Anyone know a reason why after rebooting phone the media scan takes a very long time?
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It depends on how much you have on your sd card. The more you have the longer it takes.
I wonder what the ratio to time being done scanning is , because i only have maybe 2-3 gigs worth of media and it takes like 10 minutes to finish scanning media
It isn't just the size of the files. The number of files that it has to check matters too. If there are any folders that you don't need scanned, put a file called .nomedia in that folder and the scanner will skip that finder and it's subfolders.
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any way to find out what its scanning and where, or is it scanning the whole sd card?
It scans the whole sd card, except for folders with the .nomedia file.
What is the purpose of the scan? If I put the .nomedia file in every directory what would happen?
Then it won't know where pictures are music are on your sdcard. For example, pictures in a folder with .nomedia will not show up in your gallery.
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Then it won't know where pictures are music are on your sdcard. For example, pictures in a folder with .nomedia will not show up in your gallery.
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So I can put .nomedia in many folders (like where apps are installed on the SD card) that I know no pics or music should be in.
Exactly what type of file does the .nomedia file need to be?
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Exactly what type of file does the .nomedia file need to be?
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It doesn't matter. You can simply make it an empty text file. The media scanner just checks for a file with the name .nomedia. It doesn't care what kind of file it is.
will the .nomedia thing stop winamp from trying to play mp3(turns out they were .ogg) files that are simply sounds to a game? The game is dungeon hunter and the question is nearly academic because I don't really like it and will probably uninstall it in the near future.. But still, I want winamp to play my music mp3s, which are all in a folder /music and nothing else..
meh, I can just try it and see before anyone even reads this and replies..
SUCCESS! no more "raw1385" in my winamp playlist
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What is the purpose of the scan? If I put the .nomedia file in every directory what would happen?
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I think if you put .nomedia everywhere you will basically lose all functionality of gallery, etc. You may want to try "Rescan Media ROOT" from the market. It requires root, as you can tell from its name, but it lets you turn off the automatic media scanning and do it manually whenever you need (which is almost never in my case). That combined with judicious use of .nomedia has been wonderful.
I guess if you change what media is on your phone a lot, this will be less useful, but for me, it's saved a tremendous amount of time and helped convert my high-powered media-scanning device back into a phone.
do you think that the type of sd card , like the stock one that came with the phone might be lower quality and take longer or is there one thats extreme high quality ?
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do you think that the type of sd card , like the stock one that came with the phone might be lower quality and take longer or is there one thats extreme high quality ?
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The sdcard included is only a class 2, but it has more than enough throughput for the media scan. You can get a class 4 or class 6 card, but I doubt it will make much of a difference in the amount of time the media scanner is running.
My phone has been getting stuck often on the media scan process. Sometimes it get's stuck in the middle, sometimes it never stops. I recently reformatted my sd but the problem still exists. Also, I often have trouble mounting the sd in recovery. I'm using a class 6 8gb transcend which I've had for about a year or more. Is it possible my card is just going bad and is there a good way to tell?
Its the phone for some reason when I was on di18 it was taking a very long time to scan after awhile it just got really short. Sorry I don't the exact reasoning but I re formatted my card and it didn't help.
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Is it possible my card is just going bad and is there a good way to tell?
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I guess you could try a different card with the same files and see what the difference in scan time is. Or try them both freshly formatted and empty.
There are always ways to test.
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I bought a 32gb SD card for my Epic as I really need the space!
So I took my 16gb card, plugged it into my laptop, copied all the files to a folder and removed it.
I put the 32gb SD card into my phone, formatted it, removed it, plugged it into my laptop, dragged all the files onto it, removed it, put it back in my Epic and none of the apps that were on my SD card will run.
The Epic shows the massive amount of storage from the card, but it simply will not run any of the apps on the card.
Did I miss a step? Did I do something wrong? Can anyone offer any advice?
This is driving me crazy so any help is appreciated!
Thanks!
use a backup app?
Maybe if you use titanium backup or mybackup pro to make a backup of apks and data; copy all to the 32, pop it in and then restore the backup, there may be some other info that tells android where to find the apps and their data.
good luck
I just got a 32 card as well to replace my 16, did the same steps you just described and it never missed a step. All apps working normally. Can u explore android secure and see that they are in there. I know on some custom roms every so often, the system wldnt load the sd card properly. It wld show the apps as installed in app mnager, but wld be grayd out as if the card was removed. That was on eb13 and eco5 roms. I shld note I did the sd card switch while running hurricane eh17 gingerbread. Sorry, this is probly not anything helpful.
P.s. Most often had the loading issue when I had a ton of apps on the sd card.
I've tried everything I can think of and nothing seems to work. I even found this awesome free service called Tonido & tried that...no go.
When I put it in my phone it shows that 29 point something gb of storage is there so the phone is recognizing the size of the memory...but apparently the files aren't showing up on the SD card even though they are there. All that shows up in the app drawer are the apps stored on the internal phone storage. This is really frustrating. I really need some help with this
I would try app backup and reinstall or app backup reinstall.
They scan the sd card and show what you have and you can reinstall. Never tried titanium. So dont know if that works or not.
Best of Luck....Let us Know!!
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Backing up is Very Very Important. No Matter the Case. Anyone, even Rooters and Developers will tell you that.
Sure at any point and time, not everyone, but Most have forgot.
Check your 32gb card folders if nothing inside 0kb then you have faulty card mean not truly 32gb but a lot less.
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There's an app on the market that rescans your sd for you. Can't remember what its called and chances r it won't help it find the apps, but its worth a shot. Sd scan, or sd rescan, something like that.
If you go into settings, apps, manage apps, are these apps showing up there either?
Also, if u put the old card back in, do they come back?
I ended up buying My Backup Pro and it worked for the most part. I backed up everything online, swapped SD cards and "restored" to the 32gb card. A few photos & videos wouldn't back up. I'm also having some incredibly annoying issues with Beautiful Widgets. I have uninstalled & installed several times but it doesn't fix.
All my apps, data, pictures, vids, etc are still on the old SD card. Hopefully I can figure out how to take the BW stuff from the old SD card & get it to the new one.
Thanks all for helping me out.
Try "fancy widgets". I like it better than beatiful widgets. Tho, I don't think it has much more than weather, clock, and battery widgets. Some sexy skins available for it
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Try "fancy widgets". I like it better than beatiful widgets. Tho, I don't think it has much more than weather, clock, and battery widgets. Some sexy skins available for it
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The only issue there is that I paid for BW a long time ago. The standard skin works but none of the other ones will. Sucks.
I just don't get it.
My 16gb card has 14.73gb of space used. Which is why I bought a 32gb card.
I put every single folder, file, etc on there AGAIN (folder by folder this time) and my card still doesn't show all the files being on there. This tells me that for some reason that data isn't being recognized by the phone?
I can't believe I'm the first person that's ever encountered this issue!
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Sorry mang. The only thing i can suggest is returning the card for a new one if its not too much of a hassle. I had similar trouble with my second 16gb card and i gave up and got a new one. If no one (who actually knows what they are talking about) checks in here, try reposting under a different description. Good luck
I dont know if this is possible, but since it says 29 total and 26 still available, and you were transferring over 14 gigs to it, maybe the card isnt even close to a 32gig and is just reporting that it is.
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Sorry mang. The only thing i can suggest is returning the card for a new one if its not too much of a hassle. I had similar trouble with my second 16gb card and i gave up and got a new one. If no one (who actually knows what they are talking about) checks in here, try reposting under a different description. Good luck
I dont know if this is possible, but since it says 29 total and 26 still available, and you were transferring over 14 gigs to it, maybe the card isnt even close to a 32gig and is just reporting that it is.
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I think the only conclusion is that the card is corrupted in some way. It's the only explanation. The 16gb card is working fine...there's just no room on it!
Guess I have to return it and get another.
I understand the S 3 has an internal storage mine is 16 gigabytes. What I want or I'm trying to do is have my large games install to my external SD card. I don't know if there's a workaround for this I search the little bit and couldn't find any info I am still new to the s3. If anybody could fill me in I would appreciate it. Thanks in advance
More like the game data a few games I play are 1gig +. Any work around would be great
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I understand the S 3 has an internal storage mine is 16 gigabytes. What I want or I'm trying to do is have my large games install to my external SD card. I don't know if there's a workaround for this I search the little bit and couldn't find any info I am still new to the s3. If anybody could fill me in I would appreciate it. Thanks in advance
More like the game data a few games I play are 1gig +. Any work around would be great
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try this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1849844
I personally haven't used this so I wouldn't be able to help you much. Just read through that thread for more information
Simple mate if your rooted download GL2SD from market its free and it works great.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.slf.ListglApp
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Simple mate if your rooted download GL2SD from market its free and it works great.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.slf.ListglApp
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Downloaded the app but every time I try to play NFS:MW or GTA3 , the games ask me to download additional files even though I successfully moved the app data to my SD card. Need more internal memory...lol help!
Use Directory Bindhttp://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410262
If you get lost in that thread you can follow my direction I posted in another thread. I copied it below. It basically allows you to have your game data stored to micro sdcard but its directory is binded to internal directory where the game data is normally stored. Its the same concept as GL to SD but I find works without any issues.
Here's an example
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Most games are stored in mnt/sdcard/android/data. So you need to create the same directory in your micro sd card for this to work. The other confusion maybe because when you add a new entry in Directory Bind you would think source is internal and target is extsdcard but its the other way around.
In root explorer go /mnt/extSDcard/ and create a folder called android and then a subfolder under it called data. (skip if you already have them)
Now go to /mnt/sdcard/android/data and you will see a list of games you've installed. An example in my case is Modern Combat 3. So in the data folder I will see a folder called "com.gameloft.android.ANMP.GloftM3HM" and within that folder is a subfolder called "Files".
Now we need to create the same folder and subfolder in your /mnt/extSDcard/android/data. (It's possible I didn't have to go as far creating a Files folder but I did in my case atleast for gameloft games)
Once you create the folders you can open up Directory Bind and Add a New entry.
Tap and hold the source field and it will open up a list of your directories.
You will point it to /mnt/extSDcard/android/data/com.123xxx/xxxxx then press Select.
Now tap and hold the mount field and go to /android/data/com.123xxx/xxxxx then press Select.
If you've already downloaded the game data when you opened up the game then check the box for "Transfer files from target to data." and then press Add.
Wait for the transfer to finish. When its done do a Bind Check in Directory bind. If you did it right then the floppy disc icon turns green. Any other color you did something wrong so compare both directories and correct any typos or maybe you pointed one or the other to the wrong directory.
Now some games are stored in just /mnt/sdcard/android/data/ and no subfolders. And I think some games are stored in months/sdcard/android/obb. Below are more examples of the ones I created.
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Any chance of this being implemented into a rom so it does it automatically??
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Any chance of this being implemented into a rom so it does it automatically??
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I dont know really. The mod has been around for a while now and its still manual mode. But its really not hard to do. All games and most apps are stored in mnt/android/data or mnt/android/obb anyway so its easy to just create the same folder in your micro sd. And if you already downloaded the game prior to using Directory Bind, you can opt to transfer data from internal to your new directory when you add a new entry. I can add an entry in less than a minute. Also any time there's an update to the game data via play store, the update goes to external micros sd since its binded so you dont have to do anything else.
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Hello, I was going through a very serious problem since days. When we have few pics in Albums, it creates cache for those pics in memory qith folder name .thumbnails
Sometimes the size of these cache is more than 1.5GB+.
This is a big issue for devices like Xperia M, with very low internal memory.
So i got a way to solve this.
For that, you will need ES File Explorer. No root is needed for this.
You have to do is follow these instructions.
1. Open ES File Explorer.
2. Make the hidden files viewable.
3. Go to DCIM folder.
4. You'll see thumbails folder, delete it.
5. Now create new file and name it as ".thumbnails" without quote.
And you are done.
Click on "Thanks" is important before going to make this thing work. :beer:
Are you aware that despite reporting 1.5GB+ size, this folder takes only 30-40MB of your storage, right? It's an issue with the stock Album app that makes the database file size displaying incorrectly, replacing the stock version with an updated version in /system/app fixed that for me...
Also, preventing the folder being created cause a big performance loss in the Album app, since it'll always regenerate the thumbnails when you open the app, but after your guide the thumbnails won't be saved, so it'll do this all the time...
And additional info regeneration of the thumbnails every time you open album will cause more battery drain as it will increase the cpu load
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Well, this will be helpful for unrooted 4.1 XM single phones who are running on very lesser internal memory.
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Are you sure that the cache won't just be created again?
If the answer is yes, rather than the "how to", i would be interested to know why you think that it is a good idea to completely get rid of .thumbnails...
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Are you sure that the cache won't just be created again?
If the answer is yes, rather than the "how to", i would be interested to know why you think that it is a good idea to completely get rid of .thumbnails...
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Yes, I'm sure.
Im using it, and the cache folder will be gone for life and about battery life, how much battery life it should take? Very few, we worry about memory and not battery.
People gone foolish here.
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...how much battery life it should take? Very few, we worry about memory and not battery.
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I don't have a SD Card, but I have around 300-400 photos in the internal storage, in that case the battery loss will be noticeable (I tested your tutorial to measure and I lost 2% of my battery every time it regenerated the thumbnails). Also, the phone will get hot and laggy while regenerating the thumbnails, and it'll do this every time you use the Album app or the Photos widget. In that case I still prefer wasting around 30-40MB with the thumbnails folder than having the phone getting hot and laggy every time I need to access the gallery
Camera photos stored on MicroSD card.
Having the photos taken by the camera stored directly to the microSD card is not an option? [pause for effect]
I have a 64GB SanDisk Extreme, so it's faster than writing to internal storage anyway.
On 64GB nobody cares about a few indexing cache files...
In the Camera go to settings and change Data storage to SD card.
Basic 32GB Class10 MicroSD cards are cheap as chips these days.
No, camera can save in the SD Card normally, I just didn't buy a SD Card yet. My point is that even if you don't have a SD Card, the internal space you get freed by doing this tutorial (around 30-40MB) isn't worth because of the problems it causes (laggy gallery, phone getting hot, increased battery drain, etc)...
And here's a picture...
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No, camera can save in the SD Card normally,
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Sweet, I'm just so happy my stock 15.1.C.2.8 XPERIA C1905 ROM is different from everyone else then.
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You can move pictures, music and videos to SD card too via:
Settings -> storage -> Transfer data to SD card (under Miscellaneous).
This is a reactive process task as it doesn't proactively move stuff as you can do with a lot of applications and the camera via settings.
But handy to have when one wants to do an internal data cleanup to free up what one can of the ~2GB internal storage.
I never said that camera wouldn't let me save in the SD Card, I have the same options you mentioned in my stock 15.2.A.2.5 too. I was referring to the .thumbnails folder, it'll be on your internal storage, and following the OP tutorial you'll permanently disable it, saving a few megabytes from internal storage, but as I said before, these few megabytes you save by following the tutorial aren't worth because of the mentioned side effects the tutorial causes...
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I never said that camera wouldn't let me save in the SD Card,..
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Ah, sorry my mistake. I had hidden files.."hidden'".
True, you still get thumbnail files in /storage/sdcard0/DCIM/thumbnails/
Any way to avoid this getting asked every time I reboot?
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Yes: Ignore it lol.
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Any way to avoid this getting asked every time I reboot?
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I assume you've already clicked 'yes'? I don't have this pop up each time I reboot..
I have it too. Maybe a software bug .
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I have it too. Maybe a software bug .
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The prompt only appeared once I encrypted my SD card.
I hit no. I don't want then saved on sd card. But if that's the only way to stop the message then I guess I'll nave to.
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I hit no. I don't want then saved on sd card. But if that's the only way to stop the message then I guess I'll nave to.
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Why would you not want them saved on your SD card?
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Why would you not want them saved on your SD card?
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That's not the point. But the internal memory is faster for pictures and videos.
I have this issue on my G3 also after the 5.0 update
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Edited photos cannot be saved to SD card
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Why would you not want them saved on your SD card?
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If the camera saves its photos to the SD card, then I edit the photo in the Gallery app, the app cannot save the edited photo back to the SD card.
If the camera saves its photo to internal storage, I can edit the photo and save it to internal storage. Then move the images to the SD card.
Yeah, that's a little cumbersome.
Mine is a stock, unrooted LG-H810.
And I see this has been a problem since KitKat.
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If the camera saves its photos to the SD card, then I edit the photo in the Gallery app, the app cannot save the edited photo back to the SD card.
If the camera saves its photo to internal storage, I can edit the photo and save it to internal storage. Then move the images to the SD card.
Yeah, that's a little cumbersome.
Mine is a stock, unrooted LG-H810.
And I see this has been a problem since KitKat.
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That's weird, but if you edit a phote that was saved on the sdcard can you still save it to the phone instead of saving to the memory when you have the photo saved on you sd card?
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Why would you not want them saved on your SD card?
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I never save them to the external SD card. It's much more difficult to gets apps to play nicely with the external storage, both editing and deleting, plus it's much more likely for the SD card to become corrupt than the internal storage.
Non-booting phone: photos on external sd are safe.
Dropped broken phone: photos on external sd are safe.
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Non-booting phone: photos on external sd are safe.
Dropped broken phone: photos on external sd are safe.
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Google photos! Bam .
Anyways like others have mentioned for various reasons I would prefer to save to internal.
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Google photos! Bam .
Anyways like others have mentioned for various reasons I would prefer to save to internal.
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Middle of nowhere. Taking 212 incredible shots.
Walking back. Phone drops. Broken. 212 incredible shots down the drain.
Nothing yet uploaded to Google Photos. Bam! All gone.
Never happened in my last 9 phones. I'll take my chances . It was a joke. Of course the sd card would still have the pictures on it IF it survived the drop or damage too.
Just happened to me for the first time since I got the phone two weeks ago. Only difference was that the phone was switched off because I accidentally discharged the battery completely last night. I usually just leave it on the charger overnight and don't switch it off or reboot.
I have set it to use the external card in the camera app settings.
So, if I understand the direction this thread has taken, the camera should be allowed to save photos to internal storage.
And even though the problem was noted years ago, there's still no way for LG's Gallery app to edit a photo from the SD card and save the edited image back to the SD card.
And whenever I take a photo I should immediately use a file manager to copy the photo from internal storage to the SD card. Just in case.
Yikes.
Hey, today my Pixel 3 XL arrived and i moved from iPhone to the Pixel.
I had like 1300 pictures from my iPhone on my computer, then I moved the pictures via FileManager to my Pixel.
And the Pixel automatically created like 300 or more folders with about 2 pictures each in it.
Is there any easy way I get all the pictures out of the folders? I don't need folders in my libary, I just want all pictures side by side and no folders.
I didn't know that Android creates for every App that edits pictures a new folder.
Hope someone can help, I don't wanna drag each pic out of it's folder
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The folder names are: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 ...... and a,b,c,d,e,f,g and so on.
Thanks so muuch.
Yeah, over the past few years, the photo app has been really annoying in the way it structures saved photos. Honestly, the best way to do it is find a new photo album app and use that to look up photos. Even when I get a popup asking me if I want to create a new folder for a picture, I say no, and its still in there with new folder. Then every few weeks I go through deleting stupid folders with 1 picture I didnt want.
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Yeah, over the past few years, the photo app has been really annoying in the way it structures saved photos. Honestly, the best way to do it is find a new photo album app and use that to look up photos. Even when I get a popup asking me if I want to create a new folder for a picture, I say no, and its still in there with new folder. Then every few weeks I go through deleting stupid folders with 1 picture I didnt want.
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Yeah its really annoying.
But in my head its like, if I use everything from Google, it works the best and the userexperience is better then thirdparty apps.
It's all from one company.
But thats just me and my thinking. :laugh:
Can you recommend a thirdparty App?
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Is there any easy way I get all the pictures out of the folders? I don't need folders in my libary, I just want all pictures side by side and no folders..
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First let me say welcome (or welcome back) to Android. I don't know how many GB your pics amount too, but I've had good luck zipping a huge amount of pics into a single zip file, transferring it to my phone and then using a quality file manager (solid explorer / root explorer) to extract. Dunno? maybe it will take splitting the 1300/2 or even 3 files but it can be done. When zipping on your Mac/PC just use "no compression", "wrapper", or "minimal". This results in a fast compression because the pics are already compressed. I'm not an apple guy at all but I can tell you zipping 100's of files is no big deal on a PC, nor extracting them into the DCIM folder on your shiny new Pixel. Unlock your bootloader NOW if you are able, because unlocking it later will wipe all your data including any photos not backed up to the cloud (Photos). I also thought there was a way to transfer from Apple cloud to Google Photos, but again I am not an Apple guy at all. (disclaimer: I just have to buy them for my wife and daughter)
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HyperM3 said:
Yeah, over the past few years, the photo app has been really annoying in the way it structures saved photos. Honestly, the best way to do it is find a new photo album app and use that to look up photos. Even when I get a popup asking me if I want to create a new folder for a picture, I say no, and its still in there with new folder. Then every few weeks I go through deleting stupid folders with 1 picture I didnt want.
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Wut? My Photos folder has no subfolders all my photos are in there, bro. And Google Photos rocks on many different levels. YMMV?
v12xke said:
Wut? My Photos folder has no subfolders all my photos are in there, bro. And Google Photos rocks on many different levels. YMMV?
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You know, I guess it depends on what app I am using when trying to look up a photo. You are correct, when just going directly to the photo album app, all my photos are just laid out. It's when I click the "albums" icon that its a complete mess. Also, pretty much every time I open the app, I get multiple notifications for "new folder found". Most of the time those are singular pictures my security system took. Annoyingly, they are all one photo in each "new" folder. So I have to go in and delete each folder individually.
re133 said:
Yeah its really annoying.
But in my head its like, if I use everything from Google, it works the best and the userexperience is better then thirdparty apps.
It's all from one company.
But thats just me and my thinking. :laugh:
Can you recommend a thirdparty App?
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Still having this issue? I can write a script that should be able to automatically move each file to a new single folder.
Probably only 10 lines of code.
I don't think you need root, just let me know and I can try and throw it together.
boostedduece said:
Still having this issue? I can write a script that should be able to automatically move each file to a new single folder.
Probably only 10 lines of code.
I don't think you need root, just let me know and I can try and throw it together.
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Thanks for you Help Mate.
But i fixed already