Whenever I open up my gallery I have these few folders showing that I cannot delete. I made sure that the google + sync and everything is disabled as well. I tried to find these images on my phone and can't seem to find them either.
In the attached screen shot, the folders with the picasa (Im guessing that's picasa) logos are the ones giving me this issue. It seems it is logging every picture I have taken in hangouts and putting it in the gallery.
Anyone have any idea how to get rid of these? I was going to do the .nomedia fix, but hell if I could find the folders containing these images.
gaveup said:
Whenever I open up my gallery I have these few folders showing that I cannot delete. I made sure that the google + sync and everything is disabled as well. I tried to find these images on my phone and can't seem to find them either.
In the attached screen shot, the folders with the picasa (Im guessing that's picasa) logos are the ones giving me this issue. It seems it is logging every picture I have taken in hangouts and putting it in the gallery.
Anyone have any idea how to get rid of these? I was going to do the .nomedia fix, but hell if I could find the folders containing these images.
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those images arent on your phone, they are in the cloud. and you cant delete those folders, they arent actually there. you can stop piucasa from syncing though. in the sync settings, disable google photo upload.
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?
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.
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.
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
mmafighter077 said:
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.
Will_T said:
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.
chillsen said:
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?
thegios said:
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.