OK WTF - Gallery mass replicated albums on its own/Unable to delete folder issue

[ruffryd3r]

Ok so my friend had emailed me an album that was zipped and I downloaded it on to my S3 and unzipped with androzip so I could check it out. Everything was fine until later when I went to try and delete the folder/album. First problem - the gallery application has made TONS of copies of every single album on my phone within the gallery application (looking through my PC via USB the containing folder shows 0 bytes...so there is technically nothing there but the gallery shows otherwise). Second problem, If I go in through androzip and try and delete the folder containing all the albums - Androzip crashes. I have tried hooking my phone up to my computer to delete via USB, however, I get a message telling me the device has either been disconnected or stopped responding (yet I can navigate through directories just fine after I hit cancel). I have tried clearing the data/cache for the gallery and Androzip (didn't work obviously or I wouldn't be posting). All the albums are on my SD card and I do have the latest software update from Verizon. I have done some pretty extensive searching and have not seen any issue like this.

That being said....WTF do I do?

Appreciate any help anyone can offer.

 

[friedtators]

Try a Linux live CD on your PC to access the phone. Did the folder get scanned before you put on phone?

 

[ruffryd3r]

No I don't think it was scanned. He had sent it to me before (pre-most recent VZW update) and I didn't have any issue - so idk if that is the problem. Is there any alternative to downloading Linux to access it?

 

[GSDer]

Have you tried restarting the phone and then using a file manager (not Androzip) to go in and delete the directories containing the albums that you added?
If worse comes to worse, unmount the SDCard, then fire up the Gallery app and see if it still shows those pictures scattered everywhere - if so, see if it'll allow you to delete them with the SDCard unmounted.

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