Note 4 won't allow me to create new picture files, name already used...

[AC Question]

Hello, I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 4 and I am wanting to create new folders for my pictures. After I select qhich ones I want to move to the new folder after creating it and naming it, my phone says "File Name already exists" when it doesn't. Please help...

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! How are you creating the new folders? From within the Gallery app, or using My Files (or some other file manager app)?

 

[DEADPOOL XVI]

I am trying to create the files in the gallery.

 

[Kelly Kearns]

I am trying to create the files in the gallery.

Someone else had this same issue recently. I'm trying to remember the fix for it.

One was to create a new album using My Files and creating it on the SD card.

The second way was to copy to album or move, a picture you already have, then choose create new. You can't have an empty folder in the gallery, so a picture has to be added in either scenario.

 

[DEADPOOL XVI]

It worked out, Thank You

 

[Kelly Kearns]

It worked out, Thank You

YW! I think the whole key is having a picture in the new album. When I create on through my files and don't have a picture, then it doesn't show in the gallery. You have to have a picture for the gallery to create it so it knows it is an album.