Help How to get media in other folders seen in Gallery

smurph1 · May 20, 2014

I have pics & vids from older phones in folders on phones memory.
They used to be viewable from Gallery on old HTC One X, i think until and Android upgrade, and similar now not viewable in Gallery on M8. :mad:

This is highly annoying, how can I rectify?

They are from old phones, pre back-up/transfer feature....so can I put them all into the DCIM folder?

El Presidente · May 20, 2014

Have you tried rebooting? If I remember correctly, the phone should rescan memory/SD Cards etc for additional content on boot.

smurph1 · May 20, 2014

I haven't tried purposefully, but my phone has been turned off/on several occasions.
But, i'm trying to point out that I believe that this is an android upgrade that prevents this, as my previous phone went like this a few months back before i upgraded to an M8.

blenky · May 20, 2014

It should work.

I moved from an S3 and just stuck in the 32GB SD card that I had in that phone. It had the photos and videos taken on my old phone in the folder '\DCIM\Camera'.

The M8 saves its photos to \DCIM\100MEDIA.

My new phone has seamlessly amalgamated both directories into the gallery.

smurph1 · May 21, 2014

I have successfully transferred my media from my last phone to \DCIM\100MEDIA.
But I have older media in another folder, which doesn't show in gallery....but it used to...in several older phones using this method....HELP?!

blenky · May 21, 2014

smurph1 said:
I have successfully transferred my media from my last phone to \DCIM\100MEDIA.
But I have older media in another folder, which doesn't show in gallery....but it used to...in several older phones using this method....HELP?!

Maybe photographic media has to be within a sub directory of \DCIM\to show up in the gallery. My old photos and videos are and show up just fine.

grisigt · May 21, 2014

Maybe it's a problem connected to KitKat and the updates regarding read/write permission on SD. My guess is that the gallery app doesn't have permission to read/write outside of the DICM folder.

More info here

smurph1 · May 30, 2014

Moved them to another folder, and some appeared in gallery...completely random choice.
Just received, inserted and populated said files onto SD card....and ALL immediately came into Gallery!
Phone issue!!!!

smurph1 · Jun 16, 2015

Again, I have a similar issue on a new HTC One M9, where I have copied oen folder over with all my documents and several folders with older phone pics, and only some of the folders and items are visible, can anyone please help to solve this? NOTE that I have rebooted several times.

doniago · Jun 16, 2015

I may be being a bit of a pedant here, but if the issue is with an M9 then technically shouldn't the question be asked in a different forum?

smurph1 · Jun 16, 2015

Highly likely, but that is the annoying thing here, most of the issues are android related, but you have to ask them in the handset forum, but it should be in a general andoird forum!!
Anyway, resolved, I just had to re-copy them!!

doniago · Jun 16, 2015

Well, glad you got it sorted out anyhow!

Help How to get media in other folders seen in Gallery

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