I backed into this solution from reading problems other people had trying to change the location where their pictures were stored.
Somehow my registry got one little bad value and I couldn't take pictures. I thought they were just being saved somewhere odd. But in fact the path was OK, the FORMAT was wrong. This is worth checking for anyone having mysterious problems with their pictures.
Check the registry entry:
HKLM\Software\HTC\Camera\General\EnableDCIM
It MUST be set to "0". If it is set to "1", you won't be able to use your camera.
The best I can figure if this is set to 1, then the picture is stored in the DCIM format (at least I think that's a format). You do end up with files in the expected directory, they just can't be read by any of the phone's picture handling programs. So, whatever it is, in the world of JPG this is just about worthless.
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What I'm really wondering here is if there is a way to point the My Photos home screen item to the storage card rather than My Documents on the device.
Put the pictures in a folder called "Pictures" on your storage card.
Outerdepth showed me that ...
Meh, that doesn't work for me...I mean I have not done that yet but the camera saves to Storage Card\My Documents\My Pictures...so to just up and take them all and dump them in a new folder called Pictures just doesn't cut it. As far as I know you can only select device or storage card for the camera and if you select storage card "\My Documents\My Pictures" is automatically created on the storage card. There should be a registry entry that controls where that object on the home screen "knows" to look for images...
So, in a word, that solution is: retarded...Microsoft should know that mobile devices do not yet have the storage capacity on the device that the average user would even need for their images. Storage cards are paramount in mobile devices for storing media. Why on earth would there not be a setting that could be changed in regards to this!? Heck! On the Windows OS one could point the My Documents folder to anything! Even a network share. Why would it be any different for the mobile version of Windows?
at0msk said:
Meh, that doesn't work for me...I mean I have not done that yet but the camera saves to Storage Card\My Documents\My Pictures...so to just up and take them all and dump them in a new folder called Pictures just doesn't cut it. As far as I know you can only select device or storage card for the camera and if you select storage card "\My Documents\My Pictures" is automatically created on the storage card. There should be a registry entry that controls where that object on the home screen "knows" to look for images...
So, in a word, that solution is: retarded...Microsoft should know that mobile devices do not yet have the storage capacity on the device that the average user would even need for their images. Storage cards are paramount in mobile devices for storing media. Why on earth would there not be a setting that could be changed in regards to this!? Heck! On the Windows OS one could point the My Documents folder to anything! Even a network share. Why would it be any different for the mobile version of Windows?
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yep , its stupid but the way it is. How 'bout a script that would check every so often for your pics and move them for you to the Pictures folder needed for CPhotos? I've been pretty busy but I think OD made something like that. If he didn't, I could do something for you if you're not in a hurry.
Thanks but that's ok. Just too much "going out of the way" for something that should be simple. Microsoft really amazes me sometimes...
Something, somewhere in that OS is a command that lets the object on the home screen know where to find those pics. It's just a matter of finding it and changing it.
http://www.mediafire.com/?fnjjlhk1vcf
Im sorry...thats the fix file that will read from the "Pictures" file on your sd card
Hey,
I found several post about the gallery image order, but i think I've found a new problem...
I started after i deleted the app data for the gallery (because of another bug, where it doesn't show all of whatsapp videos), and my mistake was i didn't back it up with titanium backup first...
After the deletion, it appears that while most of the images are in the correct order, the panorama images are messed up, not completely, they are still close to their old location, but moved a couple of spots...
i tried debugging it, and i think that the cause is that the panorama files don't have the data taken exif tag... (same problem as with the video files)
I will try to add the tag myself and see if it works, but i was wondering if maybe it wasn't there for a reason? i know the files are not standard jpeg...
I would be happy for some input or some ideas from someone with more experience!
Any other ideas what to do...
It's a bit annoying
Yomach said:
Hey,
I found several post about the gallery image order, but i think I've found a new problem...
I started after i deleted the app data for the gallery (because of another bug, where it doesn't show all of whatsapp videos), and my mistake was i didn't back it up with titanium backup first...
After the deletion, it appears that while most of the images are in the correct order, the panorama images are messed up, not completely, they are still close to their old location, but moved a couple of spots...
i tried debugging it, and i think that the cause is that the panorama files don't have the data taken exif tag... (same problem as with the video files)
I will try to add the tag myself and see if it works, but i was wondering if maybe it wasn't there for a reason? i know the files are not standard jpeg...
I would be happy for some input or some ideas from someone with more experience!
Any other ideas what to do...
It's a bit annoying
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It seems that the time data tag is written...
I thought it didn't because windows 7 didn't manage to read it, which might indicate the real problem.
Anyway, i've used ExifTool on 2 pictures taken one after the other, one of them is panorama and the other is a normal picture.
They both have correct exif tags and appear in the correct order, but what i did find out is that the tag "Exif Tag Order" is different, it is "little endian" for the panorama and "big endian" for the normal picture, other than that they are the same...
I'm clueless
I'm attaching links to my pictures, can someone try to help me debug it?
Picture a
Picture b (panorama)
Picture c
The pictures were taken in the above order, but picture c appears in the gallery between a & b (with more pictures).
EDIT - Forgot to mention, I've installed QuickPic to see what it does.
QuickPic, when told to sort by date, put all of the movies first (because they don't have exif, annoying problem itself), then all of the panorama pictures (in the correct relative order), then the normal pictures (again, in the correct relative order)
So there is some problem with the different tags!
err!
Hi,
Quick question: I had sorted all my Pictures on my ext_sdcard into folders, but sadly in the official Gallery app it just shows all of them under camera pictures. Only like 5 Folders which have no logical connection to me are shown, from the internal aswell as from the external storage. Now, I am able to create new Albums and sort them through the menu, but as far as I can see the only thing that changes are the databases and not the file system. I would hate to sort all my photos again
is there a way to use the folder structure or at least something to speed up the process??
I had hoped it would suffice to just change the mediacollection.db -> albums to include the folders but that didn't work
*EDIT*
to create groups one would need to compute the bucket_id hash for the corresponding file/folder. Any infos on which algorithm it uses, or how I can compute it myself?
**EDIT**
The Albums get sorted by Folder, so if you have Subfolders then those will just be in one album. splitting them up kind of resolves the problem. it's just not very nice to have all image folders scattered over the sdcard and completely defeats the purpose of one single image folder
***EDIT***
Moved the pictures from the DCIM Folder to the Pictures Folder and it worked perfectly. please mark as solved for reverence or delete.
Hi, all. Hope you're doing well.
I've come across this issue where:
JPEG images exported from Capture One Pro 12 and copied to the internal storage of my OnePlus 7T refuse to show up in the gallery (or rather mediastore refuses to pick them up it seems), but PNG images exported from COP 12 show up without a problem.
I've tried moving them around into different folders with file management apps.
I've tried opening them up with the gallery app from the file manager.
I've tried refreshing media storage with apps (which did show me that it had indeed found the missing images and it told me that it had added them into mediastore), but no luck with those.
It happened to me before, an entire folder of JPEG images refused to show up, and they still are missing. And all the PNG files that I copied from my computer showed up just fine. So I tried exporting PNGs from COP 12, and they showed up immediately.
Any idea how this could happen? Can anyone repeat this case reliably or is it just me?
Many thanks!
And stay safe.
Check for the jpeg format when saving in C1
Hello,
I just got another S22 running android 12. I'm moving the photographs from the microSD card in the S10e (obviously they eliminated the SD card opening in the S22) to the S22. I did it first utilizing SmartSwitch however it changed every one of the Modified dates to now. So then, at that point, I took a stab at compressing the records, moving the compress to the S22 and unfastening it utilizing Files application from Google. Again it changed the dates to now despite the fact that inside the compress document the dates were all right. Any thoughts here how to keep up with time/date stamps?
Much appreciated,
Zane Willer
Look inside here:
How to Transfer Photos between Android Devices Without Losing Timestamps
If you like to keep your photos organized by the date they were taken, you may encounter an annoying issue regarding dates. Specifically, the timestamps
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A point to note is the camera app appears to name files with a timestamp based on the STARTING time. Some transferring programs (like Photo-Sync) can send using just the filename, but others may use the STOPPING timestamp. As in, start a 5 minute video recording today at 9am and the FILENAME will say "20220506_0900.mpg" but anything using the metadata will name it "20220506_0905.mpg". Most do not seem to offer a way to get the starting timestamp for this sort of thing.
I just ran into this transferring some pictures between several (family) devices, one of which stored with files named liked "IMG_XXXXX". The transferring options only offered the ENDING timestamp for creating a filename template. Some of the pix had been taken on an Android with the starting timestamp, but when transferred onto an IOS device ended up with an IMG_XXXX format. Transferring them BACK resulted in duplicates due to the start vs end timestamp. So, yeah, that's a hassle. I'll use the windows TreeSize program to help search and remove the duplicates but, ugh, more work...
I may have to dig into writing some code that renames start-based files to end-based recording timestamps.
Upside is Photo-Sync DOES preserve the timestamps on the files themselves.