Now that Google photos is the only gallery app . How do you delete local copies while retaining cloud back ups? Or vise versa
http://www.ghacks.net/2015/06/01/free-up-space-on-android-using-googles-photos-application/
Highlight the photo(s) you want to delete and tap the three dot menu at the top right and select Delete Device Copy.
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Is there an iOS like "PhotoStream" manner of getting pictures onto N7?
Picasa?
I know one can plug into USB, just look for a more streamlined method.
Thanks for any input!
It's called Google+
Sign in the G+ go to settings and it's called "Instant Upload"
any picture you take, it'll auto upload to G+ (in essence it's Picasa also)
BTW, Google had Instant Upload before the "PhotoStream"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aCYZ3gXfy8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y_xKVSRAy8
And FYI, any photo/video that is automatically Instantly Uploaded are marked as Private, so on you can see them, then you can choose to Share them to your Circles.
You can use drive, box, photobucket and dropbox as cloud storage to sync files between devices.
Currently using drop box but I've found I can't choose to sync individual folders such as camera uploads from my phone...that way I don't have all my drop box files filling up my N7. Anyone have a suggestion?
i have a dropbox account and i sync it with my galaxy s4.. however I have 2 problems:
1) photos in dropbox (old photos from the computer) appear in the gallery as well and i dont want those photos to be shown there
2) dropbox also downloads everything that in the folder to my phone.. (there are a lot of computer's backup stored in dropbox) and i dont want dropbox will download stuff to my phone.. all i want is upload my photos to dropbox and thats it! i dont want downloading anything
what to do
Gallery - Content to Display
Hi,
There is a way to do that.
1. Open Gallery
2. Menu > content to Display
3. Untick "ALL" select only desired items
4. Press THANKS Button
vertcam9 said:
Hi,
There is a way to do that.
1. Open Gallery
2. Menu > content to Display
3. Untick "ALL" select only desired items
4. Press THANKS Button
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thanks !
dropbox downloads to the phone everything i have in the computer.. (full sync)
all i want is a backup.. i mean I want my content will just be uploaded to dropbox but i dont want dropbox will download anything..
Uninstall Dropbox and come back install it... Sync normally and wolaaaa gallery is clean...
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delgamarco said:
Uninstall Dropbox and come back install it... Sync normally and wolaaaa gallery is clean...
Sent from my GT-I9505 using xda premium
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dropbox also downloads everything that in the folder to my phone.. (there are a lot of computer's backup stored in dropbox) and i dont want dropbox will download stuff to my phone.. all i want is upload my photos to dropbox and thats it! i dont want downloading anything
someone????
maybe try making a new dropbox account just for your phone/photos?
Same problem for me!
in my new Galaxy S4, with dropbox pre-installed, the app downloads everything that es in the folders to my phone!!! And no file marked as favorites.
Of course I don't want dropbox to download all files to my phone. All i want, when enabled and at this moments it's disabled, is upload my photos to dropbox and, that's all!
How can I disable this function!!!
yess please help uss!!!!
Settings, accounts and cloud, you can stop that. I hope.
JBL74 said:
Settings, accounts and cloud, you can stop that. I hope.
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its simple.. i dont want to cancel my sync with cloud.. i want:
-> photos stored on my SGS4+ other items on phone will be automatically uploaded
-> NOTHING on dropbox will be downloaded to my phone
I've edit a few images in google gallery and when I save it it just states saved, which saves my changes. I had an image that was not in my gallery by default, clicked on the image in a file browser and when prompted chose to open it in gallery. I edited the image and clicked save. While saving it stated "saving picture to edit online photo..." Where online was this saved?? I don't want this image online. Is it part of google+ or something? I can obviously delete the image from the gallery but I want to ensure it was also deleted online, whereever it stored it.
Surprisingly, a search for "saving picture to edited online photos" turns up no results in google when searched for in quotes.
How can I access these online images?
Nevermind, in the gallery I found the online images and deleted it. Is there a way to prevent this? I have google photo sync off in the options. I just wanted to edit the photo and save it to the device, not online.
sark666 said:
I've edit a few images in google gallery and when I save it it just states saved, which saves my changes. I had an image that was not in my gallery by default, clicked on the image in a file browser and when prompted chose to open it in gallery. I edited the image and clicked save. While saving it stated "saving picture to edit online photo..." Where online was this saved?? I don't want this image online. Is it part of google+ or something? I can obviously delete the image from the gallery but I want to ensure it was also deleted online, whereever it stored it.
Surprisingly, a search for "saving picture to edited online photos" turns up no results in google when searched for in quotes.
How can I access these online images?
Nevermind, in the gallery I found the online images and deleted it. Is there a way to prevent this? I have google photo sync off in the options. I just wanted to edit the photo and save it to the device, not online.
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Well turns out it saves it to your SD in a folder called editedonlinephotos. How stupid.
hi there.
two days ago i got my new s5. i like it and all but all the image storing and online storage is a little much at first. but since my previous phone was stolen and i lost a couple of hundred of fond memories (pictures) i was determined to store them online this time. i set up a dropbox account that seems to come with the phone and i used picasa or whatever google drive calls my online gallery (never used this before).
it's neat and i figured out how to hide online pictures so it serves as a backup.
NOW TO MY PROBLEM:
since everything is new to me here (had sgs2 before) i played around in the gallery that is now largely different. i seem to have set something to the wrong setting because now it doesn't show ANY PICTURES anymore. not from any folder/album. from one second to the other everything was gone (from the gallery). the pictures are all there, though. i can access them with any other app (es file explorer, google pictures, camera, etc.) but i want my gallery back. it says "no items - after you take, record or upload pictures or videos to dropbox, items will be shown in gallery"
this leads me to suspect that i might have switched my gallery to displaying the contents of my EMPTY dropbox account. i don't want this but i am unable to change it back. besides i have an app for dropbox stuffs so why is this feature even integrated?
settings shows me the following:
accounts:
[g] my gmail account
SNS DATA CONTROL:
sync via wifi only [v]
CLOUD SYNC
dropbox sync
tap to sync content
FILTER
filter by
TAGS
tag buddy
off
face tag [_]
above i can only access "Add Account" which brings me to a menu displaying all my accounts (or some): samsung, google, dropbox, facebook
PLEASE HELP ME!
i did not find any help searching because there seems to be a similar problem with people's media storage malfunctioning. i don't believe that is my problem but i tried resetting the media storage anyways. i am sure it is something that i did to hide my pictures. how do i get them back? i don't plan on using a different gallery app but maybe it is the only solution?
regards
L2
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i actually just installed quickpic and it shows all my pictures which proves to me even further that nothing is wrong with the pictures but just that my gallery is screwed up. how do i unscrew it?
Clear data for gallery app under settings/applications.
On my Nexus 6p 7.1.1 if I try to Google Photos see all my photos.
But if I search on my device in the DCIM folder I only see very few photos and several empty folders. Where are photos stored? In which path and folder?
I thought it might be in Google Drive. But why I see them on Google Photos also without internet connection (wifi or 4g)?
All of the many empty folders (IMG_2016 .....) I can delete them without any problems? or their cancellation makes me lose the pictures (stored somewhere)?
Thanks.
Giozer said:
On my Nexus 6p 7.1.1 if I try to Google Photos see all my photos.
But if I search on my device in the DCIM folder I only see very few photos and several empty folders. Where are photos stored? In which path and folder?
I thought it might be in Google Drive. But why I see them on Google Photos also without internet connection (wifi or 4g)?
All of the many empty folders (IMG_2016 .....) I can delete them without any problems? or their cancellation makes me lose the pictures (stored somewhere)?
Thanks.
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Two things...
1) You can check picture location by going into Google Photos, click a picture, click the " i " (info) button on bottom. It will give you exact storage location. If there's no location and it just has the IMG, then it's on Google Photos website.
2) Google Drive may not show your photos unless you specifically tell it to. You must go to http://photos.google.com instead. Your drive and photos are most likely seperated