Help Messages App - "Recent" Pictures?

[p0rky]

I'm trying to determine the actual storage location of three images on my Nexus 5x. I don't actually care about the photos, I'm just increasingly curious about where exactly they are being stored.

I'll do my best to explain this as directly as possible. I apologize in advance if this is overly long.

Let's say I want to text someone an image using the stock Messages app. I open a new message, hit the + , and then select the 'gallery' icon that appears at the top left of all of the images that show up. This takes me to "Recent" and shows me a series of images, including the three images that I'm curious about.


Here's the deal:

• The only placed I can see these images is in the "Recent" menu of the Messages app as described above.
• From there, I am able to successfully attach them to a message and send them.
• The images do not appear in any of the available device folders in the stock Photos App.
• I'm rooted and have attempted to search the storage using Total Commander, but have been unable to locate these three images in this way (including simply searching for all images)
• To the best of my knowledge, these images were not backed up to any cloud service. I did look through my dropbox account and they are not there.
• Additionally, this is my second Nexus 5x (the first one was recently replaced under warranty), and the three images in question were taken using the first phone.
• The SIM was transferred from the old phone to the new one, but a factory reset was performed before this was done, and has been performed once since then on the second device.
• Finally, I used an application called AB Commander to try and use my PC to search through the phone. I pulled every image from phone, but these three were not among them.
• These three images were originally sent via SMS using the stock Messages app.

Again, I could care less about the images themselves, but the more I unsuccessfully search for their stored location, the more obsessed I become with finding them!

Thank you for your time.

 

[Dannydet]

Use a file explorer and look in the media folder, but it's dependent on the messaging app.
I use Textra, so by default they are stored in the Textra folder. Your gallery app should tell you the exact folder also.

 

[Aniruddha060]

I'm trying to determine the actual storage location of three images on my Nexus 5x. I don't actually care about the photos, I'm just increasingly curious about

<i>where exactly </i>they are being stored.

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<br> I'll do my best to explain this as directly as possible. I apologize in advance if this is overly long.

<br>

<br> Let's say I want to text someone an image using the stock Messages app. I open a new message, hit the + , and then select the 'gallery' icon that appears at the top left of all of the images that show up. This takes me to 'Recent' and shows me a series of images, including the three images that I'm curious about.

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<br> Here's the deal:

<br>

<ul>

<li>The <i>only</i> placed I can see these images is in the 'Recent' menu of the Messages app as described above.</li>

<li>From there, I am able to successfully attach them to a message and send them.</li>

<li>The images do not appear in any of the available device folders in the stock Photos App.</li>

<li>I'm rooted and have attempted to search the storage using Total Commander, but have been unable to locate these three images in this way (including simply searching for all images)</li>

<li>To the best of my knowledge, these images were not backed up to any cloud service. I did look through my dropbox account and they are not there.</li>

<li>Additionally, this is my second Nexus 5x (the first one was recently replaced under warranty), and the three images in question were taken using the first phone.</li>

<li>The SIM was transferred from the old phone to the new one, but a factory reset was performed before this was done, and has been performed once since then on the second device.</li>

<li>Finally, I used an application called AB Commander to try and use my PC to search through the phone. I pulled every image from phone, but these three were not among them.</li>

<li>These three images were originally sent via SMS using the stock Messages app.</li>

</ul>Again, I could care less about the images themselves, but the more I unsuccessfully search for their stored location, the more obsessed I become with finding them!

<br>

<br> Thank you for your time.

Look for a settings option in your search app and unselect 'recognise .nomedia' if possible. Otherwise look in the .dthumbs/.thumbdata folders of your phone.

 

[lion7718]

Were the pics taken in the normal way or are they from Capture Picture..to insert into a text..?? It is possible that you are seeing them only because you have them in a text message somewhere. If you delete all your texts, it will probably remove those pics from recent.