Once you install the app, it will give you an option to restore the data. If you accidentally delete a photo or a video and you want to recover it, simply uninstall the app and reinstall it. Whatsapp backs up your messages, images and videos (optionally) on your Google Drive on a daily basis (frequency can be changed from the Settings).
In such cases, the WhatsApp application may show you the same error. Sometimes, it may happen that the file you are trying to access is either deleted or corrupted. Once you paste the images or videos in the default WhatsApp folder, you can view them directly from the app and won’t see the error message. To fix this problem, you just have to copy the missing media files to the original WhatsApp folder. If you try to view an image or a video which is not present in the location recognized by the app, you will just see a blurred image followed by the message, ‘Sorry, this media file doesn’t exist on your internal storage.’ If the default location of the WhatsApp folder is in the SD card and if you try to access an image which is not present there, you may see an error message, ‘Sorry, this media file doesn’t exist on your SD Card.’ In the WhatsApp application, you can only view the media files which are present in the WhatsApp folder. Sometimes, due to a shortage of space, you may decide to move all the photos and videos from the WhatsApp folder to the external SD Card or some other location. A default WhatsApp folder which is automatically created when you download the app. Whenever you download any images or videos, all of them get automatically saved in your gallery. Here are a few methods that will help you fix this error. Those files are blurred and appear to be missing. Sometimes, when you try to access an image or a video, you may see an error, ‘ Sorry, this media file doesn’t exist on your SD Card/Internal Storage’. The images and videos that we send on WhatsApp vanish from the WhatsApp server once the end user downloads them.
We use WhatsApp everyday prominently to share text messages, images and videos. WhatsApp now has become an integral part of our lives.