1.3.1 update for Photos App pulls in ALL IMAGES from /media/internal??

licotto · 11/16/2009, 09:45 AM

Is this happening to EVERYone?? I don't like this -my Photos app has a LOT of different 'folder's it's pulling images from.

Anyone having this? I want to number it back down to my ACTUAL pics I wanna display!

IlyaK · 11/16/2009, 10:35 AM

Not here. My Photo's are just what I put on my phone. (DCIM folder)

davis.rob · 11/16/2009, 11:17 AM

Maybe I'm not understanding the problem ... but I believe it's always been that way. Any pictures in the media partition (the USB drive) will be found. The Music app and the DocView do the same thing too.

What folders do you think it was looking in before?

ay · 11/16/2009, 11:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by licotto

Is this happening to EVERYone?? I don't like this -my Photos app has a LOT of different 'folder's it's pulling images from.

Anyone having this? I want to number it back down to my ACTUAL pics I wanna display!

Yes - the photo app did change in 1.3.1. It eliminated certain photo categories (it had an All Photos category before), and I noticed that it now pulls in the photos from the PhotoDialer App (which I find very annoying - those photos should only be for my contacts - I don't want them in my Photos collection!). I'm sure the developer of PhotoDialer can likely change the location the photos are stored in to compensate for this.

On the bright side, without the All Photos category, the Photo App does seem to be much quicker now to me...

gage006 · 11/16/2009, 11:28 AM

It's done this since 1.2. Issue first popped up with virtual keyboard when that patch came out. If you don't want photos shown, just rename the folder to have a period in the front. Don't do this to any app folders though, it'll probably screw them up and the dev should have known better than to put them there in the first place.

licotto · 11/17/2009, 01:28 AM

Well, it NEVER happened to me before the 1.3.1 update. I could put a few folders in the /internal/ folder & the Photo App would only show photos meant for the phone -not EVERYTHING ELSE! oh well...just gotta work around it now, i suppose

primetime34 · 11/17/2009, 03:56 PM

It has done this for me since 1.2.1. I have my wallpapers in various folders on the media partition and they all show up in the photo app, not just the DCIM folder...has since 1.2.1

mooshue · 11/17/2009, 05:29 PM

i guess im not clear on what photos you are seeing OP
I use the usb storage as a portable apps drive among other things, all of which have icons and such inside.
You must start the directory with a . to make it hidden from the photos app catalog.

ZR1 · 03/09/2010, 07:13 PM

Is there a way to rename or hide a directory using windoze ?

ZR1 · 03/09/2010, 07:36 PM

opps never mind did it with command line in QI

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licotto Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Boise, ID Posts: 479 Likes Received: 0 Thanks: 128 Thanked 98 Times in 65 Posts	1.3.1 update for Photos App pulls in ALL IMAGES from /media/internal?? Is this happening to EVERYone?? I don't like this -my Photos app has a LOT of different 'folder's it's pulling images from. Anyone having this? I want to number it back down to my ACTUAL pics I wanna display!
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IlyaK Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Albany, NY Posts: 224 Likes Received: 0 Thanks: 14 Thanked 19 Times in 16 Posts	Not here. My Photo's are just what I put on my phone. (DCIM folder) __________________ Palm Pre \| WebOS 1.4.1.1 \| Sprint My CarDomain - 5/30/09
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gage006 Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 547 Likes Received: 0 Thanks: 50 Thanked 53 Times in 41 Posts	It's done this since 1.2. Issue first popped up with virtual keyboard when that patch came out. If you don't want photos shown, just rename the folder to have a period in the front. Don't do this to any app folders though, it'll probably screw them up and the dev should have known better than to put them there in the first place. __________________ Twitter
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licotto Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Boise, ID Posts: 479 Likes Received: 0 Thanks: 128 Thanked 98 Times in 65 Posts	Well, it NEVER happened to me before the 1.3.1 update. I could put a few folders in the /internal/ folder & the Photo App would only show photos meant for the phone -not EVERYTHING ELSE! oh well...just gotta work around it now, i suppose
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primetime34 Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 187 Likes Received: 3 Thanks: 28 Thanked 6 Times in 6 Posts	It has done this for me since 1.2.1. I have my wallpapers in various folders on the media partition and they all show up in the photo app, not just the DCIM folder...has since 1.2.1
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