Forgive me if this has been covered, but I went through 10 pages of search and didn't find it.
OK so here's the scenario: I inspect vehicles for a living. I take approx. 30-50 photos of each car. I then upload said photos to a website. I've noticed since the day I purchased this phone that although the total number of photos in a batch is the same after upload, there will be 1,2 or even 4 duplicates of a particular photo. The default setting is to save to sd card. I've even gone so far as to hook up to my laptop with a cable and move the pictures to it's hard drive before uploading. Even then, the total number of pics will be say 28, but there will be duplicates on the laptop before uploading.
I don't have the ability to delete the photos after uploading to the website, and it's becoming a hassle to call the office and have them manually delete the photos while I figure out which ones it replaced with duplicates.
Anyone have any ideas?
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Hey guys
Ever since I did a clean flash of CM10.1, I've had problems with Dropbox and it's photo syncing feature.
After starting up the phone after doing the clean flash, I noticed that all of my pictures had been deleted for some reason...so I hooked the phone up to my computer, and transferred the pictures directly from my Dropbox Camera Uploads folder to my phone...I then turned on Camera Upload in the Dropbox app and it notified me that it was uploading 273 of my pictures, even though all of my pictures were already synced to Dropbox and I had just copied them over to the phone.
They removed the option to clear current uploads so I can't stop it without turning it off...
I really like this feature but turning it on will force it to upload a ridiculous amount of pictures that ARE ALREADY IN MY CAMERA UPLOADS FOLDER...
Any ideas? I emailed Dropbox, got a response, sent them more detailed information and they've basically ignored me ever since...Thanks a lot Dropbox!
Thanks,
Elliott
Bump...guess I'm the first person with this problem?
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I need to organise my photos. The way my camera app works is that it just uses the next available number (e.g. photo0001 photo0002 photo0003, etc) and just remembers the next number to use.
The issue with this is when you go back and delete photos, it leaves a blank "slot" (e.g. photo0008 photo0010 photo0011 photo0015, photos 9, 12, 13, and 14 were deleted), and if you ever reset your phone, the camera forgets and starts over from 0001, sees that number is already taken, and uses the next available number.
This results in your photos being in the correct order if you go by date taken, but a complete mess up you go by filename. I plan to fix this by using a mass-renamer that will rename them in order of date taken.
Issue with that is, I have no idea how Google Photos will handle this. It's suddenly going to see thousands of photos that are different from the version stored online (because their filenames now are different) and bundled of new photos which didn't exist before because they are existing photos that had their filename changed to one that wasn't in use before.
Will Google Photos be able to tell by performing some sort of visual check or using some sort of hash/checksum? Or is it just going to turn my album into a mess? What would be the best way to deal with this? I could turn off photo syncing, delete everything saved online, then re-enable it after I rename them, but that would mean I would have to re-upload all my photos and videos, my 64gb card is almost full and I am upgrading to 128, that would be a LOT of data to re-upload.
I'm looking for an app to automatically move any file that appears on the SD card in DCIM/Camera to another folder, e.g. Photos/Unprocessed.
Why? Because I want my photos automatically backed up to Google Photos, but only from the folders I choose. And Camera is not one of those folders. However, Google Photos automatically forces you to back up the DCIM/Camera folder if you want automatic backups at all, which is really dumb:
If you take multiple shots of a scene and want to keep all but one, EVERY shot will waste storage and bandwidth being backed up to Google Photos. Normally I take a bunch of shots of a scene, then when I have a moment go through them and keep only one and move it to a folder it belongs to, e.g. Photos/MyDog. I want that one backed up, but not the others.
maybe I *never* want certain pics to be backed up in the cloud unencrypted, e.g. photos of tax statements or other sensitive docs
maybe there are people in the photo who didn't give me consent to back up their image in any cloud
maybe I don't want to waste time and data backing up a ****ton of pics I know I'll delete. Even if I set the sync to only happen when on Wi-Fi, it's just a stupid waste.
Note that I filed a request with the Google Photos team for this feature like half a year ago, but it fell on deaf ears, so the only solution I see is this: make an app that as soon as a file is created in DCIM/Camera (the folder Google Photos watches), it moves it to another folder, so Photos won't back it up.
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
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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.
Hello,
I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask for help, if not I would appreciate it if someone knows where I could get this help.
I noticed today that OneDrive deleted 2500 photos from my phone without warning or without putting them in the file trash. Just because my photo library is connected to OneDrive. When I disconnected and deleted the photos from my Windows machine, they were gone on my S22 Ultra as well.
Is there any recovery software/tool that could help me recover these photos?
I would be very happy if someone could help me.
Try DiskDigger from Playstore
Did you try going to the OneDrive website? There is a recycle bin there.
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Did you try going to the OneDrive website? There is a recycle bin there.
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Yes searched there, but could not find anything. I think these photos never have been in the recycle bin.
I really do not understand what One Drive did. I had these photos twice in the cloud so I stopped syncing and deleted them in the cloud. Then I activated sync again and my S22 started to upload them again to one drive. Everything seemed right. Now, after 3 Weeks I check my gallery again and all these photos are gone.
butchieboy said:
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Tried it and it did not find deleted photos only existing ones. I thought I would maybe root my phone, but it seems that I have to wipe it twice to do that. This would make the process of recovering even worse I think
GoGoWe said:
Hello,
I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask for help, if not I would appreciate it if someone knows where I could get this help.
I noticed today that OneDrive deleted 2500 photos from my phone without warning or without putting them in the file trash. Just because my photo library is connected to OneDrive. When I disconnected and deleted the photos from my Windows machine, they were gone on my S22 Ultra as well.
Is there any recovery software/tool that could help me recover these photos?
I would be very happy if someone could help me.
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That is because they were not on your phone. If you deleted from your Windows PC, they should have gone to the recycle bin on your PC. Unless you changed the default behavior when you delete files. Like the others said, OneDrive has recycle bin turned on by default. If they were in your OneDrive, they would have gone into the recycle bin. After 30 days, they will be deleted from the recycle bin.
They were definitly on my Phone (I shot them with my phone) and in the One Drive Cloud.
Because One Drive screwed up and I had dublicates in the Cloud I stopped the synchronisation and removed them from One Drive. After reactivating the synchronisation between One Drive and MyPhone, I checked if my Phone started to upload these pictures that were missing in the One Drive Cloud. And it did, so left it alone.
Now, after some weeks I wanted to backup them on my PC and NAS. But then I saw that instead of further uploading all missing Photos OneDrive started to remove them from my Phone. And they are not in the Recycling bin what I cannot understand.
I previously owned an iPhone and everything worked fine with iCloud synchronisation. But the One Drive implementation on Samsung is a total mess. There are many people with the same problem as mine
It looks like i would be able to recover maybe some fotos if I my Phone is rooted.
But to root my phone i have to wipe it twice.
Is there a way to do a full backup (also with all data blocks that maybe hold my data) and recover it after the root process?
OneDrive works just like iCloud and all of the other cloud services. If you delete files from ANY device connected to OneDrive, it deletes them from ALL devices. OneDrive has a 30 day recycle bin. Meaning it deletes files every day that are in the recycle bin over 30 days. When you say, "now after some weeks." how many weeks is "some weeks"? If it was more than four then those files were deleted out of the OneDrive recycle bin. You can contact Microsoft support and ask if they can recover the files, but I don't know how long it retains data like that.
If you wipe your phone twice to root, you will lose even more data. You will be lucky to recover anything at all after two wipes.
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OneDrive works just like iCloud and all of the other cloud services. If you delete files from ANY device connected to OneDrive, it deletes them from ALL devices. OneDrive has a 30 day recycle bin. Meaning it deletes files every day that are in the recycle bin over 30 days. When you say, "now after some weeks." how many weeks is "some weeks"? If it was more than four then those files were deleted out of the OneDrive recycle bin. You can contact Microsoft support and ask if they can recover the files, but I don't know how long it retains data like that.
If you wipe your phone twice to root, you will lose even more data. You will be lucky to recover anything at all after two wipes.
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I know that One Drive should Work like other Cloud Services but the synchronisation works not like it should.
Like I said, I stopped the service and started it again to reupload these photos. But because One Drive could not find them int the Cloud it decided to remove them from my Phone. So that they are also not in the Recycling bin of my Phone. Probably they have been in the Recycling bin of One Drive I never checked that. But these photos were on My Phone the first Weekend of December. I dont understand who this synchronisation could screw that up.
Does matter is gone for that and I do not plan using One Drive Sync anymore. I used the iCloud service for 6 Years and never had such an issue. 6 Months with One Drive/Samsung Cloud and I lose 1600 photos.
Do you know a way to root the device (Android 13) without wipeing? Probably there is no way right?
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I know that One Drive should Work like other Cloud Services but the synchronisation works not like it should.
Like I said, I stopped the service and started it again to reupload these photos. But because One Drive could not find them int the Cloud it decided to remove them from my Phone. So that they are also not in the Recycling bin of my Phone. Probably they have been in the Recycling bin of One Drive I never checked that. But these photos were on My Phone the first Weekend of December. I dont understand who this synchronisation could screw that up.
Does matter is gone for that and I do not plan using One Drive Sync anymore. I used the iCloud service for 6 Years and never had such an issue. 6 Months with One Drive/Samsung Cloud and I lose 1600 photos.
Do you know a way to root the device (Android 13) without wipeing? Probably there is no way right?
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It did exactly as it was supposed to do and that is how all cloud services work.
This is how cloud services work. When you take a picture, the original is uploaded to the cloud (in this case OneDrive); a COPY of that photo is then synced with all of your devices. When you de-linked Samsung Gallery from OneDrive, your phone maintained the copies. When you deleted them from your PC, it deleted them from OneDrive. So when you resynced your phone, OneDrive deleted the copies off of your phone.
That is how all cloud storage services work.
I am still confused as to why you deleted them from your PC in the firsts place.
To my knowledge, there is no way to root a phone without wiping it. Depending on the model, you may not be able to unlock the bootloader.
I am sorry you lost a lot of photos. I'm not sure there is a whole lot you can do to recover them save getting a professional to do it and that can get expensive. The other option is to run data recovery software on your PC. R-Tools is good, but it is pricey. I used it to recover photos after two of the four drives on my NAS failed. Even then, I lost several thousand images.
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It did exactly as it was supposed to do and that is how all cloud services work.
This is how cloud services work. When you take a picture, the original is uploaded to the cloud (in this case OneDrive); a COPY of that photo is then synced with all of your devices. When you de-linked Samsung Gallery from OneDrive, your phone maintained the copies. When you deleted them from your PC, it deleted them from OneDrive. So when you resynced your phone, OneDrive deleted the copies off of your phone.
That is how all cloud storage services work.
I am still confused as to why you deleted them from your PC in the firsts place.
To my knowledge, there is no way to root a phone without wiping it. Depending on the model, you may not be able to unlock the bootloader.
I am sorry you lost a lot of photos. I'm not sure there is a whole lot you can do to recover them save getting a professional to do it and that can get expensive. The other option is to run data recovery software on your PC. R-Tools is good, but it is pricey. I used it to recover photos after two of the four drives on my NAS failed. Even then, I lost several thousand images.
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Sad to hear that you aslo lost 1000 of imgaes.
To complete the story (if you are interested):
I moved my photos into a new folder in One Drive becuase I thought maybe my Samsung Device notice that as an album. It didn't. Then a while later these photos started to appear as duplicates on my phone. I wanted to have my gallery clean so is stopped the sync service removed them from the cloud (throughout my pc) and activated a while later the sync service again. Then I waited 1-2 days to check if my phone starts uploading the images i just deleted.
And yes, it did. So I was not worried that something would go wrong.
Beginning of Dezember I checked again and these photos were on my Samsung Device. I had no worries. 4 Days ago I wanted to backup them finally locally on my PC and NAS. Then I noticed they are not in the cloud and also not on my phone.
That's why I think this is not entirely my fault because I checked multiple times. What One Drive messed up:
- Dublicating Fotos only because I moved them into a diffrent Folder (at the beginning)
- Taking a lot of time to synchronise them with the cloud or rather synchronising them only after they got removed from the OneDrive recycle bin (because they where definitly on my phone after i removed them from One Drive).
But its too late, I got used to it.
Checked out R-Tools but I think it's the same problem as with all other recovery softwares. They need full access to my Phones Hard Drive, which they only get if I root it.
Nevertheless, thank you for your time and help and have a great new year
Look in the files section of Onedrive. The missing photos might be in a different folder than the rest of the gallery photos, which isn't recognized by Gallery. I would go into a PC and manually move the missing photos to the correct folder. Mine is labeled SAMSUNG GALLERY. Good luck