Probably more of a question about Dropbox than the phone.
I have it set to synch photos from the phone to Dropbox. Now I have accounts set up in Just Pictures for access to my online photos. And, all of my online photos are also synching to Dropbox.
Any thoughts on how to stop that, and upload just pictures that are actually on the phone?
Just to clarify, you have "JustPictures!" and Dropbox installed on your phone. Everything you have posted online to JustPictures! automatically downloads to your phone. Dropbox then uploads all of those photos to your Dropbox account?
By default, the Android Dropbox app only automatically uploads photos taken with the phone camera. So anything in /mnt/sdcard/DCIM/ (or /mnt/extSdCard/dcim/ if you've set your camera to save to an external SD card).
Files in any other folders need to be manually uploaded in the Android Dropbox app. The first thing I'd check would be the location where JustPictures! is synching files to. If Justpictures downloads your online photos in to one of the phone camera folders above, then dropbox will think those are new pictures from the camera and upload them to dropbox.
Hope that helps.
What you say makes sense, and what I would expect.
I'll check out your theory. However, I am skeptical, only because it is downloading full resolution (ie 5184X3186 photos), and I don't think the full res ones get downloaded, but I sure could be wrong. I do feel it is downloading some I haven't even looked at.
I'll post back on what I find.
Yeah I did some testing and dropbox will upload any pictures/videos that show up in your /dcim folder.
I tested by copying pictures I had saved in another folder to the /dcim folder.
/mnt/sdcard/download ----> /mnt/sdcard/dcim/
dropbox uploaded any pictures in ../dcim or ../dcim/camera.
I do not even find these pictures on my phone. New or old one.
But...I do now have a theory.
I have an ASUS tablet, and I had used it while on a trip (from which many of these pictures are in the Dropbox upload for phone folder) to copy the pics from an SD card to a hard drive, pictures from my Canon Camera.
Now, while none of them were in the DCIM folder on the SD card, the pics on the SD card from the camera are in DCIM/100CANON. It would seem it copied them from there.
BUT...I did this while in Yellowstone, and was just connected via a poor WiFi at the lodge. I'm impressed it moved that much data up.
This is the only think I can think of and I guess it makes sense. I turned off the function on the tablet in Dropbox for copying camera photos.
Thanks for the input. Got me going down the right track.
Ah, yep. That'd be it. I think dropbox looks in all subfolders of /dcim
Glad you got it figured out.
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Where does the Vibrant save pictures from say MMS messages? I looked in the Gallery and under files and couldn't find what I saved, and there doesn't seem to be a way to view the internal SD which is the only other place I can think of that it would save to. I can access the internal SD with my USB cable, but i'm at work right now.
Use the Files app and look for the Download folder.
That's what I thought too, but like I said in the OP I looked in there after the Gallery and there wasn't a download folder or any folder that had the pic I had saved inside.
This was on a friends Vibrant at work... I knew there was supposed to be a download folder under files because I have one on my Vibrant. Something strange going on with his I guess LOL. Thanks for the reply.
i recently rooted my X with a liberty rom, and since doing all my pictures thru gallery have been lost. My downloaded pics can still be seen via astro, but all of my camera pics are gone. Thought maybe the rom was at fault so flashed a liquid rom and the problem still exists. Anything i can do to recover my lost pictures?
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Your camera pictures should be stored on the sd card under the folder DCIM. Flashing a ROM usually doesn't touch the sd card, but I always plan for the worst when making any major changes. For future reference a good way to backup all your pictures is the sugarsync app. It syncs all your new photos automatically to your sugarsync account.
Got my 6P yesterday and getting it set up. I Have an issue I just can't seem to get around easily. I have all my pics from my last phone stored on my computer. If I copy those pics to the internal storage of my new phone google photos will create duplicates correct? If so how can I avoid this? I'm sure I am overlooking something. Thanks
I think it intelligently skips dupes based on file name and timestamp info. I had Google Photos on my Nexus 6 and loaded it onto my 6p to get access to all the old ones. I then remembered that I had a ton of photos in Dropbox and Copy with their respective photo backup options from multiple years on old phones (before Google Photos existed). I went on my PC and downloaded ALL of them (like 3,000 photos) then uploaded via Google Photos web. Some of those were already in there for sure, and it does not appear there are duplicates. I would try it with a small test that you know for sure is in there and see if it dupes, and if it doesn't, just upload from PC. No need to move to your phone first.
I used Chrome and I just dragged and dropped the photos onto the Google Photos tab and it uploaded. I let it run overnight and it did almost 2,000 photos in one shot, just took a while.
fury683 said:
I think it intelligently skips dupes based on file name and timestamp info. I had Google Photos on my Nexus 6 and loaded it onto my 6p to get access to all the old ones. I then remembered that I had a ton of photos in Dropbox and Copy with their respective photo backup options from multiple years on old phones (before Google Photos existed). I went on my PC and downloaded ALL of them (like 3,000 photos) then uploaded via Google Photos web. Some of those were already in there for sure, and it does not appear there are duplicates. I would try it with a small test that you know for sure is in there and see if it dupes, and if it doesn't, just upload from PC. No need to move to your phone first.
I used Chrome and I just dragged and dropped the photos onto the Google Photos tab and it uploaded. I let it run overnight and it did almost 2,000 photos in one shot, just took a while.
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Thanks, that kinda worked. I disabled backup before copying the pics to my phone just in case it started backing things up. It did appear there were many duplicates but it was easy to see what was a duplicate bu the not backed up icon in the pics. Once I removed them I turned back up back on. Minor inconvenience.
I'm noticing that I'm building up Image data even though I'm deleting every picture I take off of the device once it's uploaded to the cloud. However when I check the SD card storage the pictures are still there. Thumbnails as well. Hire can I fix this?
Bueller.... Bueller?
So far I've tried deleting data from Photos camera, and media storage to no avail.
I'm thinking it might have to do with the trash holding photos for 60 days before permanently deleting.
I'm thinking it might have to do with the trash holding photos for 60 days before permanently deleting.
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I'm noticing that I'm building up Image data even though I'm deleting every picture I take off of the device once it's uploaded to the cloud. However when I check the SD card storage the pictures are still there. Thumbnails as well. Hire can I fix this?
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Not sure if you've done this, but with newest version of photos, you can go into Settings and select Free Up Space and then it'll look for already uploaded photo to the cloud and remove it from your device. I do this about every 2 weeks to free up the device. I recommend cross reference the photos between app and photos.google.com to make sure. Also have NAS locally to back it up too.
Here's a new one on me. I took some pictures and all a sudden I can't share them with messaging or messenger. I get sorry "messenger was unable to process the file" I am using quikpic and also tried snap gallery. i tried clearing data/cache for quikpic and messages, did a smart clean and a reboot. I'm lost. any help is appreciated. I hope i don't have to reset.
looks like my camera pics moved back to the internal memory somehow and my explorer app still shows them on the SD card and when i try to open them then they won't load because they're not there. stock cam still shows SD card for storage. one of my camera apps must have glitched the phone.
So i copied the pics from internal camera folder to the external now i can' t look at those either. i think the file folder structure is glitched. the quikpic still can read pics from the memory card other then what i copied over. i do'n't know what happened. could have happened with Gcam froze up last night after taking a few pictures. so i loaded a diff camera to take pictures in a hurry. they must have both been trying to write to memory.
i still can't get my photos to my computer or anything. i can view them with photo galleries, edit with snapseed and send to mom with messaging through snapseed but the exported files can't be viewed either. i have some really nice pics of my pet birds that isn't easy to take sometimes. Is there some way to recover them?
now i am having the same problem when trying to load music from the file manager. the players say the file was modified or deleted.