How can I share pictures that are in SkyDrive from my phone?
hah2110 said:
How can I share pictures that are in SkyDrive from my phone?
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Yes you can.
The question was "how can I?".... I don't see an option from the SkyDrive app or Gallery.
hah2110 said:
The question was "how can I?".... I don't see an option from the SkyDrive app or Gallery.
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Launch the SkyDrive app.
Press and hold the album you want to send a link to.
If you want to just send a link to a pic, press and hold the pic.
In each case, you get a send link option.
Follow the rest of the on screen steps. Guessing you can figure it out from there and it just wasn't obvious to press and hold.
JVH3 said:
Launch the SkyDrive app.
Press and hold the album you want to send a link to.
If you want to just send a link to a pic, press and hold the pic.
In each case, you get a send link option.
Follow the rest of the on screen steps. Guessing you can figure it out from there and it just wasn't obvious to press and hold.
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That should definitely be something that exists in the gallery app, not just Skydrive.
Yah I'm hoping more skydrive functionality will be coming later this year. I would expect in Apollo to be some sort of revamp. Skydrive is nice, but is lacking many functions that would make it great.
Directly No but indirectly you can do
Select a Picture > Long Press on a File > Send a Link > View Only
This opens up Email List, Select any and you will find the link which you need to manually copy and paste and then share.
or you can download it your phone and then share but that sucks on the double.
wpxbox said:
Directly No but indirectly you can do
Select a Picture > Long Press on a File > Send a Link > View Only
This opens up Email List, Select any and you will find the link which you need to manually copy and paste and then share.
or you can download it your phone and then share but that sucks on the double.
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This is what I want to do. Point is you can't do it from the Gallery/Media which is silly.
hah2110 said:
This is what I want to do. Point is you can't do it from the Gallery/Media which is silly.
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You definitely can do this in Gallery!!
Go to the album where your pic is.
Go to the pic.
Select ...
Select Share...
Scroll down to SkyDrive.
Now I have got the SkyDrive app installed in my phone. Maybe that is why I get it integrated within my gallery. I am not sure you get this option without having a sky drive app. But if you do, then the OS will smartly integrate it within your gallery. There is one post of mine in 'iPhone v/s Mango' thread where I've listed all the options I get within the gallery to share. I think it's also mentioned as one of the plus points for Mango OS in that thread!
drupad2drupad said:
You definitely can do this in Gallery!!
Go to the album where your pic is.
Go to the pic.
Select ...
Select Share...
Scroll down to SkyDrive.
Now I have got the SkyDrive app installed in my phone. Maybe that is why I get it integrated within my gallery. I am not sure you get this option without having a sky drive app. But if you do, then the OS will smartly integrate it within your gallery. There is one post of mine in 'iPhone v/s Mango' thread where I've listed all the options I get within the gallery to share. I think it's also mentioned as one of the plus points for Mango OS in that thread!
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He means share pictures that are already in a skydrive folder. This is where there is confusion here.
In your pictures hub, if you go to a folder located 'on your phone', you can "share" and share to skydrive, which will put it in skydrive and then share via a link.
But if you go to a "skydrive folder" in your pictures hub, you have no share option. You can't share pictures directly from these folders as they aren't on the phone.
This is some of the functionality that needs to come with Apollo or sooner. You should be able to have all your pictures 'in the cloud' but have all the functionality of local data.
dtboos said:
He means share pictures that are already in a skydrive folder. This is where there is confusion here.
In your pictures hub, if you go to a folder located 'on your phone', you can "share" and share to skydrive, which will put it in skydrive and then share via a link.
But if you go to a "skydrive folder" in your pictures hub, you have no share option. You can't share pictures directly from these folders as they aren't on the phone.
This is some of the functionality that needs to come with Apollo or sooner. You should be able to have all your pictures 'in the cloud' but have all the functionality of local data.
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Ah I think that's expecting too much out of it!
Thinking of how it can be implemented:
To share something that is online, you need to access it. You could access things that are in cloud by using SkyDrive app. Then share it as you would. But the gallery which is 'sandboxed' into the phone doesn't have Skydrive access. I think accessing clouds via gallery might be difficult. However what is surprising is - when you scroll to application within the gallery, I get my boxshot (dropbox client) but not SkyDrive! That SkyDrive official app has to update and use the app-link features.
Yeah the skydrive app needs some extra functions... like moving files between folders
drupad2drupad said:
Ah I think that's expecting too much out of it!
Thinking of how it can be implemented:
To share something that is online, you need to access it. You could access things that are in cloud by using SkyDrive app. Then share it as you would. But the gallery which is 'sandboxed' into the phone doesn't have Skydrive access. I think accessing clouds via gallery might be difficult. However what is surprising is - when you scroll to application within the gallery, I get my boxshot (dropbox client) but not SkyDrive! That SkyDrive official app has to update and use the app-link features.
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Yah, and it wouldn't surprise me to see the skydrive "app" actually just come integrated like that in Apollo. MS is very serious about the cloud, so I expect to be surprised with what they are able to bring in that area in the future.
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I guess this may be a silly question. But if someone sends me an email with an attachment to my gmail account, I know I can click the "Preview" button and preview it. The phone will download it and play it. But how can i just make it download the attachment and save it to my sdcard?? Like I want to email myself a couple of mp3's then save them to my sdcard and use them as ringtones, or do the same with jpegs and use them as wallpaper. That way I dont have to be at home to plug my phone into my computer to do file transfers.
I don't have my phone yet and I've used WinMo in the past, so I can't directly help answer your question. But have you tried using Dropbox as another way of getting the same thing done? I think it has an android client. You should just be able to save the files in a certain folder on your computer and they automatically sync to whatever other devices you add the account to (including your phone).
derek4484 said:
I guess this may be a silly question. But if someone sends me an email with an attachment to my gmail account, I know I can click the "Preview" button and preview it. The phone will download it and play it. But how can i just make it download the attachment and save it to my sdcard?? Like I want to email myself a couple of mp3's then save them to my sdcard and use them as ringtones, or do the same with jpegs and use them as wallpaper. That way I dont have to be at home to plug my phone into my computer to do file transfers.
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You can't.
Try opening gmail in the Web Browser, then you can do it....
Get dropbox from the market and install it on you computer for easy OTA file transfers. Installs in seconds, works well and includes 2gb of storage for free. Also a good way to backup update.zips and .apks without having to keep them on the phone.
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derek4484 said:
I guess this may be a silly question. But if someone sends me an email with an attachment to my gmail account, I know I can click the "Preview" button and preview it. The phone will download it and play it. But how can i just make it download the attachment and save it to my sdcard?? Like I want to email myself a couple of mp3's then save them to my sdcard and use them as ringtones, or do the same with jpegs and use them as wallpaper. That way I dont have to be at home to plug my phone into my computer to do file transfers.
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I found that by configuring the internal mail application (the one at your home screen) as your mail client instead of the gmail app will allow you to save attachments
You can't download certain attachments.
If you want to do that, navigate to mail.google.com, login and download the attachment.
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derek4484 said:
I guess this may be a silly question. But if someone sends me an email with an attachment to my gmail account, I know I can click the "Preview" button and preview it. The phone will download it and play it. But how can i just make it download the attachment and save it to my sdcard?? Like I want to email myself a couple of mp3's then save them to my sdcard and use them as ringtones, or do the same with jpegs and use them as wallpaper. That way I dont have to be at home to plug my phone into my computer to do file transfers.
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i'll have to check, but in the gmail app i get the option to preview or download. i cant seem to get the preview to work, but download works fine.
Actually, you can download them. In the market there is an app called Blackmoon. Get it. When you hit preview, it will open a window asking what you'd like to do. You do have to type in a name and ext for it though.
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Somehow, I have folders with photos on my PC, which have synced to Skydrive photos, which are now synced to my WP7 (Focus). I wish to discontinue this. How do I remove synced photo folders from Skydrive?
Also, when I open “Pictures” on my WP7, the device seems to randomly pick photos to display as wallpaper. I don’t want this to happen with certain folders. Is there a way to exclude specific photo folders on my device to be used as wallpaper in “Pictures”?
Thanks,
Dave
To remove the skydrive pictures, you need to login to your live account (live.com).
for the second query, go to the pictures hub and long tap on the top left where it says pictures. you will get 2 options, change background and change it for me. choose the picture you like in change background
Awesome! This will flat-out work to stop the “Pictures” app from using photos not of my choosing as wallpaper. The pictures in question however are not Skydrive photos, but reside in folders I have synced via Zune. I would like to be able to select specific folders from which wallpaper could not be selected, but this is certainly a solution to my dilemma.
I actually desire to remove all Skydrive photo folders from Skydrive and thus, my WP7, but I can’t figure out how to do this.
Thank you for your help,
Dave
I'm guessing that you want to remove the pictures that you synced to skydrive using your phone:? If so, you can logon to skydrive.live.com and remove them
rhn said:
I'm guessing that you want to remove the pictures that you synced to skydrive using your phone:? If so, you can logon to skydrive.live.com and remove them
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No Sir, not so much. I want to remove all of my photo folders from Skydrive. I don’t want the folders to show-up in my Skydrive. More importantly, I don’t want any folders entitled “from windows live” to show-up when I go to “Pictures” on my WP7. It makes absolutely no difference to me if I achieve this using my lap-top or my WP7. I wish to use only Zune to sync photos to my WP7.
Thanks,
Dave
XATAGuy said:
No Sir, not so much. I want to remove all of my photo folders from Skydrive. I don’t want the folders to show-up in my Skydrive. More importantly, I don’t want any folders entitled “from windows live” to show-up when I go to “Pictures” on my WP7. It makes absolutely no difference to me if I achieve this using my lap-top or my WP7. I wish to use only Zune to sync photos to my WP7.
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Dave
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Hello,
I dont think you can remove the folders saying Skydrive camera roll and "from windows live"..
I think Camera roll is a default. I want to remove the photo folders I have added to Skydrive.
Thanks
XATAGuy said:
I think Camera roll is a default. I want to remove the photo folders I have added to Skydrive.
Thanks
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Have you tried logging into your skydrive account at skydrive.live.com? you can delete photos/folders from there. Hope this helps..
rhn said:
Have you tried logging into your skydrive account at skydrive.live.com? you can delete photos/folders from there. Hope this helps..
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How please?
XATAGuy said:
How please?
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Click on the folder, then click more, then delete
Awesome! For some reason, I was missing or not considering the "more" option. I sincerely appreciate your help on this
Thanks a million!!!!!!
Photos from PC
I'm not sure if this discussion is finished but here is my experience. Whenever I view photos on my PC and then later do a sync of my WP 7 phone all the photos in the directory I was looking at sync to the phone. Why? Then I try to delete them off the phone and they delete from my PC--aaaah
Same problem i deleted all photos on windows live/skydrive account, but the album still with the same pictures in the phone...
I have searched around and found nothing on XDA or anywhere else about this. With that being said, I understand the existence of Gallery and Photos. Not complaining about that.
Is there any way to keep Hangout MMS pictures from populating their own albums in the Gallery app? Here's the issue, every picture I send, creates an album with prefix Hangouts then the name of the contact. Deleting the pictures from the Gallery app deletes it from my conversation in Hangouts too leaving a white picture and the three dots at the bottom which means that the pictures can't be found. This is not only for chats, but MMS as well. Yes I could go get another Gallery App etc... But wanted to try and see if anyone has it figured out first before going down that route.
There is no option to only view albums on the device itself. Disabling the sync, disables auto-backup.
Thoughts or solutions anyone?
+1 on this, I was randomly searching around google support for this the other day but never hit paydirt. Its annoying as hell.
Edit. You inspired me to go look again. Go into the gallery app select settings and turn off sync with google account. Go into main settings/apps/gallery and delete data and cache. Reboot. Worked for me.
krabman said:
+1 on this, I was randomly searching around google support for this the other day but never hit paydirt. Its annoying as hell.
Edit. You inspired me to go look again. Go into the gallery app select settings and turn off sync with google account. Go into main settings/apps/gallery and delete data and cache. Reboot. Worked for me.
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Thank you! While you solution does work and I have tried it, it isn't quite exactly what I am looking for. Reason being because I do sync my pictures to my google account considering I just blew through over 70GB in DropBox storage and can no longer automatically upload pictures I take. Basically, I am looking for a way to selectively pick what to display in my Gallery app(I don't want anything Picasa/Google+/Hangouts/Photos in there). Since the intro of the Photos app which is mostly tied in with G+, it shows everything online, and if they are going to keep the gallery app, then they should at least allow it to be used for offline images available on the device(Just like Play Music has, where it gives you the option to to use music on your online account or what you have on your device).
Unfortunately, the dependency of the camera app on the gallery app, makes it impossible to revert back to a previous version of the gallery.
Ah, sorry about that. Not sure how you can pull that one off, I sure didn't see mention of such when I was searching.
Try making a .nomedia file in the picassa folder where it downloads the pics. And same to every other folder you don't wanna see in your gallery. This will help you select what displays along with auto sync enabled.
sihag said:
Try making a .nomedia file in the picassa folder where it downloads the pics. And same to every other folder you don't wanna see in your gallery. This will help you select what displays along with auto sync enabled.
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It creates one for every contact I send a picture to in Hangouts.
That's going to be a lot of files to be created. I guess there is no other way. Unless I just install another gallery.
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Neurotica said:
It creates one for every contact I send a picture to in Hangouts.
That's going to be a lot of files to be created. I guess there is no other way. Unless I just install another gallery.
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I've been using Quickpic for years, and it's very stable and easy to use.
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Neurotica said:
It creates one for every contact I send a picture to in Hangouts.
That's going to be a lot of files to be created. I guess there is no other way. Unless I just install another gallery.
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No it's not like that. You would have to copy paste only one .nomedia in the main folder of the data file of hangouts and one in picassa.
Going to be going from a 16GB to 32GB Nexus 5 shortly... I remember when I transferred my pictures from my old Galaxy Nexus to my N5 all of my pictures were jumbled up in no particular order. I recall doing a search fora solution after that but didn't come up with anything concrete. I don't want to go through adding them 1 by 1 again since I now have over 1500 pictures and 100+ videos. Any advice to make this easy?
The file names are in numerical order.
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The file names are in numerical order.
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Yes and no - I have a lot of pictures that my wife took from her iphone which has a different naming scheme, hence the dilemma.
NYYFan325 said:
Yes and no - I have a lot of pictures that my wife took from her iphone which has a different naming scheme, hence the dilemma.
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Well if they are from two different types of phones, obviously they will be jumbled up due to the different naming scheme. Maybe organize them into folders on a computer and then transfer them, keeping them in folders on your device.
Just upload them to google+. They will be organised by date, and you dont have to worry about filling your storage with pictures
Broncos15 said:
Just upload them to google+. They will be organised by date, and you dont have to worry about filling your storage with pictures
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I have them organized in folders currently (also uploaded to my google drive - not plus). Does uploading to plus keep the folder format intact?
NYYFan325 said:
I have them organized in folders currently (also uploaded to my google drive - not plus). Does uploading to plus keep the folder format intact?
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Yes, you can organize your photos into folders on Google+
they will stay in the same folders on your phone, nut the uploaded copies will be organised by date in the photos app that comes instead of the gallery with lollipop
Broncos15 said:
they will stay in the same folders on your phone, nut the uploaded copies will be organised by date in the photos app that comes instead of the gallery with lollipop
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Maybe if you auto upload. But if you have your files on a computer, you can create folders in Google+ and transfer them into whichever folder you want. Or if they are on your device, I use Picasa Tool to upload to specific folders. They show up in folders in the photo app.
I didn't know you could do that. Thanks for the tip
So if I was to use the G+ and upload them from my PC to G+ and then pull them back from G+ to my new phone I can have them stay in the same folders and be organized by the correct date?
I just had a look, and apparently you can set up google+ to show folders from your drive accout as albums. You just have to enable it in the photos settings page
NYYFan325 said:
So if I was to use the G+ and upload them from my PC to G+ and then pull them back from G+ to my new phone I can have them stay in the same folders and be organized by the correct date?
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Once you upload them and organize them in folders, you will be able to view them from your phone just how they are on G+. Just upload them and open up the Photos app. They will be in "Albums" in the photos app.
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Broncos15 said:
I just had a look, and apparently you can set up google+ to show folders from your drive accout as albums. You just have to enable it in the photos settings page
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Oh yeah. I had forgotten that it will show photos from Drive. If the OP has all his photos on drive, he can just enable that.
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Once you upload them and organize them in folders, you will be able to view them from your phone just how they are on G+. Just upload them and open up the Photos app. They will be in "Albums" in the photos app.
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Does this only work on the photos app? I generally use quickpic but whatever works...
NYYFan325 said:
Does this only work on the photos app? I generally use quickpic but whatever works...
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QuickPic has the option too. Just slide from the left side of the screen and add it.
So I checked the show Google drive photos in quickpic and sure enough they are there in the folders just like I uploaded them... sadly though they are not in the correct order. Even listed by "date decend" they are kinda mixed and matched
NYYFan325 said:
So I checked the show Google drive photos in quickpic and sure enough they are there in the folders just like I uploaded them... sadly though they are not in the correct order. Even listed by "date decend" they are kinda mixed and matched
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Sometimes there is nothing you can do about it unless you edit every photos details manually. I have photos uploaded from three different phones that I have had over the past years and there are some out of order. Things that could cause this could be editing the photo. It might save the photo with the date you edited it. Using a different camera app that may not have saved all the info correctly. Basically, unless you are using the same camera, same app, and never modified an image, you will probably have some images out of order.
Be a good time to ditch the junk. Why not print the best on nice paper, frame and make your wife's dimples show!
So I have noticed that google photos is uploading my screenshots automatically. I do not have it to upload that specific folder but I guess that the note 5 groups the pictures under a camera folder and the app see's all of them. Any help with this?
Mu5ic92 said:
So I have noticed that google photos is uploading my screenshots automatically. I do not have it to upload that specific folder but I guess that the note 5 groups the pictures under a camera folder and the app see's all of them. Any help with this?
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I have the same issues. I'm just living with it.
mine does the same thing, doesnt bother me...
what does bother me, is my downloads folding isnt uploading
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WhiteSRT69 said:
mine does the same thing, doesnt bother me...
what does bother me, is my downloads folding isnt uploading
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You can go to setting in google photo, under back up & sync, choose folder to back up then turn on back up for your download folder.
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You can go to setting in google photo, under back up & sync, choose folder to back up then turn on back up for your download folder.
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Tried it but the folder dosent show up, both pictures and screenshots are being grouped into one.
Mu5ic92 said:
So I have noticed that google photos is uploading my screenshots automatically. I do not have it to upload that specific folder but I guess that the note 5 groups the pictures under a camera folder and the app see's all of them. Any help with this?
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If you go into settings you can choose which folders sync and which don't. I had t his issue originally but don't have the problem any more. if you don't see the folder in Photos/Settings - (in the app) then open the apk called "GOOGLE SETTINGS" and find the setting for device folders there - you will see more of the hidden folders that contain wall papers and screen shots..