Uploading Camera Pix to DropBox? - Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime

I posted this on App Forum also but I thought I might get more views here. I have about 1 gig of Pictures on my Prime Camera I want to upload to DropBox. I am in the Camera App, is there a way to upload Multiple Pictures from Camera to DropBox? I can only see how to do 1 picture at a time. The reason I asked was this article I found about getting up to 3 gig of Extra DropBox space for Free.
http://techpp.com/2012/03/15/camera-...dropbox-space/
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I know that when you inistially set-up the dropbox app and turn on the camera uploads, it will upload all the photos on the tablet. Not sure about multiple pics after that. You may wanna clear data on the dropbox app and restart it to trigger the initial set-up again.

biernut said:
I know that when you inistially set-up the dropbox app and turn on the camera uploads, it will upload all the photos on the tablet. Not sure about multiple pics after that. You may wanna clear data on the dropbox app and restart it to trigger the initial set-up again.
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Thanks. I just checked DropBox and it seems it is indeed doing Multiple uploads of my Pictures.

Got odd question relating to DropBox and Camera App. My 1st initial upload of 1.5 gigs of Picture from Camera App to DropBox did indeed upload all my Pictures Automatically when I 1st turned on the Upload to Drop Box Option in the Camera. I now have another 1.4 gigs in Camera File and the Upload to Dropbox setting it on but I can only do 1 Pictures at a time it not doing them all Automatically like it did the 1st time. Any ideas how to get them all uploading without me doing 1 picture at a time?
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RonH54 said:
Got odd question relating to DropBox and Camera App. My 1st initial upload of 1.5 gigs of Picture from Camera App to DropBox did indeed upload all my Pictures Automatically when I 1st turned on the Upload to Drop Box Option in the Camera. I now have another 1.4 gigs in Camera File and the Upload to Dropbox setting it on but I can only do 1 Pictures at a time it not doing them all Automatically like it did the 1st time. Any ideas how to get them all uploading without me doing 1 picture at a time?
Thanks
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If you want to share certain photos that you have already taken you can do that easily from the Gallery App.
If you want to share the whole folder, long-hold on it. If you want to share certain photos, enter the folder that contains them, hit the "Menu" icon (top right) choose "Select Item" and just tap the pictures you want to share.
Once you have your images selected, click the "Share" icon (sideways V with dots at the corners) and then select Dropbox from the list. There is a chance that the Dropbox icon might be next to the Share icon if that was the last service you shared to.
Select the Dropbox folder that you want to send files to and then click the "Upload" button and all your files will be uploaded.

almightywhacko said:
If you want to share certain photos that you have already taken you can do that easily from the Gallery App.
If you want to share the whole folder, long-hold on it. If you want to share certain photos, enter the folder that contains them, hit the "Menu" icon (top right) choose "Select Item" and just tap the pictures you want to share.
Once you have your images selected, click the "Share" icon (sideways V with dots at the corners) and then select Dropbox from the list. There is a chance that the Dropbox icon might be next to the Share icon if that was the last service you shared to.
Select the Dropbox folder that you want to send files to and then click the "Upload" button and all your files will be uploaded.
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Thanks for the reply. I am trying to get Free DropBox space and from my understanding the deal is you have to use the Camera App itself to upload to Dropbox to get 500 megs free space for each 500 meg upload up to 3 gigs. I don't have Folders in the Camera so all my Pictures are Singles and I have 723 of them. Like I said the 1st 740 pictures I did this way when I first clicked the "upload to DropBox" though Camera App the App/Dropbox did all the single files uploads automatically and you could even see it doing it Picture by Picture. I can't seem to get this to happen again with this next set of Pictures.

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[APP] Gallery for Nook

I really wanted to browse my pics stored on Picasa and I'm pretty fond of the Google Gallery app (I know there are others out there).
So I installed this from Astro and lo and behold it worked on the Nook Color! Enjoy!
http://www.mediafire.com/?gzw4zzdezoz
After installation, go to your GMAIL application and select Settings > Accounts. Add a new google account, then select your current gmail account (re-add it) or select from the google account associated with Picasa.
Great Tip dascud!
digitalicecream said:
I really wanted to browse my pics stored on Picasa and I'm pretty fond of the Google Gallery app (I know there are others out there).
So I installed this from Astro and lo and behold it worked on the Nook Color! Enjoy!
http://www.mediafire.com/?gzw4zzdezoz
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Worked for me too - thanks for the tip!
Worked for me too. However, I could not get my picasa albums to sync initially.
I had to go to my GMAIL app and add my (same) account again which gave me the option to sync my picasa albums and everything works fine now.
I'm lost on the Nook Color and photo viewing, not to mention videos.
I have tried just about every app I can think, researched until I'm blue in the face, but no matter what I do, if I drop 80 photos taken by your typical-everyday camera into a directory, and copy this directory to the mounted micro-SD card, this device nearly has a stroke just creating thumbnails.
At this point, the Gallery app mentioned in this thread shows the grid of photos, and about 10 of 80 actually have a thumbnail that was created, the other 70 thumbnails on the grid turned from gray to black while the application struggled to create the thumbnails.
With 32 GB of storage space, there's no way I could manage hundreds (or thousands) of photos. I must be doing something wrong here, so much storage space, no way to use it.
Cool.. with it could also see my uPnP server
works great on my NC, thanks a lot!
KryptoNyte39 said:
I'm lost on the Nook Color and photo viewing, not to mention videos.
I have tried just about every app I can think, researched until I'm blue in the face, but no matter what I do, if I drop 80 photos taken by your typical-everyday camera into a directory, and copy this directory to the mounted micro-SD card, this device nearly has a stroke just creating thumbnails.
At this point, the Gallery app mentioned in this thread shows the grid of photos, and about 10 of 80 actually have a thumbnail that was created, the other 70 thumbnails on the grid turned from gray to black while the application struggled to create the thumbnails.
With 32 GB of storage space, there's no way I could manage hundreds (or thousands) of photos. I must be doing something wrong here, so much storage space, no way to use it.
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I've been having problems with unresized images. The resized ones display fine. I'll do a batch resize to see if that works for my photos.
Any help or new information would be much appreciated. There are a couple of apps out there that can take care of the video, but I just can't locate anything else that can deal with photos.
This is frustrating, as I purchased this device specifically over other devices that don't allow for removable storage, but what good is 32 GB of data if you can't sort it and find stuff properly?
See this thread for a really fantastic photo app.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=866827
Time to get more pics on my NC.
Check out Picasa Tool Pro. It's really nice and free
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OMG that fixed my calendar too. I could hug you right now.
digitalicecream;10083802
So I installed this from Astro and lo and behold it worked on the Nook Color! Enjoy!
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What did you change to allow this? I rooted with Auto Nooter and everytime I try to install an app from Astro I get the following message: "Install Blocked"
I also tried with Root Explorer and still nothing. I am sure I am missing something very easy. Thanks in advance
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I wish I could download ALL of my Picasa images to my Nook.. But I have yet to find anything that'll do it. A few apps will let me download individual pictures, but I can't suck down the whole thing.
Picasa Tool Pro, as mentioned, is a nice tool, but as far as I can tell it has a batch uploader but not downloader. Although I'm going to check it out for the upload facility, pictures I take on my Nexus One I'd like to make to Picasa.
Honestly I still haven't figured out a halfway sane method of keeping my N1 and NC in sync.

New Dropbox Beta = 5GB of space

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.
fone_fanatic said:
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.
Waddle said:
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/

Camera Pictures to DropBox?

I have about 1 gig of Pictures on my Prime Camera I want to upload to DropBox. I am in the Camera App, is there a way to upload Multiple Pictures from Camera to DropBox? I can only see how to do 1 picture at a time. The reason I asked was this article I found about getting up to 3 gig of Extra DropBox space for Free.
http://techpp.com/2012/03/15/camera-upload-free-dropbox-space/
Thanks
RonH54 said:
I have about 1 gig of Pictures on my Prime Camera I want to upload to DropBox. I am in the Camera App, is there a way to upload Multiple Pictures from Camera to DropBox? I can only see how to do 1 picture at a time. The reason I asked was this article I found about getting up to 3 gig of Extra DropBox space for Free.
http://techpp.com/2012/03/15/camera-upload-free-dropbox-space/
Thanks
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There's a setting in dropbox somewhere that allows all pics to be uploaded.
You can send albums just select it and use the dropbox share .Or if in an album select all pictures then unselect ones you don't want and send .
If you didn't notice the bar at top once you select 1 item that's actually a drop down menu that has "select all".
Just tested with both an album and multi files works no problem.
RonH54 said:
I have about 1 gig of Pictures on my Prime Camera I want to upload to DropBox. I am in the Camera App, is there a way to upload Multiple Pictures from Camera to DropBox? I can only see how to do 1 picture at a time. The reason I asked was this article I found about getting up to 3 gig of Extra DropBox space for Free.
http://techpp.com/2012/03/15/camera-upload-free-dropbox-space/
Thanks
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Just download the beta apk and once it's setup it will automatically upload any pics in your dcim folder, it did on mine. It should also give you free space up to 5gb more. After that it automatically uploads the pictures as you take them, very nice.
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You can send albums just select it and use the dropbox share .Or if in an album select all pictures then unselect ones you don't want and send .
If you didn't notice the bar at top once you select 1 item that's actually a drop down menu that has "select all".
Just tested with both an album and multi files works no problem.
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Can this Folder upload be done though the Camera App? Also when I did check DropBox it was uploading all my Pictures in my Camera automatically but would like to do by Folders.
Thanks again
You can't so it from within Camera app. You can organise your folders with Es file explorer or another before syncing.
The Dropbox Android app now has an Automatic Camera upload feature, it will up your entire camera and video roll to "Camera Uploads" folder automatically. Using this feature will earn you 3GB of free Dropbox space too! They will match every 500mb of photos/video you auto upload up to 3GB (5GB for beta testers). You can configure it in the Dropbox app settings.

[Q] Dropbox camera upload from a different folder?

Hello!
I know Dropbox for Android (and iOS for that matter) will automatically upload pictures you take with the camera. But I want to have it also upload pictures that I save, either from a text message or from a website. Those pictures are saved to the "Downloads" folder, which I don't think Dropbox is watching for pictures. If I move pictures to the "DCIM/Camera" folder, SOMETIMES pictures will upload, but not always.
So is there a way to force Dropbox to auto-upload the pictures I save? I want that to happen so the pictures will be renamed to the date it was taken, which is why simply sharing them to Dropbox won't do.
Thanks!
Bump..also looking for an answer
Don't think so hmm. Maybe try to force a media rescan via one of those apps on the play store?
Alternatively use an app like Dropsync to do one way uploads or 2 way syncing to any folder to Dropbox.
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Dropbox does watch the Downloads folder. Actually, it monitors every folder on the USB storage partition of your phone. For example, screenshots I take on my phone get uploaded to my Dropbox as part of the "camera upload" function of the official Dropbox app, even though I don't get those pictures by using the phone's camera nor are they stored in the DCIM folder.
To see this, take a screenshot of any screen on your phone (for my wife's HTC Vivid it's Power + Volume Up, for my SGS2 Skyrocket it's Power + Home). It'll get saved to /storage/Pictures/Screenshots (your exact path name may be different depending on how your phone designates the USB storage partition of your phone - note this is note the SD card, but the accessible storage on your phone when you mount it as a USB drive when plugging it into your computer). You should eventually see that those screenshots are uploaded to the same folder on your Dropbox as all the photos you take with your phone's camera.
If you're not seeing that, I'm not sure what the issue would be. I'd recommend going to system settings > applications > dropbox > force stop > clear cache > clear data > uninstall, then reinstall Dropbox and set up camera upload again, take a few photos with the camera to make sure it works, then retaking some screenshots to make sure that that works as well.
by default, it upload to "Camera Uploads" dropbox, can I change the default folder to other folder in dropbox? sub folder?
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henry8668 said:
by default, it upload to "Camera Uploads" dropbox, can I change the default folder to other folder in dropbox? sub folder?
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No feasible solution
I don't think dropbox watch ALL folders. I noticed pictures for Whatsapp / eye-fi / any other apps which stores pictures in their own folder do not get backed up. Please advise if anyone have solution as to enable users as to which folders they want to upload to dropbox from their Android.
I use these two apps to sync additional folders on my phone to Dropbox's Camera Uploads. It may not be the exact solution you're looking for, but it works for me.
DropSync & CloudPipes
Try pasting photos in camera folder and rename similar to photo taken with camera. That may work
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Hi,
I am very interested in these feauture. There is some solution to automatically upload pictures for other location in dropbox?
Many thanks

[Q] Where does stock HTC Gallery store database?

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
pbergonzi said:
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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oryan_dunn said:
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?
pbergonzi said:
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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oryan_dunn said:
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.
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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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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oryan_dunn said:
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.
Quickpic
SuperAfnan said:
Why not just try "Quickpic"? Better than stock IMO.
Quickpic
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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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oryan_dunn said:
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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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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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...
chevycowboyusa said:
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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oryan_dunn said:
Yeah, I've tried
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Yeah, some of those thumbs did look pretty good.

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