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Since the ICS gallery allows offline viewing of Picasa photos, they must be stored somewhere. But I can't find where. Anyone know where they are downloaded to?
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Since the ICS gallery allows offline viewing of Picasa photos, they must be stored somewhere. But I can't find where. Anyone know where they are downloaded to?
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with a file explorer go to the android folder on your internal sd storage, data, com.google.android.gallery3d folder. i dont think that they are actually downloaded though.
Looked in there and there doesn't appear to be any pictures. But since I can view the gallery offline or with no signal, they MUST be somewhere??
Look in the Google+ storage. I believe the Gallery now switches to using G+ for storage when you are logged into that app.
Look in sdcard/Android/data/com.android.gallery3d/cache. There are a great many picasa-... folders there (which contain files with a .screen extension), along with one picasa_covers folder (which contain files with a .thumb extension). Not sure if these files are the pics cause I can't see them at the moment, but it's a start.
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Off topic sorry, I have a question.... you cant share a picasa pic from the gallery ? i wanted to send a pic from picasa within the gallery to a friend but it would not let me
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All albums which were selected for offline viewing is stored under /mnt/sdcard/Android/data/com.google.android.apps.plus/cache. you will see picasa-xxxxxx folders, which contain images without any extension. Google has made it as hard as possible. Most threads discussing this topic are old and the only reply you would see is that only thumbnails are being saved and not the images
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getting rid of picasa
I have a rooted galaxy note 2 and I had picasa pics in my photo gallery that I could not delete. I disabled the picasa uploader and searched everywhere for the pictures, I had no luck so I used my file manager and searched the system file and found several picasa files. So then I used root explorer and searched picasa and then deleted all the picasa files and then rebooted and the picasa pictures were gone. I don't care for picasa and have no intention of ever using it. But that route worked very well for me.
Hey, I know this is an old thread, but, I stumbled across this page looking for a way to backup the synced Facebook gallery images on my sister's phone. Some jerk who stole her old phone logged into her Facebook and deleted all of her pictures. Lucky for us they were all showing up in her phone still under Facebook albums in the Gallery. I want to thank simms22 because I found the cache files in internal storage/Android/data/com.sec.android.gallery3d/cache it seems that all of the folders that start with "sns-" are Facebook albums, all of the albums starting with "picasa-" are, well, Picasa albums. Each folder contains each picture without an extension. I simply transferred them to my computer and used a bulk rename utility to add .jpg to every file, and, voila! We got her pictures back! They are definitely not the original size, however, this is much better than complete loss of all photos! I'm just really glad my sister chose not to update her Facebook sync info with her new password so I could save her data for her!
Really strange bug....follow me on this:
take pictures, pictures are automatically stored on phone in directory /mnt/sdcard/dcim/100andro....
move pictures to hidden directory called /mnt/ext-card/.specialuse
pictures move just fine, and are readily availible in hidden directory....until I restart the phone, at which point, only the pictures from this phone (not other files or videos) are deleted from the .specialuse folder, no warnings, no pop up...just GONE.
The strangest thing is, it only deletes the files I have added to that directory recently....not the older video files already present.
I have created a .specialuse folder on the phones memory at /mnt/sdcard/.specialuse and it does the same thing....
When I remove the . in the folder name (making it visible) and copy the picture and reset the phone...nothing happens (meaning it keeps the pictures like it should).
WHY does having a .directoryname cause the phone to automatically clear pictures from said directories? My X10 did not do this, only my ION does this.
Anyone have any ideas? Has anyone else had this happen? Thanks.
lmbea4 said:
Really strange bug....follow me on this:
take pictures, pictures are automatically stored on phone in directory /mnt/sdcard/dcim/100andro....
move pictures to hidden directory called /mnt/ext-card/.specialuse
pictures move just fine, and are readily availible in hidden directory....until I restart the phone, at which point, only the pictures from this phone (not other files or videos) are deleted from the .specialuse folder, no warnings, no pop up...just GONE.
The strangest thing is, it only deletes the files I have added to that directory recently....not the older video files already present.
I have created a .specialuse folder on the phones memory at /mnt/sdcard/.specialuse and it does the same thing....
When I remove the . in the folder name (making it visible) and copy the picture and reset the phone...nothing happens (meaning it keeps the pictures like it should).
WHY does having a .directoryname cause the phone to automatically clear pictures from said directories? My X10 did not do this, only my ION does this.
Anyone have any ideas? Has anyone else had this happen? Thanks.
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It's because of the "dot" at the beginning of the folder name. Android uses this method by default for it's own purposes. It's a possibility that this phone is seeing that and it "confuses" it so to speak. Try this...
Make your folder and name it whatever you like, with NO punctuation in the name..
Now... Inside that folder, add a ".nomedia" file, but without the quotes
The photos should remain hidden in the gallery, but only visible in a file manager of sorts.
Quickpic in the market is an alternative gallery, that has the ability to hide folders, using the nomedia method. Works great.
...And now I'm gonna go check if all of mine are still there....
yeah but BUG
I agree, and that's what I had been doing after I noticed the deletions....but my x10 didn't behave that way, and my tablet (running 4.0.3) doesn't behave that way.....so, yes, this is a bug.
lmbea4 said:
I agree, and that's what I had been doing after I noticed the deletions....but my x10 didn't behave that way, and my tablet (running 4.0.3) doesn't behave that way.....so, yes, this is a bug.
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Well, not necessarily... Depending on how the overlay of Android is set up...The overlay from Sony I mean... It "could" be written to behave this way. Bear with me for a few days... I'm going to run some tests on my own phone with some pictures to see if I can reproduce the issue, and if so, try and find a solution.
If you like, I can use the same pictures you were, with the same folder names. That is completely up to you, as only you know what these are... But if you like, PM me, and I'll give you my email address, so we can resolve this.
CONFIRMED!!! At least on my phone... There is no pattern to it, that I can determine... I used several folders in my experiment. Some with, and some without a .nomedia file. And some with and without a dot before the folder name. At random, 5 different folders, still have their folder names, but have no pictures. All 4 possible scenarios were effected, and the fifth actually goes to a standard folder name with a .nomedia file in it.
So basically, my experiment proves nothing more than this is still unsolved, and not specific to one person.
(Just for sh**s and giggles, I am attempting to recover the lost files using some software I have... Just to see if its do-able, should this effect someone else... I'll report back later tomorrow)
Quick question, which file manager are you guys using to move these files? There was some update to Astro a while back that made my files get deleted when I moved them, anywhere regardless of the folder name on my Aria. Same thing still occurred on my Ion when I got it. Ever since I switched to ES File Explorer, I have not encountered this issue of deletion. Astro deleted not only pictures when I moved them, but ring tones, pdf, etc.
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BUG!
Astro moves the files over just fine...and they are there..and accessible... until you reset the phone. Then...BAM, gone. It is disturbing to think that it may delete pictures in regular directories....BUG BUG BUG. hopefully the ICS update will address this.
That's exactly what I am talking about. They didn't disappear on the spot when I moved them. Everything seemed fine. Just give es a try and thrnreboot to see if it's the app or if it's the phone deleting your media.
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Quick question, which file manager are you guys using to move these files? There was some update to Astro a while back that made my files get deleted when I moved them, anywhere regardless of the folder name on my Aria. Same thing still occurred on my Ion when I got it. Ever since I switched to ES File Explorer, I have not encountered this issue of deletion. Astro deleted not only pictures when I moved them, but ring tones, pdf, etc.
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My experiment with this was done via a PC. these files were moved from my PC, via the USB cable, on a freshly formatted medium. I'm not sure when the deletion of these files occured, but it was within the first hour or so. the phone was NOT restarted, nor did anything FC.
I will be running more tests on this issue over the weekend to see if I can find some sort of pattern to this madness. I will be using various Galleries and File Managers, as well as my PC to perform these tests. I'll also be checking this time around to see if videos are effected at all. I will report back my findings on Monday...
Sidenote: The files that the phone deleted are very easily recoverable. the program I used (which I legally own) is called Easy Recovery Professional. Took about an hour to recover the 300+ deleted pictures.
Hello guys,
i know this is not a real bug, but for me is a problem.
as we all know, Gallery App by Samsung allows you to take a note on every photo taken. It's really cool for me and one of the reasons why I bought the Note II.
If i backup my pictures, delete those on device and restore them simply copying DCIM folder...all pictures keeps its note
If i try to restore my pictures from Dropbox folder...i don't have any note.
I noticed that Dropbox automatically renames pictures but only when using automatic upload, with manual upload does not happen.
Have you got any idea on how to keep my notes on Dropbox? thanks!
EDIT: i've tryied to upload manually a picture with a note, delete the original picture in gallery, then i downloaded from dropbox the copy and....keep the note!
I think it's a problem about renaming files or because the automatic upload modify something else that i can't figure out
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I think its started after the Marshmallow update, when I save picture from chrome its download fine, but not shown on gallery.
When open it after download its show nothing.
The only way to get it shown is to change the name of the picture file (using ES or other file browser app).
Why is that?
There is something to do about that annoying procedure?
Can you elaborate on the process you use for saving the picture from chrome? What are the steps you take for saving it, and where do you save it to?
Any picture, long press, save picture, it saved to 'downloads' directory.
I've notice its happen on long numbers picture names.
On normal picture name there is no problem, the others I must rename it to get it show on gallery.
Very bizarre issue.
Anyone notice this issue and why is it happens? ( not all the time, using the stock gallery and with other viewers as well)
PsyOr said:
Anyone notice this issue and why is it happens? ( not all the time, using the stock gallery and with other viewers as well)
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I think it's more of an issue with how chrome saves. Idk. I really want to be able to use the old LG browser they had on the G2 and G3, it was way better than chrome.
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When attaching files to posts, what are the size limits? Do they vary by file extension? By thread? By user?
Someone wanted to share a 180KB text file. I said "just attach it, I've seen much bigger files." He found he was forced to break it into pieces.
I went through the motions of attaching a 40MB PDF file. It ground away a bit, and seemed to have accepted and uploaded the file. I deleted the attachment before posting, but it really looked like it was going to let me do it.
This would be something to ask to @MikeChannon, please?
I'm also interested in this because the other day I needed to attach a small 200KB txt file but was unable to do it. The file was uploaded but not recognized: the posted message did not contain the attachment.
So my bonus question to Mike is: are txt and log (for instance) extensions allowed on xda currently? If it's not the case it would be appreciated to add them because txt/log/whatever are basic to me.
@J.Michael's concerns are interesting.
Thanks.
In another thread, people regularly attach .txt files. When I try to "open" the attachment in my browser, instead of displaying the file in a browser tab (which I want), it gets downloaded. Add to the nuisance of having to open another app and navigate to the Downloads folder, the subsequent bug hunt for a file whose name I did not get to choose, which name was never clearly displayed to me.
It may be that those text files are less than 20KB.
woodman said:
This would be something to ask to @MikeChannon, please?
I'm also interested in this because the other day I needed to attach a small 200KB txt file but was unable to do it. The file was uploaded but not recognized: the posted message did not contain the attachment.
So my bonus question to Mike is: are txt and log (for instance) extensions allowed on xda currently? If it's not the case it would be appreciated to add them because txt/log/whatever are basic to me.
@J.Michael's concerns are interesting.
Thanks.
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J.Michael said:
In another thread, people regularly attach .txt files. When I try to "open" the attachment in my browser, instead of displaying the file in a browser tab (which I want), it gets downloaded. Add to the nuisance of having to open another app and navigate to the Downloads folder, the subsequent bug hunt for a file whose name I did not get to choose, which name was never clearly displayed to me.
It may be that those text files are less than 20KB.
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Yes txt, pdf, log files are already approved and with big size limits. The system uses "chunked" uploading.
A couple of points to note. It might be that on any one occasion the servers are at high load and might not co-operate nicely.
As for whether your browser opens or downloads a file, well that depends on you and the settings you have set in your browser. You have options to choose whether your browser opens or saves files and it can be set by file type. Different browsers can have varying options. In firefox go to Settings>General and scroll down for options for each file type. In Chrome settings can be changed via Windows see here.
Mike
Testing uploading txt file...
I've tried to upload a txt file from Chrome mobile, and it doesn't work, like the other day. Will probably try some other things later...
New test, uploading very small txt file...
In either Naked Browser or Chrome (on a tablet), trying to open the attachment (tap or take the trouble to long-press and select "Open in new tab") instead results in "download". I do not see any settings to specify handling as a function of file type.
Maybe it is because the URL does not look like a file name ("https://forum.xda-developers.com/attachments/test-txt.5384917/"), but the name of the downloaded file is clean ("test.txt"), and I am able to open image attachments in the browser, as opposed to being forced to download text files.
Can you confirm that a MIME type is being sent and just what it is?