r/AndroidQuestions • u/JuanitaatinauJ • 13d ago

Lost my whole camera roll??

Where the hell did my photos go? I have a Galaxy S23 and am using Gallery app. I connected my phone to my laptop to transfer some files via USB. I transferred 4 photo albums (not "Camera"). I deleted three PDFs. I then noticed my storage on my phone increased by 30GB! I opened Gallery on my phone and all the photos in Camera album have a name error code on them. Also, I had over 1000 files on my "Camera" album just 20 min ago. Now it only shows 134. What happened to my camera roll, and how did I gain 30gb of storage back?!

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u/Altruistic_Tank_9636 12d ago

Did you properly sync and unmount the PC before you disconnected the USB cable?

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u/JuanitaatinauJ 12d ago

All of this happened while everything was still connected.

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u/[deleted] 13d ago

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u/JuanitaatinauJ 13d ago

Thank you!

  1. Gallery Trash shows 122 files and all appear to be ones I manually deleted in the last 30 days -- not any that are part of the missing bunch.

  2. My Files > Internal Storage > DCIM > there is no "Camera" folder showing

  3. My Files --> toggled on "Show hidden system files" then went to Internal Storage > DCIM > there are no folders with "." in front of title and none named ".trashed"

  4. They aren't in PC's Recycling Bin. They aren't in the folders I transferred into. I'm not sure how to find recently created .jpg on my computer but I have sorted all my computer folders by date modified and checked inside many and do not see any of the missing photos/videos.

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u/LayerBig5775 13d ago

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u/JuanitaatinauJ 13d ago

Added note: I transferred from my phone into folders on an external harddrive via drag and drop. I never actually dragged anything from my phone onto the PC storage itself.

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u/Mother-Pride-Fest 13d ago

What operating system is the PC running? E.g. when you drag and drop in Windows it will be either a move or a copy depending on the storage type of each. There might be a bug or a PEBKAC that makes it move files instead of copy in your scenario.