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[Q] Snapseed, where are the images?

I'm on a verizon Galaxy S3.
How can I access through USB images I have edited and saved with snapseed? I can find them in the snapseed folder under gallery on the phone, but when I plug my phone in via USB and select MTP or PTP, there is no snapseed folder, and I can't find the photos when searching by their file name. I have no way of downloading these edited images to my pc. I'd like to be able to make prints and backup my images, and don't want to individually email them to myself. Where are the images going?
Note: I can easily find images edited through instagram, and the original .jpgs, it's the snapseed images that are missing when connected through usb and browsing on my PC.

[Q] Unable to see photos transferred from Galaxy Nexus into Nexus 5 in Gallery

Hi, I am not sure if this is an old issue, but I tried to search in XDA and Google but could not find anyone experiencing the same issue as me.
I have used Galaxy Nexus and Galaxy S3, and transferring photos between them will still allow me to view the photos in Gallery. But recently when I got the Nexus 5, I transferred some photos over from Galaxy Nexus into the exact same folder where the photos will be saved from the camera, but it does not show up in the Gallery.
I was wondering if it is because the Gallery detects that the photo is not taken from the device, and therefore will not show in the Gallery?
Appreciate your help. Thanks in advance!

ZerReaper said:
Hi, I am not sure if this is an old issue, but I tried to search in XDA and Google but could not find anyone experiencing the same issue as me.
I have used Galaxy Nexus and Galaxy S3, and transferring photos between them will still allow me to view the photos in Gallery. But recently when I got the Nexus 5, I transferred some photos over from Galaxy Nexus into the exact same folder where the photos will be saved from the camera, but it does not show up in the Gallery.
I was wondering if it is because the Gallery detects that the photo is not taken from the device, and therefore will not show in the Gallery?
Appreciate your help. Thanks in advance!
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No - the gallery doesn't care about that.
Which folder did you copy the pictures into? Can you browse to that folder using an explorer app? (check to make sure there is no .nomedia file in that folder). Take a picture using your camera and verify where that is getting saved - and see if it shows up in the gallery.

jj14 said:
No - the gallery doesn't care about that.
Which folder did you copy the pictures into? Can you browse to that folder using an explorer app? (check to make sure there is no .nomedia file in that folder). Take a picture using your camera and verify where that is getting saved - and see if it shows up in the gallery.
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Thank you for the quick reply.
I copied them into "\DCIM\Camera".. I can browse to that folder using FileExpert, and confirmed that there is no .nomedia file in the folder. I have also taken a few photos and verified that they are saved in the same folder (\DCIM\Camera), and they showed up in the Gallery.
Currently, the only photos shown in the Gallery are the photos taken by the Nexus 5 and the Whatsapp photos which I received.

ZerReaper said:
Thank you for the quick reply.
I copied them into "\DCIM\Camera".. I can browse to that folder using FileExpert, and confirmed that there is no .nomedia file in the folder. I have also taken a few photos and verified that they are saved in the same folder (\DCIM\Camera), and they showed up in the Gallery.
Currently, the only photos shown in the Gallery are the photos taken by the Nexus 5 and the Whatsapp photos which I received.
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Okay, here is another interesting development. I connected the Nexus 5 to my laptop and opened the "\DCIM\Camera" folder, but I can only see the photos taken by the Nexus 5! But another quick check in the same folder via FileExpert can clearly see the other thousands of photos which I transferred. When I transferred a picture from my laptop to the phone via USB cable, it is reflected in the Gallery. I have no idea what is happening. Please allow me to explain how I transferred my pictures over in the first place.
I installed FolderSync and set up to sync with my Pictures folder on my NAS on my local wireless. As I am not sure how this can be the cause of the issue, I will try to copy manually later instead of using FolderSync, and let you guys know how it goes.

ZerReaper said:
Okay, here is another interesting development. I connected the Nexus 5 to my laptop and opened the "\DCIM\Camera" folder, but I can only see the photos taken by the Nexus 5! But another quick check in the same folder via FileExpert can clearly see the other thousands of photos which I transferred. When I transferred a picture from my laptop to the phone via USB cable, it is reflected in the Gallery. I have no idea what is happening. Please allow me to explain how I transferred my pictures over in the first place.
I installed FolderSync and set up to sync with my Pictures folder on my NAS on my local wireless. As I am not sure how this can be the cause of the issue, I will try to copy manually later instead of using FolderSync, and let you guys know how it goes.
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Check the file properties of these pictures, and compare them to the pictures you took using the N5 - there should be something different.
I haven't used FolderSync, so can't really say what's going on.
On a sidenote, instead of loading thousands of pictures onto your device, why not just use some form of cloud storage? Load into G+ and it should show in the gallery too.

jj14 said:
Check the file properties of these pictures, and compare them to the pictures you took using the N5 - there should be something different.
I haven't used FolderSync, so can't really say what's going on.
On a sidenote, instead of loading thousands of pictures onto your device, why not just use some form of cloud storage? Load into G+ and it should show in the gallery too.
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I have checked the file properties, but there are not much difference in how a picture should be. But I have transferred my photos over using USB cable, and although I could not transfer more than 50 at a time (there will be an android media error on the phone), everything is finally transferred and can be viewed via the Gallery. I am still not sure on why they could not be viewed initially.
I would definitely prefer to use cloud storage. I set up a cloud storage on my NAS so that every single picture I took will be immediately uploaded to the NAS. But the telecom operators here in Singapore have reduced the free data bundle from 12GB to 2GB, so that is definitely out of the question now. Now my photos will only be uploaded to the NAS when it is connected to the home wireless network.
Thanks jj14 for your help. Really appreciate it.

Put your photos in a different folder
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Glad it worked when you copied with the USB cable. I wonder what caused the FolderSync method to not work - maybe contact the developer to see if they have any suggestions.

No foldersync issues with photos here, though I only sync TO my NAS not from
Someone else created a thread where they had issues with photos transferred over wifi. See if same issue exists using file explorer over wifi
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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?

sending photos to pc?

hi, it's 2019 and I still can't send a picture or file to my computer instantly, the same way I send it to instagram or whatsapp or whatever.
I mean, I have my pictures synced to google photos, but when it decides it doesn't want to sync the last picture i took, it just wont sync. and even when it syncs right away, I still have to open google photos and download the picture into my pc. I have no interest on syncing all the pictures i take with my computer via google drive or whatever, I just want to be able to take a picture and send it to my pc in 5 seconds. can't believe it's still not a straight forward proccess.
all apps I've used like airdroid seem clunky. what is the easiest way to do so nowdays?

fael097 said:
hi, it's 2019 and I still can't send a picture or file to my computer instantly, the same way I send it to instagram or whatsapp or whatever.
I mean, I have my pictures synced to google photos, but when it decides it doesn't want to sync the last picture i took, it just wont sync. and even when it syncs right away, I still have to open google photos and download the picture into my pc. I have no interest on syncing all the pictures i take with my computer via google drive or whatever, I just want to be able to take a picture and send it to my pc in 5 seconds. can't believe it's still not a straight forward proccess.
all apps I've used like airdroid seem clunky. what is the easiest way to do so nowdays?
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Set the backup to cloud to use mobile data.
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I tend fo use MiXplorer for that. Add your PC as a network device and then just copy the picture (or any file) over as you would in any file manager. Hooks into the share menu as well so it's quite straightforward.

I always do that in two ways.
1. I have my PC connect to my phone with an usb cable. Then open the device storage just as an usb storage from my PC.
2. On my phone, I send an email to my own address with photo files as attachments. Then on my PC, I receive the email as well as photos through Outlook.

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?

jizreal said:
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.