Photo album in gallery
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Hello, I have a problem that I can't resolve.
I have the gallery of the Xiaomi Redmi Note 12 phone and I created photo albums. I spent an afternoon making them and it was perfect. I looked a few hours later, the album is there but some photos have disappeared from the album. I don't understand, please help me, thank you.
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Hello,
Have you deleted or moved the photos from the main gallery? Any changes made to the photos in the gallery will affect the albums.
If you haven't changed anything in the meantime, there might be a bug with the gallery or Android indexing. In that case, I invite you to go to Settings > Apps > Manage apps > Gallery > Storage > Clear cache.
Then look for Media Storage in the list of applications. Then select Storage > Clear data > Ok. If you can't find it, tap the three vertical dots and enable the option to show system apps.
Good evening, I emptied the cache of my phone's photo gallery, the photos are no longer duplicated, that's already something. However, a photo I took is going to both my photo gallery and my SD card, and if I delete it, it gets deleted from both. How can I prevent this from happening? I don't dare to empty my recycle bin, can you help me and explain how to avoid this? Thank you.
Good evening,
I think that on the Xiaomi, the principle of the Gallery is the same as on many smartphones: The Gallery is a manager for the images stored on the smartphone.
So when you take a photo, it is saved in a folder which can be DCIM/Camera (or another).
The Gallery recognizes this new image and displays it. To find out which folder the photo is actually saved in, you can view the information (there should be an icon when the photo is displayed).
To delete the photo, you can delete it in the Gallery: it will also disappear from the storage folder.
If you delete it directly from the storage folder, it will also disappear from the Gallery; the difference is that there is probably no option for recovery, unlike the Gallery.
I think you now understand that the Gallery does not duplicate the storage folder. It's just a manager.
Ok, I understand it now. What should I do, how should I proceed? I have Google Photos with photos, albums, and videos. I've deactivated it for now because I wanted to understand. I've bought an SD card that I've installed with the same photos, videos, etc., and in the phone's gallery, it's pretty much the same. The only difference is that they disappear; they don't stay. Some photos and albums remain, and sometimes the quantity decreases. I don't understand why, so I don't want to use it much anymore. However, I will continue to save future photos on the SD card. I just need to know what to put in internal and external storage on the phone. I have places to check, either internal for the camera, for themes, and for the gallery, and I don't know what to check, internal or external. If you could help me, thank you.
Try as much as possible not to manage smartphone photos with Google Photos. The way it works is complex because Google Photos is a photo manager like Gallery, but it also manages what is in Google's cloud.
Thus: When Google Photos backup is enabled, a photo that you deleted from the smartphone will continue to appear in Google Photos because it is also in the cloud.
As for storage, you can do as you wish. The internal memory of the Xiaomi is 128 GB. So unless it is already well occupied, you can leave the photos there. This setting can be done in the "Camera" app. If you chose to use the SD card, there's no problem.
Storing on an SD card allows you to retrieve your photos if you insert the card into a new smartphone. If the smartphone no longer works, the photos are not lost. For this reason, always use very high-quality SD cards. Never use "no-name" cards, as their reliability is uncertain.
Hello, thank you I understand, is it possible to completely delete the phone gallery and keep just the SD card to view photos offline when we are abroad and want to show photos from France, and when we have a bit of wifi abroad to look at the photos and albums on Google Photos, what do you think, thank you
Thank you, Google Photos is disabled today, I copied everything to my computer, however on my phone I also moved all my photos to the SD card but I still have the phone's gallery. I'm looking for a way to ensure that my next photos that I add or delete do not go off both at the same time. How can I reset the phone's gallery without affecting the SD card? I'm not talking about Google Photos which is disabled, but about the other photo gallery on the phone, thank you.
I haven't been clear enough in what I explained.
The Gallery is not a storage place. It's just a manager.
When you take a photo, it is saved in one place only on the smartphone: on the SD card or in internal memory; it doesn't go to 2 places as you wrote.
Example: I'm currently photographing my computer keyboard. The image appears in my smartphone's Gallery with the folder's saving indication:
My smartphone is a Samsung, but that's irrelevant. I blurred the location indications.
Therefore, you don't have to worry about the Gallery: as soon as you take a photo or receive an image, it appears in the Gallery. It's inevitable and it takes up very little memory space.
(My Gallery takes up 660 MB, while the photo folder takes up over 12 GB)
Hello,
Everything seems fine to me.
But you still don't understand how the Gallery works:
You write that the photo goes to the Gallery.
No!
The gallery simply observes what's on your smartphone. It sees that there's a new photo in the internal storage and shows you a thumbnail.
If you click on the thumbnail, the Gallery displays the photo it goes to retrieve from its storage location. If you then make any modifications, they will still be saved in that storage location.
As we've already told you (georges97 and myself), the Gallery does not store anything; it simply manages.
Hello,
You are talking about deleting the gallery, implying that it is a solution to problems that are merely a misunderstanding (which I myself had for a long time while searching for the location of a nonexistent gallery folder.
- Gallery is an application (a program) that should not be deleted, unless you install a viewing substitute. However, you can choose not to use it anymore, which is essentially the same.
- If you delete a photo, whether by launching the gallery or by directly opening (through the "my files" software) the folder where it will no longer be visible either through the gallery or on the Google Photos server.
- The term Google Photos refers to both the online storage area and the Google Photos application installed on the phone (equivalent to the gallery but for cloud space, thus accessible to different people via Google Photos in the Google Chrome browser).
- Therefore, if you delete a photo on the SD card (chosen by you for storage), including using the gallery and maintaining synchronization with the Google Photos server, it is normal for it to be deleted from both the SD card and the Google Photos repository).
- If you want your subscribers to access your photos remotely, you must go through a server (Google Photos, One Drive, or another). But any modifications will ripple through local folders (smartphone or PC).
- If you want to keep archive folders on the phone or PC, you need to make copies and establish that these folders are not listed in Google Photos.
- I had advised you in this regard to study and test cautiously (that is to say, having made backups on a removable support of the photo archives to preserve), until complete mastery of how Google Photos works, explained in these essential tutorials.
Rest assured that this detailed description (which I have tested with One Drive) corresponds to the relative complexity of these manipulations, and hopefully, they will be useful to other readers.
I also encourage Pierr10 to correct or clarify the elements put forward in this post.
I'm not sure about anything, as the problem is complex with Google Photos serving both as a backup and a manager for smartphone photos.
So you wrote:
- so if you delete a photo from the SD card (chosen by you for storage), including using the gallery and you have maintained synchronization with the Google Photos server, it is normal for it to be deleted from the SD card and from the Google Photos repository).
For me, the photo disappears from the smartphone (it is no longer visible in the Gallery), but it remains visible in Google Photos (on smartphone and computer).
It seems that Google Photos is here fulfilling its role as a backup and keeps the deleted photo from the smartphone in memory.
This needs to be verified.
It would be worth creating a practical sheet on the question. (But for whom?)
Hello,
The following was explained in the links of one of the previous topics:
You do not place your photos in a folder called "gallery." It is merely a consultation software that allows you to display images that exist only as a single copy.
Therefore, all the photos you take with the smartphone will be viewed by date of capture or in albums (to be created).
Your new photos can only "go" (be saved) to a unique location, the one you have chosen for the "photo" application or equivalent such as "open camera" (if you install it).
To convince yourself, if you remove the SD card (chosen as the default location if you have done so), logically, you will not view any photos when opening "gallery."
On the other hand, if you delete them using the appropriate function in "gallery," they are no longer present on the smartphone.
That said, you can have other images in any internal or external folder that will not be visible using "gallery," either because they were imported from a computer, downloaded from a website, or sent as attachments in an email.
These will be accessible through the "files" application (or equivalent) by opening the folder where you saved them.
Someone else will likely explain this better than I can, but it all hinges on understanding "gallery."
Hello
That said, you can have other images in any internal or external folder that will not be visible when using "gallery," whether they were imported from a computer, downloaded from a site, or sent as email attachments.
I don't really agree!
On my smartphone, all the saved images appear in the Gallery:
- the photos of course,
- the images from Whatsapp
- the saved images sent by email,
- the screenshots
- etc...
It probably depends on the smartphone, since the Gallery is specific to the device manufacturer: for me, the Gallery is a Samsung app.
What is certain is that questions about photo storage on smartphones are multiplying. For beginners, it’s a puzzle.
The worst is Google Photos. I'm still not sure I understand everything. I would like to be able to distinguish on the smartphone what is stored in the cloud and what is stored on the smartphone.
For now, I go through my computer to sort things out.
Hello Pier10,
My apologies, the list of image locations visible using "gallery" corresponds to what you stated. I take full responsibility for that.
Furthermore, I also have a Samsung and did not take into account the display of folders (called albums) viewed by "gallery" and not in gallery.
That said, in one of the previous topics where several of us were involved, it had been recommended to carefully study the links defining the complexities and dangers of Google Photos (which works quite well, by the way).
However, Escale- indicates to us in #13 that he saves a photo in Google Photos and that it is located in the gallery, when it is actually on the SD card, since the "gallery" location does not exist.
In fact, he saves to the SD card and the sync to Google Photos occurs automatically, unless it’s the other way around, which amounts to the same thing.
And if one does not want images to disappear, one must uninstall Google Photos, or at the very least desynchronize it, as explained in one of the links provided earlier.
In my humble opinion, one cannot want exclusive saving on the SD card with Google Photos in sync mode.
But I would welcome someone to contradict me on this point.
I had the experience, I took a photo, I looked where it was on my Xiaomi phone, it was in Google Photos in the phone gallery and on my SD card, I created an album with the photos I took and they disappear from the phone gallery and the SD card and I don’t want them to disappear from the SD card, so there you go, it’s not normal, I want it to stay on the SD card?
It was located in Google Photos in the phone gallery and on my SD card
No! It is only on the SD card. You see it in the file managers like Gallery and Google Photos, but physically, it is not there!
Where did you create the album? In the Gallery? In Google Photos?
This issue of disappearing doesn't seem normal to me. There may be something I haven't understood about how the Xiaomi works.
Hello, I made albums in the gallery, in Google Photos and on my SD card, and if I edit a photo or delete it, I'm sorry it disappears everywhere and I don't know what to do anymore. I really want to remove the gallery from the phone and not Google Photos, but I'm afraid of losing everything when I see the trash in the gallery and that everything will disappear in 59 days. I'm scared ????
Thank you, I cleared the cache, but I can't find the media storage, and I have duplicates everywhere, often on the same photos and not on all the albums.