N8 Photo Collection messed up

Hello!
For a few days now, my Photos Collection is some kind of destroyed.
If I open Photos/All, it tells me "no images or video clips".
If I open Photos/Albums, all Albums tell me the number of containing photos, but some won't open. For example Album "Captured" tells me "no images or video clips", other previous created albums are shown correct.
Taking photos is possible and all photos are accessible via file manager, so no photos are actually lost.
I updated to 013.016 some weeks ago.
btw.: sometimes "refreshing media" appears, but it does not have an affect on the photo library.
Any ideas what's going wrong?
Thank you!
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I can't say if the photos and videos were lost after that coz what i did was i made a backup of pics n vids in my pc, removed them from the mass memory, and did a soft reset, but as far as i remember, the rest of the files on my device's mass memory remained intact.
Before trying soft reset via *#7370#, i'll advice u to try "Restore Factory Settings" from the settings menu.. Settings -> Phone -> Phone management -> Factory Settings -> Restore.
Don't select Delete Data and Restore, coz dat'll remove all ur data from the mass memory.
If simple restore doesn't solve this issue, den keep the backup of ur contacts, messages, and all the files on mass memory and use *#7370#
I hope this helps.
Sincerely,
Sabbyj
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