- Feb 4, 2018
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Hi! So this is the second time this happened, the first one being about two months ago. My camera roll is saved on my SD card in \DCIM\Camera, but suddenly the whole "Camera" folder disappeared. What could be the cause of this? I'm 99% sure I haven't deleted the folder manually. Good thing is that I have all photos backed up to Google Photos. I have a couple of possible "suspects":
Some other info:
P.S. what would be the best way to download all photos from Google Photos? Google Takeout? Does it keep all the metadata?
- Could it be the "Free up space" feature in Google Photos? I'm sure I haven't used it manually. Does it automatically free up space when all photos are backed up (by deleting local photos)? I've been using Google Photos for a couple of years and this hasn't happened before these two cases.
- Some kind of other maintenance feature?
- Corrupted SD card? For the past month, my SD card has occasionally unexpectedly unmounted itself. I also realized that a few songs stored on the SD card are corrupted - VLC refuses to play them on my phone. I haven't checked them on my PC. Though, why would then only the Camera roll disappear, and not other photos too? There are other photos saved in various folders in \Pictures\ and all of them are still there.
Some other info:
- Phone model: Huawei Mate 20
- Android version: 9.0 Pie
- EMUI version: 9
- SD card: Samsung EVO Plus 32GB (file system: FAT32)
P.S. what would be the best way to download all photos from Google Photos? Google Takeout? Does it keep all the metadata?