I love taking portrait photos on Google Camera app. But non-Pixel users like me can only use the modded version of Google Camera and one major annoyance is that it takes portrait photos only in burst mode. You then need to open gallery, find the sub-folder which it created for burst mode, copy the portrait image and delete the rest. And you have to do this every time you take a portrait photo.
With GCam Tool, all this happens in the background. After you take a photo with Google Camera, you will find it in your camera roll when you open Gallery. You can:
Choose source and destination folders
Move portrait or regular or both photos
Delete sub-folders created by Google Camera every time
By default the app copies photos to your photo gallery. If you buy the $1 upgrade, it also deletes the files and sub-folders (thereby actually moving the photos instead of copying).
Your upgrade will help an indie developer like me survive. Please spread the word and let me know your thoughts.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apptuners.gcamtool
I will this app could move photos from the default internal storage folder used by gcam to a folder in the external SD card!
@Apptuners
really good app, does exactly what it promises. As this was something I was looking for since quite some time now, I purchased the Pro version. Keep up the good work :good:
Thank you very much for the support, Portgas D. Ace.
I just pushed an update (1.02) that adds manual batch moving feature. If you don't want the app to monitor in the background, you could just open the app once in a while, click the Batch Move option and move all files in one go to the chosen target folder.
if the possibility also to port folders with DNG(RAW) format?, because GCam also creates a separate folder
Apptuners said:
I love taking portrait photos on Google Camera app. But non-Pixel users like me can only use the modded version of Google Camera and one major annoyance is that it takes portrait photos only in burst mode. You then need to open gallery, find the sub-folder which it created for burst mode, copy the portrait image and delete the rest. And you have to do this every time you take a portrait photo.
With GCam Tool, all this happens in the background. After you take a photo with Google Camera, you will find it in your camera roll when you open Gallery. You can:
Choose source and destination folders
Delete sub-folders created by Google Camera every time
By default the app copies photos to your photo gallery. If you buy the $1 upgrade, it also deletes the files and sub-folders (thereby actually moving the photos instead of copying).
Your upgrade will help an indie developer like me survive. Please spread the word and let me know your thoughts.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apptuners.gcamtool
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Whenever I try to move any images from internal to SD Card, it moves zero images. I have also sent out an email to the support. I'm using Galaxy S8 btw.
Uralku said:
if the possibility also to port folders with DNG(RAW) format?, because GCam also creates a separate folder
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I believe the app already does that now.
casao01 said:
Whenever I try to move any images from internal to SD Card, it moves zero images. I have also sent out an email to the support. I'm using Galaxy S8 btw.
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I think I just replied to your email. I am posting it here as well.
The app only moves (for now) images taken in Portrait Mode. Could you please try and let me know?
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This is what i was looking for from many days... thankyou so much..it works great
Hi Dev. Great work! I've been looking for that for a long time. Any chance this will work with regular (non portrait) photos? It will be great to be able to automatically move photos to sd card... A suggestion: is it doable to have an option to rename the file to whatever pattern you want before moving it? This way it could match other photos names in the gallery. Thanks again for the very useful app!
Good and helpful app and I would like to support your work.
But how do I buy the pro version?
Clicking on "upgrade" button brings up a window and then clicking on "Upgrade to pro" does nothing..?
Great app! But every reboot I'm getting a notification. Tapping on it just opens the app and then when I open the settings and back out the notification goes away. Any ideas why?
I think I'm doing something wrong because this app isn't working for me. I have the photo storage paths set, and have the option checked for it to delete sub folders. But none of the photos ever move and they stay in the burst folders.
Sorry to be that guy, but could you provide a step by step for me, or point out some kikind of error I may be making?
Thanks for your hard work. This app will be fantastic once I get it working because those burst folders drive me nuts.
Edit: maybe I'm misunderstanding part of what this app does. I went into my gallery app and the photos are all there and not in any sub folders, but when I go to my pictures through the google camera app they are still in the burst folders.
I have some issue with moving non-portrait photo into another folder. As soon as the non-portrait photo is moved. The original portrait photo is gone. I no longer see it from my camera folder and cannot see it from Google Photo.
Even worse, I did the batch moving and now all my portrait photos are gone. Is this the right behavior?
same thing with the restarts , nokia 7 plus here
Are you aware your app is no more on the store? It was the life and I even bought the pro version :c
bisio971 said:
Are you aware your app is no more on the store? It was the life and I even bought the pro version :c
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FYI https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=77665451&postcount=44
To @Apptuners: paid for the app, no regrets. Even with it taken down. Don't worry
Apptuners said:
I love taking portrait photos on Google Camera app....
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How do you manage to copy the portrait only photo to DCIM/Camera. delete the original folder and (non portrait) photo and still have google photos backup the moved photo normally?
When I do this manually with a script, google photos doesn't beackup the portrait photo and it still shows a burst of two photos, the portrait and the non portrait, with this one showing only a grey thumbnail, and it never back ups.
Can you shed some light? Do you change anything in the EXIF of the moved portrait photo?
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FYI https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=77665451&postcount=44
To @Apptuners: paid for the app, no regrets. Even with it taken down. Don't worry
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Thanks man
fjsferreira said:
How do you manage to copy the portrait only photo to DCIM/Camera. delete the original folder and (non portrait) photo and still have google photos backup the moved photo normally?
When I do this manually with a script, google photos doesn't beackup the portrait photo and it still shows a burst of two photos, the portrait and the non portrait, with this one showing only a grey thumbnail, and it never back ups.
Can you shed some light? Do you change anything in the EXIF of the moved portrait photo?
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No I don't modify EXIF for "photo move" feature. EXIF is modified only when selfie flipping is prevented.
As for how GCam Tool manages to do it, I believe it is all about speed. If the photos and subfolders stay long enough in the source folder, Google Photos will back up it. I don't know how fast your script is, but when you take a photo with Google Camera, GCam Tool instantly jumps into action, moves the required files and deletes the unwanted ones (and sub-folders). It all happens in like 3-4 seconds and sometimes more depending on how long it takes on your phone for Google Camera to do the HDR+ processing and save the files.
Also once the move is done, GCam Tool rebuilds the thumbnail gallery and runs MediaScanner as well to notify the system regarding file move, which could be another reason. And most people have DCIM/Camera as their target folder, which is already being monitored by Google Photos. So as soon as GCam Tool moves the files into DCIM/Camera, Google Photos backups it.
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Thanks man
No I don't modify EXIF for "photo move" feature. EXIF is modified only when selfie flipping is prevented.
As for how GCam Tool manages to do it, I believe it is all about speed. If the photos and subfolders stay long enough in the source folder, Google Photos will back up it. I don't know how fast your script is, but when you take a photo with Google Camera, GCam Tool instantly jumps into action, moves the required files and deletes the unwanted ones (and sub-folders). It all happens in like 3-4 seconds and sometimes more depending on how long it takes on your phone for Google Camera to do the HDR+ processing and save the files.
Also once the move is done, GCam Tool rebuilds the thumbnail gallery and runs MediaScanner as well to notify the system regarding file move, which could be another reason. And most people have DCIM/Camera as their target folder, which is already being monitored by Google Photos. So as soon as GCam Tool moves the files into DCIM/Camera, Google Photos backups it.
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Thank you, so much for me to thinker. Love it! Bought your app, it's as useful as water for me
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Thank you, so much for me to thinker. Love it! Bought your app, it's as useful as water for me
Sent from my OnePlus 5 using XDA Labs
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Great. Thank you very much for the kind words.
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I can't figure out how the phone decides where to place a string of photos taken in burst mode. When I connect my phone to USB and look in the folder where the burst photos are located, there are multiple folders that have already been created. Within those random folders are where my burst photos are located, but in no particular order. This makes it a pain to go through and transfer them all to my PC b/c I'm constantly having to hunt down the photos in random folders.
I hope I'm just being ignorant to how it works, but any help is appreciated.
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I can't figure out how the phone decides where to place a string of photos taken in burst mode. When I connect my phone to USB and look in the folder where the burst photos are located, there are multiple folders that have already been created. Within those random folders are where my burst photos are located, but in no particular order. This makes it a pain to go through and transfer them all to my PC b/c I'm constantly having to hunt down the photos in random folders.
I hope I'm just being ignorant to how it works, but any help is appreciated.
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That seems to be the way it works. From what I can tell, the storage is meant to be temporary...you're supposed to pick the best shot after the burst, then it dumps the rest. I guess if you want them all, you have to do a little hunting.
Lame-o
Not the answer I was looking for, but I'm afraid you're right.
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Lame-o
Not the answer I was looking for, but I'm afraid you're right.
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I use dropbox to auto upload my pictures, and it also uploads all the burst pictures in order. Makes it easy to keep all pics or select just the ones I want to keep on the PC.
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If they have a common naming convention, then you could hook up your phone to a computer and do a search via filename (or date) then copy the images elsewhere
Hi All,
The gallery doesn't show all photo's which i've made...just a few photo's ( 30 ).
When i am mannually searching in the DCIM folder using a file manager, i see 74 photo's....
My S6 isn't rooted or something like that.
Anyone else who has this problem?
Cheers,
dawism1987 said:
Hi All, The gallery doesn't show all photo's which i've made...just a few photo's ( 30 ). When i am mannually searching in the DCIM folder using a file manager, i see 74 photo's.... My S6 isn't rooted or something like that. Anyone else who has this problem? Cheers,
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Confirmed. Gallery shows 96 photos and there are 105 in the DCIM folder. That's odd and not cool.
dawism1987 said:
Hi All,
The gallery doesn't show all photo's which i've made...just a few photo's ( 30 ).
When i am mannually searching in the DCIM folder using a file manager, i see 74 photo's....
My S6 isn't rooted or something like that.
Anyone else who has this problem?
Cheers,
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i've been having the same issue since day one. tried wiping data and cache from both "media storage" and "gallery" and then rescaning everything with media scanner app but it didn't work. hope someone will find a fix for this. i'm using quickpic for now.
Haven't done anything to test this. But have you checked to see if any of the photos in the gallery are burst shots? Gallery groups them as a single shot. I'm assuming DCIM folder shows them all individually. Just a thought and I could be totally wrong.
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Haven't done anything to test this. But have you checked to see if any of the photos in the gallery are burst shots? Gallery groups them as a single shot. I'm assuming DCIM folder shows them all individually. Just a thought and I could be totally wrong.
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Good call. Tested. That is exactly what is happening with mine. I didn't even realize burst was enabled - I must have shot some bursts without realizing it.
iNiREALiZED said:
Haven't done anything to test this. But have you checked to see if any of the photos in the gallery are burst shots? Gallery groups them as a single shot. I'm assuming DCIM folder shows them all individually. Just a thought and I could be totally wrong.
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Hi, None of them are burst shots...
But when i am using quickpic, i am able to see all the photo's. Even the photo's like whatsapp images's/downloaded photo's.
It's just with the gallery that i'm not able to see all photo's, just a few photo's....I have sorted the photo's as "time". When i'm sorting the photo's as "album" it is the same ( not able to see all of the photo's).... really strange.
Out of curiosity, if you use the Google "Photos" app, do you see all of them?
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Good call. Tested. That is exactly what is happening with mine. I didn't even realize burst was enabled - I must have shot some bursts without realizing it.
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You enable burst by just holding the shutter button, there is no burst function in the menu. Thats why a lot of people take burst shots without even knowing.
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Out of curiosity, if you use the Google "Photos" app, do you see all of them?
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when i am using google photo's it's the same! I only see a couple of picture's... (The same pictures)
helloooooo! !!
I fixed the problem! !!
first, plug it into a computer, and manually erase the .nomedia file.
second, go to app manager, clear cache/data from Gallery, and force stop it.
now, open the app again, and you must be able to see all pics and videos again
I had to reset my phone. I then reloaded the camera photos I had taken before into dcim/camera. When I look in the gallery there are no thumbnails of these photos.
How can I get the phone to recreate the thumbnails?
Thanks.
Hal
halteach said:
I had to reset my phone. I then reloaded the camera photos I had taken before into dcim/camera. When I look in the gallery there are no thumbnails of these photos.
How can I get the phone to recreate the thumbnails?
Thanks.
Hal
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Probably just takes some time to generate them, if it's a TON of photos.
halteach said:
I had to reset my phone. I then reloaded the camera photos I had taken before into dcim/camera. When I look in the gallery there are no thumbnails of these photos.
How can I get the phone to recreate the thumbnails?
Thanks.
Hal
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Have you tried restarting your phone?
Japultra said:
Have you tried restarting your phone?
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yes. did nothing.
hal
ingenious247 said:
Probably just takes some time to generate them, if it's a TON of photos.
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not a ton, a few hundred. several days on no thumbnails.
hal
halteach said:
I had to reset my phone. I then reloaded the camera photos I had taken before into dcim/camera. When I look in the gallery there are no thumbnails of these photos.
How can I get the phone to recreate the thumbnails?
Thanks.
Hal
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You could try this Settings > Applications > Application Manager> All. Look for Media Storage and go into and hit Clear Data. It should rebuild the database, you may have to restart to trigger the database rebuild.
The Gallery not refreshing seems to be a common problem across devices and Android versions, to some extent. I assume this is more Android version related that device specific.
My situation: I am on a Samsung Note 4 with ~stock (MODestRom X), Android 6.0.1. The Gallery app (and Snap Gallery) would only show me a few folders and pictures from within my <SDcard>/DCIM/<many folders including Camera>. New pictures would go into the Camera folder and show up in the Gallery, but existing pictures in the Camera folder, and most all the other folders, would not show up. I find no new posts on this issue in the last year or so.
The fix that worked for me: On the SD card, rename DCIM to DCIM1. At that point, DCIM1 started to get indexed properly. I renamed it back to DCIM so that new camera shots would go into their proper default home (<SDcard>/DCIM/Camera) and I didn't end up with a parallel Camera folder.
Other stuff I tied that DID NOT HELP:
Reboot
Applications Manager > Gallery > Clear cache and data
I found a .nomedia file at the top of the SD card. Deleting it did not help. No .nomedia files within the DCIM tree.
Hooked it up to my computer and synched in a new .mp3 file, hoping this would trigger a media scan. No help.
Looked for media scanner apps in the App store. Did not try, but most reviews said Fail, and none I found specified what Android versions they were said to work on.
Waited a few days.
Swore.
Googled XDA and found almost no recent postings, so I responded to this one.
I did NOT try moving the pictures off and back onto the SD card.
May this post help someone else!
Hi
I have been looking for an app that can create a slideshow by selecting photos from a particular folder on my SD Card/device.
I've tried a few apps but firstly they only seem to show the last 30 pictures and not the entire content of the folder?
Second I cannot bulk select the photos and need to add them one at a time - but the apps still only show the last 30 pics and some apps make it so I select one at a time and then it makes me go back through the menus to find the folder (make sense?).
Is Android really restrictive in letting me do what I think is a fairly simple task, or is the a better app I haven't yet found?
Or am I better off doing it on a PC?
thanks
Hi,
Google camera stores photos in subdirectories of DCIM/Camera using this naming convention:
IMG_<date>_time>
Can I change this by means that any photo should be stored in a single file in DCIM/Camera?
THX
c.monty said:
Hi,
Google camera stores photos in subdirectories of DCIM/Camera using this naming convention:
IMG_<date>_time>
Can I change this by means that any photo should be stored in a single file in DCIM/Camera?
THX
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Me and i guess all the other members are not really understanding what your issue is.
You are right with the info how Google Camera stores pictures. Also every picture is a singe file?!
When you are referring to the portrait shots (which are stored as 2 diffrent pics), yes, this is not the best solution by google, but also, no they cant be stored in a single file becasue .jpeg limitations.
peace
bejunk said:
Me and i guess all the other members are not really understanding what your issue is.
You are right with the info how Google Camera stores pictures. Also every picture is a singe file?!
When you are referring to the portrait shots (which are stored as 2 diffrent pics), yes, this is not the best solution by google, but also, no they cant be stored in a single file becasue .jpeg limitations.
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Actually my request is this:
I don't want Google Camera to store pictures in sub-directories.
Instead all pictures should be stored in /DCIM/Camera.
However I assume this is not possible.
Therefore I want to address this question: What's the technical reason for storing pictures in sub-directories?
THX
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Actually my request is this:
I don't want Google Camera to store pictures in sub-directories.
Instead all pictures should be stored in /DCIM/Camera.
However I assume this is not possible.
Therefore I want to address this question: What's the technical reason for storing pictures in sub-directories?
THX
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All my pictures i take with Google Camera are stored in: /DCIM/Camera/HERE
So, whats the problem?
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All my pictures i take with Google Camera are stored in: /DCIM/Camera/HERE
So, whats the problem?
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All my pictures I took yesterday are stored in /DCIM/Camera/IMG_20200329_<time>/, all pictures I take today are stored in /DCIM/Camera/IMG_202003230_<time>/.
Why is this?
Can I change setting to store all pictures in /DCIM/Camera/?
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All my pictures I took yesterday are stored in /DCIM/Camera/IMG_20200329_<time>/, all pictures I take today are stored in /DCIM/Camera/IMG_202003230_<time>/.
Why is this?
Can I change setting to store all pictures in /DCIM/Camera/?
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I think you are confusing file names with folders. All your pictures are stored in /DCIM/Camera. The "IMG_202003230_<time>" is the filename of the picture. Maybe just Open an file explorer and see yourself.
Anyway, see my attached picture. All your shots are in 1 folder.
At this point I don't even jnow if you are just trolling.
I can assure you: this is not a fake.
For your reference I have attached a screenshot that displays the content of /DCIM/Camera.
This should make it very clear:
There are only sub-directories in which the pictures taken are stored.
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I can assure you: this is not a fake.
For your reference I have attached a screenshot that displays the content of /DCIM/Camera.
This should make it very clear:
There are only sub-directories in which the pictures taken are stored.
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Yes, i see. But the reason those are stored in folder is because they are portrait shots. So google camera makes a folder and there it stores 1. portrait shot with background blur and 2. portrait without background blur.
I also mentioned it in one of my first answers. I mean there could be a better implematation, but i think this is ok. Theres no way storing both of these files in 1 file. This is good, because afterwards you can still decide if you want the background blur or not.
Just do normal snaps and they will be not in a folder. Just files.
Anyway, whats your trouble with this?
You can use Gcam Tool if you want the portrait photos to be moved in DCIM/Camera folder