Hi.
So Ive backed up my photos for as long as I can remember, I have photos and videos going back 15 years.
I pay google each month for 100 gig of storage, what I normally do is once a month or so i get whatever photos/vids I want to keep and i upload them from my desktop into a named album.
Obviously this takes up storage space
I can see that my Pixel allows me to upload pics and vids without eating into my storage however i'm confused as to how it works.
If i backup and sync my camera folder then arrange it into albums the photos will then be deleted if i delete them off my phone, which means i only actually get 64 gig of cloud storage, that matches my phones folders./
Is there a way i can retain my photos in the cloud but remove them from my phone?
Any help appreciated.
Stret
Stretlow said:
Hi.
So Ive backed up my photos for as long as I can remember, I have photos and videos going back 15 years.
I pay google each month for 100 gig of storage, what I normally do is once a month or so i get whatever photos/vids I want to keep and i upload them from my desktop into a named album.
Obviously this takes up storage space
I can see that my Pixel allows me to upload pics and vids without eating into my storage however i'm confused as to how it works.
If i backup and sync my camera folder then arrange it into albums the photos will then be deleted if i delete them off my phone, which means i only actually get 64 gig of cloud storage, that matches my phones folders./
Is there a way i can retain my photos in the cloud but remove them from my phone?
Any help appreciated.
Stret
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It is supposed to automatically backup the camera folder. In settings, google, backup,photos you should be able to select other folders you want to include.
Tulsadiver said:
It is supposed to automatically backup the camera folder. In settings, google, backup,photos you should be able to select other folders you want to include.
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Thanks for responding.
What im sayin though is if im on holiday for example and fill my phone with videos which automatically upload... they get deleted if i remove them from my phone
Stretlow said:
Thanks for responding.
What im sayin though is if im on holiday for example and fill my phone with videos which automatically upload... they get deleted if i remove them from my phone
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You are saying that if you go to Google photos, all your pictures are gone?
Stretlow said:
Thanks for responding.
What im sayin though is if im on holiday for example and fill my phone with videos which automatically upload... they get deleted if i remove them from my phone
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There's several ways to do it. Look here,
robocuff said:
There's several ways to do it. Look here,
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Ahhh, I thought he was deleting them from the camera folder using an explorer/ file manager app....
Got it chaps, thank you.
I've stitched a few videos together that I shot on the Pixel but edited outside of the phone and then dropped the final video back into the camera app and its still let me upload it which is great.
Thanks for the help
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Today I made a huge mistake and I was trying to delete one photo off my phone and I some how selected my entire library of pictures and DELETED them all.
I had over 1k pictures, a lot were pictures I really liked, wedding, honeymoon, etc... Is there anyway to get these pictures back or am I 100% ****ed?
tommy1005 said:
Today I made a huge mistake and I was trying to delete one photo off my phone and I some how selected my entire library of pictures and DELETED them all.
I had over 1k pictures, a lot were pictures I really liked, wedding, honeymoon, etc... Is there anyway to get these pictures back or am I 100% ****ed?
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Try undelete app for android, it will help u restore things from internal memory
Hit thanks rather than typing it now Free
tommy1005 said:
Today I made a huge mistake and I was trying to delete one photo off my phone and I some how selected my entire library of pictures and DELETED them all.
I had over 1k pictures, a lot were pictures I really liked, wedding, honeymoon, etc... Is there anyway to get these pictures back or am I 100% ****ed?
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yes you can try un delete apps from play store or recovery tools from here
Check this out! You , YES! you are an " Android ". Not your phone but U.
You may try this step by step guide: android photo recovery
So here's the story. I was taking a picture this morning, I took 2 pictures because the first one I took was blurred. When I open the gallery app to delete the blurred picture, I realized the contents of the camera folder in DCIM is empty except the two pictures I just took.
I tried to recover it using DiskDigger but only able to recover few of the thumbnails. Now, I dont mind losing my camera pictures since its just pictures of a cat, but I certainly dont want this to happen again.
I've searched everywhere just to find other people having the same problem but there was never a solution.
I'm not the only one that have this problem : https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/nexus/ep6A4jequkA[1-25-false]
Is this a known issue?
It's not an issue I have encountered or seen specifically but I would say Flash memory is still pretty unreliable imho.
I would always implore you all to set automatic backups of photos and other sdcard data. Personally I use foldersync as I mentioned in my Data recovery / prevention thread (which you can get to via the sticky link in my signature).
rootSU said:
It's not an issue I have encountered or seen specifically but I would say Flash memory is still pretty unreliable imho.
I would always implore you all to set automatic backups of photos and other sdcard data. Personally I use foldersync as I mentioned in my Data recovery / prevention thread (which you can get to via the sticky link in my signature).
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Thanks for the suggestion, I would love to backup my files to cloud. However, with a 0.11mbps upload speed I dont feel like doing it
terraflops said:
Thanks for the suggestion, I would love to backup my files to cloud. However, with a 0.11mbps upload speed I dont feel like doing it
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Doesn't have to be the cloud. I set mine to backup my entire sdcard to my NAS (or similarly a computer that is "always on") over local WiFi whilst I am asleep.
I also use Tasker to backup individual photos when I close the camera app, as soon as they are taken, over the internet using SFTP so if I take a photo whilst I am out, it will backup to my NAS so long as I have a data connection...
Ok, so here's the deal my wife was taking a bath and apparently her RAZR maxx HD decided to join her... In doing so it obviously stopped working, I took out the sdcard, and Sim and put those in the spare s4, and then put the RAZR in the rice bucket. I let it sit for over a week, and this morning hooked it up to the computer to retrieve all of her data from it...
This is where things get weird,
On the phone in the gallery she has around 1000 total pictures between screen shots, and actual photos, along with the various website pictures and what not... However, when I moved over ALL of her folders onto the computer and checked the dcim folder, there are zero items inside the folder. So I opened root browser to move the pictures from the dcim folder to a new one, but they aren't there... I then went back to the gallery where I can still flip through all of the pictures, checked the details and it states that they are stored in the dcim folder, neither the phone, nor computer can see them...
On another note. Trying to share any of the pictures via drive, email, Bluetooth, anything, all fail.
Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks
Josh
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88gt said:
Ok, so here's the deal my wife was taking a bath and apparently her RAZR maxx HD decided to join her... In doing so it obviously stopped working, I took out the sdcard, and Sim and put those in the spare s4, and then put the RAZR in the rice bucket. I let it sit for over a week, and this morning hooked it up to the computer to retrieve all of her data from it...
This is where things get weird,
On the phone in the gallery she has around 1000 total pictures between screen shots, and actual photos, along with the various website pictures and what not... However, when I moved over ALL of her folders onto the computer and checked the dcim folder, there are zero items inside the folder. So I opened root browser to move the pictures from the dcim folder to a new one, but they aren't there... I then went back to the gallery where I can still flip through all of the pictures, checked the details and it states that they are stored in the dcim folder, neither the phone, nor computer can see them...
On another note. Trying to share any of the pictures via drive, email, Bluetooth, anything, all fail.
Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks
Josh
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Maybe try a adb pull?
adb pull /storage/sdcard1/DCIM <current working dir>
Of course substitute the right path on the device above.
EDIT: My wife would do something like this too, except she'd do it so she'd get a new phone
CWGSM3VO said:
Maybe try a adb pull?
adb pull /storage/sdcard1/DCIM <current working dir>
Of course substitute the right path on the device above.
EDIT: My wife would do something like this too, except she'd do it so she'd get a new phone
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Yeah I guess I could give that a shot, I just figured that since I couldn't even see them on the phone through root browser that doing an adb pull wouldn't help.
And my wife actually blamed it on the dog, stating that she, the dog, jumped up and ninja kicked it into the tub
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88gt said:
And my wife actually blamed it on the dog, stating that she, the dog, jumped up and ninja kicked it into the tub
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It happens. If I had a quarter for every time my dog ninja kicked something...
Good luck.
Sometimes i get weird isht like that , pc not seeing things in the phone as if the phone is protecting itself and considering the data as "system file" regarless of electing to show hidden files....try and zip couple px and check if the pc sees them...
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Sometimes i get weird isht like that , pc not seeing things in the phone as if the phone is protecting itself and considering the data as "system file" regarless of electing to show hidden files....try and zip couple px and check if the pc sees them...
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That happens to me too, usually when the filesystem (int/ext) is updated and you won't see any new data until you unplug and plug back in to the PC but even in such cases, locally, I can see the files from the phone.
Ok guys I figured it out... And I feel pretty stupid. It appears that the phone is "holding" the pictures thumbnails and not the actual pictures themselves. Earlier when I was checking the file paths for the individual pictures I assumed that the sdcard being shown was the internal, I was mistaken it was the external. So I can see the pictures in the gallery but they are only thumbnails... So my wife actually already had all of her pictures on the sdcard.
Thanks for all of the suggestions, hope you all have a good weekend.
Josh
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[Q] Where does VSCOCam store its photos?? It's "hiding" 1000+ of my photos!!
Specs:
Nexus 5 | Android 5.0.1
unrooted
Apps used to diagnose:
Mac - Android File Viewer
Android - X-plore, ES File Explorer
Hello everyone,
Sorry for the wall of text, long time lurker, first time posting at XDA here, hope to find a solution after days of trying on my own... I am HEARTBROKEN by vscocam on Android... :crying:
I've been using VSCOCam for 80% of my photos on my Nexus5 for the last year and half, I've taken thousands of photos and I want to back them up. The app works as follows:
Take photo using app > photo stored in internal app library > edit photo > export to android photo library (VSCOcam folder)
The VSCOCam folder is located inside /sdcard/DCIM/, but it only stores the exported/edited photos that you chose to export from the app. I cannot for the life of me find the "internal library" folder for the photos, I looked and looked and had no luck finding where the photos or any hints of the app dir itself... only the exported photos. When I looked around online apparently the iOS version has a backup feature for the internal app library when connected to iTunes, Android version ONLY has the "export" button within the app to act as a backup feature. Well that's not going to work because:
1. No select all (ctrl/cmd + A)function. I will not spend hours check marking and scrolling through thousands of thumbnails individually... makes me shudder thinking about it.
2. I will essentially be saving my photos twice or more on the phone, VSCOcam doesn't overwrite existing or even ask, it creates duplicates next to eachother.
3. Exported photos from the app loses all metadata... this one I could afford to lose but it'd be nice to have a date it was taken and not date it was exported.
In my desperation I even chatted with the costumer service staff of the company, no luck, no solution. Only export button. Apparently my cases is very isolated as I can't find anyone with the same problem as I do.... maybe I'm not that bright. :silly:
Even with my limited IT skills, I firmly believe There has to be a folder that stores all the jpg as they're taken by the camera. Instagram does it and so does almost every photo apps out there. I just need to locate that dir... Am I looking in the wrong places? Do I need to root? Please give me some advice on this!!
TL;DR - VSCOCam app is holding thousands of my photos, I can't find the directory that they're stored in. VSCO is telling me "there is no internal app folder." and tell me to spend hours exporting each one manually. I don't want to hate VSCOCam, it rocks, but this is breaking my heart!!!
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Specs:
Nexus 5 | Android 5.0.1
unrooted
Apps used to diagnose:
Mac - Android File Viewer
Android - X-plore, ES File Explorer
Hello everyone,
Sorry for the wall of text, long time lurker, first time posting at XDA here, hope to find a solution after days of trying on my own... I am HEARTBROKEN by vscocam on Android... :crying:
I've been using VSCOCam for 80% of my photos on my Nexus5 for the last year and half, I've taken thousands of photos and I want to back them up. The app works as follows:
Take photo using app > photo stored in internal app library > edit photo > export to android photo library (VSCOcam folder)
The VSCOCam folder is located inside /sdcard/DCIM/, but it only stores the exported/edited photos that you chose to export from the app. I cannot for the life of me find the "internal library" folder for the photos, I looked and looked and had no luck finding where the photos or any hints of the app dir itself... only the exported photos. When I looked around online apparently the iOS version has a backup feature for the internal app library when connected to iTunes, Android version ONLY has the "export" button within the app to act as a backup feature. Well that's not going to work because:
1. No select all (ctrl/cmd + A)function. I will not spend hours check marking and scrolling through thousands of thumbnails individually... makes me shudder thinking about it.
2. I will essentially be saving my photos twice or more on the phone, VSCOcam doesn't overwrite existing or even ask, it creates duplicates next to eachother.
3. Exported photos from the app loses all metadata... this one I could afford to lose but it'd be nice to have a date it was taken and not date it was exported.
In my desperation I even chatted with the costumer service staff of the company, no luck, no solution. Only export button. Apparently my cases is very isolated as I can't find anyone with the same problem as I do.... maybe I'm not that bright. :silly:
Even with my limited IT skills, I firmly believe There has to be a folder that stores all the jpg as they're taken by the camera. Instagram does it and so does almost every photo apps out there. I just need to locate that dir... Am I looking in the wrong places? Do I need to root? Please give me some advice on this!!
TL;DR - VSCOCam app is holding thousands of my photos, I can't find the directory that they're stored in. VSCO is telling me "there is no internal app folder." and tell me to spend hours exporting each one manually. I don't want to hate VSCOCam, it rocks, but this is breaking my heart!!!
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you will need root for this
the photos are in "/data/data/com.vsco.cam/files/images"
joanthanmajh said:
you will need root for this
the photos are in "/data/data/com.vsco.cam/files/images"
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Oh wow thank you for this!!! I knew it!! :good:
I will try and root my phone tonight. I'll be following this guide.
So I guess after I root, I'm able to view the folders that were previously restricted using Android File Transfer?
mobscene8859 said:
Oh wow thank you for this!!! I knew it!! :good:
I will try and root my phone tonight. I'll be following this guide.
So I guess after I root, I'm able to view the folders that were previously restricted using Android File Transfer?
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i dont use android file transfer but you should be able to use es file explore to copy the photos to another folder that android file transfer can see
I'm rooted on android 5.1 and in ES File Explorer, cannot see com.vsco.cam in /data/data
I've searched for vsco, case insensitive, in root /
And only found the export directory!
Have they changed their storage? In effect, I can't even find the app!!
Bump!
I'm having the same problem. I really need to free up some space on my device, so I want to pull all my photos but I can't find them anywhere. LG Optimus 4X HD (P-880) with root access. I've checked the locations mentioned above, but with no luck. Any help would be awesome!
Up! I have the same problem than Falcon. I want to free some space but can't find the photos anywhere!
Bumping because I'd also like to extract photos that I've taken with VSCO. Although my problem is a little different, VSCO just crashes every time I try to open it and it only started happening the day after I started taking photos with it. The customer service couldn't help much except tell me that CM is an unofficial Android release and their app isn't optimized for it
OnePlus One
Android 6.0.1
CM13.0-20160419-SNAPSHOT-ZNH0EAO2O0-bacon
Has anybody found a descent solution for this problem?
Vsco is a great for the filters but the android-app is horrible. Why can't we just export the original photo's or at least locate them on our device.
Moto G, Android 5.1, unrooted
Hi, just ordered a Pixel 2 and hoping someone can clarify some things for me:
If I copy pictures from my computer onto the phone then use Google Photos to back up said pictures, will they be max quality or will they be recognised as not being taken on the actual phone?
Or better yet, will my Google account be associated with the phone so I can just upload photos using the Photos app directly from my computer keeping the max quality?
Thanks for your help!
Did you find the answer to this? I'm also wondering.
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Did you find the answer to this? I'm also wondering.
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I have been told that it's based off the EXIF data on the Pixel 2. I don't know for sure if that's true, but what I've been told when asking a similar question.
I'd talk to the 24/7 Google support that you can use in the settings.
Thanks for your responses. I could also give it a try when the phone arrives and compare the file sizes
It's only photos taken on the phone. So much for using Google photos as my main backup service
I copied all the digital pictures I've ever taken (50GB+) onto my pixel 2 and they all uploaded at original image size without taking up any space.... only took a week to do
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I copied all the digital pictures I've ever taken (50GB+) onto my pixel 2 and they all uploaded at original image size without taking up any space.... only took a week to do
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If only I had the time... I've got well over 500GB of photos and videos already backed up to Google Photos and can't imagine the time it would take to transfer them this way.
Wilchie said:
It's only photos taken on the phone. So much for using Google photos as my main backup service
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You can back up photos to Google photos from any amount tied to your Google account. But original size photos from pixel. Otherwise it's reduced size
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I backed up images from 10+ devices and they were all original image sizes. 14MB+ files from my Lumia 1020 are still 14MB+ files on google drive and they are taking up 0MB space. You just have to copy the folders into the dcim folder on your phone and let it back them files up.