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Re: how do I locate all the pictures on an Android phone?



On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 02:32:18PM -0200, Andre N Batista wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 06:05:13PM -0500, Gary Dale wrote:
> > I'm running Jessie on an AMD64 system.
> > 
> > Last night I took some pictures and tried my usual method of
> > downloading - I plugged in the phone through USB and selecting File
> > Manager when the notification window popped up. Navigating to
> > /store_00010001/DCIM/Camera, I found a lot of pictures but not the
> 
> what happened to /sdcard/, /storage/sdcard0/?

MTP abstracts you from the details of the real filesystem. The
abstraction is managed by the Media Scanner task. Rebooting and then
waiting 10-15 minutes for the Media Scanner to do its thing might help.

> 
> > ones from last night.
> > 
> > Tried again with Dolphin and got the same results.
> > 
> > I can see the photos on my phone when I review them, along with a
> > lot of others that I don't see in the file manager. Makes me wonder
> > if I'm missing other pictures from earlier too.
> > 
> > Any ideas on what's going on?
> 
> No, but how would one try to ahem _find_ for specific files on a unix
> file system tree?
> 
> Have you installed either the Terminal apk or Android Debug Bridge?
> > 
> > 


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