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im getting annoyed with the gallery, basically theres a folder on it called instant uploads and i want it gone but cant find it anywhere using a file manager so im assuming its a virtual "cloud" folder and on google plus
how do i delete all the phots from it? and stop it appearing?
i deleted all the photos from my google + account and still theyre there
any ideas?
rosswaa said:
im getting annoyed with the gallery, basically theres a folder on it called instant uploads and i want it gone but cant find it anywhere using a file manager so im assuming its a virtual "cloud" folder and on google plus
how do i delete all the phots from it? and stop it appearing?
i deleted all the photos from my google + account and still theyre there
any ideas?
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At some point in time you must've enabled the Instant Upload feature (and have obviously subsequently disabled it). The folder is in Picasa Web Albums, and it is non-removable from what I can see.
maybe this is different in 2.4, but you should have an option under syncing to not sync Picasa and instant upload.
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i dont have picasa on my phone, iv re enabled syncing the google photos and google plus and instant upload trying to wipe the folder but its still there
it has a picasa picture on the folder but i dont have picasa installed and i cant find any settings for it
Google syncing brings Picasa to you in gallery by default. Turn off google photo's sync or edit the picasa web album
When you have the album open in Picasa Web Albums, choose Action, Delete Album - YOU WILL lose all photo's but it should then not show up.
To prevent it again in Google + turn off instant uploads
rosswaa said:
i dont have picasa on my phone, iv re enabled syncing the google photos and google plus and instant upload trying to wipe the folder but its still there
it has a picasa picture on the folder but i dont have picasa installed and i cant find any settings for it
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You don't need to have picasa installed on the phone for this to happen, Picasa Web Albums is online. It is where your pictures are saved when you enable Instant Upload in Google+, something which you must have enabled at some point since you have the folder.
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NPS_CA said:
When you have the album open in Picasa Web Albums, choose Action, Delete Album - YOU WILL lose all photo's but it should then not show up.
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I have been unable to get the Instant Upload album to delete, from Picasa Web Albums. It just stays there.
do you install picasa?
i got rid of it by removing my google account then adding it again and disabled goole photos from syncing then when i signed into google plus i disabled instant upload
I have different issue.
If I click on GALLERY it comes up with message "Unfortunately, Gallery has stopped.
REPORT - OK
Any ideas?
Speaking of the Gallery, is there any way to order the folders/albums alphabetically? It seems like they're ordered completely randomly, which is really annoying if you have a lot of albums.
rbs_uk said:
I have different issue.
If I click on GALLERY it comes up with message "Unfortunately, Gallery has stopped.
REPORT - OK
Any ideas?
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Have you disabled any apps? I disabled a pile of crap I don't use (Google+, Books, Talk, News & Weather) and I got the same. Then I re-enabled them and it worked again. Didn't get into trying them one at a time yet.
On de SGS the Gallery-app gave al lot of problems. One of them was that it used al lot of juice. Another was that it not always showed all pictures. For those reasons I installed Quickpic. It is a free app and very reliable. But let's hope that the Gallery-app is improved on ICS.
Sweerts said:
On de SGS the Gallery-app gave al lot of problems. One of them was that it used al lot of juice. Another was that it not always showed all pictures. For those reasons I installed Quickpic. It is a free app and very reliable. But let's hope that the Gallery-app is improved on ICS.
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I also love Quickpic, however the auto-rotate is extremely slow half the time on the Galaxy Nexus. The phone seems to be slow w/ auto-rotate everywhere, but it's even worse in Quickpic.
jabok said:
Have you disabled any apps? I disabled a pile of crap I don't use (Google+, Books, Talk, News & Weather) and I got the same. Then I re-enabled them and it worked again. Didn't get into trying them one at a time yet.
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It's google+.
Stupid to require google+ to be linked to the gallery.
waylo said:
It's google+.
Stupid to require google+ to be linked to the gallery.
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Have you tried clearing the gallery cache/date from app manager after you disabled google+? I bet they become linked upon initial start of gallery.
Yeah, that was the first thing I looked at.
Actually, now that I think about it, I did a settings wipe through titanium backup, but not a cache wipe through app manager.
Hmm. Let me try that.
Edit: Nope, looks like google+ physically has to be present. Silly.
Stupid picasa
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Another weird thing with the gallery. When looking at the details of some images (transferred over from PC/Mac) I get a time of Jan 1, 1970. Normaly taken pictures, screenshots and those send from another phone through bluetooth have the proper time shown.
a problem I have sometimes is I get grey boxes instead of pictures
Just poke and hold on the gallery folder then hit the delete button. Problem solved?
Can anyone please share the APK?
All latest baked, oops cooked releases include the annoying version with online (Picasa) sync....
The only way I know of getting it is from Pauls Modaco ROM but you'll need to buy premium to get access to the kitchen to build a ROM with it in.
I'm not prepared to break his rules and post it either, sorry.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using XDA App
would the APK from an "old" 4.0.1/2 release do?
Did you try turning off the Google Pictures synchronization in settings? I dont know if it removes picasa sync, i am just guessing.
mistm said:
Did you try turning off the Google Pictures synchronization in settings? I dont know if it removes picasa sync, i am just guessing.
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yea i did, but then removed some google components and stupid thing sync-ed again by default...now i have to remove it completely or reinstall the APK and be fast enough to disable sync again...
pain in the a$$ though
I would love to know this as well....I hate that it always shows pictures other than what's from the camera
sent from my Nexus Prime
1.Clear data for both the Galery app and Google+app.
2.Disable picture sync in accounts and sync.
3.Once in Google+ hit disable instant upload.
Done
Simer03 said:
I would love to know this as well....I hate that it always shows pictures other than what's from the camera
sent from my Nexus Prime
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I got rid of the "Scrapbook Photos" and "Profile Photos" albums by getting on my computer and logging into G+ and then I just deleted the picasa folder and the picasa feature/service/app altogether. I never used picasa anyway so that got rid of the empty "Scrapbook Photos" album in my gallery. Then I deleted my profile picture in G+ to get rid of the "Profile Photos" album. It took me a loooong time to finally get rid of those annoying albums in my gallery. I tried all kinds of stuff before I realized I could do it that way. After all was said and done, I just deleted my entire G+ account bc I never used it anyway...I barely use FB as it is. I'm very picky about having only what I want in my gallery...as well as on my phone
3colby3 said:
I got rid of the "Scrapbook Photos" and "Profile Photos" albums by getting on my computer and logging into G+ and then I just deleted the picasa folder and the picasa feature/service/app altogether. I never used picasa anyway so that got rid of the empty "Scrapbook Photos" album in my gallery. Then I deleted my profile picture in G+ to get rid of the "Profile Photos" album. It took me a loooong time to finally get rid of those annoying albums in my gallery. I tried all kinds of stuff before I realized I could do it that way. After all was said and done, I just deleted my entire G+ account bc I never used it anyway...I barely use FB as it is. I'm very picky about having only what I want in my gallery...as well as on my phone
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Am I the only person that uses Picasa for my wallpapers? I hate clutter on the phone itself, so I just pick a wallpaper from one of my Picasa folders and I don't have to worry about all 1k+ taking up space on the device.
Do you know the muffin man?
Mi|enko said:
Am I the only person that uses Picasa for my wallpapers? I hate clutter on the phone itself, so I just pick a wallpaper from one of my Picasa folders and I don't have to worry about all 1k+ taking up space on the device.
Do you know the muffin man?
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lol...???...not familiar with muffin man....why do u ask?
When I open the Gallery I'm seeing image galleries with pics that have the small Picasa logo in the bottom right corner... some of them are even old pics from a Blogger blog I used to have. No matter what I have tried, I can't get rid of them.
1. I cleared cache and data for Gallery and Media Storage and rebooted... did not fix it.
2. Google+ Instant Upload is not enabled.
3. When in Gallery if I click the menu then "Settings" it confirms that Google Photo sync is OFF.
4. Settings | Accounts and Sync | Google... "Sync Google Photos" and "Sync Instant Upload" are not checked.
5. I went online to the Picasa site, deleted everything, then repeated step 1... did not fix it.
Any help would be very much appreciated. This is really irritating.
EDIT: I managed to now have it reduced to showing only two extra galleries now... (after #5 plus choosing "Refresh" from the menu in Gallery) ...but it's still showing "Profile Photos" (with a Picasa Logo) and photos from posts I've made on Google+.... UGH.
Google+.
Delete data.
I hate that too...and it's such a damn annoyance to see those images to me =/
Jubakuba said:
Google+.
Delete data.
I hate that too...and it's such a damn annoyance to see those images to me =/
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I went to Settings | Apps | Google+ and deleted Data, went back to Gallery and did a refresh... nothing is different.
EDIT: Nope... this didn't fix it. I thought it did for a minute, because I cleared cache/data from G+ then Gallery... but still no dice.
Maybe I'm wrong...I was sure that's how I got rid of 'em.
But I KNOW the refresh is what put them there initially for me.
Maybe google+ delete data...gallery delete data?
And don't refresh.
Jubakuba said:
Maybe I'm wrong...I was sure that's how I got rid of 'em.
But I KNOW the refresh is what put them there initially for me.
Maybe google+ delete data...gallery delete data?
And don't refresh.
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This is what I did just now:
1. Settings | Apps | All
2. Gallery --> Force Stop, Clear Cache, Clear Data
3. Google Plus --> Force Stop, Clear Cache, Clear Data
4. Home button to home screen
5. Open Gallery
Apparent success...
I opened the Gallery again and it's clean except for 1 wallpaper I have in a folder on the phone, which is what I want (just wiped the phone because I rooted it).
Hopefully it'll stay that way.
EDIT: Still that way even after opening Google+ and letting it sync up and all.
Ya, I've gotten it twice now.
Once when I uploaded a google+ photo manually.
Once when I pressed refresh in Gallery.
P.S.
Utah is gorgeous for backpacking through the canyons.
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Utah is gorgeous for backpacking through the canyons.
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True story.
Didnt work for me and i hate those.. Ffs
I mean, they go away with the procedure but if i refresh gallery they come back..
Galaxy Nexus Stock + Franco m3
Lol don't sync picasa =P uncheck it and Google + photos as well....
Tho even if u uncheck them the album boxes will still be there just that the picasa images won't show
- Google
Best option I've found is to disable Gallery and get Quickpic or equivalent.
Then you'll have a program that'll respect .nomedia and can exclude top level directories so you don't have to drill down and put a .nomedia in everything else.
OR - try this maybe... find the directory where the images with the picasa logo are stored on your phone, and drop a .nomedia file in it (since I'm guessing it's probably a temp dir or such, and not where your original files are). Then clear cache/data and such... and when it rescans it SHOULD skip that folder.
Had that same problem and like iGoogleNexus said:
Go to Settings -> Accounts & Synchronisation -> <your google account>
and uncheck Photos.
iGoogleNexus said:
Lol don't sync picasa =P uncheck it and Google + photos as well....
Tho even if u uncheck them the album boxes will still be there just that the picasa images won't show
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I dont sync picasa or Google + so it wont show any picture and i dont have any picture there.. Just want to get rid of the crap i show in the screenshot
Galaxy Nexus Stock + Franco m3
GNexor said:
Had that same problem and like iGoogleNexus said:
Go to Settings -> Accounts & Synchronisation -> <your google account>
and uncheck Photos.
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Did you even read my original post?
Sorry, doesn't saw that point.
But that's the way I solved that problem on my phone.
Login to your Picasa Web Gallery and delete everything, since it doesn't seem like you use it.
Galaxy Nexus GSM
I had the same problem. Finally solved it by installing Picasa Tool from the play store and using it to delete all the folders from my Picasa account.
Easy peasy.
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dr.m0x said:
I had the same problem. Finally solved it by installing Picasa Tool from the play store and using it to delete all the folders from my Picasa account.
Easy peasy.
Sent from my GNex
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Oh lord this its the ultimate fix.. Thx bro
Galaxy Nexus Stock + Franco m3
problem solved icasa sync photos in gallery..
Guys who have this problem of synced photos in gallery.. clear the Google plus data and cache, problem solved.. it worked for me..also force atop after that..
Hey guys I was looking around the internet and couldn't find answer
Anyways picture below is of my gallery
What is that little icon the arrow is pointing at ?
And
How can I delete them from my gallery ?
Yes I've tried selecting and deleting them.. its annoying because these pictures are doubles and I already have them in another album
Any help would be great thanks
Sent From My Samsung Galaxy S3
That's the symbol for your Picasa Web album. It's most likely synced under accounts>google. All of those pics are saved in your Google Picasa account.
metalfan78 said:
That's the symbol for your Picasa Web album. It's most likely synced under accounts>google. All of those pics are saved in your Google Picasa account.
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Funny thing is I don't even have a picsa account..lol...
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If you have a Google account then you automatically have a Picasa account. They are linked together. Are you using Google +?
metalfan78 said:
If you have a Google account then you automatically have a Picasa account. They are linked together. Are you using Google +?
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Actually I do have a google+ ...is that what's causing the issues ...
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Yea, most likely you have instant upload turned on. I have the same setup. If you don't want to see them in your gallery you can open the gallery, hit menu, and then choose 'view by'
metalfan78 said:
Yea, most likely you have instant upload turned on. I have the same setup. If you don't want to see them in your gallery you can open the gallery, hit menu, and then choose 'view by'
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Yeah i have it set to view albums yet still shows the picsa pictures ... would rather just delete them and cancel google plus lol
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I believe you clear data for Gallery and make sure that Picasa sync is unchecked in your Google Account settings and that gets rid of it. I've done it myself, it doesn't delete pictures only that Picasa album
Edit: You can disable Gallery first too if you want, it might be better. I don't think I did
sevenpioverthree said:
I believe you clear data for Gallery and make sure that Picasa sync is unchecked in your Google Account settings and that gets rid of it. I've done it myself, it doesn't delete pictures only that Picasa album
Edit: You can disable Gallery first too if you want, it might be better. I don't think I did
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Yup that's what it was..lol
Just in case anyone else has this issues here's a youtube link
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=djB3XcjtMTo
Sent From My Samsung Galaxy S3
otterboxfan4l said:
Hey guys I was looking around the internet and couldn't find answer
Anyways picture below is of my gallery
What is that little icon the arrow is pointing at ?
And
How can I delete them from my gallery ?
Yes I've tried selecting and deleting them.. its annoying because these pictures are doubles and I already have them in another album
Any help would be great thanks
Sent From My Samsung Galaxy S3
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Go into gallery and settings, view albums in device only...that will HIDE it, and then I go into google account in phone and uncheck the scan of picaso
Hi, if anyone can help with my issue id really appreciate it.
ITS DRIVING ME NUTS
I believe this issue not to be specific to the HTC One but Ive never had it before.
The issue is that I keep getting random photo albums appearing in my gallery.
The photos look to be cached images, say from apps and that sort of things.
Everytime i go in and delete them and check back later, I have more.
Ive searched Google and cant find a solution.
HELP
bah77 said:
Hi, if anyone can help with my issue id really appreciate it.
ITS DRIVING ME NUTS
I believe this issue not to be specific to the HTC One but Ive never had it before.
The issue is that I keep getting random photo albums appearing in my gallery.
The photos look to be cached images, say from apps and that sort of things.
Everytime i go in and delete them and check back later, I have more.
Ive searched Google and cant find a solution.
HELP
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Check and see what Google syncs.. Sometimes Google + photos snyc to gallery, picaso photos or whatever their called.. So uncheck them and then clear data on gallery apk..
Same with other apps you have accounts with
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That would drive me nuts... My gallery just crashes all the time after rooting and applying one of the roms
I had this problem too. Only way I could solve it was to press menu button at the gallery home screen and select show/hide albums. Select the ones you want to display and return to gallery.
Sent from my HTC One_M8 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
There was an update today to the Gallery! I'd say update it and see if it fixes your issues.
Iv'e got the same problem. Deleted them all but two days later they all came back plus more !!!! and Iv'e updated google . Any other suggestions ?
pony59 said:
Iv'e got the same problem. Deleted them all but two days later they all came back plus more !!!! and Iv'e updated google . Any other suggestions ?
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Install quickpic from the play store and "hide" the folders with the offending images in.
They are usually from apps that have images in them.,
Once hidden in quickpic they will not appear in gallery
Just hide the album like duvall87 mentioned.
That's the only way.
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Same here
I have the same issue this Cache folder keeps coming back and most frustrating part is that all these photos are uploaded to G+.
I have another issue as well with SD card. I delete files from External SD card and it keeps coming back this happens only when I copy some files from my PC to SD Card.
Anyone has any solution to this?
HtcOneJon said:
Install quickpic from the play store and "hide" the folders with the offending images in.
They are usually from apps that have images in them.,
Once hidden in quickpic they will not appear in gallery
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OK. Will do. Thanks for the advice
Hi does anyone know how to get my Facebook Dropbox and Google drive pictures as albums in the gallery as tried everything and nothing works its just automatically on on the HTC one but not the m8
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possible sollution
had the same problem, I browse a lot on 9gag ( images and crap), look at gallery and found aprox, 1700 images and 500 mp4 (gif) i browsed acros.
I just delete them every time but maybe this helps
settings---account/synchronise---google---( click your gmail account)---
when in your google account it says in syncs data from
-agenda
-apps
-automatic back-up
-chrome
-contacts-
-drive
-gmail
-google...
-...
-....
experiment with unchecking some of these like uncheck the syncs app data of chrome
If fixed it with installing ES file explorer and added .nomedia file to android/data/
Rebooted device and everything seems to work like it should...
No cache files in gallery
hopefully a fix
bah77 said:
Hi, if anyone can help with my issue id really appreciate it.
ITS DRIVING ME NUTS
I believe this issue not to be specific to the HTC One but Ive never had it before.
The issue is that I keep getting random photo albums appearing in my gallery.
The photos look to be cached images, say from apps and that sort of things.
Everytime i go in and delete them and check back later, I have more.
Ive searched Google and cant find a solution.
HELP
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Download es file explorer from the play store, add a new file and name it (.nomedia) WITHOUT THE BRACKETS!