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Requesting Help to Remove redundant images from "Instant Uploads" folder on Phone

Requesting Help to Remove redundant images from "Instant Uploads" folder on Phone
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This is really frustrating for a tidy freak like me but:
When I first got this phone, messing around with the camera I took some inane shots of my surroundings thinking I could delete then afterwards. Some of these images went into a folder called "instant uploads". When I went into the folder to delete them there was no option.
Some of the shots were replicated from my main folder, so I deleted them from there. The number of images in instant uploads remained unchanged (13 images) but now I have mostly grey tiles which when I click on them inside instant uploads it says "no thumbnail" There is also a picture in instant uploads that still has the image there, even though its deleted from my phone!
Ive been into picasaweb and deleted images from there and tidied up but still my instant uploads folder on the phone is showing the same 13 images.
Ive been into settings/apps/all and cleared a cache called "media storage", it rebuilt the regular image folder but still this folder of sh*te called "instant uploads" remains.
Can anyone help me clear this up? Ive turned off instant upload now as I dont see it being of use to me personally so i'd really love to get rid of this remnant bloat..

First go into the Google+ app and untick the 'Enable Instant Upload' option in settings. Then go to your Google+ on your computer or in the phones browser, navigate to your instant uploaded photos and delete them from there. I couldn't find any way of deleting them from within the gallery app or the Google+ one.

Beat me to the punch...

This was annoying the hell out of me since i was doing the same and just playing around and then when i came to delete them i just ended up with the gallery still showing photos being there but all of them were just blank with no option to delete like you say.
I managed to get rid of them in the end by doing as stated above, delete them from the pictures from phone folder in the web version on Google+, delete them from web picasa, switch off instant upload in the Google+ app and then clear data for Gallery and Google+ in /settings/apps/all.
I also used Astro file manager to delete all cache in android/data/com.google.android.apps.plus but i dont think this did anything, just thought i wuld add that in too.
All in all i think that is a S*!T way to simply delte some pictures and can imagine quite a few people having the same problem, especially those new to android wanting the new galaxy.

Thanks for chiming in guys.
Tung_meister, i had already deleted the imiages from picsaweb and they are not showing on Google+ so I guess those two are syncing. Id also unticked the instant upload option within settings, The images and grey blank tiles were still there on my phone in the IU folder. I went back into the picsaweb adn deleted the empty folder called instant uploads. Still the images are in the phone!
Dumb Donkey, ive done every step you have shown exept
and then clear data for Gallery and Google+ in /settings/apps/all.
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I'll try that now and hopefully resolve the issue. If that fails im gonna do a handset reset. It wont take me that long to get everything as I want, slightly annoying though!
Im thinking maybe I used another email address/account for sharing somehow but dont think so..

That worked Dumb_Donkey cheers! I'd buy you a pint mate haha!
Cleared Google+ which got rid of the photos but it still had an instant upload folder stating "13 files"
Cleared Gallery which zapped the instant uploads folder completely!
Thanks very much mate.
Looks like a syncing issue betweeen phone and web?

Well, I'm pretty late, but just found out you can choose what albums to show via settings. Just choose "phone content" and it's fine.

[Q] Google+ Instant Upload (Creates 2 folders in Gallery on phone) **HELP**

Hi there,
I have turned on instant upload on my phone and sure enough all images are uploaded to google.com\+.
When I go onto the internet on my laptop and look at the "photos from your phone", all my photos are there.
However, if i login to Picasa web album, I see 2 instant upload folders. One titles "instant upload" the other titled "instant upload 2009-01-03 - 2012-01-14".
Sure enough, in my gallery (on my phone) I see the 2 folders...
I had gone onto picasa web albums and moved all images over from the instant upload with date folder to just instant upload (verrified they were all in the right folder) checked on my phone (sure enough all in 1 folder)... but then BAM it re-created the 2nd folder and moved them back.
What's going on here!!!
-RR

Well I had been searching for an answer to this issue and I can't find anything! I don't know if it's just me but this just happened to me and it's incredibly annoying!!

Picasa Album Cache

Since the ICS gallery allows offline viewing of Picasa photos, they must be stored somewhere. But I can't find where. Anyone know where they are downloaded to?

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Since the ICS gallery allows offline viewing of Picasa photos, they must be stored somewhere. But I can't find where. Anyone know where they are downloaded to?
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with a file explorer go to the android folder on your internal sd storage, data, com.google.android.gallery3d folder. i dont think that they are actually downloaded though.

Looked in there and there doesn't appear to be any pictures. But since I can view the gallery offline or with no signal, they MUST be somewhere??

Look in the Google+ storage. I believe the Gallery now switches to using G+ for storage when you are logged into that app.

Look in sdcard/Android/data/com.android.gallery3d/cache. There are a great many picasa-... folders there (which contain files with a .screen extension), along with one picasa_covers folder (which contain files with a .thumb extension). Not sure if these files are the pics cause I can't see them at the moment, but it's a start.
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Off topic sorry, I have a question.... you cant share a picasa pic from the gallery ? i wanted to send a pic from picasa within the gallery to a friend but it would not let me

Location
All albums which were selected for offline viewing is stored under /mnt/sdcard/Android/data/com.google.android.apps.plus/cache. you will see picasa-xxxxxx folders, which contain images without any extension. Google has made it as hard as possible. Most threads discussing this topic are old and the only reply you would see is that only thumbnails are being saved and not the images
--Vj

getting rid of picasa
I have a rooted galaxy note 2 and I had picasa pics in my photo gallery that I could not delete. I disabled the picasa uploader and searched everywhere for the pictures, I had no luck so I used my file manager and searched the system file and found several picasa files. So then I used root explorer and searched picasa and then deleted all the picasa files and then rebooted and the picasa pictures were gone. I don't care for picasa and have no intention of ever using it. But that route worked very well for me.

Hey, I know this is an old thread, but, I stumbled across this page looking for a way to backup the synced Facebook gallery images on my sister's phone. Some jerk who stole her old phone logged into her Facebook and deleted all of her pictures. Lucky for us they were all showing up in her phone still under Facebook albums in the Gallery. I want to thank simms22 because I found the cache files in internal storage/Android/data/com.sec.android.gallery3d/cache it seems that all of the folders that start with "sns-" are Facebook albums, all of the albums starting with "picasa-" are, well, Picasa albums. Each folder contains each picture without an extension. I simply transferred them to my computer and used a bulk rename utility to add .jpg to every file, and, voila! We got her pictures back! They are definitely not the original size, however, this is much better than complete loss of all photos! I'm just really glad my sister chose not to update her Facebook sync info with her new password so I could save her data for her!

2 gallery related questions

Hi
So I have an s3 and my girlfriend just got hers today... 2 questions.
1) on mine I'm pretty sure since as soon as I set it up. The gallery had had all my Facebook albums in it. Hers doesn't. How did I make them appear in there? I can't seem to find an option for that...
2) on her gallery, any pics in albums marked as instant upload (which have pics from her old android phone that were obviously synced with instant upload) come up with errors if she tries to edit them with either photo editor or instagram or any other photo app. The apps have no problem with new pics taken with the phone. It kind of makes sense that these apps wouldn't be able to edit pics not technically on the phone, but mine does it with no problem.
She just got he phone like 2 hours ago... any ideas?
Thanks
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Settings in Facebook and if your sync is turned on or not.
Not sure what you mean about the second part
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I went to Facebook and there is no option about syncing photo albums... It just did it automatically on my phone. I'm thinking MAYBE it was a feature of Friendcaster though? Which automatically reinstalled from my play account when i bought my phone even though I had no intention of using it (I had it on an old phone)... But yea I see no option in the regular Facebook app about syncing photo albums, just contacts...
Also my other question, there are like 5 "Instant Upload" albums with the picasa logo next to them of old pictures taken on her old phone. They're all viewable but you can't edit the pictures in them using any of the photo editor apps. It's like they're not really there other than for viewing.

[Q] Instant upload and gallery

Hi guys.
So I've been using Instant upload for a long time now and I like the option to have extra copies of my images stored in the cloud in case something happens to my phone or something like that. Everything works great except one thing.
From time to time I get new folders in gallery, albums of pictures that are already in the main "Instant Upload" album are showing up alone. Sorted in the Y/M/D format (usually). That wasn't a big deal, I downloaded Perfect Tool for Picasa and dealt with it by deleting extra albums, and only leaving album "Instant Upload" undeleted. And for a few days everything is good again. And a few weeks back problems started, by problems I mean something that Google changed. New captured pictures are uploaded but put into the separate folders and again, sorted by date. That just looks ugly in the Gallery.
So my question is next.
Is it possible to keep the option for Instant Upload but make it not visible in the Gallery ? I'd really like that.
If there's the need to use a different Pictures Viewer, let it be.
Please, someone answer.
Thank you for reading.

I think you have to uncheck the synchronization with Instant Upload and Google Photos in accounts' settings, then clear gallery's cache if needed.

But won't that disable uploading photos to the cloud ?

Still need help with this, if anyone knows anything about how this works, please help out.

I'm having the exact same experience. Apparently it's a known issue and Google is already working on a resolution.
https://productforums.google.com/fo...oogle-plus-discuss/BfzURgZjMtc[126-150-false]
P.S. This is not a Gnex specific issue... it's happening on all phones.