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Does anyone know if there is a setting that will change which directories, or show certain folders, images, or anything?
seriously. I wanna text a pic to someone and i have to sift through EVERY damn image ive ever viewed on the device, whether it be in app or browser.
Sounds like Gallery might be reading your cache folder or something. You can try and locate it and make sure it has the ".nomedia" file in there or add it yourself. That will stop Gallery from reading the images within. Easy to do, just make a folder in any directory where you don't want the images to be shown and rename it to .nomedia
so, should i just make a random file named .nomedia? or a FOLDER named .nomedia? or rename the folders in question .nomedia?
either use notepad ++ to make a blank file with the name .nomedia
or if you want to exclude a folder put a "." with out the quotes at the front of the folder name. it will not be scanned by gallery. so you can hid your porn in a folder and not worry about it
...and that is what i am trying to hide lol...cause my boss at work was looking in my phone and she saw alot of pics....of me...and yeah...now she looks at me weird.
trololol, you can always say " hey im a guy, and im straight or its going to be gay porn in there instead "
Hahahahahaha yeah you need to fix that
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No it was pix of my junk. She made a comment about "whose is that!? It's really n... Wait...! " then she noticed the skin tone and clothes... Now she looks at me weird.
And i dunno what kinda weird look it is...
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probably she was giving you a ME GUSTA face
Ummmm ... if you're gonna store pics of your junk on your phone (which is a bad idea in the first place) and then let your boss play around with your phone (another really bad idea) then -- for the love of God -- go to the Android Market, download App Protector Pro (an app that every single Android phone user should have), and lock your gallery.
I use that app to lock my email and text messages . I don't lock my gallery, but then again I don't store incriminating photos on my own phone.
And please, please, please ... don't show your phone to your Mom.
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Sounds like you'll be able to afford an app to protect yer junk (pun intended) with the raise you'll be getting (pun intended)...
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IP IHI II IL said:
Sounds like you'll be able to afford an app to protect yer junk (pun intended) with the raise you'll be getting (pun intended)...
\\Carved into this thread by my RAZR//
http://android-gz.com
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hah yeah. someone earlier said she had a me gusta face...that kinda described it lol. I dunno man. Would be nice. lol. thanks all. Ill try doing this nomedia thing then report back if it works/dont work.
remember to reboot the phone. and download notepad ++ to make the file. using regular note pad may not work
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Old thread but here is a no Computer needed option:
Download ES File explorer (its free)
Install and open it
Navigate to the folder you want to exclude (remember it propagates down e.g. if you place it in the root of SD then the whole of SD is excluded including all the sub-folders)
Press Menu and select "new"
Select "File"
Call it .nomedia
Rescan your memory Cards
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So someone named "superthrust" is worried about pics on the phone?
atleast the name was not analthrust...
I use QuickPic, and it gives you the ability (if you long press on a folder) to exclude it from the gallery view.
My gallery was showing up all sorts of junk from my kindle library and looked a mess.
Now all I see are the folders I want.
Ive been using Vaulty Free. It hides pics and videos you select in its own folder. It also encodes the images and videos so you arent able to open then using any other gallery or video playing app. What i like most is that fact that even if you put the sd card in your computer the images are still encoded and you arent able to view them. The only downside to it is that you have to wait for it to encode the image you want to hide (no more than 3 seconds).
OP you shouldnt use anything to hide your pics, if anything you should give your phone to your boss with more pics in it, then enjoy your promotion. LOL.
greeky510 said:
OP you shouldnt use anything to hide your pics, if anything you should give your phone to your boss with more pics in it, then enjoy your promotion. LOL.
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the real funny part about what you just said, is that I just got promoted and she has been asking for my phone more... Epic win.
I just got sales manager the other day.
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Well I did the no media thing... And it didn't work.
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Didn't work for me either so I use quickpic instead
Anyone using Dropbox? Anyone want to upgrade from their 2GB cap to a 5GB cap while using the newest additions?
All details can be found here.
Checking it out now, I was about to install Dropbox on all the computers at my job for the extra space.
Sugarsync has been nothing but frustration lately. Thanks a bunch!
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Never mind need to upload photo/videos to get the space, just uploaded all those roms for nothing. Lol
It seems that if you upload quite a bit of data, then delete it, the new storage cap remains. So Im trying to upload as much as I can to get Dropbox to match it, then remove whatever I dont need and still keep the space.
Some people are reporting the storage isn't getting added yet but the limit is gone.
I myself haven't got anything either and I followed the steps, guess its too much at once for them to handle.
I've just uploaded 2 avi files via the desktop client, I am now at 112% space?????
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http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=53013
They said desktop app and Android app do double duty on that limit.
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Seeing as how I got an extra 48GB (totaling 51.62GB) by logging into dropbox on an ICS device, don't really need the extra 5gb, but will do so to remove the file size limit .
fone_fanatic said:
Seeing as how I got an extra 48GB (totaling 51.62GB) by logging into dropbox on an ICS device, don't really need the extra 5gb, but will do so to remove the file size limit .
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51gb!
So...Referral, .Edu, Beta, ICS, what else is there?
Read the thread, folks. It says only automatic photo and video uploads count. So sitting there uploading and deleting roms isn't doing you any good.
How can I see if the upload size limit has been removed?
Why wouldn't they put the "Camera Uploads" folder under the "Photos" folder? You can't do gallery view unless they're in the Photos folder...
Oh well, I prefer using Picasa on my computer to rename and organize my pics before I upload them anywhere.
LiLChris06 said:
51gb!
So...Referral, .Edu, Beta, ICS, what else is there?
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51.72 now But the extra 48GB is only for a year.
fone_fanatic said:
How can I see if the upload size limit has been removed?
Why wouldn't they put the "Camera Uploads" folder under the "Photos" folder? You can't do gallery view unless they're in the Photos folder...
Oh well, I prefer using Picasa on my computer to rename and organize my pics before I upload them anywhere.
51.72 now But the extra 48GB is only for a year.
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Oh ok, I need to grab myself an edu email to get that double referral MB.
That 48gb would be awesome if it was permanent.
I just copied over 5GB of pictures. It says its going to take 32 hours to upload :-/
It has already told me that its upgraded my Dropbox account to 2.5GB.
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Why wouldn't they put the "Camera Uploads" folder under the "Photos" folder? You can't do gallery view unless they're in the Photos folder...
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The 'Photos' (and 'Public') folders are less private than anything outside these folders. Source
From this another Dropbox help page, it says that "The Photos folder automatically creates online galleries. Any image files you move or copy to your Photos folder are automatically included in an online gallery anyone can view from the Dropbox website.". It means that you don't have to create a public view link, it's automatically created. So anyone who gets your leaked photo gallery link can enjoy them and you can't control that.
For folders outside Public and Photos, everything is private and you can selectively makes things public/private at your discretion.
I think it's good that they are not mixing up the privacy settings of Photos and Camera Uploads.
Red5 said:
I just copied over 5GB of pictures. It says its going to take 32 hours to upload :-/
It has already told me that its upgraded my Dropbox account to 2.5GB.
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I'm sitting in my desk recording videos then uploading it since I don't have 5gb of pictures/videos.
So glad my work has some nice upload speeds, taking advantage of it as much as I can.
jazzboyrules said:
The 'Photos' (and 'Public') folders are less private than anything outside these folders. Source
From this another Dropbox help page, it says that "The Photos folder automatically creates online galleries. Any image files you move or copy to your Photos folder are automatically included in an online gallery anyone can view from the Dropbox website.". It means that you don't have to create a public view link, it's automatically created. So anyone who gets your leaked photo gallery link can enjoy them and you can't control that.
For folders outside Public and Photos, everything is private and you can selectively makes things public/private at your discretion.
I think it's good that they are not mixing up the privacy settings of Photos and Camera Uploads.
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Cool, thanks for that explanation!
Thanks red for finding this. I found this trick to upload a huge amount of files. In the camera turn the video recording to 1080p. Then press the record button and leave your phone upside down for some time. After 10 minutes the video took up 1 gb.
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You can also double your referrals (500 MB each!) with an edu email. And yes, it's retroactive
Anyone else getting a force close if you go into the app, hit "Uploads" at the top, then click "Photos or videos" at the bottom? It still uploads stuff fine so I can get the extra space. I had this FC on stock 2.3.4 and I'm getting it on SHOstock now as well.
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Thanks red for finding this. I found this trick to upload a huge amount of files. In the camera turn the video recording to 1080p. Then press the record button and leave your phone upside down for some time. After 10 minutes the video took up 1 gb.
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Did the same thing here
Few videos and I was done. They are still uploading due to slow connection but It took me few minutes to set this system
http://samsunggalaxys3review.net/tutorial-how-to-get-free-dropbox-space-up-to-5gb/
So i have been using the auto upload of images since the start of the year. I decided i would just double check that all my images got uploaded just in case..
I take a look at my drop box and at my phone and all the images are named differently
For example
Phone:IMG_20120207_154821.jpg
Dropbox:2012-02-07 21.48.20.jpg
That is the same picture but named way differently.....
Not sure how to clean this mess or get rid of dupes without deleting some singles etc.....
All 2,000 pictures and videos are named differently like that.
*EDIT*
after some better google searches i see others having an issue with this...
https://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=56857
etc
Somehow, my gallery is showing the same pictures twice. Not all, but many. If you long press, and click details, the picture name and location for the two are identical. I've verify that only one copy is on the SD card. I've tried clearing data for the gallery (via the app menu in settings); I also tried deleting /data/data/com.htc.album (which had some database files, oh, I should note I have root) as well as deleting all .thumbnail directories. I figure there must be somewhere that I'm not looking.
Here's a screenshot:
2014-06-07_00-39-43 by oryan_dunn, on Flickr
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oryan_dunn said:
Somehow, my gallery is showing the same pictures twice
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How about first backup all your pictures to your PC so you're sure to have them, disconnect from PC, then try delete ALL of them through Gallery.
Maybe there's a backup on your ext_sd and that's why?
Here's something web-wise that might apply (google):
http://android.stackexchange.com/questions/43311/im-seeing-duplicated-images-and-videos-on-gallery
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How about first backup all your pictures to your PC so you're sure to have them, disconnect from PC, then try delete ALL of them through Gallery.
Maybe there's a backup on your ext_sd and that's why?
Here's something web-wise that might apply (google):
http://android.stackexchange.com/questions/43311/im-seeing-duplicated-images-and-videos-on-gallery
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I saw that, but I'm not on JB, and the path given in details for each image is identical. I do have a backup, I'll see what happens when I delete one of the two. As you can see, I've got several thousand pictures, so I'd rather not fix this one at a time, esp since I'm going to be flashing a new ROM soon. I just want to try to figure this out. There has to be a way to reset the gallery and get it to rescan my SD card fresh.
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I saw that, but I'm not on JB, and the path given in details for each image is identical. I do have a backup, I'll see what happens when I delete one of the two. As you can see, I've got several thousand pictures, so I'd rather not fix this one at a time, esp since I'm going to be flashing a new ROM soon. I just want to try to figure this out. There has to be a way to reset the gallery and get it to rescan my SD card fresh.
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In Gallery Album view then settings, I find option "Select Album" allowing me to tag each and every album to delete all at once.
However my gallery in ICS CM10 may be different than yours.
If your images are synced to the web is there a chance that they show up as the second images?
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In Gallery Album view then settings, I find option "Select Album" allowing me to tag each and every album to delete all at once.
However my gallery in ICS CM10 may be different than yours.
If your images are synced to the web is there a chance that they show up as the second images?
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Yeah, it's the stock HTC Gallery. The only option in settings are "Perfect Pics" options. There is no way to delete full albums through the gallery. They are not synced to the web. The details dialog for the images show the exact same details down to the path, filename, everything, for duplicate images.
I deleted one of the pictures, and just deleting one, made both disappear from the gallery. Copying back that single file, there is only one shown. So, looks like it is definitely a goof up in the gallery database. Now to just figure out where it is on the filesystem.
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Yeah, it's the stock HTC Gallery. The only option in settings are "Perfect Pics" options. There is no way to delete full albums through the gallery. They are not synced to the web. The details dialog for the images show the exact same details down to the path, filename, everything, for duplicate images.
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Up top on the left, see if you can switch that view to Album. Then check the settings about Selecting Albums.
Yours looks different from mine--mine has a text drop-down menu where you have an icon of an album.
And I was using the on-screen buttons--Home, Menu, Return, Search, when I said to use the Settings, it was the Menu button on the bottom of my phone.
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Up top on the left, see if you can switch that view to Album. Then check the settings about Selecting Albums.
Yours looks different from mine--mine has a text drop-down menu where you have an icon of an album.
And I was using the on-screen buttons--Home, Menu, Return, Search, when I said to use the Settings, it was the Menu button on the bottom of my phone.
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In the screen of my screenshot, menu key doesn't do anything. Up a level, at the album view, I get a settings menu, but the only options are for Perfect Pics.
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In the screen of my screenshot, menu key doesn't do anything. Up a level, at the album view, I get a settings menu, but the only options are for Perfect Pics.
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Can you do it through HTC Sync, or perhaps an after-market file utility--alas the File Manager that comes with CM10 allows me to wildcard search "*.jpg" and shows them all in a list, however at that point didn't allow me to select them all at once to delete all at once, just individually.
However, my images are stored in DCIM/Camera/ and I have those folders on both my int and ext sd.
Your camera settings may give you the option of where to store photos--possibly there's a "both" option, idunno.
The free app Quick Pic that I use gives me the option to select all my photos or albums at once and to delete them at once.
Maybe that is the easiest solution.
I really appreciate you trying to help, but I'm almost sure the issue is the database the gallery creates. I've been using ES File Explorer to try to find this database and delete it, to force the gallery to re-parse the entire filesystem. I'm positive that the database has duplicate entries for the same file. Deleting and restoring pictures external to the gallery app has no effect. Deleting the pic from the gallery causes the gallery to remove both entries in it's database, and when I add the picture back, I get only one, as I should (which effectively cleans the db for that one particular file). This database has to exist somewhere, it's just a matter of finding and deleting it.
I submitted a question to HTC support. We'll see what they say.
Maybe it's not your device.
Maybe it's just syncing to a cloud storage.
I know that my brother's girlfriend's Motorola Xoom was sending pictures directly to her Google+ account and she didn't like that. It took me a while to figure out that's what it was because we'd delete all the pictures and still they'd show up.
Maybe that's what's happening to you.
pbergonzi said:
Up top on the left, see if you can switch that view to Album. Then check the settings about Selecting Albums.
Yours looks different from mine--mine has a text drop-down menu where you have an icon of an album.
And I was using the on-screen buttons--Home, Menu, Return, Search, when I said to use the Settings, it was the Menu button on the bottom of my phone.
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rdar_93 said:
Maybe it's not your device.
Maybe it's just syncing to a cloud storage.
I know that my brother's girlfriend's Motorola Xoom was sending pictures directly to her Google+ account and she didn't like that. It took me a while to figure out that's what it was because we'd delete all the pictures and still they'd show up.
Maybe that's what's happening to you.
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The stock gallery isn't that smart. On the main screen, you can select to show pictures from local storage, Picassa, Flickr, etc. But these show the same path for each duplicate "/mnt/sdcard/ext_sd/DCIM/100MEDIA".
Why not just try "Quickpic"? Better than stock IMO.
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SuperAfnan said:
Why not just try "Quickpic"? Better than stock IMO.
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I could use a different gallery, but just as an exercise, want to figure this out, since it has to be solvable. I'm going to flash a new ROM soon, so it really doesn't matter, I just want to solve this, since it seems like an easy problem (figure out where the gallery db is and delete it).
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I could use a different gallery, but just as an exercise, want to figure this out, since it has to be solvable. I'm going to flash a new ROM soon, so it really doesn't matter, I just want to solve this, since it seems like an easy problem (figure out where the gallery db is and delete it).
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Possible it doesn't keep a database, just scans each time, and is listing the same photo under two headings even though same path?
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Possible it doesn't keep a database, just scans each time, and is listing the same photo under two headings even though same path?
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It may not be a database proper, like a SQLite database, but there is definitely some sort of cache that it builds. If I add a huge directory of pictures, open the gallery, it takes a while to parse through it all. Subsequent times opening the gallery, the pictures/thumbnails are available instantly.
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It may not be a database proper, like a SQLite database, but there is definitely some sort of cache that it builds. If I add a huge directory of pictures, open the gallery, it takes a while to parse through it all. Subsequent times opening the gallery, the pictures/thumbnails are available instantly.
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Good test.
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oryan_dunn said:
It may not be a database proper, like a SQLite database, but there is definitely some sort of cache that it builds. If I add a huge directory of pictures, open the gallery, it takes a while to parse through it all. Subsequent times opening the gallery, the pictures/thumbnails are available instantly.
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Thumbs are built and kept in a folder under DICM. there is most likely a process that scans the folders for pics and then makes a thumb if it doesn't already have one.
Thus there are actually two copies of pictures on your phone. One is full sized and the other is a thumb size.
You can copy all the pics off your phone to one folder on your computer, then delete all the photos from your phone and then copy them back from your computer.
If you have thousands of pics, I'd back them up anyway. dont want to lose some great pics...
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Thumbs are built and kept in a folder under DICM. there is most likely a process that scans the folders for pics and then makes a thumb if it doesn't already have one.
Thus there are actually two copies of pictures on your phone. One is full sized and the other is a thumb size.
You can copy all the pics off your phone to one folder on your computer, then delete all the photos from your phone and then copy them back from your computer.
If you have thousands of pics, I'd back them up anyway. dont want to lose some great pics...
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Yeah, I've tried deleting the .thumbnail folder to try to get the gallery to rescan. Say I have 1000 pics, and I add a folder of pictures with a 1000 more, the first time I open the gallery, it shows 1000, with a spinning wheel. Eventually, it'll populate with 2000 pictures. And you can tell it's creating thumbnails. If I just delete the thumbnail folder, when I open the gallery, it immediately shows 2000 pictures, but it'll slowly recreate thumbnails. That's why I think there has to be some other cache somewhere, and in my case it has duplicates in it.
As for backup, I have a Synology NAS (with 1TB RAID1 mirror) that all of my pictures are backed up to, and I use the Synology DS Photo+ app to instantly backup pictures as I take them to my NAS. Once a month, my NAS is mirrored to a 1TB USB drive.
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Yeah, some of those thumbs did look pretty good.
Hello everyone, ever since upgrading to android 10 im having a weird issue with pictures in my phone.
1. im using an chatting app called viber, for some reason i cant share screenshots within the apps photo share icon, some time before my screenshots didnt even show up there, i could find them manually but trying to send it gives "file not found" , now i can see them without searching for them, but still cant share them.
2. other thing is some pictures just randomly disappear from my google photos app, usually edited screenshots, after some time they are just gone.
3. downloading pictures from chat in one of the games i play "rise of kingdoms" also disappear after some time, those pictures are stored in "Pictures" folder created after the first download, but that folder/album later on is just gone from my photos app, those are also in annoying jpg!large format that i cant even open from file manager app until i remove !large extension.
btw all the things mentioned above , photos are not removed, they are still in my phone i can find them all in my file manager but i cant see them in google photos app, i also cant see them from any other chatting app when i want to share pictures. camera photos, photos downloaded with google chrome , seem to be fine and they never got removed from google photos so far.
have a feeling its something related to mi a3's storage managment cause i tried another gallery app and it doesnt show all my pictures as well, anyone having the same issues?
thanks.
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Hello everyone, ever since upgrading to android 10 im having a weird issue with pictures in my phone.
1. im using an chatting app called viber, for some reason i cant share screenshots within the apps photo share icon, some time before my screenshots didnt even show up there, i could find them manually but trying to send it gives "file not found" , now i can see them without searching for them, but still cant share them.
2. other thing is some pictures just randomly disappear from my google photos app, usually edited screenshots, after some time they are just gone.
3. downloading pictures from chat in one of the games i play "rise of kingdoms" also disappear after some time, those pictures are stored in "Pictures" folder created after the first download, but that folder/album later on is just gone from my photos app, those are also in annoying jpg!large format that i cant even open from file manager app until i remove !large extension.
btw all the things mentioned above , photos are not removed, they are still in my phone i can find them all in my file manager but i cant see them in google photos app, i also cant see them from any other chatting app when i want to share pictures. camera photos, photos downloaded with google chrome , seem to be fine and they never got removed from google photos so far.
have a feeling its something related to mi a3's storage managment cause i tried another gallery app and it doesnt show all my pictures as well, anyone having the same issues?
thanks.
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I do have the same kinda issue with photos. For example, I want to share a pic while being in WhatsApp, Viber but it won't show me all the folders of the pics. I have to go to Gallery and share it from there.
fetaiharbin said:
I do have the same kinda issue with photos. For example, I want to share a pic while being in WhatsApp, Viber but it won't show me all the folders of the pics. I have to go to Gallery and share it from there.
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yeah, same.. also screenshots that i edit just get removed from gallery at some point. did u try factory reset?
nightwish231 said:
yeah, same.. also screenshots that i edit just get removed from gallery at some point. did u try factory reset?
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I keep changing ROMs, but still the same thing.