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Random folders in gallery

I have two folders in my gallery called profile photo and instant uploads, I don't know what they are for and I don't know how to delete them. How do you delete them?
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same here, will give a try with root explorer..

I tried looking for them in root explorer but I couldn't find them.
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These are likely directories created by an application you have installed or that came installed by default. Find this directory using root explorer or any other file browser then create a file in this directory named ".nomedia".
By doing this, you'll stop android from treating this directory as a directory containing media files (audio/video/photos) and after a reboot you shouldn't see this directory and it's content in your gallery.

It looks like its for Google plus but I don't have a Google plus account.
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frankie51 said:
It looks like its for Google plus but I don't have a Google plus account.
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That doesn't really matter, it's just a folder created by an application. If you do a search for the directory and find it, do as I said and you won't see it anymore in your gallery.

The Instand Upload is an album that your photos are uploaded to in G+ photos / Picasa Web. The Profile Photo one is also for G+. It sounds like you have your photo sync on. If you don't have a G+ account, they may just be artifacts of having the photo-sync turned on.
Polobunny's suggestion is interesting. I've never tried it but I'll definitely keep it in mind.

jvanlew said:
The Instand Upload is an album that your photos are uploaded to in G+ photos / Picasa Web. The Profile Photo one is also for G+. It sounds like you have your photo sync on. If you don't have a G+ account, they may just be artifacts of having the photo-sync turned on.
Polobunny's suggestion is interesting. I've never tried it but I'll definitely keep it in mind.
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Works wonderfully, I use it "often" for programs that have image files that get picked up by the gallery. Just make sure the file is named .nomedia without any extension and with the period before the nomedia.

I had photos in my picasa account so I deleted them and it fixed it.
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solved... got account sync on with picasa album, unflagged from settings>account> tap account and deflag google photo sinc and reboot

Doesn't really work for me, that's one of the main reasons I disabled the gallery completely. Even when I clear the data and lose the web albums, I uncheck photo sync it still syncs them as soon as I click refresh in the gallery.

[Q] Unable to view edited photos on PC

Hi,
I am unable to view edited photos via Google Photos app on my PC when the device is plugged in via USB.
To reproduce simply:
1. Take a photo
2. Edit the photo via Photos and save the edit
3. Plug in to PC via USB
The edited photo for me is 0 bytes in size and cannot be displayed and usually ends with a ~2.jpg suffix. The picture however can be displayed, sent, further edited on the device.
Any help would be most appreciated as my current work around is enabling auto-backup and downloading the photos.
Thanks
Edit: I'm using a Windows 8 PC and the nexus 5 is connecting via MTP. I am also not rooted and using stock.
Edit2: using an FTP server I am able to retrieve the files, looks like a windows issue.
If anyone else can confirm this with their nexus I'd really appreciate it.

altrstar said:
Hi,
I am unable to view edited photos via Google Photos app on my PC when the device is plugged in via USB.
To reproduce simply:
1. Take a photo
2. Edit the photo via Photos and save the edit
3. Plug in to PC via USB
The edited photo for me is 0 bytes in size and cannot be displayed and usually ends with a ~2.jpg suffix. The picture however can be displayed, sent, further edited on the device.
Any help would be most appreciated as my current work around is enabling auto-backup and downloading the photos.
Thanks
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Are the pictures being saved to the Camera folder?
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PhilipTD said:
Are the pictures being saved to the Camera folder?
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Hi Philip,
Yes they are - under DCIM\Camera. Since your response, I have found another work around - FTP server on the device this displays the file size correctly.

Transferring pictures to new phone question...

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.

rootSU said:
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.

jsgraphicart said:
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!

Google photos backup from USB OTG

Is it possible to get google photos to backup photos from a USB OTG folder without having to copy the pictures on the phone?
I did some searching and saw some suggestions for FolderSync. The problem with the app is that I can't browse to the USB OTG folder.
Thank you

If Pixel recognizes the USB OTG as a folder to upload photos. Pixel asks your permission to upload photos from when it sees a new folder with photos.

That's my issue.
The Pixel doesn't recognize the USB OTG as a folder to upload photos. I Tried putting photos in the USB drive's root and in subfolders, as well as telling android to use it for Transfering file or photos, but I never get the notification for automatic uploads, and google photos "Device folders" section doesn't show me the USB OTG.
Due to that, I am wondering if there is some way to get it to recognize that folder as a photos folder.

Have you found any answer or workaround?

sirakoz said:
That's my issue.
The Pixel doesn't recognize the USB OTG as a folder to upload photos. I Tried putting photos in the USB drive's root and in subfolders, as well as telling android to use it for Transfering file or photos, but I never get the notification for automatic uploads, and google photos "Device folders" section doesn't show me the USB OTG.
Due to that, I am wondering if there is some way to get it to recognize that folder as a photos folder.
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What kind of automatic uploads are you trying? Folder sync? Anything with Tasker?

I too am having this issue. I can open the photo on the USB drive in Google Photos and view it, but it won't allow me to backup the USB drive directly. It appears the only way to backup using Google Photos is to copy the photos to the internal storage and let Photos back them up. The issue I have with this is I am using an original Pixel and it doesn't have a let of internal storage, so I have to do it in many manual steps, copying, letting Photos backup the images, and then deleting backed up images from internal storage, then repeating for the next batch of photos that will fit in internal storage. It is kind of painful if you have a lot of photos to backup.

Greetings All,
I would like to find a way to more easily use my Original Pixel to back up my photos when they come in large batches. For example, I go on a trip and come back with 256 GB of photos that I would like to back up. I can copy them in 16 GB bunches, and then use the option in Google Photos to "Free up space", and do that over and over again, but it is a bit tedious. I would like to automate this a bit better. It would help if I could get Google Photos to automatically delete the photo after it uploaded it to the cloud. This feature is available in Android S (12) in Google Files, but not available in Android 10. I haven't been able to find an Android 12 ROM yet, and nothing after Android 10 is officially supported for the Pixel 1. This feature would allow me to automate this backup I think, but getting the automatic deletion still illudes me. Ideas would be appreciated.

Trying to do the same here and looking for a way to mount usb storage as internal. Anyone done this successfully?

Question GOOGLE PHOTOS

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

mmafighter077 said:
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!

chillsen said:
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.

Will_T said:
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.

chillsen said:
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?

thegios said:
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.