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I've just added a Samsung EVO 128GB MicroSD card to a Fairphone3 and formatted it to "internal storage"

After that WhatsApp is not able to find media any more and pictures located in "DCIM" seem to be vanished.

However when I inspect the storage devices in the Android settings it looks like a lot of the space of the SD card - as well as the internal storage are in use.

Stragely Android reports the SD card to be 256GB instead of 128 - while gparted tells me the correct size.

Is there any way to find out where my data has gone?

frans
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  • https://android.stackexchange.com/q/214233 – alecxs Oct 24 '20 at 12:57
  • Have you tested the sd-card before using it if it is a fake (shows higher capacity that actual flash chip)? – Robert Oct 24 '20 at 13:24
  • It looks like Android just displays 130GB as 256GB - on adb shell, the correct size is being reported and I just made a dd-rescue of the whole sd-card without any errors. So it looks like transferring data to the 'internal storage' killed data. – frans Oct 24 '20 at 14:35
  • WhatsApp files are still there in /data/media/0 but /sdcard is no longer targeting it. you can move files from internal storage into adoptable storage /mnt/expand which is accessable via /sdcard now. use the Migrate Data option. see linked question – alecxs Oct 24 '20 at 17:17

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