topic Re: DELETES PICTURES!! -possible bug? in XPERIA archive

DELETES PICTURES!! -possible bug?

lmbea4 — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 16:36:45 GMT

Really strange bug....follow me on this:

take pictures, pictures are automatically stored on phone in directory /mnt/sdcard/dcim/100andro....

move pictures to hidden directory called /mnt/ext-card/.specialuse

pictures move just fine, and are readily availible in hidden directory....until I restart the phone, at which point, only the pictures from this phone (not other files or videos) are deleted from the .specialuse folder, no warnings, no pop up...just GONE.

The strangest thing is, it only deletes the files I have added to that directory recently....not the older video files already present.

I have created a .specialuse folder on the phones memory at /mnt/sdcard/.specialuse and it does the same thing....

When I remove the . in the folder name (making it visible) and copy the picture and reset the phone...nothing happens (meaning it keeps the pictures like it should).

WHY does having a .directoryname cause the phone to automatically clear pictures from said directories? My X10 did not do this, only my ION does this.

Anyone have any ideas? Thanks.

Re: DELETES PICTURES!! -possible bug?

GingerSnap — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 17:16:20 GMT

Just a couple of questions.

1) What file explorer program are you using to view/ move the pics.

2) Is it deleting the whole hidden folder or just the pictures?

I haven't tried this out myself yet, but maybe the file explorer thinks it is renaming the extension type of the photos, thus deleting them on reboot due to them being invalid extension types...or I could just be way off. But anyways, this sounds more like a problem caused by the file explorer program.

Re: DELETES PICTURES!! -possible bug?

Markus1 — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 09:35:37 GMT

This was a new one for me. Have not heard about it before.

Have you tried to format the SD card in the phone at Settings > Storage? Please do if you have not already. Make sure to move all files to your computer first since they will definitely be lost when you do this.

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