Photos disappearing from gallery

[ribeena12345]

Hi, I was wondering if anyone else had this problem with their Samsung.

 A lot of my photos from what I can tell June 2023 to about October 2024 have vanished. I have checked everywhere and can not find them. I then found out I have had a problem with my SD card and I think this is the cause but I am really confused as to why only those pictures have gone missing. These photos were really important to me and now there's just a huge chunk of photos just gone from my phone. 

Please if anyone else has had this problem or knows what to do can you please help me.

[GoanGeek]

Do you have Google one 🤔

If you do check if they are under Google photos.

The reason I ask is as Google one as a feature where it will delete photos on your phones once photos have been uploaded to it.

[ribeena12345]

Yeah I have one
I just checked, but they're not there either I also checked the bin

[Ry-Galaxy]

Perhaps there was a period of time where your storage was full, or you set your photos to save to SD card and that's why you've lost that chunk of photos?

[ribeena12345]

Yeah, that might be why

not so long ago, I ran out of storage, so i had to get more, so that could be the problem
Do you know how I could get them back?
My phone says i it can't detect my SD card, so I don't know what to do

[Ry-Galaxy]

Unfortunately from the sounds of it the SD card has corrupted, I'd suggest plugging the SD card directly in to a laptop or PC to see if it can be read, if not contact the SD card manufacturer for further assistance

[ribeena12345]

Okay, thank you so much I will try to do that now

[milindck]

As far as I can understand the electronics of SD cards, once corrupted the data cannot be retrieved. But a magnetic hard drive it is possible to retrieve some parts of the data.

[milindck]

I don't know if that is true completely, but then again I have a paid ($25/$30 per year) to get 100GB data for storage, that keep my very important files and photos always synced. An additional peace of mind if ever I get my Hard Drive/Flash Card gets corrupted for any reason.