topic Re: Lost photos after moving to SD in Other Smartphones

Lost photos after moving to SD

NR3 — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 08:05:17 GMT

I tried to free up some space on my Samsung A7 by using the file manager to move the photos from internal storage to micro SD card. This appeared to be successful at the time but I've since discovered that my photos are no longer visible in the gallery (showing blank grey with !).

Now if I even try to view the photos via the file manager to the SD card, they are all blank (showing blank grey with !).

How can I recover the pictures?

Re: Lost photos after moving to SD

Anonymous User — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 10:09:51 GMT

@NR3 wrote:

I tried to free up some space on my Samsung A7 by using the file manager to move the photos from internal storage to micro SD card. This appeared to be successful at the time but I've since discovered that my photos are no longer visible in the gallery (showing blank grey with !).

Now if I even try to view the photos via the file manager to the SD card, they are all blank (showing blank grey with !).

How can I recover the pictures?

Ah here we go again😔😪

Sorry to hear that. Immediately transfer all the photos which are not corrupted to the internal memory of the phone to save them.

Then extract the sd card and send here pics of the front and back, packing and adapter too if you have it....

Unfortunately many sd cards which circulate are counterfeit and what you are experiencing may be due to that,so please do what i told you Asap

Waiting for your reply

Re: Lost photos after moving to SD

NR3 — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 07:29:48 GMT

Sorry not sure how to add pictures on a post here?

It's a Kingston card.

Re: Lost photos after moving to SD

Anonymous User — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 09:28:42 GMT

@NR3 wrote:
Sorry not sure how to add pictures on a post here?

Ah the photo button disappeared.... it looks like that no one can add pics...
Create a google drive link and share the photos of the card here by posting the link

Re: Lost photos after moving to SD

Anonymous User — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 09:29:04 GMT

and have you moved them to the internal memory tempestively?

Re: Lost photos after moving to SD

NR3 — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 11:38:13 GMT

Re: Lost photos after moving to SD

NR3 — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 11:38:35 GMT

Re: Lost photos after moving to SD

NR3 — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 11:39:40 GMT

Moving them back didn't seem to help unfortunately. I also tried connecting to laptop as a separate drive but couldn't view them there either.

Re: Lost photos after moving to SD

Anonymous User — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 12:08:23 GMT

@NR3 wrote:

It looks like it original🤔. If you have the sd card adapter would send me a picture of that as well?

After that we can do another things to test its capacity.

However fake or original it is breaking. Move everything out of there asap. For the corrupted images there is nothing else to do unfortunately, moving everything back to the internal storage was asked by me to prevent further data loss...

Re: Lost photos after moving to SD

NR3 — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 12:49:44 GMT

Ok thanks for the advice and checking. I'm not sure if I have the adapter, or which it would be, as I don't tend to use them.

Out of interest, did I do anything wrong with trying to transfer in that way or should the process usually be reliable? Would you recommend saving on a card or interal storage as the safest option for future?

I do backup to google photos, but they are low res, so will need to increase the frequency of backups to an external hard drive.

Re: Lost photos after moving to SD

Anonymous User — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 15:37:43 GMT

@NR3 wrote:
Ok thanks for the advice and checking. I'm not sure if I have the adapter, or which it would be, as I don't tend to use them.
Out of interest, did I do anything wrong with trying to transfer in that way or should the process usually be reliable? Would you recommend saving on a card or interal storage as the safest option for future?
I do backup to google photos, but they are low res, so will need to increase the frequency of backups to an external hard drive.

Well you can take the pics missing from google photos there is the only thing left to do.

I would advise you to buy an sd card and keep the picture there,that is what i do too. And do NOT encrypt it.

In case something happens to the phone or the logic board breaks what is on there is lost forever, what is on the sd card is not goimg to be lost.

Sd card can fail too as you experienced, the best thing to do is to back up data on an ssd or hdd to have a safe copy.

If you want a new sd card buy a new kingston csrd (the newer versions) or a samsung evo.

Buy it from a reputable seller with whon it is easy to do a return. After it arrives if you will you can send me the pic here of the card and adapter to check if it is not fake so you can use itnwithout worries, in fact even if you buy from a reputable seller they are a lot of times scammed and given fake sd cards without them knowing it.

Let me know

Re: Lost photos after moving to SD

NR3 — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 16:02:14 GMT

Thanks very much for your help

Re: Lost photos after moving to SD

Chathu de silva — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 06:27:41 GMT

Please help me. Last night i moved all my photos into my micro sd card. So that,when i got up today morning.. all the photos have been corrupted. There is an exclamation mark on each and every photo in my gallery. Please help me how to recover this. Pleasee..

Re: Lost photos after moving to SD

Tapakbuddha — Sat, 08 Jan 2022 05:38:00 GMT

Hi dude.. i just wanna know update due to ur case above.. can we recover it? Because i experience the same problem.. i have download android app file recovery but not all my missing photos were found.. i tried dr.fone to scan my int storage but negative result. Please help

Re: Lost photos after moving to SD

Spiders2 — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 12:31:52 GMT

I've used File Commander on my Samsung s9 Edge to transfer my pictures and videos to my sd card and lost most of the files through the transfer

Re: Lost photos after moving to SD

Spiders2 — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 12:34:48 GMT

The file commander is pre installed on my Samsung S9 Edge so I've used that but fear I've permanently lost my data please advise thanks

Re: Lost photos after moving to SD

LoriB78233 — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 18:59:16 GMT

I email myself with each photo to ensure I have copies available on all of my devices.