I had been using Dropbox for Camera Uploads that I take with my phone so that I know I have them backed up, but Dropbox has such a low storage that I wanted to turn to Google Drive/Google Photos.
Ever since I made the attempted change, it's been a huge headache. From what I've gathered, if you use Auto Backup for your phone, photos that you take will be uploaded to Google Photos BUT not into ANY album and simply sorted by date. Even local files that are neatly organized into folders are just thrown into Google Photos, forcing you to hope you can find that one photo you are looking for.
Of course, you can put those photos into albums AFTER you back them up/upload them but that's a huge pain in the arse to do, so why do they NOT have it organized by folders/albums? Is there no way to do this? I also wanted to be able to do that by having my photos from my desktop to backup to Google Photos but it is a hellish nightmare trying to sort through all of them.
I've searched and searched for questions related to Google Photos but almost none of them have been found, thus I am asking here. Does anyone have anything to help me? I just want to be able to organize my photos (around 2k worth) and not have to take a day or two just to sort my photos in albums when they should be in the first place. :/
Never use it myself, but the Help page here: https://support.google.com/plus/answer/1647509 describes how to set up the folders to backup. Maybe that'll do it?
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I'm a bit of a novice when it comes to sharing pictures taken from my phone.
What are my options if I want to share photo's with family/friends. I thought dropbox would be good, but unless I read the directions wrong I can't send anyone links to folders - just individual pictures.
For example, if I am on vacation and take pics with the phone I would like friends and family to view these photo's.
Create an account with Photobucket, or Picasa etc. You can take photos and load them to your account. They have apps you can use to manage the folders you place photos in. Then just direct link people the photo albums.
My auto backup is turned on for Google Photos. Any pictures I take on my phone automatically get uploaded to my Google Photos online. If I go through my Gallery app (not my Photos app) and delete pics, will they also be deleted from my Google Photos online next time I sync?
JHop19 said:
My auto backup is turned on for Google Photos. Any pictures I take on my phone automatically get uploaded to my Google Photos online. If I go through my Gallery app (not my Photos app) and delete pics, will they also be deleted from my Google Photos online next time I sync?
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Funny how no one has addressed this yet. People are fooled by the numerous videos on Youtube on how to remove the photos. But all those videos show the exact same instructions which only remove the photos from syncing to that device. It does not delete them. Once you buy a new phone, those photos will show up again.
I would like to know where they are coming from..
Hi,
I installed Google Photos on my PC and let it upload my pics from a specific pics folder.
I have sub folders inside this pics folder , and every folder is documented with name (for example : "David birthday at Britney's garden").
The problem :
Now, everything is being upload to Google Photos , without the folder and folders name and I have a mass of thousand of photos without any order.
Am I doing something wrong here ?
Thanks ! :good:
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Hi,
I installed Google Photos on my PC and let it upload my pics from a specific pics folder.
I have sub folders inside this pics folder , and every folder is documented with name (for example : "David birthday at Britney's garden").
The problem :
Now, everything is being upload to Google Photos , without the folder and folders name and I have a mass of thousand of photos without any order.
Am I doing something wrong here ?
Thanks ! :good:
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Nope.... Google photos does that. You'll have to make albums all over again on google photos. Likewise, I dont believe this is the place for questions like these.
Thanks, do you know which sub forum should I post this thread?
I've had problems with Google photos myself. My problem is the difficulty getting your photos out. I switched to Dropbox for this reason. It's hard out even impossible to manage and control photos on Google.
You right, it's impossible to recreate albums for all of my photos in Google Photos, I have hundreds of them, this is not clever thing from Google to grab all photos into one big mass !
Use amazon or another service. I use Dropbox because I trust them to secure my stuff. Google and all the other companies mind your data to some extent.
Hi everyone,
I'd like to know how you guys organize your photos, and if what I want to achieve is even possible on Android.
Ideally, I'd like to be able to put my photos into different albums so I can find them easily. And I'd like to view these photos in their respective albums in whichever device I'm on (whether Android or on my Mac).
Right now, I use Google Drive to sync to my Google Photos folder on my phone so that I can view the photos on my Mac. However, the photos are scattered everywhere and they're not in an album, so it's nearly impossible to find that photo.
Has anyone been able to achieve this on their Android device? I'd like to continue using Google Drive to sync between my devices, including my photos.
Hoping you can help
Ideally I want to be able to fix all issues on the phone itself without the need to connect to a laptop.
1. Phone clone worked but didn't transfer my pictures in album just in one big gallery? How can I get back into albums?
2. All photos repeat in both Huawei gallery and Google photos as default? I only need one. Can you just delete the other?
3. Big issue: all my music artwork shows up in my photo gallery so I have thousands of albums covers mixed in with my normal photos. It takes ages searching through my photos. I don't want to see any music artwork in my photo albums just on the music app when I play music. How can I hide this simply? It's for driving me mad! I don't understand the terminology around creating a no media file etc.
4. With Huawei mail how do you restore deleted emails to inbox. Doesn't seem to give the option but the trash button is where the reply button is on iPhone so easy deleted!
5. I deleted the Huawei alarm and weather by accident and they are no where to be seen in the play store. Surely there is an easy way to restore other than factory reset!?
Thanks
First of all. Welcome to the android side! I am not too sure of your first few questions as I never had them before.
As for the alarm and weather app. Have you tried finding them on the hauwei app gallery? If it is not there. Then you may have to do a factory reset. Or if there are any ADB methods you can try
Sorry that I am not of much help.
1: I don't know how Albums are organized in iPhone, but in Google photos they are just labels, all photos are present in the gallery, even if they are labeled in an album (I don't use Huawei gallery, only Google Photos).
2: I don't know exactly what you mean, but Gallery and Google Photos are most probably collecting the photos from one location, if you delete the photos in one app, they are most probable deleted in the other one. I backup all my photos with Google Photos. But if you want to get rid of one of the apps, I haven't but I just use Google Photos.
3: an empty .nomedia file in a specific folder prevents the folder to be scanned by the gallery or Google Photos, there is probable a file like this in Local Storage > Android > Data folder, go see File manager (in settings enable hidden files) and look for a .nomedia file and copy it to the Album Artwork folder.
4: I don't use Huawei mail, just Gmail.
5: I know Weather is nowhere available online (had the same issue), hard reset is probably the only way.