when I connect my FP 5 to my MacBook via android file transfer I can see a folder called pictures. There I find the pictures taken with the FP camera. I want to transfer pictures from my MacBook directly to the FP but in which folder? There is a picture folder and a folder called DCIM.
On my partners FP 6 I tried to locate the pictures she downloaded via the google cloud but cannot seem to find them. Al it shows are camera, screenshots and pics from whatsapp and the likes.
I am not using Google for these things (so I do not know if Google Cloud has special settings), but generally the DOWNLOADS folder is the standard destination of files downloaded to your phone.
you can use files app - like Google Files or some other - I have also downloaded File Manager from Fossify, to get the feeling where the stuff is located on your phone or search for it.
Actually I only transferred photos from my computer to the phone once. I put them in the DCIM folder so they are in the same place as other photos. But for most gallery apps it is irrelevant where the photos are – the gallery app will scan the whole phone storage (and SD card, if there is one) anyway.
I would just put them where I find them easily when necessary.
When I purchased my FP5 I uploaded all my photos from my previous phone, a Hauwei, to the google cloud. In google cloud it shows as almost 24 Gb.
Of course I see the pictures now on my FP5 but where are they stored? As you can seen from the screenshots my FP5 only shows a total of 1,2 Gb of data.
If I select a random picture its says original quality so on my FP there should also be an equivalent of 23 Gb. But it does not show on the FP storage.As I want to stop the backup of photos to the google cloud altogether I need to make sure all the originals are on my phone before deleting them in the cloud. I have searched the internet extensively but cannot seem to find a clew….
What am I missing?
I tried uploading screenshots of the google cloud as well but the system won’t allow me
When you tap on “Internal storage”, check the DCIM folder. This is where new photos taken with your FP5 are saved to by default. By tapping on the three dots on the right next to the folder, you can have a look at “Folder info” which tells you the size of the contents in DCIM.
And your screenshot lists 25 GB in Audio. From your own view, do you have that much audio on your phone? Just speculating if somehow Android mis-identified files as audio that are not audio.
@fransf do you synchronise with the cloud in both directions? Are they maybe only in the could? So did you actively download them to store them on the phone as well? I dont use Google so cant say how it works in detail. If there is no reponse here I suggest to search e.g. on You Tube for general instructions.
Google Photos is a virus that garbles up the pictures from wherever it can.
I don’t know what the best course of action there is. Two things to keep in mind.
You can use Google Takeout to request a download of your data (including, or only, photos).
There is a way to undo the cloud backup (somewhere in photo settings, see last line of image) but I don’t know how that behaves and what it will wipe or not (will it download backups locally first? Who knows)
what app did you use to view the pictures? When it was Google Fotos I guess they are not necessarily on the phone, but you might have viewed them online in the cloud instead. Should they be really locally on the phone I guess the easiest way is to manually check each folder using the file manager to see if you find them. Maybe just login to the cloud using the PC, download all pics to the PC to ensure they are backed up then remove the could synch/access from the phone and see if they are still there or not. If not you can copy them from your PC still.
These are most probably just so-called thumbnails.
If you view lists of pictures, they are mostly presented as small versions of themselves, just so you get a quick optical idea of which pictures you are dealing with.
The small versions have to be sized down from the big original pictures, and this takes time and computing power, so if an App is halfway clever, it will do this only once per picture and then cache the thumbnails somewhere to reuse them.
Undelete tools oftentimes find only cached thumbnails of deleted original pictures, with unsuspecting users then wondering why the quality of the undeleted pictures is so bad when viewed fullscreen.
Your phone is perfectly capable to show content to you which is in a cloud.
Thanks for all your responses. Will delete all the pictures in the google photo app and try downloading them again, hopefully full size. As a backup I use the takeout function suggested by pocketyeller.
Any tips on a better app to use for the photos on my FP than the google one?
You’ll need to define your requirement of better.
For me Fossify Gallery is enough. Fossify Apps list. But I only use it for photo management, backup at the moment still done through google.
For a closer experience to Google Photos, I know there is Immich. Which is Open Source software that is self-hostable, but there are also options for fully managed installations, by third party providers. You’d have to do your own research here to know who to give your money and trust.
