It appears that my photos on Picasa don't get just viewed from my phone, but downloaded to it, as I get the message "downloading" when I select one from the gallery. Maybe it is just downloading it full resolution, and noting that while it is doing it.
If it is downloading it on the card, can this be stopped? I was thinking that an advantage of Picasa was to view them without having to use up memory on the phone.
Are you talking about the Gallery? if the Gallery is like the Nexus One, it syncs your Picasa album and downloads thumbnails of them, When you tap on a picture to view full screen, it will download the bigger picture so u can see it. It's temporary.
Go ahead reboot your phone, then select the same picture, it'll "download" again.
You are definitely right.
Thanks!
Hello everyone:
I have a few pictures that are showing up in my photo gallery on my android device that i would like to delete. They are labled as "Picasa" photos. When i select the photos i do not get an option to delete them, only to share them. I tried to download Picasa to see if maybe I could delete them from there, but all i see on picasa are photos from my computer and not these photos that are some how in the cloud.
Any ideas on how to go about deleting these?
Thanks for the help!
You need to go into Accounts and Sync, and uncheck "Sync Picasa Web Albums." That should delete them. If not you'll need to clear the cache for the gallery.
More a comment than a question maybe, but I dont know if its just me but when I try to upload a pic to picasa on stock HC 3.2 it gives a Failed Service error.
On the other hand if anyone else is having this issue, the Perfect Tool for Picasa app seems to do wonders to replace this function, plus you can view and manage your picasa web albums right from the app.
Google Photos looks really good but that's pretty much where the magic ends, I don't know if I'm using it wrong but mass deleting photos for example is a nightmare (on android and on desktop) there's no option to select all pictures, , no option to save a copy of all the photos to the computer, I have to pick the photos I want one by one , there's no option to delete the pictures of the auto backup on the android app and on desktop when I try to delete pictures it keeps crashing it doesnt matter if I'm using Chrome or Firefox
Random complain: I can't believe you can't send more than one picture af a time using hangouts
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"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
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I wouldn't call it a nightmare but it does have some drawbacks. When you have auto upload turned on it generates a lot of extra deleting for me as well. The best you can do is select multiple at the same time as I dont think there is a delete folder option. I think you can select multiple to download as well but no there is not a download all option.
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Valdeck said:
I wouldn't call it a nightmare but it does have some drawbacks. When you have auto upload turned on it generates a lot of extra deleting for me as well. The best you can do is select multiple at the same time as I dont think there is a delete folder option. I think you can select multiple to download as well but no there is not a download all option.
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I am completely baffled with taking storing and transferring pictures. I'm a real noobie with android and smart camera. I started experimenting with the Nexus 5's camera today. I took two pictures and couldn't figure where the pictures are. There are two apps, Photos and Gallery. Once I began to crop and adjusted exposure, the nightmare began. Suddenly there are back up files sent to Google + and trying to send pictures to my computer was a separate nightmare. I managed to transfer some pictures to my Google Drive, but what a mess, I still don't know what I did and couldn't repeat my transfer again. Forget about deleting Google+ pictures. there were a couple of "Can't delete this file" messages.
My question is, is there a primer for how to save and transfer pictures on the Nexus 5. I hate fumbling around my phone, Im afraid that I may cause some real damage that way. So far in order take one picture ends up traveling from Camera to Photos to Gallery to Drive to Google+ and a DCIM folder. Descriptions like nightmare, baffling and mess comes to mind.
A sort of clumsy workaround is to use Dropbox's camera backup. That will get your pics on your computer.
Then you can manually upload the pictures you want to G+. I use Picasa for this on Windows. If you enable sync for your albums, autoawesome'd pictures get downloaded back form G+ to your computer again.
Not ideal, but easier than dealing with the autobackup hassle, I feel.
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greenkabbage said:
A sort of clumsy workaround is to use Dropbox's camera backup. That will get your pics on your computer.
Then you can manually upload the pictures you want to G+. I use Picasa for this on Windows. If you enable sync for your albums, autoawesome'd pictures get downloaded back form G+ to your computer again.
Not ideal, but easier than dealing with the autobackup hassle, I feel.
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Thanks for your suggestion, but that's at least a level beyond my understanding. I'm in need of understanding basics about how and where files go. Where does the original file go, are edited files saved? If so, where are they? What Apps display what? Are Google+ pictures linked or copied? I thought Lightroom had a steep learning curve, but the Nexus 5 picture handling feels mind numbing and confusing. I'll figure it out sooner or later, but it would be nice to have a manual of some kind, instead of hunt and peck your way through. I was able to upload picture files up to my Google Drive, but it's not obvious. I just need to remember how I did it and what was the logic involved. I also need to figure out what gets sync'd, which just adds to my confusion. It feels that Android's automatic processes to display pictures to Google+ gums up basic photo editing work flow.
Where does the original file go, are edited files saved? If so, where are they?
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The photos go onto the internal 'sdcard' into the folder 'DCIM/Camera'
If you edit files in the Gallery app, the edited files you save end up there as well.
Not 100% sure the original, unedited files are kept, but you can undo all changes you made by pressing the 3 dots for the menu, then choosing "Reset". In other words, editing photos on your phone will always keep a backup of the original photo.
What Apps display what?
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Both Gallery and Photos show the images you have on your Nexus.
Gallery has a bit more 'normal' layout, where you can pick the folder on the SDcard or G+ Album you want to look at.
In Photos you have the "Camera" and "Highlights" tabs. Camera shows you photos on your device.
Highlights show you a handful of photos from albums that are synced from G+.
Are Google+ pictures linked or copied? & I also need to figure out what gets sync'd
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If you have AutoBackup enabled in "Photos" or Google+ (Photos is technically part of G+) then all photos you take will be uploaded to your Google+ Photo section/Picasa webalbums. These pictures are private and only you can see them until you choose to share them. In the G+ Photo they have a special section called "Auto Backup" under the "More" menu where you can find all those photos for moving them to Albums etc.
Now my approach is to not use G+ Autobackup, but to use the camera backup feature of Dropbox. This way, all my photos get synced to my computer first, then I manually upload my images to G+ for sharing. For archive purposes, I use Picasa to upload folders to the Google servers after I have sorted and processed the files locally.
Hope that helped explain some of the points.
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Hope that helped explain some of the points.
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Yes, your explanations are helpful. Thanks a bunch.
greenkabbage said:
The photos go onto the internal 'sdcard' into the folder 'DCIM/Camera'
If you edit files in the Gallery app, the edited files you save end up there as well.
Not 100% sure the original, unedited files are kept, but you can undo all changes you made by pressing the 3 dots for the menu, then choosing "Reset". In other words, editing photos on your phone will always keep a backup of the original photo.
Both Gallery and Photos show the images you have on your Nexus.
Gallery has a bit more 'normal' layout, where you can pick the folder on the SDcard or G+ Album you want to look at.
In Photos you have the "Camera" and "Highlights" tabs. Camera shows you photos on your device.
Highlights show you a handful of photos from albums that are synced from G+.
If you have AutoBackup enabled in "Photos" or Google+ (Photos is technically part of G+) then all photos you take will be uploaded to your Google+ Photo section/Picasa webalbums. These pictures are private and only you can see them until you choose to share them. In the G+ Photo they have a special section called "Auto Backup" under the "More" menu where you can find all those photos for moving them to Albums etc.
Now my approach is to not use G+ Autobackup, but to use the camera backup feature of Dropbox. This way, all my photos get synced to my computer first, then I manually upload my images to G+ for sharing. For archive purposes, I use Picasa to upload folders to the Google servers after I have sorted and processed the files locally.
Hope that helped explain some of the points.
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That's exactly what I do with my photos, i deactivated Photos (google+) auto upload feature, because it only backups the photos on the cloud, not on my computer, It would be ideal if google Drive had an option to upload the photos to your computer, I ended up using Dropbox's auto backup feature
Just saw that Google axed the gallery on 4.4.2 on the Xperia Z ultra, quite interesting , they really new to step up their game is they're planning on axing it too on the nexus 5
Chad_Petree said:
Just saw that Google axed the gallery on 4.4.2 on the Xperia Z ultra, quite interesting , they really new to step up their game is they're planning on axing it too on the nexus 5
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What's so special about Gallery? There are tons of third-party apps you can use if you don't like Photos.
Why not try "Gallery KK"?
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tjtj4444 said:
What's so special about Gallery? There are tons of third-party apps you can use if you don't like Photos.
Why not try "Gallery KK"?
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I really really like the look of Photos , i'm just pissed that it's missing functionality that the old Gallery had, that's all , I checked your recommendation but it's only the stock gallery app, improved , I guess I'll continue to use the old Gallery app until they fix Photos
This has been driving me crazy for the last couple hours. I transferred some files from my camera using the play memories app like i normally do with nfc. These pics normally get uploaded automatically to google plus with autobackup, but for some reason the app thinks the photos have already been backed up (btw i hate the new integrated all pics view I liked being able to tell where my pics were without having to got to a folderstab).
I have tried sharing the pics with the google plus app and the photos app but both want me to make a post that is shared. I don't want to share the photos, I just want to upload them to a private album I already have set up. I also tried uploading individually with the stock gallery app to "photos" it asks to confirm my account I click the upload button and nothing happens.
Please tell me I'm missing something and the geniuses at google who made an awesome photo sharing/manipulating/editing app didn't forget the part where some people like putting their folders into albums and sometimes you want to back up some of your pics and not all of them.
I really wish you could select a few pitcures and hit a backup button that put those pics into a backup queue that follows rules you have established ie, upload only on wifi, while plugged in, at this size.
Please help
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