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Google Photos deletes copy and original on device
After a while of trying around, I found a solution.
This behavior of the Google Photos app seems to be intended, because it is more an interface for the network service to synchronize images, and less ...
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Change Facebook (and others) photo saving folder
I had EXACTLY the same problem. I couldn't find a solution else where. The only solution was to use a .nomedia file in the /sdcard/DCIM/Facebook directory and moving the *.jpgs to another folder. I ...
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How can I free up Google Photos storage usage from Google Drive
I have just found the real correct way to combat this problem. There is no actual way you can easily see which photos are "original" quality vs "high".
Google provide a slightly hidden feature to ...
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Did Google remove the "backup while on wifi" option from the Photos app?
OK, so I did some testing and have determined that although the wording on the Photos "Settings" screens has changed, it is still possible to back up your photos solely when the phone is connected to ...
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Selecting a range of photos in gallery
I found I could multi select pics by touching the first one, holding my finger on the screen, and then dragging across the screen to the last one. They all turn to selected as I pass over them. A bit ...
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Why the music player stop playing music when taking photo?
This is an old question, but I think that some people might find it useful since I came it across using Google search.
The camera app has a permission called TAKE_AUDIO_FOCUS which it is granted by ...
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How do I view Google Camera's motion photos on my Windows PC?
I did some experimenting based on the answer by James Henstridge and came up with a simple PHP script that successfully split every Google Camera's motion photo I threw at it.
2022-01-24 - Code has ...
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Galaxy S4 "sound and shot" feature - extract sound
When using "Sound & shot" mode with the Samsung Galaxy S4 camera, the audio is stored as a WAV file that is embedded into a metadata tag within the JPEG. Here is how to extract the audio using ...
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What does aspect ratio has to do with the megapixels?
The aspect ratio has nothing to do with megapixels. Part of a 4:3 image are removed to get a 16:9 resolution, that is why a 16:9 image has less pixels.
The purple rectangle is your 4:3 picture, and ...
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WhatsApp: How to isolate contacts and photos - Privacy concerns
Requisites
Download Shelter - an open source app from F-droid or GitHub. Quoting the developer, use cases
Run “Big Brother” apps inside the isolated profile so they cannot access your data ...
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How do I view Google Camera's motion photos on my Windows PC?
I haven't seen any software to view them other than on the Google Photos website. I was curious about this so started pulling apart one of the photos from my phone, and here's what I found:
The ...
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What does aspect ratio has to do with the megapixels?
Glossary of Digital Photography Terms :
Megapixel: A megapixel contains 1,000,000 pixels and is the unit of measure used to describe the size of the sensor in a digital camera.
Aspect Ratio: Aspect ...
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How does software affect photo quality on different Android devices even though they have the same camera sensor?
Camera does not give you the raw data it captures. Before it outputs the format you desire, the data will be processed by a set of algorithm implemented differently by each manufacturers, giving ...
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How can I text a photo from Google Photos instead of a link?
[Originally posted in the comments section on 11/5/17]
After touching the "share" icon, you have to select the Messages app. Then you select the recipient and touch "MMS".
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Take a photo in PNG (or other lossless) format
If you really want to take lossless photographs, you should look for a camera app with RAW support. Typically, you would be working with a .dng file, instead of a .png file. RAW photos are lossless ...
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Change Facebook (and others) photo saving folder
Anyone else looking this in the future and don't know how to use Tasker or find it difficult to understand.
Download this app.
Go to organizer section.
Make a service job to move files as soon they ...
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What is the location of the DCIM folder in the internal storage on a Xiaomi Redmi 4X?
should be storage/sdcard0/DCIM
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Where are edited photos stored?
Photos edited via com.google.android.apps.photos aka Google Photos are stored directly to your Google photos (cloud) storage, that's the reason it doesnt appear over MTP or via file managers.
On PC, ...
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Pictures and videos not showing in the gallery
Workaround: In my case, the images with a very long name didn't show up in the Gallery. After I renamed them, they showed up.
Update: A rename by adding one more character (in the Total Commander
/ X-...
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Resize photo before sending it by email?
I recommend taking a screenshot of the image, and cropping it.
It should reduce the size a bit without an app.
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Delete original pictures/videos from phone and not have Google Photos automatically delete the online copy
Adding to Whitebear's excellent answer for deleting photo by photo, there are two other ways.
You can delete photos from the "Gallery" app and that will delete photos from your device only (though I ...
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Google Photos Add a Location on Multiple Files
This can only be done through desktop on Picasa web albums as far as I know, but Picasa shares photos with Google Photos, so it should work.
Put all your photos with the same location in an album (...
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Selecting a range of photos in gallery
Works also in Total Commander, an otherwise very clever and powerful two pan file manager: long-tab the icon of the first file, in the menu choose SELECT or DESELECT, glide till the other end of the ...
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Screen resolution vs. image resolution
As mentioned in @w3dk 's answer, you can't see any difference because you can't see any difference. As in, your eyes literally can not differentiate between the detail of the picture on either the ...
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Photos sync - where did the files recover to?
From the photos app, you can't recover onto your device. You can only view them , the restore option is a misnomer as it does not really restore to your device:
From Google help, where a similar ...
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Google photos keeps crashing
I was having the same problem every time I oppended the app it crashed and I found that if i oppened it with wifi off it worked just fine so it had something to be with the automatic back up, I went ...
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Force specific folder to be added to Photos?
Delete the .nomedia file to force media scanning (
restart the phone. It is then that media scanner database is re indexed )
and it should appear in Google photos folder list for sync.
If you don't ...
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What is the location of the DCIM folder in the internal storage on a Xiaomi Redmi 4X?
It's /storage/emulated/0/Dcim/
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