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 Posted: Sun, 8th May 2016 19:37 Post subject: Google Photos question |
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If I move images on my phone to a different folder on the same phone, will google re-upload the image into the google cloud?
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nouseforaname
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| Posted: Mon, 9th May 2016 04:26 Post subject: |
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from what I can tell, it doesn't duplicate the same images.
I've done all sorts of copying, factory resets + same sd card, plug phone into computer, etc. but I don't see any duplicates.
it was way worse when it backed up 1000+ pics of the fappening by accident since deleting is not that easy!
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| Posted: Mon, 9th May 2016 04:31 Post subject: |
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Just add .nomedia in the folder you're moving to, that way it completely omits it unless you use a 3rd party app such as quickpic to find the folder or add it manually into any app.
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| Posted: Mon, 9th May 2016 09:09 Post subject: |
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Thank you guys!
@nouseforaname: If you delete the picture in the google photos app it should delete it on phone and the cloud, shouldn't it? I have a ton of stupid porn pics in my whatsapp images.
Strangely enough I just saw that there is a device folder link and when I clicked that one I saw that only my camera folder had a cloud backup symbol... but in that view I can't see which files need a cloud backup and which ones don't.
Also this stupid app doesn't display any symbol at top to notify me if it is currently synching or not and I don't even know which file it is currently backing up, how fast it is or similar stuff 
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| Posted: Mon, 9th May 2016 12:40 Post subject: |
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| PumpAction wrote: | Thank you guys!
@nouseforaname: If you delete the picture in the google photos app it should delete it on phone and the cloud, shouldn't it? I have a ton of stupid porn pics in my whatsapp images.
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It should and does, however some apps (samsungs gallery apps) still has a thumbnail in it's cache (I would think) for a short amount of time (or at least til you clear cache of the app). |
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| Posted: Mon, 9th May 2016 14:54 Post subject: |
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So I moved some images to a different folder and I also told google to keep them in sync too... Sadly it started to reupload them into the cloud. I was hoping that it would do a hash check and understand that these are different pictures but sadly that wasn't the case 
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| Posted: Mon, 9th May 2016 15:16 Post subject: |
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It will not sync all on the phone even if you want to?
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| Posted: Mon, 9th May 2016 15:19 Post subject: |
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There is, as far as I can tell, currently no method of syncing photos back to your phone from Google. You have to browse your photos page online and download each one manually ... I had that nightmare a few months back trying to recover over 1100 photos. In the end I went to the Google Photos website on the PC and shift-selected batches to download in ZIP files.
Fuck Google in the ass for this one. Right in the ass.
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| Posted: Mon, 9th May 2016 15:25 Post subject: |
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1100  I have already synced over 6500 pictures... and most of them are 5mb in size and many many gb of video 
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| Posted: Mon, 9th May 2016 16:02 Post subject: |
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Download quickpic, add your picasa/drive to it and then touch and drag over the multiple photos you want to download.
It is however silly that they didn't add a feature where you can sync the photos onto your phone from their servers, which to me would be one of the first things implemented into their service.
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