Hi,
For months I thought that many of the pictures in the Downloads folder in the Gallery app were corrupt, but when I checked on the file names I realised they're just non-picture/video files (such as music, text, pdf, etc.) showing up there. They display as a grey background with an encircled exclamation mark. Why are these files showing up in Gallery, and how can I stop it from happening?
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Having a problem with my thumbnails in album after installing the MySpace app from Marketplace.
After I ran the app, I noticed that some of my thumbnails had changed to pictures from Myspace, but when clicked on, they still display the correct picture, ie. the picture that should be there, rather than the picture displayed in the thumbnails.
I looked through the device with File Explorer, and found a folder containing these images that were replacing the original thumbnails in Album, and so I deleted it.
This didn't help.
I then removed MySpace, but this didn't help either.
I've tried soft resets, and running CleanRAM, but still unresolved.
Any ideas on why this would be happening, or what I could do to remedy the problem?
Hi all, I can't seem to find the thumbnails file to delete in the DCIM folder. I have looked in the folder and its not there. I have removed some pictures but they are still showing. Where does Android store these pictures thumbnails? It's very annoying. I tried refreshing and still no luck. I'm currently using ROM called CyanASOP 1.8 this is driving me crazy.
Clear the data for the gallery app.
I have
I have but it still doesn't clear the thumbnails. I have even deleted the a folder and nothing. The folder shows up in the thumbnails but then there are no pictures.
Thumbnails are stored in a hidden folder inside DCIM. The folder name is ".thumbnail" and the dot in front of the name makes it hidden. You need a file explorer that can show hidden files. Note that you do not need root. Look inside the settings of your file explorer and see if there is a setting to display hidden files.
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Take a picture: it will be stored under /DCIM/Camera folder
Open QuickPic: it shows the picture under the Camera album
Open SonyAlbum: under the Images tab you will find the same picture under the current month label
Open a file manager and move the picture from /DCIM/Camera folder under the /Pictures folder
Open QuickPic: it shows the picture under the Pictures album
Open SonyAlbum: under the Images tab you will find two copies of the same picture under the current month label; if yoh look at the details of both pictures, one comes from /storage/emulated/0/Pictures and one from /storage/emulated/legacy/Pictures
Now I know that they areboth access pointsto the same physical folder, so tehre are not actually two copies of the same pictures, still Sony album sees both of them. I tried clearing cache, data etc. with no avail.
Hi all. This morning out of the blue my M31 is not showing any picture or video in the gallery, and so does every other app (FB, Instagram, Snapseed, Google Photos). The files are in the same folders and they're not hidden. I tried restarting, deleting the gallery data but nothing.
Only thing I cannot do is delete the data of the media scan system app.
Any help?
Edit: it looks like that's the only system app on which I can't do anything. Is there a way to reset it via adb or similar?
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Yesterday after i tried to transfer some files to my laptop through USB cable, i observed that images in my mobile (Redmi Note 10 pro) camera album are not getting opened.
The error it is showing is 'file format isn't supported or files are corrupted'.
However the same files which were supposed to be under DCIM folder...were now visible in new folder names G Cloud -> DCIM. In the file manager, in the above gcloud folder, I am able to view the said images.
I am perplexed. What happened to my mobile ? Any malware/virus? Pls help me out.
Also today..I could observe some of my contacts disappearing.
The size of the files about 20k indicates that you didn't transfer the photos but the files of the generated thumbnails (little preview pictures) for the photos.
That several files are transferred in a bad way so that only the first 20k get transferred sounds not plausible, but could also be possible.
Not long time ago I saw a thread with a similar question. You may also have a look in forums of similar devices (same OS).