Why did my videos become unplayable after I moved them to a microSD card ?

[Android Central Question]

After I moved the videos all it shows is the first frame, like a photo. The video arrow is gone as well.

 

[mustang7757]

Which phone ? Possible your sd card is corrupt

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[James Herriott]

Which phone ? Possible your sd card is corrupt

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https://forums.androidcentral.com/showthread.php?t=409154

I have an LG Aristo with Android 7.0 . I was using a Sandisk 16GB mivro SD card I bought at Target.

 

[kct1975]

After I moved the videos all it shows is the first frame, like a photo. The video arrow is gone as well.

This kind of thing happened to me years ago...

What has happened is that the 'thumbnail' icons in your Gallery app are showing links to the previous locations of your videos.

Since every Gallery app is slightly different, the following procedure might not be exact, but this is generally the way to correct the problem...

Go into your Gallery app, use the Search feature and navigate to your SD card folder and you should be able to access your video on the SD card. Additionally, the 'thumbnail' icons for your videos should repopulate and link to the current locations of your videos on your SD card.

Hope that helps!

 

[B. Diddy]

Another thing that might help is going to Settings>Apps, selecting Gallery, then clearing the app cache/data from the Gallery app. This won't delete any of your actual photos or videos -- only the database the app uses to display them. When you open Gallery again, it should rebuild the database, hopefully this time with the correct links to the videos on the card.

 

[James Herriott]

This kind of thing happened to me years ago...

What has happened is that the 'thumbnail' icons in your Gallery app are showing links to the previous locations of your videos.

Since every Gallery app is slightly different, the following procedure might not be exact, but this is generally the way to correct the problem...

Go into your Gallery app, use the Search feature and navigate to your SD card folder and you should be able to access your video on the SD card. Additionally, the 'thumbnail' icons for your videos should repopulate and link to the current locations of your videos on your SD card.

Hope that helps!

Thanks much !!

 

[James Herriott]

Another thing that might help is going to Settings>Apps, selecting Gallery, then clearing the app cache/data from the Gallery app. This won't delete any of your actual photos or videos -- only the database the app uses to display them. When you open Gallery again, it should rebuild the database, hopefully this time with the correct links to the videos on the card.

Thanks much !!

 

[mustang7757]

I have an LG Aristo with Android 7.0 . I was using a Sandisk 16GB mivro SD card I bought at Target.

Strange I didn't get your notification quote, but glad others helped you out .