No googoo, private

How do I keep some pictures and/or videos from being uploaded by googoo? I am trying to set up something with X-plore. Should I make a new folder? I want to have it ready and put things in it before googoo finds out it exists.

 

What gallery should I use? I notice there is none included. I thought it was standard. I still want some backed up, though.

 

I guess that'd work, but I would really like to have backup as the default, not vice versa. Is there any way to do that? I would prefer to have a private file/folder/vault for some, not most.

 

I know that googoo saves camera photos automatically if backup and sync is on, but that it asks if things in other image folders should be saved. Is there a way to do this oneself without having to wait for the device to establish a new folder? That way, if goohoo asks whether to back it up, we can just tell it "no". I want to make my own images folder(s).

 

Ok, I downloaded Simple Camera. I am trying to add a new folder to save to, but it hasn't liked my name choices. I began with external/DCIM, which apparently has some invalid characters. I took out the DCIM, which hasn't helped much.

 

Ok, I made up a folder in X-plore and then I told Simple Camera to save to this folder. Will this bypass googoo and just save to that folder? Is there anything else I have to do? These things should come with instructions.

 

You're right. It does work. I saved something to the new file and just after I got a message. Instead of telling it to back up, I skipped it.

 

I'm not sure if this is working out too great. I made a couple of really short videos and took a picture, nothing good, just as a test. Under the X-plore file name that I made up it lists only one thing, but it says it's empty, and I can't display it. Here's a screenshot (I hope). I don't know why it says yesterday, and I also noticed that at least one of the pictures has apparently shown up in Photos. I had to lower the resolution to shoot the second video.

 

This is what I meant. I went back and checked Photos the regular way, which did not show them. However, when I back to YOUR upload a file, there they were, and I posted them. What is going on here?

 

I checked under Files and sure enough, there was the supposedly "secret" stuff. I'm just glad it's only test material. What do I do now?