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camera Album - all photos gone?

stusid — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:00:29 GMT

I have been storing all my photos taken with the camera on the SD card.

Today, all the pictures are showing the default 'mountain' icon, and I cannot access the photos on the phone or the PC.

Any ideas how I can restore them?

Re: camera Album - all photos gone?

Henke — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:10:24 GMT

Try this:

*Remove/insert SD-card

*Insert SD-card in another phone

*Try to install a file manager, can you see your pictures via File manager?

Have you done some type of reset/master reset/format in the phone?

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Re: camera Album - all photos gone?

stusid — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:16:30 GMT

No - doesnt work.

Luckily the photo's have been backed up to Google+ (or Picassa on the phone).

How do I get these back on the phone itself?

Re: camera Album - all photos gone?

Uliwooly — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:55:16 GMT

have you reformat the SD card?

try this

settings > apps > all > album > clear > restart your phone

Re: camera Album - all photos gone?

stusid — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:18:13 GMT

Done the above but didn't work - I have now deleted the 'empty' files - as above they are backed up on google+ but I want them back on my phone.

Re: camera Album - all photos gone?

Uliwooly — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:27:58 GMT

so you did reformat the SD card

Re: camera Album - all photos gone?

stusid — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:30:22 GMT

No as it has my music on it. Not sure why I would do that?

Re: camera Album - all photos gone?

Uliwooly — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:32:35 GMT

install OI file manager > open the app > DCIM > 100Andro > what do you see there?

Re: camera Album - all photos gone?

stusid — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:34:48 GMT

Its empty - like I said above I have deleted the files in the folder as I couldn't open them.

Re: camera Album - all photos gone?

Uliwooly — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:41:47 GMT

the only way this could happen is if you reformated the SD card, or if you mounted your sd card to your pc and transfered the pictures and then delete them, PCs could do this delete the pictures it transfer

Re: camera Album - all photos gone?

Uliwooly — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:44:23 GMT

open the album app > albums > picasa > sync

Re: camera Album - all photos gone?

stusid — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:45:01 GMT

I did not format the card - the music is still on the card. The phots became un-viewable.

Anyway, they are backed up on google+ - I just need to know how to get them back on my phone.

Anyone??

Re: camera Album - all photos gone?

stusid — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:45:52 GMT

There isn't a sync option....

Re: camera Album - all photos gone?

Uliwooly — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:51:20 GMT

you can't through the G+ app you will have to download them on a computer and then transfer them back to your phone.

perhaps your SD card is corrupted then, there is no other explanation either you formated the SD card, or the SD card is corrupted but anyway that's how to get them back.

Re: camera Album - all photos gone?

GeoffH — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:58:04 GMT

is it possible that the process you used to share your pictures with G+ and picasa actually caused this problem

I've heard of the album app getting corrupted and having thumbnail issues but not the actual files themselves, they are always still there and intact, as you have already deleted them then we cannot investigate further

This is all rather strange but I think the clue is how you shared your pics to other services

Re: camera Album - all photos gone?

Zann_H — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:07:21 GMT

you can download all photos to the pc and just copy them to the DCIM folder in your phone/sdcard.

- login to http://plus.google.com

- mouse over 'Home and click on Photos

- on the top menu, go to More > Auto-Backup.

All you need to do is "select all"(next to the dates) and click "Download". this will allow you to download all selected photos into a single zip files. then just unzip and copy them to your sd card.