Deleted the copies on my internal storage it had also deleted every picture on my SD card as well.

[Android Central Question]

I had used the 'My Files' feature on my Samsung Galaxy On5. I moved every file from my internal storage to my SD card. It still said pictures were taking up space on my internal storage even though I had just moved them. I checked both the internal storage file and the SD card file I had moved the pictures to and the same pictures were in both. I thought 'Oh since they're on my SD card it must be safe to delete them on my internal storage.'

but in doing that it deleted every single photo selected on my internal storage as well as my SD Card, even though I had only specified the internal storage pictures.

It's really stupid that it deleted everything as I have over two years of memories now gone. Why did it do that and can I somehow get any of my pictures back? :/

 

[SpookDroid]

You can try 3rd party apps for recovery, but unless those were backed up elsewhere (physical back up, cloud service, etc.), there's little else you can do

Also, did you check that the extension you were moving to was the EXT/SD Card?