Help!! Picture saving problems

jnuts5423

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I'm having the same issue. I know there in the phone, the location is my question. If I open my gallery or open my qicpick app(I dont like the stock gallery,) I cant see any picture I've taken with this phone. I see everything, even some stuff from when I was running a custom ics ROM. But I can't see my recent pictures from a gallery. the only way I see them is actually opening the camera and clicking on the pictures in the corner. Then I see them. But I can't find them fore nothing even using root explorer and searching in the sd card and ext card. Any ideas.and yes I have storage location set to sd card. Just can't see them to upload to Facebook per say without going through the camera to see them
 

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I dont know the application you are running. I use 3d gallery and I have had some weird things happening with mine. I have yet to find any answers. Mine isnt with pictures I took with the camera - they are with pictures I physically transferred on to the SD card that have magically disappeared. I can view them but there is no file location for them. in the 3D gallery view it has a lil triangle on them (i was thinking some cloud program but I never set one up!!)
 

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Internal vs External Storage

I've been having similar issues. I use FishBowl Gallery. Today I attempted to move my images from my external SD card to my laptop. The images were not on the external card. After a bit of probing, they were clearly on the phone's internal storage. I rechecked my settings and confirmed that default storage was to the external SD card. I mounted my SD card, the phone asked if I wanted to move my pictures from internal storage to external (presumably to the card I just inserted). I clicked "OK". It did it's job and said nothing was left. When I looked, still nothing on the external card.

I used a file manager (ES File Explorer) and after a couple of attempts to move the pictures folder to the external SD card I realized that my INTERNAL card was actually listed as "SD Card" while my EXTERNAL card was listed as "SD Card - Ext". Well, that's just dumb.

So that explained one thing - my photos were not successfully moved to the SD card because I was picking "SD Card" (which is actually the INTERNAL storage).

When moving files, I moved back up a directory to the root and the external SD Card was listed (again, as SD Card - ext). I was able to move the photos to the proper removable storage card.

In addition, under the main default directory listing, there was an "ext" folder. This was actually a link to my removable SD Card. Stupid, IMHO.

That begs the question - why does the option in the system settings not make it clear that the SD Storage option is actually the NON-removable built-in SD Card? And why is there no option (as far as I've found) to default to the removable storage?

I haven't messed with it enough to see if there is a "work around".

I've been using Droids for years and love them. This is the first one I've had that had this issue.

Thanks for listeing. Hope I didn't just write a bunch of crap that's obvious to everyone, and that I'm now just catching on to. :)
 

94lt1

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The only thing I know to do is manually move the pics. It sucks i know. I'm not sure why there isn't a way to set it up to save directly to the sdcard-ext.

And welcome to the forum, enjoy. :)

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