the other day i was playing around with htc albums. this app uis what i primarily use to view pics and vids. in fact it it linked to the camera app as the app that is used to view picture that you would take.
anyways, i somehow got this to show me every picture on my phone which i thought was nice and interesting, bad thing is that now every time i open this app it shows all the pics on my "device" and storage card and they are all mixed up. i want this to be like it used to be, it used to juts show the pics i have taken with the camera....
i tried to change the "favorite album" but it goes right back to showing all my pics even thumbnails in the opera temp folder
please advise
well i figured what was causing this, and the fix.
apparently booting to android causes something, prolly android, to create a thumbnails folder within my dcim folder
and it seems to make a thumbnail of all the pics it can find and drop them in this folder. it will even make thumbnails or thumbnails
this also explains why some of the pix i was taking with the cam looked like crap, because i was viewing thumbnails
fix: delete this thumbnail folder, but it will come back as soon as i boot android
just thought i'd share
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HTC Audio Manager is a fantastic piece of software, so how come their Picture/Video manager is so terrible? Maybe it's me, but I can't find:
1. An "open file" option. How the heck am I supposed to open a file in a specific location?
2. A "sort albums alphabetically option". Okay, fine, I can accept that it's going to scan and include every single album on my device. But how am I supposed to find anything if there is no way to sort the albums?
3. A way to show only picture files or only video files. If I want to watch videos, how the hell am I supposed to find them?
I am a lifelong windows mobile user, but it's this kind of thing that REALLY drives me nuts. You want email? Sure, but you won't get a "mark all as read" button, or the ability to create rules (hence reducing the email functionality to the level of the iFail). You want to watch videos and look at pictures? Sure, we'll give you great codec support but no way to actually get to the videos.....
Am I a total idiot or is this piece of software really that bad?
You'll need to browse to where your video file is. To do this, tap the left soft key "Albums" and navigate accordingly.
However, it doesn't support many video formats. So I use it only to play back video that's taken with my device. All other videos, I use Coreplayer.
For some reason, HTC Album wasn't picking up my "Video" folder that I created on my storage drive. In fact, it still isn't - I just got it to work but only by creating a subfolder within the main "Video" folder. It only sees the subfolder.
This brings me to my next question - right now, the albums list is incredibly cluttered. Is there a way to either sort it alphabetically, or make HTC Album recognize a folder structure? Instead of the vast jumble of random subfolders (all of my pictures and video are organized meticulously), it would be much easier to have a seperate "Pictures" and "Video" folder, with subfolders such as "Movies, TV Shows", etc under each one.
Is this possible?
Anyone know how to make HTC Album rescan? I deleted a bunch of picture folders but it's still showing them.
my albums are seperated into different folders based on what they are and it works great. I just browse into the folder from HTC Album to whatever i want to watch or look at.
Here is how you rescan the library.
under device, application data, htc...there is a .vol file. Delete this, and the music application will rescan your library.
I have noticed that my thumbnail views of my different albums are often the wrong picture, they are the correct picture when I select it, but the thumbnails can be just about any picture in my albums. They migrate from different albums as well, and from storage card to device. A soft reset does not help. Not a huge problem, more frustrating than anything when looking for a particular photo.
Anyone else have this issue, and is it fixable?
Nobody has encountered this?
Yes I've noticed it too. It seems to happen where the photo is an unusual size - for example, a cropped landscape that is long and thin.
Don't know how to fix it however!
When I sync photos with Windows Media Player, photos arrive in tiny, pretty much unusable format on the TP2 - can't seem to find a suitable setting in WMP to fix - anyone?
I've noticed this too. It seems to only happen when I start to scoll through the pics before they're done loading the thumbnails.
I tried letting all the thumbnails load first, but they load and stay incorrectly. Also, the more I go through pictures/albums, the more incorrect thumbnails seem to appear.
Delete all files and folders in this folder:
My Device\Application Data\HTC\HTC Album
Mesquire said:
Delete all files and folders in this folder:
My Device\Application Data\HTC\HTC Album
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Wow! You are officially the man, worked like a charm. Thank you very much.
I have two problems and i wanna ask if there is anyone alse sharing this problems
1. Gallery it froze every time, sometimes when i open it, sometimes when i open folder there... after update I literally didnt see single photo there
2. Music, songs have different album pic...
Porcupine tree is Offspring now... Slipknot is Sex pistols etc. restart didnt help..
what's wrong??
I don't know the problem but there have been a few issues with it going slower etc with some people.
I had same problem gallery freezing. I think some files are reason because of gallery app try to create thumbnails, and i put in folders .nomedia files which i suspected. and now its ok this fix my gallery "force close" problem.
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Just put a .nomedia file in the folder where you have the pics and videos you want to hide.
You might already have this file in your sdcard (some ebook reader or other app that has pics not show in the gallery).
If not, just create an empty text file and rename it.
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Not specifically a note 2 question, but maybe someone can help me out. I've been trying to share pictures taken between my wife and I on our phones. I have note 2 now and she has galaxy s3. I've been using google drive with an uploader program and shared a folder on each drive so when I take a picture, it uploads to my drive and that folder is shared with my wife and vice versa. that works but its clunky as the drive app kind of sucks for displaying photos and drive videos play like crap on the phone.
I've done the same thing with dropbox and thats better as at least the app has a photo section but that apparently only works with photos taken on my phone, so photos from the folder that my wife shared with me don't show in the photo section.
google + uploads photos but of course those get resized which i'm not crazy about, but at least those will display in the gallery. What I finally did last night is to add my wifes email to my phone and sync to picassa. Now I can see the photos she takes in the gallery, but that is a rediculously unsecure way to share photos. I guess not bad if its your wife, but still giving anyone access to your email isn't great.
Plus while it works on the gallery now, the gallery interface leaves a lot to be desired, I now have like 20 albums sitting there with no way to say Gallery, just show me the few I want to see.
And I still have to use dropbox or drive to upload fullsize photos as I don't want all my photos resized.
I took a bunch of photos this morning for work.
Here is a screencap of the DCIM->Camera directory on my Pixel 2 XL. The thumbnails folder in this location is empty, and the .inflight folder (which I've never seen on an android device before) has a .nomedia placeholder file in it.
https://imgur.com/a/0ImKZ
Some of these are normal "IMG" shot, and some of these are obviously "MVIMG" shots which I believe are supposed to be the motion type. As you'll notice, the size of some of these images are ridiculous (upwards of 9 megs in some cases).
Also strange, I have three different video files (.mp4) that are reporting 0 byte sizes. Since I did not record any video this morning, I assume these have to be related to the motion photo feature of the phone but I'm not clear on how any of this works. If I was to pull these off my phone for a storage, how I do I tell which part is "motion" and which part is just images? Will the motion part be kept if I move the mp4s too, or do I lose that feature if I don't back up the empty mp4 files? I honestly don't like the idea of backing up 9 megabyte photos so I may just turn this functionality off in the future.
tl;dr: How does this work and how can I pull it off the phone and keep the functionality?
Does anyone know how to keep the functionality of these files and view the motion on a windows 10 PC stored locally.
I can see them if I upload to google photos and view in chrome. But I want to just store locally on NAS and not use internet.