N97 photo file system

HI all,
I small niggle with my V20 N97. I did a reset of the phone and backed up my captured photos, and then copied them back to the phone afterwards to the same place in mass memory. Now however they don't show up in the right place in Photos, even though when I make a new photo it ends up in the same folder as my other December pictures. This shows I have them in the right folders, but they only show up in "downloads".
How can I convince the phone to display them properly, as there is no difference in the file naming system?
Confused,
London
PS I did see another thread but it sunk without a trace.

You can't, the hard reset has removed the memory that set them to december. What you can do , if you open downloads is use the 'tick' icon at the centre bottom of screen to mark all the photos you want to keep together and then select options, then add to album, then create new album, name it and select OK. Now when you open photos you will see 2 albums one will be the one you've just created and you will also have the original one 'favoutite'. I do this with all my photos so I can just view particular groups of pictures together. Also would recommend Nokia Photo Browser, from either Ovi Store or Nokia Betalabs, works really well and you can set it to view in folder order.
Hope this helps.
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