Moving photos or music to SD card Lumia 820

I own a lumia 820 and recently bought a SanDisk 32GB Class4 SD card.
I tried to move all the photos from phone memory to SD Card memory as described below:
1. Inserted new SD card
2. Selected all photos from 'Camera Roll' and choose 'save to SD Card'
3. After the copying is finished, i see a new album created with all the photos i chose to copy in step 2 with album name 'Date when i copied them'.
4. I selected and deleted all the files from 'Camera Roll' album.
5. After 1hr or so, i see that new album created on SD card has multiple copies of same photo. This was seen for few photos and not for all photos in the album.
6. I manually selected duplicate copies of the photos and deleted.
7. After few hours i see that original photos in new album are not seen. These lost photos are the same photos which i thought were duplicate(as seen in album) and deleted as mentioned in step 6.
Coz of this i have lost many photos and i cannot get those moments back.
Mean while i had also copied all the music files from phone memory to SD card memory similar way.
I see duplicate music files for half of my music collection. I am not willing to delete these duplicate files which will lead to deletion of original file.
I see that number of duplicate copies of same music files increased, ex; i see 28 duplicates for s same music file. this is annoying and makes music browsing an irritation.
Does anyone face this issue, have found any solution, did Nokia has acknolwedged such bugs.
Since i have a old macbook from 2008, i cannot connect my lumia 820 to my laptop. So backup is not a primary solution for me.
Any suggestion or help is most appreciated.

Hello, I have a Lumia 620 and I had same problem with contacts and I've found out that they were sync to Windows Live which keeps in memory even what you have deleted, so pratically you're not deleting anything on the server but you can actually restore anything of what you think had be permanently ereased!!!! I didn't try to move pictures from the phone to the SD card, I do it with the computer and it works no problems. Are you sure it's not messing up with the sync? Probably I'm not of great help...anyway

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lindaIL74 wrote:
My sister, my mom and I have the same kinda phones and the same kinda SD card. When I (or my mom) 'move' photos from the phone to the card, we can still see them when we go to 'My Pictures' on the phone. They have a little 'icon' on them to show that they are on the card. Now when my sister moves them to her card, she can't see them on her phone any longer, only when she hooks up the phone to the computer. The only ones that are listed in her 'My Pictures' are the ones she didn't transfer.
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I am considering this one in either a 2TB or 3TB:
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/1394/USB/EliteAL/eSATA_FW800_FW400_USB
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6. When I have enough space to upgrade to OS X Lion, will the cloud make a difference with how my photos are managed?
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1. Can I (and should I) back up both Macs to one external hard drive?
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2. Can I use the Time Capsule to route wireless continuous backups from the MacBook Pro to the external hard drive or would I need to have it wired every time?
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That link doesn't work for me -- it redirects to the main page. I have one of their Mercury Elite Pro multi-interface drives, and it works fine. Most anything they sell will be fine, as long as it's large enough.
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So most likely, you need to move some big stuff, such as your iPhoto and/or iTunes libraries, or a large video collection, onto a different external HD, and let Time Machine (and/or other backup app) back it up along with your Macs.
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