is very frustrating and I don't understand how they can ruin this for so many people (see google store reviews).
I don't understand why one location is so much slower than another directory. Is exactly the same storage. Does it have to do with indexes? Who is going to offer a solution for this, Samsung or Whatsapp?
Google or WhatsApp have had to get a solution, but if the wan't?
Because i am using OnePlus, so we know that it shouldn't be a Mobile Phone Manufacturer issue.
Crazy that even the built in Backup won't work because i just use other ways like "FolderSync" or "Synology DS Cloud" Backup.
Even Built in File Explorer or such as "X-Plore" and whatever, won't load the Folder until there are gone some Minutes.
Can also just guess why, but Indexing should be done if it is.
Did also some other trys with a Folder which has just 5130 Pictures (copy of some Pictures).
Used "X-plore" to easy Move the Folder around.
- Move Picture Folder in "Android" Folder will work well but every of the 3 subfolder "data", "media", "obb" will get in trouble.
- Move Picture Folder into "data", it will take a longer Time, also "obb" Folder which is a kind faster.
- Move Picture into "media", it will moved immeaditly like usual at the Phone.
Access Picture Folder just under "Android" Folder it will work fine, but if you wanna Access this Folder under "data", "media" or "obb" you have to wait and enjoy the running circle symbol.
So is the question, what is different with all the subfolder under "Android", like they would have a Speed limit or additional encryption?
First you need to do a whole backup of your chat so that you can migrate the chat information from respectable whatsapp to Fouad Whatsapp.
I am also facing this problem yesterday when I upgrade my smartphone from android 10 to android 11. But after some research, I found the solution. Here are the complete details:
Whatsapp folder in android 11
For images
Android\media\com.whatsapp\WhatsApp\Media\WhatsApp Images
Guys, I'm using Samsung phone too and my WhatsApp media files is in a mess too since the location change a couple of months ago. Now I have media stores in these 2 folders, just like you guys:
1) Whatsapp/Media
2) Android/media/com.whatsapp/Whatsapp/Media (new location)
Now my issue is, I have photos back from year 2016. I can view it in Whatsapp chat (some of them can't locate anymore) but i can't find it in both the directories mentioned above. When I select 'view in gallery', and then i use MiXplorer to check the image location, it says: (refer to attached screenshots)
Path: content://com.whatsapp.provider.media/item (which i guess it is in obb folder)
How is this even possible? The image is not lost but it is not accessible by me anymore and I cant back it up. Due to this mess, I really want to tidy up my media files and move them into single location, presumably the new location but the missing files stop me from doing it. It's bugging me for a few months now
maleforwork said:
how about my case, im using samsung android 11, and i clone whatsapp with the built-in app = dualapp, but the problem is i can't received a media file from other people like document, images, videos, etc. and cannot sending any files too from my device, i've checked the dualapp\android\media and there is no com.whatsapp folder inside. anyone can help me with this case?
thanks before.
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I had installed beta APK and it has some bugs. Today I've decided tou reinstall the sable APK when i uninstalled the beta App the whole folder form android/media also deletd and I've lost everything thing. I had backed up to google drive a few days ago now i could not found the backup. The backup i got is of Dec 2020.
Guys, try this path: <SD-CARD>/Android/media/com.whatsapp/WhatsApp
I found all my whatsapp media there since android 11 upgrade (Samsung M31)
All my files keep on /sdcard/WhatsApp/Media even on Android 11.
Some solution here about the Access Time from the Images Folder?
When i Access (does not matter which File Explorer or Backup Tool) then i have to wait over 10 Minutes and most of them still won't show any pictures. Of Coursee i have over 10'000 Files in it but at the old Location it took me just a few seconds.
Chrypsisilon said:
Some solution here about the Access Time from the Images Folder?
When i Access (does not matter which File Explorer or Backup Tool) then i have to wait over 10 Minutes and most of them still won't show any pictures. Of Coursee i have over 10'000 Files in it but at the old Location it took me just a few seconds.
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Any OS has problems to deal with folders that contains millions of files.
Certainly, you need to clean the folder.