Curious if anybody has any advice for me. I have a Tasker profile, which randomly selects a new image for my background and lockscreen every hour. I have a folder on my Pixel 3a of images to choose for this.
A few times a week (sometimes more than that), I will get a message that Tasker cannot find the files in my folder, and that is because the files have deleted themselves from the device. I then have to re-download them from my Dropbox and tell Tasker to resume.
It's the only folder on the phone where files are getting deleted. Any idea why/how this is happening?
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After adding a .nomedia file to the Touchdown attachments folder I tried many things to try to get the Gallery to stop displaying these folders (in various combinations):
Rebooted
Wiped the data of the HtcMediaCacheService
Wiped the data of the Gallery app
Renamed the folder to one thing, opened the Gallery, renamed it back, opened the Gallery again. (As per this suggestion.)
I don't want to use the "Show/hide albums" feature because Every email with a picture attachment creates it's own album. Is there some way to solve this?
EDIT: After yet another reboot, they're finally not showing!
Hello again.
I cannot delete the Auto Backup folder generated from my 5 minute G+ Auto Upload experiment.
I've followed the suggestions I've found (turn off Auto Upload [duh], uncheck sync options for Google Photos, clear data for Gallery, refresh Gallery). It doesn't work. In fact, I still get a sync animation beside my Google Photos checkbox, while it's unchecked.
I've deleted my Google account and readded it. I'm out of ideas. Anyone have any suggestions?
Not sure if sig is updated, but I'm running Stock 4.4.1, Franco r19, Xposed/Gravity Box with minimal adjustments.
Creat txt file on pc, select save as and select type all files than name it, .nomedia and save. Than put this file and paste Auto Backup folder.
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Is there any way to automatically delete folders that get created.
Some apps automatically download images to my phone and I want to write a script that automatically deletes the folder and its contents. I don't want to just hide them, but remove completely.
You can use Tasker to automatically delete these folders
That app costs money and is 3mb. I rather just write a script that checks like every hour or so. If the folder is there I want it to be deleted.
Okay, weird issue/bug I'm having. So I downloaded some photos from an app; let's just call them private photos that I wanted to copy off of my phone. For reference, the app is called "Couple", pretty much just a communication app tailored for couples.
I downloaded two pictures, got them onto my desktop via Airdroid, then deleted the photos off my phone. Or so I thought? I downloaded the photo editing app Snapseed, and it prompts you when you open up the app to open up any pic. It'll pull up any recent pictures from your gallery. And lo and behold, the photos I thought I deleted are showing up right there. I dug in with a file explorer (Solid Explorer, also tried the stock file explorer that came with the phone), did a search for the file name and nothing's coming up. Snapseed tells you the file name, but not the file path.
Snapseed is the only app that seems to be recognizing these phantom pictures. They do not show up in my stock photo/gallery app. Nothing in file explorers, as mentioned prior. Did a search for the exact file name & other variants just in case they're in some temp folder or something, but no luck. They're not backed up to Google Photos or anything.
What I've tried:
Re-downloading the picture(s) from Couple to try and delete it again. Only creates a duplicate. So two of each would show up in Snapseed, and I'm able to delete the brand new copy, but the older ones persist.
Deleted the Couple photos folder altogether (it didn't have anything in it, figured I'd just give it a shot). Every time you save a photo from the Couple app, it creates a folder, /storage/emulated/0/Couple/Photos. Deleted it, didn't help.
Un-installed & re-installed both Couple and Snapseed. No change. Phantom photos still present.
Cleared phone cache
I did just get this phone brand new, and I could probably just do a factory reset to make this issue go away; I'd just hate to do so when I just finished installing and setting up all my apps and would have to do it all over again. I'd like to see if there's any other thing I can try. Again, these were private photos, and wouldn't want them accidentally popping up when I'm trying to do stuff in Snapseed.
Phone is a Sprint LG G6 (LG-LS993), running Android 7.0. No root.
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?