Pixel, Android 12
I had photos downloaded that were showing up in Photos. I wanted to rename one of the folders they were in but it said name already taken, as there was an empty folder of the same name that I created in the past that no longer appeared in Photos. So I opened the Files app, went to Internal Storage / Pictures and deleted the empty folder there, then again from within Files renamed the folder I was trying to rename before. I reopen Photos, bam, my custom folders are gone, even one I did not touch from within Files. I check Files and see the folders are still there but they're now empty; the photos are gone. Not in Trash. Luckily I had the photos backed up somewhere else so I grabbed the filename of one of the photos that went missing, did a search in Total Commander, and confirmed it was nowhere to be found on my device or Cloud. Disappeared into thin air. So based on this, I would not advise renaming or deleting photo folders from within Files.
TLDR: thread title
I had photos downloaded that were showing up in Photos. I wanted to rename one of the folders they were in but it said name already taken, as there was an empty folder of the same name that I created in the past that no longer appeared in Photos. So I opened the Files app, went to Internal Storage / Pictures and deleted the empty folder there, then again from within Files renamed the folder I was trying to rename before. I reopen Photos, bam, my custom folders are gone, even one I did not touch from within Files. I check Files and see the folders are still there but they're now empty; the photos are gone. Not in Trash. Luckily I had the photos backed up somewhere else so I grabbed the filename of one of the photos that went missing, did a search in Total Commander, and confirmed it was nowhere to be found on my device or Cloud. Disappeared into thin air. So based on this, I would not advise renaming or deleting photo folders from within Files.
TLDR: thread title
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram