This might be a big flaw I found in froyo.
When you sync your web albums from Picasa to your phone, they get stored on your phone. I have not been able to locate them on my SD card. Worse thing is, if you go into gallery, you can't even delete them. Once synced you are done with all the space that you wanted to save from the froyo update.
The only way to free up that space is by doing a factory reset.
grewal1212 said:
This might be a big flaw I found in froyo.
When you sync your web albums from Picasa to your phone, they get stored on your phone. I have not been able to locate them on my SD card. Worse thing is, if you go into gallery, you can't even delete them. Once synced you are done with all the space that you wanted to save from the froyo update.
The only way to free up that space is by doing a factory reset.
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I believe that only the thumbnails of Picasaweb photos are stored on your phone, not the photos themselves.
Actually, I'm almost certain that only the name and other properties of the albums is synced.
The thumbnails and even photos are downloaded and cached only when you view them on the gallery.
I wish there was an option to download everything to the card.
grewal1212 said:
This might be a big flaw I found in froyo.
When you sync your web albums from Picasa to your phone, they get stored on your phone. I have not been able to locate them on my SD card. Worse thing is, if you go into gallery, you can't even delete them. Once synced you are done with all the space that you wanted to save from the froyo update.
The only way to free up that space is by doing a factory reset.
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I want what you're smoking.
The only thing the Gallery app stores on your phone are album properties and other things such as sync status (~4MB). Everything else is stored on the SD Card under Android\data\com.cooliris.media\cache\ folder.
I have over 1000 pics from picasa on my phone and they are not on my memory card
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dsims91 said:
I have over 1000 pics from picasa on my phone and they are not on my memory card
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No, they are only cached on your phone. Blows, but that's the way it is.
No ways you guys! I have 20gig picasa account, and all 20gigs of it is automatically downloaded and stored on my 8gig microSD card d00ds!!!! way coolz! also I was on 3G, and it was super quick!
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Ok I went ahead and purchased some extra space ((20 gigs))
Im uploading albums as I type and realize now 2 issues. Ive searched but but there doesnt seem to be a clear answer.
1. Where exactly ((and what exactly)) is physically stored on my SD card ?
Is it the full pic or just a thumbnail. I have "original size" set in Picasa so now im worried the Cache will engorge my SD card.
2. I know there is currently no feature that allows me to manually select specific Albums to sync. But has there been any word from Google this is being worked on ?
I just read calendar has added this in Froyo.
My SDCARD gets filled with thousands of PicasaImageTempXXXXX.tmp files, I'm guessing it's the cache for the gallery regarding Picasa Online Photos.
How can I move the location of those files to the .temp folder for example, because it's just annoying and taking a lot of time for any file explorer to open the SDCARD.
Any idea, I searched and the only answer I got is just delete them, but they get recreated (duh) every time I start gallery process!
I don't want to delete them, I understand the need for a cache folder, only want to move them to a non intrusive folder!
I get files too. Didn't know how to get rid of them, so I disabled Auto Sync for Picasa and just deleted all. It doesn't sync anymore but at least there is no ton of unwanted files.
I have to report that after updating firmware to V10E Euro Open, the files don't appear anymore... I still have Picassa and google sync on... but after deleting the files, they stay dead...
Probably it was a firmware bug... Previously I had V10B Orange Romania.
i have the same problem after firmware updation to v10f. But i managed by stopping picasa sync off
Ah Google+ stuffs...
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don't think it's related to google +.
Have this issues 2 times recently on V20n (without G+ application).
Try to reproduce but without success for the moment...
Humm i always turn off picasa sync since google+ released because all your g+ photos are stored @ picasa web album. Maybe google now integrates picasa by default. I dunno what for since i never upload my pic to it. Maybe for upcoming features.
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Think it's related to sd speed increase application.
Disable it and uninstall it and problem seems to be resolved
After i installed G+ app on Froyo, i am to having this problem.
I know this is old, but there seems to be no solution and I'm facing this thing with Marvelv3.0 ROM... so, anyone have a clue?? already delete them but they redo after a while, unsync everything but still there... and the thing is I only have like 30 pics at G+ but the SD generate like 2.5k files... I'm tired of deleting and deleting every time...
BTW that didn't happend with cm7
I don't know still what is causing this problem, but it seems , that I managed to fix this by wiping the data for gallery and something else, can't remember what ATM, but I don't have the files now... Lately there is only one picture, but I didn't bothered to delete it from fear that the bug will return again...
Got the same problem But now its fixed
I've got 4000+ temp files on my sd card. of that picasa thing.
This happens because every time you open your gallery it will sync to your gmail/google+ account. if its not sync correctly it will give you temp files every time you open the gallery.
So my suggestion is let the gallery sync to you photos on the google+ if you want you pictures on G+ to show on the gallery by using wifi/3g/4G or un check the background data on the "settings. > Accounts & sync settings".
Maybe this helps.
BTW if you guys want to try this make sure to delete first all the picasa temp files on you sd card to know if it works.
I installed the 10A EEU and began to appear as well, Picasa is not installed on my phone.
Does anyone know whether it's possible to use the Google Plus Photos app with sync on the Z1 Sony stock firmware (I'm using 4.4.2)?
How it is supposed to behave:
- Edited photos replace the original, yet maintain the edit/meta-information to revert
- All changes, including deleting photos, sync across all devices
How it behaves for me:
- Editing a photo on the Z1 creates a new image, without the editing information, i.e. without being able to revert anything
- The original photo on the device does not get deleted when I delete it on another device or online
rxzlmn said:
- The original photo on the device does not get deleted when I delete it on another device or online
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Hi!
Maybe it's a stuppid suggestion, but have you check the option "google+ photos" is activated in Settings > Google > "your gmail account" ???
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How it behaves for me:
- Editing a photo on the Z1 creates a new image, without the editing information, i.e. without being able to revert anything
- The original photo on the device does not get deleted when I delete it on another device or online
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Same here, found out it was because my pictures were on my SD card.
Are your pictures on an SD card? If so, move them to Internal Storage and see if the problem persists.
You should also run the SD card fix if the SD card issue was your problem.
kentexcitebot said:
Same here, found out it was because my pictures were on my SD card.
Are your pictures on an SD card? If so, move them to Internal Storage and see if the problem persists.
You should also run the SD card fix if the SD card issue was your problem.
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thanks, I did save to SD card before but disabled it already. perhaps I try wiping the remaining photos from the card. can I ask what do you mean by SD card fix?
edit:
actually I just quickly wiped the phone to see if it's of any fix. unfortunately, it's not. the behaviour is really annoying:
- if I edit a pic in google plus online or another android device, the Z1 shows the edited version in the google photos app and the original version in the sony album app
- if I delete a picture in google plus online or via another android device, it will disappear in the google photos app on the Z1 but remain on the stock album app
- if I open a photo from the stock album app and select to edit it in the google photos app, there will be a copy of the original plus an edited copy in the stock album app, but only an edited version in the photos app.
so ultimately, making the sync/edit tools from google useless as it creates a mess, I used to edit my photos all the time on my N10 or online and everything was synced nicely. now the only non-messy option is doing _everything_ from within the sony app and also lose the option to change edits later on.
any help how to solve this appreciated. but I have a feeling that this is not possible on stock. anyone knows the behaviour on CM?
Somehow I messed up setting up my wife's new Moto X. In the past I had some tasker tasks to transfer all the photos off our phones and onto our NAS every night. In setting up the task on her new phone I deleted a slew of pictures. I know the original photos are gone and I'll face the music on that one. However, if I go to camera and swipe to the left I can scroll through all the photos. I can't email or share any because the file is gone, but if I can see the photos there must be a low res image someplace on the phone still. Anyone know how to access these and possibly get me out of the doghouse? They're not in the DCIM folder at all. I poked around in the Android/Data folder a bit, but did not find them.
On the same note, is there a way to clean these out over time? Seems to me if I have a thumbnail of every photo ever taken it would eventually fill up the storage.
Thanks
Get an app like astro file manager, or root Explorer and go to storage then DCIM and your thumbnail pics should be there.
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Somehow I messed up setting up my wife's new Moto X. In the past I had some tasker tasks to transfer all the photos off our phones and onto our NAS every night. In setting up the task on her new phone I deleted a slew of pictures. I know the original photos are gone and I'll face the music on that one. However, if I go to camera and swipe to the left I can scroll through all the photos. I can't email or share any because the file is gone, but if I can see the photos there must be a low res image someplace on the phone still. Anyone know how to access these and possibly get me out of the doghouse? They're not in the DCIM folder at all. I poked around in the Android/Data folder a bit, but did not find them.
On the same note, is there a way to clean these out over time? Seems to me if I have a thumbnail of every photo ever taken it would eventually fill up the storage.
Thanks
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Those are probably all cached. As for recovering them, I'm sure you can find them in the cache -- I don't know where they'd be saved (I believe there is a /cache partition but then there's also the possibility that the gallery caches those previews somewhere in /data/). It may be easier to to screen shot the ones you want.
EDIT: see above post - that's probably what you want
As for the cache growing, I'd imaging that the gallery app has some sort of maintenance. But there is always the option of using apps (I have SD Maid, personally) and/or periodically clearing the cache partition via a custom recovery
Thanks all. This was good info also. I ended up finding the files on my NAS which leads me to a whole other question which I will post seperately from this as it only related by symptoms.
Since moving to the Note 9 I have been having issues with Google Photos backing up to my Google account. It has been working perfectly for years on my Note 8, Note 5, etc...
Now, on the Note 9, the backup sticks at "Getting ready to back up" until I go into a folder that backup is enable on and toggle the option off then back on. This makes the application begin the backup. I have it configured for High Quality but it did the same when I tried Original quality settings.
I initially though it was a problem with photos that I moved over from my Note 8, but I cleared out all of my on device photos and it is still having this same problem. I tried all the usual steps of clearing Photos cache and data. Uninstall and reinstall, clear Play Services Cache and data. I haven't performed a factory reset, but I don't feel like taking the time to reconfigure everything for something that might not even work.
Does anybody else have this problem also?
No issues. Did you disable any services?
Photos works fine on my 960F/DS...
Yes and I can't figure out how to solve the problem. What have you found?
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jezaz said:
Yes and I can't figure out how to solve the problem. What have you found?
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Hello,
I have similar issue on a French SM-N960F/DS (Dual Sim)
Somehow, the Google Photos App is stuck while retrieving my Photos (from Google Web Server) an I can only view a couple of them (the most recent ones), without being able to scroll down and view the older ones.
Also when taking photos, it wont upload them
And finally if I try to toggle the switch (for backup) inside one directory, I have a popup asking me to first enabe Backup and Sync in Google Photos Apps, which is ALREADY enabled.
I suspect this is linked to the SD Card.
I removed it (just unmount it is sufficient, no need to physically remove it) and I reconfigured the Native Samsung Photo App to store all photos on the internal memory.
And now Google Photos Apps is just working fine. Full access on old pictures and proper upload.
EDIT1:
I have RE-mounted the SD Card without changing the Samsung Photo App settings, which means all taken Pictures are still stored on the Internal Memory.
By doing so, when I get into the Google Photos App, I see the new picture, and I see that there is "1" new photo to be uploaded on the upper right corner, but it is stuck there. The round icon keeps circling and it never gets uploaded (I cannot see the new Picture on the Google Photos website from my laptop)
If I Unmount the SD Card again, then the new Picture gets properly uploaded and the App is not stuck.
There is definitively an issue with the SD card.
This is quite annoying as I store lots of TV Series on my SD Card, hence I have it always inside the Phone.......
EDIT2:
I have formatted the SD Card from the Phone menu and now it works fine , even if the Card is present.
EDIT3:
I have copied back 10x MKV Files onto the SD Card (while Note9 was connected to laptop), and now the problem re-appears. If I delete the directory containing these MKV, back to normal, functioning fine.....
Then I tried to configure the Samsung Photo App to store taken pictur on the SD Card. In that case, the Google Photos App is correctly synching the new picture.
So now I'm more thinking there is an issue with some of the files stored on the SD Card. This card had been used for +2 years on a Galaxy Note 4 without issue. I do think the Note 9 might have a flaw while handling content from the SD Card.... ?
EDIT4: SOLVED
I just simply put a text file called ".nomedia" inside the directory containing the MKV files and VOILA
Hope that helps someone else
SD Card Issue with Google Photos
Damin0u said:
Hello,
I have similar issue on a French SM-N960F/DS (Dual Sim)
Somehow, the Google Photos App is stuck while retrieving my Photos (from Google Web Server) an I can only view a couple of them (the most recent ones), without being able to scroll down and view the older ones.
Also when taking photos, it wont upload them
And finally if I try to toggle the switch (for backup) inside one directory, I have a popup asking me to first enabe Backup and Sync in Google Photos Apps, which is ALREADY enabled.
I suspect this is linked to the SD Card.
I removed it (just unmount it is sufficient, no need to physically remove it) and I reconfigured the Native Samsung Photo App to store all photos on the internal memory.
And now Google Photos Apps is just working fine. Full access on old pictures and proper upload.
EDIT1:
I have RE-mounted the SD Card without changing the Samsung Photo App settings, which means all taken Pictures are still stored on the Internal Memory.
By doing so, when I get into the Google Photos App, I see the new picture, and I see that there is "1" new photo to be uploaded on the upper right corner, but it is stuck there. The round icon keeps circling and it never gets uploaded (I cannot see the new Picture on the Google Photos website from my laptop)
If I Unmount the SD Card again, then the new Picture gets properly uploaded and the App is not stuck.
There is definitively an issue with the SD card.
This is quite annoying as I store lots of TV Series on my SD Card, hence I have it always inside the Phone.......
EDIT2:
I have formatted the SD Card from the Phone menu and now it works fine , even if the Card is present.
EDIT3:
I have copied back 10x MKV Files onto the SD Card (while Note9 was connected to laptop), and now the problem re-appears. If I delete the directory containing these MKV, back to normal, functioning fine.....
Then I tried to configure the Samsung Photo App to store taken pictur on the SD Card. In that case, the Google Photos App is correctly synching the new picture.
So now I'm more thinking there is an issue with some of the files stored on the SD Card. This card had been used for +2 years on a Galaxy Note 4 without issue. I do think the Note 9 might have a flaw while handling content from the SD Card.... ?
EDIT4: SOLVED
I just simply put a text file called ".nomedia" inside the directory containing the MKV files and VOILA
Hope that helps someone else
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I also had the same issue since I got my Note 9, photos was stuck uploading, I uninstalled the App and cleared the cache still the same, upon reading your forum. I bought 512gb SDCard was working perfectly fine since PIE 9, after rolling back to Oreo; I unmounted the SD card closed Google Photos and checked the camera setting to make sure it was Internal. I opened Google Photos and it had already uploaded screenshot I took earlier and also seen in online. I then re-mounted the card by rebooting the phone for fresh install and worked normal again. Took a few screen shot's and google photos was uploading them as normal.
So anyone else check your card first, baffled me for a few day's