When When I go to files and delete pics why do the pics in my gallery get deleted too?

[AC Question]

When I go to the yellow folder looking thing (My files) on my phone I see several different categories. Misc. Files, cache, recent files, images, documents etc.....I assumed it's where everything is stored that you have done, downloaded, taken a picture of, searched for in Internet or whatever it may be. When I click on images....I go to delete them so I can free up space on my phone and I have noticed that it will also delete the image out of my galary too. I already have the image in my galary and my backup cloud account.....so I don't need the pic in this place also......but when I go to get rid of it....it gets rid of it everywhere. This isn't the case with text messages, or some other types of files......just images. This means anytime I take a pic I'm going good to have it clog up memory because I can't just keep it in my galary and delete it out of files.

 

[Tim1954]

It's how Android handles files. It's not so much that you have duplicates of all your pics, you're just opening from a different place. Like a house, you can walk in via a number of doors, but you'll only find the one kitchen...

 

[Rukbat]

Gallery displays all the pics on the phone. When you delete one of them, it no longer displays it - because it's no longer there.

(Gallery doesn't have any special folder in which to store pictures, it just shows everything on the phone.)