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.
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I discovered this morning that when viewing album / photos through the stock gallery, under the "Share" menu, Picasa simply disappeared.
So, I can not send pictures to Picasa anymore.
Is this a known issue ?
DarkAdrien said:
Hi all
I discovered this morning that when viewing album / photos through the stock gallery, under the "Share" menu, Picasa simply disappeared.
So, I can not send pictures to Picasa anymore.
Is this a known issue ?
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I haven't done that for a long time, so I can't even tell if this function has been removed in 4.4 or 4.4.1 kitkat. The option to share to "photos" from the stock gallery is definitely not working, as nothing would happen when you select that option.
In the past I used an app called Picasa tools (an free app) to share photos to specific picasa folder.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=larry.zou.colorfullife
Thanks for your proposal
Anyway, I am nearly sure this option was there in 4.4 and vanished with 4.4.1... Too bad it was sooo convenient to be able to directly upload to the appropriate folder...
Hello.
I just bought my Sony Xperia Z3 , I used to have Samsung Galaxy S4.
My issue is that when I click the review thumbnail on camera that is on the top right, it shows the last picture I took but when I move right or left it views other pictures which I didn't take with camera, like screen shots and pictures I saved from the internet. I don't want that ! I want the camera app to show only the pictures I personally took. how can I do that ?
I think the reason is that the camera app open the picture in Album app which shows all pictures on the device, Is there any way to change it into an other app ?
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I really need an answer
Where do your photos save to an external SD or the internal?
Anyway, search your device for a file called .nomedia (If you can't find it then you need a browser that can display hidden files)
You will then need to determine the folder locations of the files you do not want to see, and place then .nomedia file in each of these locations.
You may have to then delete all the app data for the album application, and manually delete the thumbnails.
danw_oz, that won't work as you might have pictures you want to see in other folders. Say I took a screenshot earlier in the day to send to someone later. I open up my camera, take a picture and view it. I slide across and see my last screenshot I took earlier in the day. By this example, it's not like I would put a .nomedia file in my screenshot folder because I will need to access that later!
It doesn't matter if the camera photos were saved on external or internal, Album will show ALL latest photos, either downloaded or taken with a camera, internally or externally. This is the annoying part.
Another example, I use a chat program (like whatsapp) called WeChat and someone sends me a photo and I want to save it and keep it. The WeChat app will save it in its own WeChat folder. After this, if I go to my camera, take a shot, swipe to see the next photo, I would see the saved WeChat photo. Again, I do NOT want to put a .nomedia on that folder because I would want to see it.
It seems like there is no solution for this yet !
It's like what Tri3Dent said, .nomedia file wont do the job because I don't the pictures to disappear completely from my device, I want to be able to view them in Album app itself but not through the camera !
Thanks anyway
That what the camera app is showing, photos from the album.
So you have answered your own question
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danw_oz, that won't work as you might have pictures you want to see in other folders. Say I took a screenshot earlier in the day to send to someone later. I open up my camera, take a picture and view it. I slide across and see my last screenshot I took earlier in the day. By this example, it's not like I would put a .nomedia file in my screenshot folder because I will need to access that later!
It doesn't matter if the camera photos were saved on external or internal, Album will show ALL latest photos, either downloaded or taken with a camera, internally or externally. This is the annoying part.
Another example, I use a chat program (like whatsapp) called WeChat and someone sends me a photo and I want to save it and keep it. The WeChat app will save it in its own WeChat folder. After this, if I go to my camera, take a shot, swipe to see the next photo, I would see the saved WeChat photo. Again, I do NOT want to put a .nomedia on that folder because I would want to see it.
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Yep, and that is when I manually browser to those folders using a different photo browser like quickpic
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That what the camera app is showing, photos from the album.
So you have answered your own question
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Yep, and that is when I manually browser to those folders using a different photo browser like quickpic
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While taking pictures using camera, you have to view the pics that you have taken. Thats when this feature comes in handy. But it shows the images not taken from camera also (it browses through all image folders and including the default camera storage location). Thats irritating.
Can we get that feature back? Can someone tweak the app and get the feature back?
When you are in the album app click, the three lines at the top, then select folders, then select your cameras default save location
OK, so if I take a pic and immediately go to my Google photo app I can see the pic currently being uploaded to the cloud. Now if I delete that photo, it deletes it from the device, but how can I find/view the copy that just got saved to the cloud?
If it's done uploading, and you delete it within Google photos it gets moved to the trash. Gone from Google photos (still retrievable from the trash). Now if you take a pic and delete it from the camera app immediately after taking it, it probably wasn't uploaded and is gone.
When you first open Google photos the pictures that you are seeing are what is stored on the cloud. If you go to the top left menu (three lines) there's a device folder part, that's where you can see what's actually on your device. Make sense?
OK I did a little more experimenting. When I took a photo, I left the camera app and went to the Google photo app. I saw the spinning icon on the picture, then a cloud icon with a check mark which should indicate it's done uploading to the cloud, but when I deleted it, it just sent it to the trash without saving it on the cloud or on the device.
Then I tried deleting a pic I took yesterday. It asked me if I wanted to delete the device copy and if I did delete it I would still be able to view it from the cloud. So I deleted it from the device and I was in fact able to view it within the app.
So, even though I watched the newest pic get uploaded to the cloud, I must've still deleted too quickly to where it didn't save and just got trashed. I guess you have to let the pic sit for a while and "cement" itself in the cloud before deleting.
Thanks for responding quickly and helping me out
If you delete the photo from the Google Photos app then in essence you are deleting it from the cloud. Google Photos is your cloud.
If you want to free up storage on your phone then just go to settings in the photo app and hit free up storage. This way it removes it from the phone storage but leaves it in the Google Photos app.
Edit: Solved. If anyone's in the same situation, what worked for me is searching for .thumbnail folders (make sure "show hidden files" or similar is enabled in your file browser), and deleting their content. Google photos will then recreate the thumbnails when you next open it.
Hello friends.
Ever since a few days, I've been having the strangest of problems with my pixel 4xl under android 10:
Basically, the thumbnails or previews of my pictures do not match the picture itself.
For example, if I want to send an image to a whatsapp contact, or attach one to an email I'm composing or whatever, the preview or thumbnail that I'm shown is that of a much older and long deleted image. Pressing the miniature instantly shows me the correct picture, but if I press the back button, I'm again presented with something that had nothing to do with that particular photo.
Hope this makes sense.
This happens both in the Google photos app and third party apps such as whatsapp.
The only step I can think of doing to correct it is deleting storage and cache of my Media Storage, but that didn't help.
Can anyone shed some light on the matter?
Best regards!
When I check the google photos app under photo settings/ back up & sync/ /back up device folders I don't see all the albums in my S22 gallery. Is anyone else having this problem?
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When I check the google photos app under photo settings/ back up & sync/ /back up device folders I don't see all the albums in my S22 gallery. Is anyone else having this problem?
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That's known problem that users have with Google photos. I've looked into this on other forums. Google is not looking into fixing this any time soon.
I've tried multiple things but they really don't apply to what we are trying to do. For example i have a DJI (DRONE) folder that i want to back up but it's not even an option to select.
The only fix was to create a new folder in your "pictures" folder using a file explorer, and then transfer the pictures you want back up into that folder. Google photos will read the folders that are inside your "pictures" folder. You should now be able to backup that newly created folder. Hope that helps
I also wish there was a way to remove screenshots to be automatically backed up, unfortunately with Google photos there is no option to deselect the screenshot folder. Google photos is awesome in so many ways but these quirks are very annoying
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I also wish there was a way to remove screenshots to be automatically backed up, unfortunately with Google photos there is no option to deselect the screenshot folder. Google photos is awesome in so many ways but these quirks are very annoying
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Not sure what you mean, but Photos does detect images in the screenshots folder.
maybe the 100GB one drive offer is better than. anyone know if it syncs perfectly??
The problem is with Samsung phones. On previous phone Huawei, I didn't had this issue. Because in DCIM folder were only photos that I took. Everything else were in Pictures folder.
This is really annoying!
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maybe the 100GB one drive offer is better than. anyone know if it syncs perfectly??
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I use OneDrive and it works for me. It can be a bit confusing though so this explanation of how it works for me unfortunately must be a bit long. I do backup all except one or two folders on my computer to OneDrive. I don't remember the settings I might have initially put on OneDrive but here is what happens with my photos.
When I take a photo on my phone or do a screen capture on the phone, OD immediately uploads those to the cloud and then downloads them into a folder I have on my computer called "Camera Roll". So, within a few seconds to a minute of taking a photo or screenshot on my phone, those are available on my computer in the Camera Roll folder. Oddly when I then look at my pictures in OD, the photo will be saved there, but the screenshot will not. So even though OD syncs screenshots from my phone up to the cloud and then down to my Camera Roll folder on my computer, OD does not seem to save the screenshots in the cloud storage. But I end up with screenshots both on my phone and on my computer, so this is OK for me.
When someone sends me a photo in a message or email, those seem to get backed up by OD also. If I click the OD option to show photos from all folders, I do see those photos that were sent to me. I do get messages and emails both on my phone and on my computer, so I am not sure if it matters to OD if I first look at a photo received in a message on my computer or on my phone.
Once a photo is on my computer, if I edit it and save it to another folder on the computer, that copy will be backed up by OD also.
It gets interesting when deleting photos.
If I delete a photo from the Camera Roll folder on my computer, it is deleted from OD cloud storage also, but it is left in my gallery app on my phone. Of course, if I open OD on my phone and look, the photo is not there as it has been deleted from cloud storage.
If I delete a photo from my gallery app on my phone, as long as this photo has already been uploaded by OD, the only place it is deleted is on my phone. I like this because I can delete photos off my phone, but they stay in OD cloud storage and in my Camera Roll folder on my computer.
If I delete a photo in OD that has been previously uploaded from my phone’s camera and put into my computer’s Camera Roll folder, it is removed from OD and from the computer’s Camera Roll folder. It is left in my phone's gallery app though.
Hope this helps.
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I use OneDrive and it works for me. It can be a bit confusing though so this explanation of how it works for me unfortunately must be a bit long. I do backup all except one or two folders on my computer to OneDrive. I don't remember the settings I might have initially put on OneDrive but here is what happens with my photos.
When I take a photo on my phone or do a screen capture on the phone, OD immediately uploads those to the cloud and then downloads them into a folder I have on my computer called "Camera Roll". So, within a few seconds to a minute of taking a photo or screenshot on my phone, those are available on my computer in the Camera Roll folder. Oddly when I then look at my pictures in OD, the photo will be saved there, but the screenshot will not. So even though OD syncs screenshots from my phone up to the cloud and then down to my Camera Roll folder on my computer, OD does not seem to save the screenshots in the cloud storage. But I end up with screenshots both on my phone and on my computer, so this is OK for me.
When someone sends me a photo in a message or email, those seem to get backed up by OD also. If I click the OD option to show photos from all folders, I do see those photos that were sent to me. I do get messages and emails both on my phone and on my computer, so I am not sure if it matters to OD if I first look at a photo received in a message on my computer or on my phone.
Once a photo is on my computer, if I edit it and save it to another folder on the computer, that copy will be backed up by OD also.
It gets interesting when deleting photos.
If I delete a photo from the Camera Roll folder on my computer, it is deleted from OD cloud storage also, but it is left in my gallery app on my phone. Of course, if I open OD on my phone and look, the photo is not there as it has been deleted from cloud storage.
If I delete a photo from my gallery app on my phone, as long as this photo has already been uploaded by OD, the only place it is deleted is on my phone. I like this because I can delete photos off my phone, but they stay in OD cloud storage and in my Camera Roll folder on my computer.
If I delete a photo in OD that has been previously uploaded from my phone’s camera and put into my computer’s Camera Roll folder, it is removed from OD and from the computer’s Camera Roll folder. It is left on my phone though.
Hope this helps.
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this is what i was worried about. i am trying to find an auto backup strategy where it backs it up maybe weekly. i take a lot of photos and that means i also sift through and delete many so syncing cloud and pc would be a headache. i have my phone san-photos/video already auto backed up to my samsung cloud so i'm just looking for a media sync that works for my needs. thanks for sharing.
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this is what i was worried about. i am trying to find an auto backup strategy where it backs it up maybe weekly. i take a lot of photos and that means i also sift through and delete many so syncing cloud and pc would be a headache. i have my phone san-photos/video already auto backed up to my samsung cloud so i'm just looking for a media sync that works for my needs. thanks for sharing.
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Yes, because all photos taken get uploaded right away, and deleting a photo from the camera app does not delete it from OD, you end up with a lot of photos saved in OD that you don't really want. So yes, if you take hundreds of photos, this would be a pain. I am not sure of all the settings in OD though. Maybe you can have it backup only periodically or set it so a photo deleted on the phone also gets deleted from OD?
If I take a photo, it's not uploaded till I open photos: is this normal?
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If I take a photo, it's not uploaded till I open photos: is this normal?
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I am using OneDrive and immediately after I take a photo, that photo is uploaded to OD and downloaded to the Camera Roll folder on my Windows computer.
If I take photos on a hike in the woods and have no service, as soon as I get reconnected to cell service or wifi, the photos are uploaded.