Retro Camera problem (fixed)

I had a Retro Camera problem on my HTC Evo phone. Retro Camera is a free app (available in the Market) which takes pictures with the phone camera, but differently from your stock camera application. There are several different models of camera that you can use, vintage looks, take the picture and it’s “processed” fairly quickly on the fly. Then you can view your pictures as if they are clipped to a line, like old-time paper photo processing.

You can also view your pictures in Gallery. There is a specific “Retro Camera” folder there.  In the Retro Camera app the pictures will stay on the “line” until more photos are taken that “push them off” but they’ll always be available in Gallery before or after that.

Unless …

What if you go into Gallery and your most recent Retro Camera photos are not in it? Mine showed (96) and only two of my most recent photos. I had a lot more than that.

Look online for help. No help found when I looked. One other person asked about the problem on a forum and had someone tell them to force stop Gallery. That didn’t work for them. No other help was offered. I didn’t look deeply, but basic searching that often will bring answers for other problems gave me no information on it at all other than that one forum mentioned.

So, I tried the “Force Stop” of Gallery. It didn’t fix the problem. So I shut down my phone, restarted my phone. Still, Gallery not displaying all my Retro Camera photos.

At that point I saw an “Updates” available symbol on my status bar. Touched that, and there were a couple of apps that had updates, so I did that, then scrolled down, just looking, then back up, and thought, “hmmmm” touched “Retro Camera” and looked at comments, nothing there of relevancy. Went back to Updates and looked and spotted “Vignette Demo” ah yes, I did install that last week, to see if I wanted to use it. I had opened it once and said “not for me” all I really want is simple. Retro Camera does that for me, and my stock camera app has setting to make photos different too, that’s enough for me. Then I didn’t use Vignette again, should have uninstalled it, but just hadn’t.

At the point of seeing it in my Updates list, I knew it. Right then, just knew it.

So I touched it and then touched “Uninstall” — shut the Update app, found Gallery and opened it, scrolled down to Retro Camera folder, the same (96) was showing, then the list of folders refreshed automatically in front of me as I was scrolling, and when the screen re-wrote there was a new number on Retro Camera (104) and touching that, all my newest photos were finally in the folder.

Hope this helps someone else.