topic Re: Album not refreshing in Other/General

Album not refreshing

remoh — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:00:34 GMT

Hello,

i have a problem with the Album app (on Xperia T, ICS).

From time to time i remove photos from folders of my sdcard, but i do it on my pc.

The Album app does not realize that, it only shows a placeholder for the photos i deleted.

How can i force the Album app to rescan the WHOLE phone?

I already tried deleting cache and data of the Album app, but it does not help.

Re: Album not refreshing

Uliwooly — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:05:23 GMT

you can delete the thumbnails folder

Re: Album not refreshing

remoh — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:16:21 GMT

Thanks, but which tumbnails folder?

Where is it located?

Re: Album not refreshing

Uliwooly — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:17:44 GMT

on your computer > DCIM > thumbnails

use a file manager on your phone

Re: Album not refreshing

remoh — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:24:28 GMT

Thanks, but it does not help. I have several other folders containing photos which does not even have a .thumbnails or thumbnails folder (checked with root explorer).

The Album app just does not realize that i removed photos.

There must be some kind of index file or something similar, i need to force Album to do a rescan of all images or delete its old index and build a new one from scratch.

Re: Album not refreshing

Uliwooly — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:28:08 GMT

try this

settings > apps > all > album > clear everything (this shouldn't delete your pictures) >restart your phone

Re: Album not refreshing

remoh — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:38:33 GMT

tried that again (including reboot) but it does not help.

(but as mentioned in my first post i already tried it before)

Still shows placeholder for the deleted photos

Re: Album not refreshing

Uliwooly — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:48:35 GMT

if your pictures are stored on the SD card then

on your computer > computer > Xperia T > internal storage > sd card > DCIM > thumbnails > delete this folder

then restart your phone

Re: Album not refreshing

remoh — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:13:25 GMT

Found it after doing some research.

settings > apps > all > Media Storage

clear everything

After that album is empty and doing a comlete rescan

Re: Album not refreshing

Uliwooly — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:15:06 GMT

excellent

Re: Album not refreshing

AK2013 — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 10:42:03 GMT

My Sony Album & movie app wont update any videos stored on SD card.

But my MX player updates okay.

When I go into root explorer the videos can be seen in the SD1 folder but wont update on Movie app??

Does anyone know why?

Obviously I have read the whole post and tried all the fixes here but no luck!