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[Q] Stop Picasa albums showing in Gallery?

I've disabled the Google Photo sync option in accounts settings but i still see my google+ albums in the gallery app, is there a way to stop them showing? I thought unchecking that would do it.

You go into your settings for applications. Then you find the gallery app, and clear the data. Don't worry you won't lose your pictures. When that's done open your gallery app and it should redo everything
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This didn't work for me.
The irony is that I was a couple of days ago I was insulting Apple's Photostream for not being able to delete any images without resetting the whole Photostream.
So I've already turned of syncing Google photos on both of my accounts, and I cleared the data for the Gallery app ... and all my images from Picassa are still there. I turned off Google+ sync just to check (I don't do any instant upload or anything like that anyway) and the images of both my accounts are still present after clearing the data in the Gallery app.
Help. Please.

Have a read through this bud
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1362232
Don't know if you want to go to that extent but it seems like clearing the data from google+ will get rid of it.

Your problem is that the picasa pictures are still in the sd card cache folder of the gallery. Delete everything in the cache folder, it's under "/sdcard/android/data/com.android.sec.gallery3d" in honeycomb, it may be somewhere else in ICS.
After that clear data of the gallery again and the picasa folder is gone.

A combination of dumb donkey and gokpog.
1. Went to "/sdcard/android/data/com.android.gallery3d" (no .sec in ICS) and deleted everything in the cache.
2. Deleted data in Gallery app.
3. Deleted data in Google+ app.
And then I accidentally hit "Refresh". D'oh!
You actually only need to do numbers 2 and 3 above to get rid off the images. Though I found out (with help) how to do get rid of the unwanted albums, for the average buyer who doesn't come to these forums, it's way too hard. It shouldn't be this way. It's almost as bad as Apple's Photostream!

Cleargrey said:
A combination of dumb donkey and gokpog.
1. Went to "/sdcard/android/data/com.android.gallery3d" (no .sec in ICS) and deleted everything in the cache.
2. Deleted data in Gallery app.
3. Deleted data in Google+ app.
And then I accidentally hit "Refresh". D'oh!
You actually only need to do numbers 2 and 3 above to get rid off the images. Though I found out (with help) how to do get rid of the unwanted albums, for the average buyer who doesn't come to these forums, it's way too hard. It shouldn't be this way. It's almost as bad as Apple's Photostream!
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i noticed even with photosync still off
opening google plus and having instant upload on, returns the albums to the gallery
gahh

Why not just remove your Google account and add it again? Immediately afterwards, click on Google Sync and uncheck Picasa or photos or whatever.. That's what i always do after adding a Google account.

Gah!
I've tried clearing both the Google+ app cache and Gallery cache, plus deleting the contents of the Google+ app folder in the relevant path on the SD card, and still the albums reappear in Gallery as soon as I run the G+ app again. AAAARGHHH.
Does that mean that deleting the offending albums from the Android Gallery will also delete the Google+ albums? Because that would be irritating, to say the least.

Clear your gallery, then use Droidwall to blacklist the gallery and any offending processes?
Unfortunately, you may also have to blacklist G+

I always hated that I just couldn't delete these albums..

It drove me nuts so I just deleted Picassa from my main gmail account and set it up on a secondary gmail account so now it's gone.

to me it's the same, how I can hide the google + gallery in the gallery? I tried a thousand things and I can`t. help me!

I don't wish to hijack the thread, but seems like the best place to ask this question. Is there a way to reset the thumbnails in the Gallery and + app? I changed them online (some were inappropriate to have as thumbnails), but no matter what I seem to clear, the old thumbnails stick. I have cleared the data from both apps, and have even gone as far as even removing the Google account and readding it, and the old thumbnails still return.

blackdub370 said:
to me it's the same, how I can hide the google + gallery in the gallery? I tried a thousand things and I can`t. help me!
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Check this link out for solution that has worked for me on multiple devices -
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23449660&postcount=4716
Plz thank me if I helped you, and you're welcome

Here is what you do...
1. Go to settings - apps - Google +
2. Click on clear data
3. Go to Google plus and activate it
4. Select no when it asks you if you want to upload pictures from camera
5. Got to Google + to make sure it is turned off
There you go now...
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Gallery Issue

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?

Facebook for HTC sense not uploading multiple photos.

I tried to upload 9 photos to Facebook yesterday with HTC Sense via gallery and it said it completed but when I went to Facebook App no photos were there. There is a album there with 0 photos and a thumbnail but when you click on it nothing!
Sorry if this has been asked before but I used GoogleFu but couldnt find a solution.
I have uploaded 1 photo a couple of times over last month and those worked.
I'm confused why it says uploaded but nothing.
The strange thing is when I got to gallery and select album top left then Facebook and then me, the album and photos are there!!
Anyone found a fix??
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Same problem, found the solution
Hey, I had the same problem last week. I was uploading pictures to a specific facebook album of mine and it wasnt showing up on facebook.
You're gonna need to connect to Facebook from your PC, go to the specific album and you'll see on the top a mention saying something like (An app tried uploading pictures to your album, allow it or deny it) & it'll work!!
Let me know!
Don't forget to thanks!

lelloo said:
Hey, I had the same problem last week. I was uploading pictures to a specific facebook album of mine and it wasnt showing up on facebook.
You're gonna need to connect to Facebook from your PC, go to the specific album and you'll see on the top a mention saying something like (An app tried uploading pictures to your album, allow it or deny it) & it'll work!!
Let me know!
Don't forget to thanks!
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Wow it worked!! Its been buggin me for ages, what a silly process tho! Will I have to do that everytime I create an album via HTC sense?
Thanks :beer:
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I don't know honestly but its a pain in the ass! Glad it worked for you
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Gallery not fetching Google Plus albums

Hey I just flashed the MiNCO v3 Rom on my gsm phone and when i go to the gallery normally i can see my Google Plus albums like Instant Uploads and the pictures ive shared with people ive google messaged but now none of them appear theres just my Camera folder and only the local pictures. my question is is there a way to get Gallery to fetch these and keep fetching them or is it just the Rom im using? Sorry for the noob question and thanks for any assisstance.

Maybe my Gallery app is corrupted? I try to go to the settings page but it just gives me a black screen. Is there a way to fix this?

rohail6 said:
Maybe my Gallery app is corrupted? I try to go to the settings page but it just gives me a black screen. Is there a way to fix this?
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I flashed gapps found on rootzwiki (can't post links yet but search JRO03C GApps Package 08/11/12) but unfortunately that has left me with a different problem. Now I can see all of my picasa/google+ web albums, but if I try to select those photos to either edit, post to instagram, or post to facebook, the app just does nothing. It appears to have something to do with the photo picker URL, but I'm not even sure of that, much less how to fix it. Regardless, gapps did fix the black screen in settings and missing picasa albums, as well as some other minor issues with calendar sync.

Crap in my gallery / keyboard autp correct

I'm frustrated by all the crap in my gallery. I don't want to disabled dropbox/facebook SYNC but I don't want anything but camera pictures and downloaded images in my gallery. I tried disabling the gallery options on a per application basis in facebook and dropbox, cleared my gallery data and cache but they are still there.. I ended up deleting some irreplaceable images FROM THE DROPBOX SERVER in an attempt to remove it from my phone... terrible, terrible design Google/Samsung whoever. How do I solve this? Is there a temporary dropbox deleted folder so I can recover those?
Secondly I'm used to my evo where sense would automatically replace a mispelled word after I click space. Here, I have to select the right wprd or it just continues on (and adds the mispelled word, lile now I have "lile", "wprd", and "autp" in m6 dictionary. And "m6"....)
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bleaktrotter said:
I'm frustrated by all the crap in my gallery. I don't want to disabled dropbox/facebook SYNC but I don't want anything but camera pictures and downloaded images in my gallery. I tried disabling the gallery options on a per application basis in facebook and dropbox, cleared my gallery data and cache but they are still there.. I ended up deleting some irreplaceable images FROM THE DROPBOX SERVER in an attempt to remove it from my phone... terrible, terrible design Google/Samsung whoever. How do I solve this? Is there a temporary dropbox deleted folder so I can recover those?
Secondly I'm used to my evo where sense would automatically replace a mispelled word after I click space. Here, I have to select the right wprd or it just continues on (and adds the mispelled word, lile now I have "lile", "wprd", and "autp" in m6 dictionary. And "m6"....)
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Sorry to hear you're having such an uncomfortable OEM swap. The only thing I can suggest is that you download alternative keyboards and galleries and try them. I have looked for settings that would help you but there are none.
QuickPic is a good alternative to the stock gallery. If you long press folders you can choose to "ignore" them. I think you can even hide folders or have the password protected. I use a keyboard called messagease which has probably the worst text prediction ever (at present) but allows me to write faster and more acurately than any other I have tried. You may want to try Swiftkey, the new 4.2 android keyboard or even keymonk. I think swiftykey lets you choose wether a "space" enters the predicted/correctly spelt word.
Good luck

Under /settings/personal/cloud dropbox disable sync of pictures and video and they will no longer show up in your gallery. I'm not sure on the Facebook one. You will still have all of your other options for dropbox under accounts and sync.
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