They're not all private but let's assume they are. After I delete photos and videos somehow they're still in my phone, actually I think they're being synced somewhere, but I know this because whenever I do something with any app that is trying to access my files to say upload a pic for an avatar, it uses the system's file retrieving ability to access my media and it's accessing all media I've recently dealt with saved and deleted. But when I delete something, I want it gone, not saved somewhere. How do I access these files and stop this phone from saving them?
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Hi there.
Think about the following situation:
A digicam contains a WiFi-SD-Card. The pictures taken are automaticly transferred to an Android device.
(Until here there are a lot of Apps doing just that)
But now the pictures saved locally should AUTOMATICALLY be Geotagged using the GPS-Information from the SmartPhone.
So what I need is an app that checks a folder periodicly and geotags any image that is added to that folder.
I already found a lot of Apps that do this indirect and save GPX-Files which later can synchronize the data. But I do not want to start the tagging manually at all.
Has anyone seen such a solution? Maybe with the help of tasker or something like that?
OK, so if I take a pic and immediately go to my Google photo app I can see the pic currently being uploaded to the cloud. Now if I delete that photo, it deletes it from the device, but how can I find/view the copy that just got saved to the cloud?
If it's done uploading, and you delete it within Google photos it gets moved to the trash. Gone from Google photos (still retrievable from the trash). Now if you take a pic and delete it from the camera app immediately after taking it, it probably wasn't uploaded and is gone.
When you first open Google photos the pictures that you are seeing are what is stored on the cloud. If you go to the top left menu (three lines) there's a device folder part, that's where you can see what's actually on your device. Make sense?
OK I did a little more experimenting. When I took a photo, I left the camera app and went to the Google photo app. I saw the spinning icon on the picture, then a cloud icon with a check mark which should indicate it's done uploading to the cloud, but when I deleted it, it just sent it to the trash without saving it on the cloud or on the device.
Then I tried deleting a pic I took yesterday. It asked me if I wanted to delete the device copy and if I did delete it I would still be able to view it from the cloud. So I deleted it from the device and I was in fact able to view it within the app.
So, even though I watched the newest pic get uploaded to the cloud, I must've still deleted too quickly to where it didn't save and just got trashed. I guess you have to let the pic sit for a while and "cement" itself in the cloud before deleting.
Thanks for responding quickly and helping me out
If you delete the photo from the Google Photos app then in essence you are deleting it from the cloud. Google Photos is your cloud.
If you want to free up storage on your phone then just go to settings in the photo app and hit free up storage. This way it removes it from the phone storage but leaves it in the Google Photos app.
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.
Is it possible to somehow prevent certain applications from accessing certain folders on Android?
I use Adobe Lightroom that has an option to automatically add pictures to my library. The problem is, Adobe provides very little customisation for what gets added, which means it doesn't just add my phone photos, but also all my screenshots, WhatsApp images, Instagram posts and basically any media folders on my device.
I'm hoping there's some way I can block Lightroom's access to those folders at OS level so it can't even see them. Is that possible?
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Is it possible to somehow prevent certain applications from accessing certain folders on Android?
I use Adobe Lightroom that has an option to automatically add pictures to my library. The problem is, Adobe provides very little customisation for what gets added, which means it doesn't just add my phone photos, but also all my screenshots, WhatsApp images, Instagram posts and basically any media folders on my device.
I'm hoping there's some way I can block Lightroom's access to those folders at OS level so it can't even see them. Is that possible?
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To block the app per folder at system level is not possible. However, you can try a good old trick to make them invisible, maybe the app won't recognize them after: put a dot before the name of the folders you want to hide, for example: ".WhatsApp"
Try that and let me know
Thanks Raiz. I'll give that a go.
Nice idea but unfortunately, WhatsApp stops recognising the folder and just creates a new one and Lightroom uploads from that instead.
Okay this is a weird one
Google removed free photo uploads except for those uploaded on older Pixels, so I want to sync all my images to my old Pixel to get free uploads. It's not about the money, it's about the philosophy.
I found resilio, a great app to sync files between devices in almost real time. Problem is: Google Photos does not see the new images until I reboot the device or change something in this folder in a file explorer app. So, if I for example create a dummy file and delete it, Google Photos will now see the new images synced to this folder. If I don't do anything except for the sync, the pictures will never be seen by the Photos app until I reboot.
So I thought, maybe I can push the system to somehow show the new pictures to the Photos app. I tried using tasker to move the new files to another folder, but failed because I could only manage to move the whole folder or a specific file, wildcards did not seem to work.
Another idea was creating and removing a dummy file in this folder via tasker, but Google Photos still did not take notice. It seems like I have to do this manually in my file explorer to get the system to notice the change...?
Now my only idea would be to restart my phone every few hours, but this can't be the solution
Any ideas where the problem might lie and how I can solve this?