Hi all,
Today I found something really weird on my Android powered phone (Galaxy Note + CM 10.1) - on my external sd card is hidden folder ".faces" in which i found a lot of (really, A LOT OF, approximately 4 thousands) files with no extensions (I mean, only simple file names - for example "346"). When I tried to open it, I figured out that these file was an image, more precisely a part of my private photos taken with my phone. Really, it's very strange for me - why I have folder with ~4k photos of faces cut out from my PRIVATE photo albums? For what? I mean, it's just sick... Why android (Google...) does something like this?
any answers?
Any answers on this?
sinedoOo said:
Hi all
Today I found something really weird on my Android powered phone (Galaxy Note + CM 10.1) - on my external sd card is hidden folder ".faces" in which i found a lot of (really, A LOT OF, approximately 4 thousands) files with no extensions (I mean, only simple file names - for example "346"). When I tried to open it, I figured out that these file was an image, more precisely a part of my private photos taken with my phone. Really, it's very strange for me - why I have folder with ~4k photos of faces cut out from my PRIVATE photo albums? For what? I mean, it's just sick... Why android (Google...) does something like this?
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sinedoOo said:
Hi all,
Today I found something really weird on my Android powered phone (Galaxy Note + CM 10.1) - on my external sd card is hidden folder ".faces" in which i found a lot of (really, A LOT OF, approximately 4 thousands) files with no extensions (I mean, only simple file names - for example "346"). When I tried to open it, I figured out that these file was an image, more precisely a part of my private photos taken with my phone. Really, it's very strange for me - why I have folder with ~4k photos of faces cut out from my PRIVATE photo albums? For what? I mean, it's just sick... Why android (Google...) does something like this?
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Certain apps will keep data on the SD card in cases where a kit of room is needed. The period in front denotes a hidden folder. In my case, I have an ".aptoide" and a ".nogapps" folder for those respective apps. If I had to guess, ".face" folder is keeping data from your camera, which may be set up to use facial detection to focus. Try turning off facial detection, delete that folder and take a few photos with people in them. See if the faces show in that folder again.
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Hi, just a simple question for you folks:
How do you import photos cleanly from the i9100?
Kies is a mess: no thumbnail / every single folder is scanned, regardless of .media files / files already imported are not identified as such / no grouping by date etc.
Windows 7 file explorer and picasa are barely better...
Help please.
with any other android phone, you just drag and drop using a file explorer. create a new folder called pics, or put them in the DCIM folder if you want, and let it scan away and youre done.
if the SGS2 is having some specific issue that causes this to not work like it normally does, then i have no idea.
same applies to your music collection too.
I delved deeper into the problem. Switching to debug mode / removing kies usb connexion mode allows windows 7 to display thumbnails, making it easier to import files with live galery.
Nightmare is back with ICS...How the *** do you remove the mtp crap? There's no pure storage connection mode now, is there?
To answer the above remarks, I don't want to drag/drop from a folder. I want to import with some sort of software, so that photos are auto-rotated / erased / tagged.
Cyanogenmod 9 is just perfect for photo import: it only scans the dcim folders and displays thumbnails when importing...unfortunately, I quite like stock ics and I'll only move back to CM9 with jelly bean or when Samsung forsakens us
Help?
Here it is, your posts are really confusing and everything but to the point
Thank you. Above post worked. Sorta. Thumbnails are back.
See screenshot for the mess I'm talking about (only 2 pics to import).
Foreword:
I want to import my pictures from an i9100 into windows. Easy enough, right?
Wrong. It's been a nightmare since ... well my first HTC G1.
What I want:
1. I want the ability to preview thumbnails of the phone's videos and thumbnails before importing.
2. I want the ability to select time intervals between photos to group them nicely.
3. I want the ability to append a filename to said groups so that they're imported in neatly named folders.
4. I want autorotate on import
5. I want to import only from a specific folder (crazy, right?), namely the DCIM folders. I don't care about the gazillion thumbnails scattered on my phone.
Live photo gallery comes close to these requirements but fails on points 1. (no thumbnails for videos on stock roms, but works with cyanogenmod) and 5. (gazillion pictures).
Adobe Lightroom isn't any better and fails on almost all criteria.
Picasa also falls short.
How do you do it? Am I missing something? Any clever app that knows how to exclude .nomedia folders?
Any help appreciated.
Cheers & happy new year.
Reference: very old post of mine but nothing's changed.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1107732
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I'm not crazy / alone.
Still not crazy...
coincoinlapin said:
Foreword:
I want to import my pictures from an i9100 into windows. Easy enough, right?
Wrong. It's been a nightmare since ... well my first HTC G1.
What I want:
1. I want the ability to preview thumbnails of the phone's videos and thumbnails before importing.
2. I want the ability to select time intervals between photos to group them nicely.
3. I want the ability to append a filename to said groups so that they're imported in neatly named folders.
4. I want autorotate on import
5. I want to import only from a specific folder (crazy, right?), namely the DCIM folders. I don't care about the gazillion thumbnails scattered on my phone.
Live photo gallery comes close to these requirements but fails on points 1. (no thumbnails for videos on stock roms, but works with cyanogenmod) and 5. (gazillion pictures).
Adobe Lightroom isn't any better and fails on almost all criteria.
Picasa also falls short.
How do you do it? Am I missing something? Any clever app that knows how to exclude .nomedia folders?
Any help appreciated.
Cheers & happy new year.
Reference: very old post of mine but nothing's changed.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1107732
1st Edit
I'm not crazy / alone.
Still not crazy...
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Hi me from the past. Just a quick reply to tell you that nothing has changed in the future and no one seems to care about importing photos properly. I guess people are just happy doing copy/paste of folders...or have a lot of cloud space to upload full size photos...or just don't look at their million photos. Later me.
Hey there,
So i am new to the forums and to the Android world in general, just to get that out of the way .
Well i just copied some of the pictures from my PC to the Phone, but when i use the original Gallery App, it doesnt show the photos in the way i ordered them, meaning;
i have put the images according to my own ordering system into folders
ex; Images > Cars , then inside cars , Audi, BMW ,
Images > Nature , then inside that, Animals, Forest .... etc
when i open it in the gallery app, it shows each folder individually, meaning it brings all the folders (Audi, BMW, Animals, Forest) but doesnt put it in the way i put it on the phone, or the way it is stored if i check the files using a filemanager.
So is this normal, and there is no way to fix it? or perhaps there is another Gallery App that wont do that or so?
hope i could get my msg through.
Thanks for the help in advanced.
Hello all, I have received a TON of false positives in my search for whether this is even possible.
In windows, a shortcut to a file or folder can be stored in any folder.
So far in Android, a shortcut can only be placed on the home screen, and AFAIK does not have a corresponding file that can be found in the root browser.
I am trying to trick Handshaker into giving me access to my EXTERNAL SD, and the only way I can think of is to create a shortcut somewhere on the internal SD that zips on over to the card where all my media (100Gb+) is stored.
I'm on a OPX, so internal storage BARELY COVERS apps. No switcheroo action is reasonably doable.
As an aside, is this whole Mac incompatibility thing a vestigial grudge? It must take a lot of effort to KEEP usb from working as it should. Are there other apps besides the "works when it feels like it" Android File Transfer or "installs weird **** on your phone" HandShaker that allow you to move around YOUR OWN FILES without using the cloud? The amount of web silence and lack of development is stunning to me. Maybe I need to refine my search terms?? Unlikely. I've tried many tens of iterations.
The search for answers here results in a mountain of false-positives as well.
Thanks for taking the time to at least read this.
Cheers.
Hello Community!
As everybody might know, the stock camera app saves taken pictures in the DCIM folder (phone memory or sd card - depending on the settings).
Unfortunately, photo files are becoming more and more in this folder, as Android does not create subfolders for every 100 photos or so.
I remember that nokia phones (with symbian) did create subfolders after 100 photos. That was waaayyy better, especially when you are entering the DCIM folder via PC. In Android, if you have many photos in the DCIM folder, it takes such a long time until all photos are displayed in the explorer and are accessible.
My question is: Does there exists a trick / tool / setting that allows Android to create subfolders in the DCIM folder automaticly?
Any help would be much appreciated, an approach without root would be prefered, but if neccesary I'm also interested in aproaches with root.
Hope someone might have some suggestions.
Greeting from Germany!
Hannes