Photos deleted from gallery app, stored on sd card, after a minute or so refresh and return.

[AC Question]

Okay so I've tried looking everywhere for a fix for this problem to no avail. I feel like I'm probably going to need to get a new sd card but I'll try asking for myself and see if there is any solution. (This will be long btw).

Firstly, I do not use the photos app. I use the gallery. I have taken a few photos on my camera and I have them to be stored on the sd card however when i tried to delete them they would go away for a minute or so then the folder would refresh and they would be back. I can move them to another folder however it refreshes and appears again in the original. The problem started a week ago when some photos I had taken appeared partly greyed out or completely greyed out in the gallery, and some had that black screen with the little photo and exclamation mark icon. I have tried deleting them from my computer (phone connected via usb) however it says that they are write protected and I went through the process to delete that however that wasnt showing up so i made it and then did but it didn't work i got the same error.

I have gone into My Files and tried deleted but it says the file cannot be deleted. I have unmounted, turned phone off and back on and remounted my sd card, and that did work. For about 20 minutes and then the folders refreshed and everything was back the way it was before. During this time I was also stupid enough to move my photos and organise my folders cause I thought it was fixed however after it refreshed all photos i moved were deleted. NJSDFKLKJALKJ. Another problem is when I tried to move an album (music) the copying popup open but no green bar and it didn't copy. Then when it did copy, eventually it reset and the album was no longer on there.

I don't know if there is any other solution other than: get a new sd card, but I thought I'd try.

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! It sounds like a problem with the card. It could be corrupt, defective, or counterfeit. Install SD Insight to see if the card is genuine or counterfeit. Counterfeit cards are programmed to report more storage than they actually have, and if you try saving more than the card can actually hold, then files can start getting corrupt.

If it's a valid card, then go to Settings>Storage, Unmount the card, remove it, and insert it into your computer. Can the computer read these files? Backup as much as you can right now, then run chkdsk to look for bad sectors: http://forums.androidcentral.com/am...guide-using-chkdsk-fix-corrupted-sd-card.html.

 

[Mike Dee]

Welcome to Android Central! It sounds like a problem with the card. It could be corrupt, defective, or counterfeit. Install SD Insight to see if the card is genuine or counterfeit. Counterfeit cards are programmed to report more storage than they actually have, and if you try saving more than the card can actually hold, then files can start getting corrupt.

If it's a valid card, then go to Settings>Storage, Unmount the card, remove it, and insert it into your computer. Can the computer read these files? Backup as much as you can right now, then run chkdsk to look for bad sectors: http://forums.androidcentral.com/am...guide-using-chkdsk-fix-corrupted-sd-card.html.

I wonder if he has some kind of app restoring photos from the cloud.

 

[B. Diddy]

@Mike Dee, that's a good point. The OP could use a file manager to check if the actual photo files are reappearing, or if the images are only seen in the Gallery. Cloud photos should only appear in the Gallery (assuming the sync for Google Photos/Picasa or whatever cloud service is being used) is turned on, while the actual image files shouldn't reappear on the SD card itself.

The mention of greyed-out photos with an exclamation point also smells like file or SD card corruption.