They're multiplying!
Although the .jpg files appear only once in the file system, pictures appear multiple times in Gallery.
Currently I have three instances of each picture.
For a folder with 100 .jpg files, the corresponding album in Gallery lists 300 pictures, each one appearing 3 times.
I imagine there is a simple fix. Like deleting an index someplace, and letting Gallery reindex all the picture files. But where might the index be?
Deleting .thumbnails folders, as suggested in some other threads does not resolve the issue.
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Does anyone know how to assign photos to new albums? For example, if I take a bunch of pictures at a wedding, how can I put them all into an album, so when I go into the "Albums" app, I can go into "John and Jane's Wedding," rather than scrolling through hundreds of pictures.
you can create folders on your sdcard, which are shown as seperate albums then. not really convinient, but works.
kendong2 said:
you can create folders on your sdcard, which are shown as seperate albums then. not really convinient, but works.
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I got the exactly same problem, I did create a new photo folder in my SD card, and its displayed separately only in SD card, once plug and view on the phone, its still combining all the photo in one album .. anyone knows how to do it ?
I have a folder named Pictures in the root of the SD card, then subfolders, each subfolder shows up as a different album.
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I have a folder named Pictures in the root of the SD card, then subfolders, each subfolder shows up as a different album.
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Ah, that's the key. The folder has to be called "Pictures." I called my folder "Photos" and everything still showed up under the "Camera Shots" album. I renamed it to "Pictures," and *poof!* like magic, I have my separate albums.
Thanks!
So here is what I have found out so far:
just like on Linux, I can create a folder starting with a "." i.e. ".myhiddenmedia" and it will not show up anywhere except if I use a filemanager and chose to "show hidden files"
I can create an empty file called ".nomedia" and put it into folders I don't want indexed for media
My progress so far:
I have a folder: .myhiddenmedia where I store my stuff I don't want to show up anywhere and I have put a file named .nomedia into some folders I don't want indexed i.e. I didn't want the pictures I send/receive via Whatsapp to show in my image gallery and neither my screenshots so I placed this file in those two folders.
Now the remaining problem I have is that the album cover art for all my music does show up in my media gallery but I cannot go and place a .nomedia file into every subdirectory as I have quite a lot of music and it changes as I copy/delete to and from my desktop. I also fear that a .nomedia file would stop my music from being index too.
How do you guys tame your media?
I've tried a couple of scan-to-PDF apps on my G5 (running Nougat), and both of them seem to randomly crop out large chunks of the pages that I scan. They're standard A4 pages, but often only 60-70% of the page is scanned - the rest is cropped out (even though the whole page is in frame when I snap it).
The apps I've tried so far are CamScanner and Google Drive.
Any idea why my scans are being cropped incorrectly?
I have noticed this for the gazillionth time now that every once in a while (not sure whether a new app/system update triggers it) my media files (images and videos) are sorted in a messy manner within Instagram and other social apps. It's like when you want to send an image to a friend through Instagram inbox, and browse through the files, you see them arranged in a format whereby old stuff shows at the top and the newer pictures that you just downloaded are either somewhere in the middle (for which you have to initiate a search mission) or located at the very bottom. Either way this is frustrating and I am really looking forward to find a fix for this. It merits a mention here that the gallery app itself does not have this problem as all files are perfectly sorted in there but all social media apps (fb, insta,snap,twitter) mess up every now and then.
Highly anticipating a working solution!
Thank you.
Hello Everyone!
Due to finding no Ringtones to allot to my new email, and only a lot of files in that location, I stupidly removed the files to see if the ringtones would then appear. They didn’t”! I now seem to have deleted most of my photos in my Samsung Galaxy S4 Active mobile Gallery along with all the recorded data on my S Memo pages. And, probably, many other items that I have not yet discovered as missing!
I have downloaded an App called DiskDigger for photos. It has pulled up over 1,000 photos, some of which are duplicates or more. On wading through them and choosing an awful lot to restore, I am given the following choices where to restore them to - Bluetooth, Email, 3 named emails, Save as, Save to Drive, WhatsApp, WiFi Direct. However, once again I found a problem as I cannot move the number of my selected photos to the apps as there are too many chosen photos. I therefore took the second option and selected a named file.
That done, I found that they had ‘miraculously’ appeared in my Gallery! A further search and selection will, hopefully, repeat that.
I then downloaded an app that supposedly recovers documents named, strangely enough, 'Document Recovery'! It has recovered some documents which are proving a little difficult to open successfully to read. They go to a blank page after the indication that they are - 'Loading' - 'Opening' - then nothing!
I would also seek advice about a way to recover the details previously recorded on the S.Memory pages, if possible, (an app that works like a notebook where text etc can be written and saved.) and how to successfully open the documents recovered by Document Recovery and placed in an automatically named “All Recovered Documents” file.
Many thanks in advance for any advice!
Regards,
Colin.