There are thousands more photos on my phone than I actually took?

[AC Question]

There are thousands more photos on my phone than I actually took.

When I tried to import the photos onto my windows 7 laptop, my Samsung Galaxy Note 4 says that it has over 7, 500 photos. I can only find, in folders, about 700. When I look at the individual photos, on my laptop, before they are imported, when I am in the option to organize them first. I see that there are snapshots of what I think my children drew in kids mode, I saw about 100 of these in a folder that said that it had over 6,000 photos, the first 100 or so I recognized from Christmas. Thank you for any imput!

 

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Re: There are thousands more photos on my phone than I actually took.

If they drew them, they're in the phone, and Media Scanner picks them up. If you do the import using a program that asks the phone for pictures, you'll get all of them. If you just copy the ones you want, by hand, the same way you'd copy any other files from one place to another, you probably won't see them. (Even if you do, you can just not copy them.)