Deleted pictures keep appearing after permanently deleting them

[AC Question]

How do I get rid of pictures I've already permanently deleted? It's getting really frustrating. Please help.

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! Can you give more specifics? Which device? How did you delete the pics? Where do you see them reappear?

If you have Google Photos Auto-Backup turned on, it's possible the photos was already backed up to your Google Photos cloud, and is still visible as a cloud photo, even after deleting the locally stored photo. Use the Google Photos app--do you see the photo only in the "All Photos" section, but not in the "Device Folders" section?

 

[Brian Settlemoir]

Same issue on a galaxy s5

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[AuKuswara]

Same issue with me, I am using Samsung Galaxy Note 3, running Android 5.0 (not root).
The photos are saved the External SD Card (not internal memory), the SD Card is a SanDisk Ultra 64GB MicroSD XC1.
I select the setting in the camera's setup to automatically save to Ext SD.

Problem 1: it's doing fine most of the time in saving the picture, but intermittently it lost half of the image. So I literally can't see half of the picture. It's just greyed.

Problem 2: when I delete some photos, it's successfully removed. I can't see it anymore in the Gallary. Then after awhile (i don't remember how long, just when next time I open Gallary, viola they reappered).

I don't have sync with Google Drive option, I have "upload to DropBox" enabled. As far as I know, it uploads to DropBox but never downloads or sync it.

any advise?