VSCO Cam - where is the hidden folder located? - General Questions and Answers

Hello,
my problem is, that, unlike with iOS devices, VSCO decided to not offer the option that pictures taken with the app will be saved to the general pictures folder. I want to use VSCO as my main camera app, but each time I take a picture I have to go to the album inside the app and "export" it, so it shows up when I open the general photos app.
So I wonder - VSCO must save these pictures somewhere internally in a "hidden" folder or sth. Does anybody know where they store the pictures. Or has somebody an idea how I could locate it? I could then probably automatically move the files to another folder or point a gallery app to this folder.
Any tip is appreciated.

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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 ?
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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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Tri3Dent said:
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
danw_oz said:
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

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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?
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.
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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.

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