Is there a way to create new folders so that pics taken will go into that folder?
FunN4lo said:
Is there a way to create new folders so that pics taken will go into that folder?
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Camera 2 BTW
To my knowledge this can not be done in the native setup of the camera.
You may only select the storage location default of internal memory or SD card. The OS setups up standard folders in either case. This is probably done to keep to a simple standard and avoid potential errors and is common in digital cameras.
I would suggest that this is a better way of keeping files organized though. Have everything dump to one location and then sort them to appropriate folders from there. The gallery interface on the camera makes it very easy to move individual or multiple exposures.
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On Android 2.1 the camera app would save images files named:
"2010-06-22 14.49.58.jpg"
Now on FRF83, images are being named like:
"IMG_20100628_114802.jpg"
Is there any way to change this back to the 2.1 naming style? It is easier to read, plus all the pics I have taken are already named that way, so I would like to keep it consistent.
I searched but didn't turn up anything.
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Probably easier just to mount your SD card on a computer and use a batch rename command to update your old files with the new naming scheme.
As I said, I don't care for the new naming scheme. I find it unnecessarily difficult to quickly and easily read the date/time stamp.
Surely there is some way to change this...
pfmiller said:
Probably easier just to mount your SD card on a computer and use a batch rename command to update your old files with the new naming scheme.
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That's not the case with photos already uploaded to Picasa. Picasa web albums are automatically displayed within the gallery. Unfortunately, the file name affects how they are sorted. Consequently, new photos I've uploaded to picasa show up after (i.e., to the "right" of) old photos I previously uploaded. So now, until the end of time, there is a chunk of photos in each Picasa album that will be "stuck" in front of new photos.
The only way I can "fix" this is by running a script my SD card to rename the new images to the old format and then using "Share" to upload them to Picasa.
The FroYo camera is really disappointing. My photos are washed out. They are named incorrectly. And the camera preview that used to zip up quickly to let me delete the last photo now forwards me to the gallery where I may have to wait minutes for the new photo to load. It's really upsetting.
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.
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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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clskier said:
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.
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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.
Folks,
in order to have a better handling of images on my devices, I want to have a semi-automated process that ...
- ... runs triggered manually (or automated once at the end of each month),
- ... creates a YEAR_MONTH folder in a backup folder on the devices external sd card (if it doesn't already exist),
- ... moves all the images in any of the devices DCIM / Camera / Gallery / ... folders taken in the current (ending) month over to this folder.
Would this be possible using Tasker? Any hints on how to get started here? I have absolutely no experience using Tasker; browsing Play Store made me stumble across this app and so far it seemed one of the vew I could imagine being able of doing what I need...
TIA and all the best,
Kristian
kr428 said:
- ... runs triggered manually (or automated once at the end of each month),
- ... creates a YEAR_MONTH folder in a backup folder on the devices external sd card (if it doesn't already exist),
- ... moves all the images in any of the devices DCIM / Camera / Gallery / ... folders taken in the current (ending) month over to this folder.
Would this be possible using Tasker? Any hints on how to get started here?
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Yes, it's possible. Create a profile using the time trigger. "From time" and "to time" the same. Add task acyions from the file group.
Start just with the task and manually trigger it to test. Then link it to the time triggered profile.
It's not hard but the best way to learn is to dive in.
Thanks! I'll dig into this then and get back in case of any more questions.
Hey everyone
I have had some problems with regarding screenshots on my Note 8.
1. Screenshots are by default stored at a folder named DCIM/Screenshots.
can this, by any way, be changed? I couldn't find any normal way throughout the settings. My device is rooted with TWRP if that helps...
2. Google Photos automatically backs up all images in the DCIM folder and subfolders.
I like the auto backup thing. It's fine by me. But I don't like the fact that it backs up my screenshots. both for Clutter reasons and privacy reasons.
While you can go ahead and pick folders to be backed up by the app IN ADDITION to the DCIM folder, I can't make the app to not include the DCIM/Screenshots in the backup.
A solution to any of the issues will help.
If I can get my screenshots to be saved to a different folder - that's great. If I can make the Google Photos app to not include the "DCIM/Screenshots" folder in the auto upload - that would be even better.
Thank you for your help
Have a great day.
Actually - Seeing now:
Besides Screenshots folder in the "DCIM" folder, there's also a few more folders containing images other than pictures I took with my camera. Images which I have no interest in backing up.
Therefore I think the main problem is the fact that the Google Photos app is by default uploading the entire DCIM folder and not letting users decide if they want all subfolders included.
thanks...
Hi there, is there any way to change camera photos save location. Default is external storage/DCIM/camera. I use my NAS cloud to back up photos but it needs photos exacly in DCIM folder to backing up.
Dizzyrul3z said:
Hi there, is there any way to change camera photos save location. Default is external storage/DCIM/camera. I use my NAS cloud to back up photos but it needs photos exacly in DCIM folder to backing up.
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Hey.
Not a direct solution as such, but more a possible workaround.
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