Help Show only local pics in Gallery

TheGr81 · Nov 14, 2012

My gallery takes about 2 minutes to load up the folder thumbnails and I believe this is due to it always loading pics from Facebook and Google+ by default. There is an option to change this to only show local content, but it seems to reset itself every time I open the Gallery. Does anyone know hwo to fix this?

N6EAJ · Nov 14, 2012

TheGr81 said:
My gallery takes about 2 minutes to load up the folder thumbnails and I believe this is due to it always loading pics from Facebook and Google+ by default. There is an option to change this to only show local content, but it seems to reset itself every time I open the Gallery. Does anyone know hwo to fix this?

I had a similar problem with mine. It kept synching the pictures I had in Picasa and like you said the local content option doesn't stick. I tried a few things and eventually got it. I went into settings, accounts, google, clicked on account name, and unchecked "synch Picasa web albums. The Picasa pictures were still in my gallery. I tried a few more things and eventually cleared the data for the gallery app (menu, settings, application manager, all, Gallery, clear data. That did it. I bet getting rid of Google+ and Facebook will be very similar.

h1r0ll3r · Nov 15, 2012

^ THANK YOU for that bit of information. It was driving me crazy as to why certain pics kept showing up like profile pics and what not. Couldn't figure out how to delete them from my Gallery.

R4nd0mJ0k3r · Nov 15, 2012

TheGr81 said:
My gallery takes about 2 minutes to load up the folder thumbnails and I believe this is due to it always loading pics from Facebook and Google+ by default. There is an option to change this to only show local content, but it seems to reset itself every time I open the Gallery. Does anyone know hwo to fix this?

I'd assume your issue arises from the FaceBook pics. I have both Picassa and G+ Linked to my Gallery and its silky smooth all the time. I don't have facebook, so have to assume that's causing your issues. And tbh, facebook 'stuff' for android is usually coded poorly and causes problems... I remember about 2 yrs ago when I installed the Facebook App and my phone instantly started to drain around 25% battery per hour.

brykins · Nov 15, 2012

Do yourself a favour and get QuickPic instead. Gives you the option to exclude folders so you only see the photos you want to see. Much better than the stock gallery apps.

Tomo1971 · Nov 17, 2012

I have the same issue but with DropBox. Not only does it sync the dropbox pics (camera uploads) it syncs ANY pics in ANY dropbox folder.... annoying.

S.

brykins · Nov 17, 2012

I found the DropBox official app very limiting and never really got syncing working with it. I invested in DropSync Pro and that allows me to sync specific DropBox folders with specific local folders on my SD card. Works perfectly.

Tomo1971 · Nov 17, 2012

Tomo1971 said:
I have the same issue but with DropBox. Not only does it sync the dropbox pics (camera uploads) it syncs ANY pics in ANY dropbox folder.... annoying.

S.

Ive fixed it. Settings> cloud> dropbox... there is a setting there that's independent of the camera upload folder.

peter7769 · Nov 18, 2012

Hi all, I know this is not quite related but just wanted to let you know that dropbox takes up so much storage if you use the camera upload setting, I found that it stores all the photos you upload, so not only are the photos in your gallery they are also taking up valuable space hidden within the dropbox app!!

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