I have the AT&T HTC One and I'm trying to import my photos and videos into Lightroom. I have Lightroom on my PC (Windows 8) and on my Mac (Mountain Lion). If I plug my photo into my PC, Lightroom sees all of the photos, but it also sees all of the artwork, widget png's, and every other image on the phone so it's very tedious having to deselect hundreds of photos that I don't want to import.
On my Mac, when I plug in the phone, it does not show up in Lightroom's import dialog. I do see the entire phone contents in Finder, but it doesn't have a source listed in Lightroom. Also, an app called "HTC Sync Manager" pops up on both computers. I assume this is some HTC software, but I don't know if I need it or not, or if it will help? I don't really want to have to copy the photos to the computer first and then import again through Lightroom.
On my previous phones (and on the iPhone), I just plug the phone in and it shows just my photos from the camera roll or photo gallery, which is what I want.
Can anyone help? This is my first HTC phone, so I'm not sure how to properly import photos and videos into Lightroom. Thanks!
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Hi All,
I have a few questions about pictures and music
Pictures
I use Kies and have selected some pictures to sync to my device from the PC. Nice and easy it upload the pictures stored on the computer.
However when viewing on the handheld the pictures are not in the folders that where on my PC. They are all together or separated by date. Is there a way that I can keep all the pictures in the separate folders just like on my PC. For example Xmas 2009 – Peters Birthday 2010 which contain the relevant pictures?
If I then change my mind and I don’t want those pictures on my device I could remove via Kies. I selected the folders on the Kies menu and removed the check box. Let the computer sync but found that the pictures where still on my device. Does Kies not work like this? In the end I had to go onto my phone via the PC sync cable and manually remove the pictures.
I take pictures with my phone all the time and like to locally store a copy. I used the Kies export method but that removes all the pictures you but on the phone from the PC as well!!!!
Is there a way to export the pictures from your device that are not on your computer already?
Google + / Picaso
Is it possible to also store a local copy of pictures taken to the external SD card and upload to google +?
Music
This one is a bit of a mind blower for me.
So I sync music via Kies onto my phone which is set up to store to the external memory first. The songs find their way onto the SD card but not in the album folders! And the phone does not see the music folders on the SD card.
So what I have to do it manually drag and drop the folders / Albums onto the internal memory of the phone and all is fine.
Do I have something set up wrong?
Thanks
Mat
Something else to add to my list of questions in my contacts each contact has a face picture (which I know you can customise). However they are all different colours is there any reason for this?
Hello guys, one of my friends has a Samsung Galaxy S2 and I am helping him to set up the phone to his needs. He used to have a bulletproof HTC Touch Pro, but since he switched to Android I feel that everytime we try to do something really simple and straight-forward we fail miserably or we spend so much time doing research and trying to find a solution, that we eventually give up in the end and think that our ideas are either ridiculous or there is no application on the market that can meet our expectations. This time we try to do a simple picture syncronisation like it used to be on the old WinMo devices - between a folder, containing all pictures on a PC and the built-in gallery on the smartphone. When you add a picture to the folder on the PC it gets automatically synced to the handheld and when you take a picture with the phone it gets copied to the folder on the computer. In the same way when you delete a picture on the phone it gets deleted on the PC and vice versa. All pictures on both devices must be available when there is no internet connection. We already tried the following solutions:
- Google Drive - pictures that are in the Drive are not listed in the phone's gallery, but in the GDrive app, which is inconvinient, as there is no preview and you must always be connected to internet to view all pics. Besides all that, even being connected with Wi-Fi it takes ages to load a picture properly. You can easily mark a picture to be accessible offline, but try doing that to 22GB of photos. We could not find a way to mark all photos automatically as available offline on adding. There is no two way sync between the gallery and Google Drive - when you delete a picture from the gallery it does not get deleted from the Drive and the other way around.
- Picasa - we tried to use it in addition to the Drive, but it gets even more compicated and laggy.
- Dropbox - there is no two way sync between the gallery on the phone and Dropbox gallery.
- SkyDrive - same here.
Are we missing something or these applications do not offer the features that we are looking for? Can you please recommend a product that does this job as it used to be done in the old days - fast and simple? I am very pleased with Microsoft Live Mesh which I am using to sync my documents folders between my PC, notebook and SkyDrive - it does all of the above brilliantly right up to the moment when you add an Android phone to the mix.
Thank you in advice for your responses!
You can use FolderSync similar programs
Description
FolderSync enables easy sync of files between cloud storage and Android devices.
FolderSync is a application that enables simple sync to cloud based storage to and from local folders on the device memory card. It currently support multiple SkyDrive, Dropbox, SugarSync, Ubuntu One, Box.net, LiveDrive, HiDrive, Google Docs, NetDocuments, Amazon S3, FTP, FTPS, SFTP, WebDAV or windows share (Samba/CIFS) accounts, and support for more platforms are planned. Read-only access to protected file-system also supported - requires root.
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poroff said:
Hello guys, one of my friends has a Samsung Galaxy S2 and I am helping him to set up the phone to his needs. He used to have a bulletproof HTC Touch Pro, but since he switched to Android I feel that everytime we try to do something really simple and straight-forward we fail miserably or we spend so much time doing research and trying to find a solution, that we eventually give up in the end and think that our ideas are either ridiculous or there is no application on the market that can meet our expectations. This time we try to do a simple picture syncronisation like it used to be on the old WinMo devices - between a folder, containing all pictures on a PC and the built-in gallery on the smartphone. When you add a picture to the folder on the PC it gets automatically synced to the handheld and when you take a picture with the phone it gets copied to the folder on the computer. In the same way when you delete a picture on the phone it gets deleted on the PC and vice versa. All pictures on both devices must be available when there is no internet connection. We already tried the following solutions:
- Google Drive - pictures that are in the Drive are not listed in the phone's gallery, but in the GDrive app, which is inconvinient, as there is no preview and you must always be connected to internet to view all pics. Besides all that, even being connected with Wi-Fi it takes ages to load a picture properly. You can easily mark a picture to be accessible offline, but try doing that to 22GB of photos. We could not find a way to mark all photos automatically as available offline on adding. There is no two way sync between the gallery and Google Drive - when you delete a picture from the gallery it does not get deleted from the Drive and the other way around.
- Picasa - we tried to use it in addition to the Drive, but it gets even more compicated and laggy.
- Dropbox - there is no two way sync between the gallery on the phone and Dropbox gallery.
- SkyDrive - same here.
Are we missing something or these applications do not offer the features that we are looking for? Can you please recommend a product that does this job as it used to be done in the old days - fast and simple? I am very pleased with Microsoft Live Mesh which I am using to sync my documents folders between my PC, notebook and SkyDrive - it does all of the above brilliantly right up to the moment when you add an Android phone to the mix.
Thank you in advice for your responses!
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I have several folders with photos from previous cell phones. (not in iPhoto, iTunes).
I have installed the Sync Manager on the MacBook Pro and it is working fine. Questions I have:
1. What is the right way to import those folders of photos into the Gallery using Sync Manager?
2. when I was experimenting, I also "transferred" those folders as "Files" to the HTC One. But now I can not find it? Where does Sync Manager store transferred files?
Thanks!
I have then read the manual for the Sync Manager.
According to that, you have to drag your folder into the Sync Manager for it to 'become its library". Then I synced to the phone.
HOWEVER, when I open the Gallery on the phone, the photos ARE NOT organized by the folder. They are grouped randomly and all over the place. The only thing that seemed still in the same group was an import from iPhoto album.
Any one else tried to import a picture folder to the one?
z3atl said:
I have then read the manual for the Sync Manager.
According to that, you have to drag your folder into the Sync Manager for it to 'become its library". Then I synced to the phone.
HOWEVER, when I open the Gallery on the phone, the photos ARE NOT organized by the folder. They are grouped randomly and all over the place. The only thing that seemed still in the same group was an import from iPhoto album.
Any one else tried to import a picture folder to the one?
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Hi there, noob posting.
I had the same issue with importing photos from Iphtoto to HTC one... Instead of maintaining the folders I had in iphoto, it randomly assigned them to 1photo/album on my phone.
Any ideas how to delete the now ~4200 "albums" on my phone other than one at a time through the phone?
HTC sync manager says I dont have any pics on there at all. So I dont seem to be able to delete from my mac end
Cheers
YawningDog79 said:
Hi there, noob posting.
I had the same issue with importing photos from Iphtoto to HTC one... Instead of maintaining the folders I had in iphoto, it randomly assigned them to 1photo/album on my phone.
Any ideas how to delete the now ~4200 "albums" on my phone other than one at a time through the phone?
HTC sync manager says I dont have any pics on there at all. So I dont seem to be able to delete from my mac end
Cheers
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Could it be trying to automatically sort them by "Event" (by time or location(within 3km)). I think this is how it auto-magically makes the videos that you can HTC Share. I was reading one review of The One, and HTC told him that he can create separate folders under Events to create separate mini-movies.
Just a guess. . . .
If I connect the device to my computer and then right click on the device and select to import pictures, it starts looking for literally everything. Thumbnails, cache files, etc. Or I have to manually go in and copy pictures from the camera folder and others like whatsapp folder.
Previously I used an iPhone for a while and on that if u right clicked and pressed import, it would only import pictures, not cache files and thumbnails.
Is there any software that people are using that recognizes new pictures and imports only those?
Have you had a look at sony pc companion.
If this doesnt do your job then you will have to manualy find the folders
Its not too hard, usualy its the name of the app or its in images or photos or pictures
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If I connect the device to my computer and then right click on the device and select to import pictures, it starts looking for literally everything. Thumbnails, cache files, etc. Or I have to manually go in and copy pictures from the camera folder and others like whatsapp folder.
Previously I used an iPhone for a while and on that if u right clicked and pressed import, it would only import pictures, not cache files and thumbnails.
Is there any software that people are using that recognizes new pictures and imports only those?
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Select the DCIM folder on your device, and hopefully right clicking on that should import your pictures (can't be 100‰ certain as I don't use windoze)
Thanks guys. The pc companion program has an app in it called media go which did the job.
Otherwise you can use AIRDROID from the market. It's fast (connection speed depended, of course), reliable and cable free.
Hi everyone,
I'd like to know how you guys organize your photos, and if what I want to achieve is even possible on Android.
Ideally, I'd like to be able to put my photos into different albums so I can find them easily. And I'd like to view these photos in their respective albums in whichever device I'm on (whether Android or on my Mac).
Right now, I use Google Drive to sync to my Google Photos folder on my phone so that I can view the photos on my Mac. However, the photos are scattered everywhere and they're not in an album, so it's nearly impossible to find that photo.
Has anyone been able to achieve this on their Android device? I'd like to continue using Google Drive to sync between my devices, including my photos.