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Help SD Card getting deleted

bringing this one back from the dead, esteem just deleted over 630 songs and over 340 pics on the external sd card, its sandisk, and im pissed, pics of my kids missing, that wasnt recently backed up. im about to go complain to metro and shove this thread in their face if they try and say something stupid to me.

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i just removed the battery, removed sd, removed sim. and let my phone sit for a couple min, put everything back in and it all reappeared..... still going to ask metro wtf and get a better sd then class 2.
 
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Backup all of your pics. I do that all the time. Once a month I usually copy my pictures to a folder on my computer so I won't lose them. A good app to get in case you do lose them is recuva. Google it. It is free and can restore deleted files from your sd card.

Although personally haven't set it up you can also sync it with a drop box account.. automatically throws it into the cloud..
 
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I'm pretty sure it's an issue with the phone. Sometimes it doesn't finish checking the internal memory and/or SD card for media/pictures so they don't show up. I've had it happen several times when my phone was on the B firmware and would reboot a lot. Hasn't happened since.

Nothing is getting "deleted" per se, the phone just doesn't know the files are there.

If it happens again, try unmounting your SD card (via settings, SD card and phone storage) and then remounting it. It will perform the media check again.
 
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