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how to change camera folder?

Evertime I take a picture, my magician always save the picture to
My Document/xxxxx <----- xxxxxx is some kind of strings.
If I would like to specified the destination folder to
My Document/My Picture
What should I do?

Hello,
I can change the destination using this menu:
Camera -> Picture -> and then "Save in ..."
but like you I would like to put all the image in one folder and not multiple folder like "200050101" etc..

could'nt find it
Thank you for your answer.
BTW I couldn't find the menu that you said.
When I go to Camera, there is no "picture" menu.

- Start camera
- Tap on Tools icon right bottom corner. second from right
- select menu : Toolsoptions
- Select "save to" device as you want.
- also consider changing separately for image and video. they are different
AS

I didn't see it
There are only 2 options for me
-Save to Storge Card
-Save to Main Memory
Yours is different?

do a registry hack
you only have the option to change wether to store your pics on main memory or storage.
Edit your registry settings under "HKLM\SOFTWARE\HTC\Camera\AppDefSettings\Image\SaveFolder" for pics and "HKLM\SOFTWARE\HTC\Camera\AppDefSettings\Video\SaveFolder" for vids and set the String value to "\[FolderName]".
This will create a folder under your MyDocuments folder where the pics will be saved.
But note also that under that folder it will still create the "xxxxx" folder your talking about. Annoying isn't it? :x

I have a XDA2i and have the same problem of every time a photo is taken it creats a directory for that days pictures.
so could i also use that reg hack to at leat get all the folders it creats to go to one directory i.e i create a folder called XDApics and put it under my Documents.
I understand that in that new folder will be lots of daily created folders but it will clean up the my documents folder tho
JOhn

previous version
It's so wierd !!!
If I remember correctly while I was using XDA II, I can put my picture anywhere I want not in sub folder like this.
Why the previous version is better than the lastest one ?

applecom said:
so could i also use that reg hack to at leat get all the folders it creats to go to one directory i.e i create a folder called XDApics and put it under my Documents.
I understand that in that new folder will be lots of daily created folders but it will clean up the my documents folder tho
JOhn
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I think it should also work on your xdaIIi. Also, you dont have to manually create a folder under your MyDocuments. Once you already set it on your registry, the folder will be automatically created after taking pics or vids.
And yes I'm using this trick to at least clean up my docs folder :wink:

it's not great we can't choose the directory..
I save my pics on my SD card and it create "My documents" directory on my SD Card.. boring......

I cannot find the Storage Card option
Hi there,
I'm using i-Mate JAMin, win mobile 5 and the only available options here are Main Memory and Network. In other words I cannot change to save the photos and videos to the SD card. Please, help!
P.S.: I also tried setting a new path within the registry settings, changed the path to '\Storage Card\My Photos\' with no luck - it creates the directories under the 'My Documents' in the main memory. It's a big pain in the ass b/c I don't have enough space to make lots of photos or clips.

Camera Pics Location on 2i

I've looked on the registry and tried fiddling but resulted in a) a crash that required a soft reset and b) message saying couldn't save the file when i changed the picture location to \my documents\my pictures.
Whenever I save a picture on the 2i it saves it into a folder in MD with the date as the folder name, with the picture stored in it. Any way to change this?
Ant

Did you manage to get a solution to this - I'm looking for exactly the same answer. There is a possible reg key, but changing that caused problems.

Also for me.
I've a Qtek 2020i from few days and I would like to know store all the photos in one folder.
At the moment I set the path of saved photos (SD card) but I want to have all the photos in one foolder instead of multiple photos in multiple folders. :?
Bye !

Still no work around for this ?

No news for me

I never did get an answer no, and I've given up looking for one myself.
Ant

I was thinking of creating a small apllication that you could run to move the pictures/movies from the numeric folders to a default folder such as My Pictures, im reading up on how it could be achieved at the moment.

On my xda 2, I made a directory on storage card, and they are all in that folder. What happens with yours? You can prefix it with anything you like, I call mine pic and it increments pic_001 etc. The settings are under camera, then click the spanner/screwdriver, then click tools, then click options. I changed the prefix to string and defined the string in the next box down under prefix string, the folder is changed under folder by clicking change.

For some reason the "Folder" option is missing on the XDA 2i so even though you can select the location (Main memory or storage card) it still saves it in \My Documents\xxxxxxxxxx <--- the x's refer to the date ie
05071800001 , 05(year)07(Month)18(Day) the rest is the folder number i think ? 00001 ?
Why they never used the same configuration as the other phones is beyond me but nevermind !

Danny-B- said:
I was thinking of creating a small apllication that you could run to move the pictures/movies from the numeric folders to a default folder such as My Pictures, im reading up on how it could be achieved at the moment.
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If you be able to do this you're the BEST !!!! :wink:

Trouble changing the path to the SD
Hi there,
I'm using i-Mate JAMin, win mobile 5 and the only available options here are Main Memory and Network. In other words I cannot change to save the photos and videos to the SD card. Please, help!
P.S.: I also tried setting a new path within the registry settings, changed the path to '\Storage Card\My Photos\' with no luck - it creates the directories under the 'My Documents' in the main memory. It's a big pain in the ass b/c I don't have enough space to make lots of photos or clips.

Is there anyway to hide an album(folder) from HTC album?

I'd like to set "all" as the favorite album in the TF3D photo tab so it just displays all the photos I've taken (I have about 100 pics separated by folder under \storage card\pictures\) The problem is when I do that it puts other pics like the icon's for Angelusz's landscape fix at the top of the thumbs list.
Is there a way to either hide certain album's(folder's) from HTC Album's view, or a way to make it only look at the storage card and not at the phone itself?

if you get an answer.... please repost!!!!
having same issue.
looking to not show in the 'albums' section a specific folder that has images in it.
and in the same token, making these (same) pics not be available through the 'see-all' feature.
trying to not have 'accidental' display of pics no need to make them "hidden-files" because then one wouldn't be able to view them when needing to.
can there be a limit set to the viewer and how 'deep' it searches for images? maybe they can be placed in a series of sub-folders that are so many deep, that the viewer does not look for....?

yeah this is a big problem if you have tomtom because it loads all of those pics

turnstar said:
I'd like to set "all" as the favorite album in the TF3D photo tab so it just displays all the photos I've taken (I have about 100 pics separated by folder under \storage card\pictures\) The problem is when I do that it puts other pics like the icon's for Angelusz's landscape fix at the top of the thumbs list.
Is there a way to either hide certain album's(folder's) from HTC Album's view, or a way to make it only look at the storage card and not at the phone itself?
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The simplest solution is to change the properties to hiddend for the image files you do not want to see in the tab.
There is also a reg patch to exclude particular folders but i dont know the details

anath said:
There is also a reg patch to exclude particular folders but i dont know the details
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If anyone has more information on this reg patch, I'd like to know more.
Also as Angelusz pointed out to me in another thread the HTCAlbum doesn't search the windows directory, so I've been dumping wallpapers ect. in there whenever I can. The big downside to this is the amount of time it takes the X1 to load the windows directory, especially when your trying out several wallpapers.

Key
HKLM\Software\HTC\HTCAlbum\Ignored
(if ignored doesn't exist: create it)
Make a new String Value and give it any name
example: igo
set the Data for the new value to the full path of the folder to be ignored
example: \Storage Card\iGO8
(note: all sub-folders will be ignored as well)
source

Great, thanks for the tip!

the-equinoxe said:
Key
HKLM\Software\HTC\HTCAlbum\Ignored
(if ignored doesn't exist: create it)
Make a new String Value and give it any name
example: igo
set the Data for the new value to the full path of the folder to be ignored
example: \Storage Card\iGO8
(note: all sub-folders will be ignored as well)
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Excellent, thanks.

Thanks for the info! But there is an issue
Hello -
i tried your suggestion, but it didn't quite work.
i have the HTC fuze -
i created a folder in the storage card called ddd, then went to the registry and followed your suggestion, but when i go to the camera, and select the soft-key for albums, there are some options called "all" and "camera shots" that still reveal the contents of the whole phone. and the folders that contain the images that are to be kept away from accidental viewing, are already located on that folder 'ddd' on the storage card. how do i delete the "all"/"camera shots" feature form the album viewer, or better yet, how do i keep some pictures from coming up in their individual folders in the same viewer.
sorry to be a pest, but if there's anywhere else to get good info on this matter...it'd be here.
thanks for the help!!

works for me, thanks

HTC album sorts pictures in wrong sequence

If i open picture files in a directory via file explorer these pictures are often sorted in the wrong sequence. e.g. I have a folder containing picture files 01.jpg to 20.jpg and I open file 01.jpg the next pic should be 02.jpg in htc album (changing pics by sliding over the display in one direction, sliding in the other direction sould habe no effect...). The thing is the pictures appear by sliding in both directions and pictures are sorted wrong.
Has anyone a fix for that?

I thought this was related to the MyPhone service......as it happens after a new ROM/restore for me

Well, htc album is sorting the pictures by date and there is still no way to change this with a tweak, because this setting seems to be within the album .exe. I bought resco photo manager to escape this problem, maybe not the best solution but better than nothing.

Time has passed - did anyone find an answer to this problem?
regards

+1
This problem is really annoying. Hope someone can help

this great app can be very useful for you. it changes the default name to "img" to the date of the picture. at least for me, this makes my pics more organized. here's the link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=555607

Update file times using this script to achieve the correct ordering
As mentioned above, the HTC Album application is hard-coded to show the files in each album (i.e. folder) in descending order of the modification date-time.
So my solution is to simply update the date-time of each file so that the date-times strictly descend as the filename ascends. To do that, I use this attached script (I can't take the credit - it is not mine but can't find the place I discovered it).
First, make sure the filenames of the photos are in the correct alphbetical order in each folder on the PC - this is easy if you use a sequential numeric suffix on each file (e.g. Holiday-001.jpg, Holiday-002.jpg etc). Then copy the script file into the folder with the photos and run it. It will set the modified date-time of the first photo in alphabetical order to be the current time, and then for each subsequent file set the date-time to one minute less. Cleverly, the script can also do this for any sub-folders if you want it to. Then all you have to do is copy the updated files to the device or storage card.
Of course, if you care about preserving files names or modifcation dates, take a copy of the photos first and use these copies rather than the originals.

Album finds all pics. Disable this.

I know one can disable certain folders from appearing in the albums, but can one specify only the particular folders one wants to appear in the album? How does one enable only the wanted folders?
For example, I only want only the pictures in MY Pictures and DCIM, on the card, to show up. Can this be done with a registry tweak?
Thanks.
NOT THIS:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=583638
64. Disable Unwanted Folders From Showing in HTC Album
Don't you find it annoying that HTC Album Shows lots of images you don't need to see when you select Albums like GPS poi icons? Now you can tell HTC Album to ignore certain folders.
Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/HTC/HTCAlbum/Ignored and add a NEW STRING VALUE
Eg if there is iGO8 in the root of the Storage Card you would create a NEW STRING VALUE with Value name iGO8 and Value Data \Storage Card\iGO8
This will include all subfolders inside the iGO8 folder. Save and reset.

Nope....can't be done.

Yes it can be indeed done! Just add the folders you want to be invisible in the registry to the HTCAlbum-Ignore-List by creating a new string value. Name doesnt matter but the value must be the specified folder you want to exclude (just search for "ignore" in a reg-editor, should be the second or third result).
Greets

elburna:
Sorry, but I want to only include a specific folder, not have to disable folders--I would have to disable a few dozen folders, since almost all have some sort of image in them. I want the Albums to only find one or two folders.
Thanks.

LeonSinger said:
elburna:
Sorry, but I want to only include a specific folder, not have to disable folders--I would have to disable a few dozen folders, since almost all have some sort of image in them. I want the Albums to only find one or two folders.
Thanks.
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That cant be done, cause u are lazy to create a string value for every folders, lol.
Just take ur time to do that all for once, and export the reg value, so the next time u flash a new rom, u dont have to do this again. And I also suggest, create a string for a big folders, e.g: \Storage Card\Program Files, so every images in Program Files sub-folders will not be scan.

Thanks everyone. Yes, I figured that folders could only be excluded. I will take your advice and do it as described above.
Thanks again.