So I was cleaning up a bunch of files on my device after testing new builds of my custom version of Lineage and I noticed that there were a ton of pictures and screenshots I had taken that don't show up in Google Photos at all.
They are in the same folders as my other photos and screenshots that do show up and I cleared data on the Photos app which made a bunch more screenshots visible, which I then deleted and emptied from the trash, but they were still on my phone when I looked with a file manager. I don't use the backup feature at all so I know it has nothing to do with that either. Is there anyone else having this issue or someone who knows how to fix it?
I'm using a Pixel XL on LineageOS 14.1.
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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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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
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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
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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!
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.
Hey all, I recently installed AquariOS onto my device, and now I don't seem to have unlimited photo storage. Help with this would be appreciated, thanks
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Hey all, I recently installed AquariOS onto my device, and now I don't seem to have unlimited photo storage. Help with this would be appreciated, thanks
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Sounds like you should post in the AquariOS G+ page or their ROM thread to get someone from AquariOS dev team to look into it.
TCUofficial said:
Hey all, I recently installed AquariOS onto my device, and now I don't seem to have unlimited photo storage. Help with this would be appreciated, thanks
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How did you check? Does Google Photos no longer say you have unlimited free storage until a specific date? A screenshot would help.
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...my experience doesn't have any experience to do with ROMs (I'm on stock), but I've had experience that, for whatever reason, my pictures were being backed up to my Google Photos (unlimited) AND my Google Drive (15GB freely offered)! So, as my phone would "free up space" and delete my pictures after saving them to my Google Photos account, my Google Drive would fill up to no space because they weren't doing the same!
My Google Drive is set up to have my Google Photos included as a folder. I think somewhere along the way it got mixed up. In the end, I was able to either 1) move the pictures to Google Photos folder and it freed up space or 2) copy the photos to my computer, delete them from the Google Drive, extract and put them unto my phone, and have Google Photos app re-upload them.
It's most likely you (OP) are having a problem with the ROM, but I just wanted to give my experience just in case you or someone else runs into the same issue as me...
note: this was back on Oreo 8.1 Feb update patch. All other info in my sig...
Hi,
I tried to port the topshot function to my P2XL, I had to uninstall updates to my google photos app before installed the Pixel 3 port.
Now when I installed the port successfully, all my photos are now appearing twice (as I did a full back up of photos to Google cloud).
Is there not a way to merge the photos from the device to the cloud backup? Any help appreciated, thank you!
(By the way, I couldn't get top shot functionality working, so pointless effort sigh...)
Hello all,
I would really appreciate some insight into a strange problem I am experiencing. Although I appear to be able to take screenshots on my Moto G 5G Plus in the normal way, I have no idea where they are being stored.
Theoretically, I should be able to find my screenshots within a screenshots folder within my Google Photos Library - however, it's not listed within my 'photos on device' area - nor anywhere else! Btw, I do not use any 3rd party screenshot app.
I've also used my 'Files' app to search the folders within my internal storage (I am not using any external storage media) - nothing appears within the DCIM nor Pictures folders either, so I'm pretty convinced no such 'screenshots' folder exists on my phone. Yet, as far as I can tell I am able to take screenshots, so...where are they going? I'm totally stumped!
Does anyone have any advice/explanation/fix?
Thanks!