Help Removing a picture from a gallery

[PhoneMatt]

Yesterday, we finally got the upgrade to 4.1.2 from AT&T. (yeah, I know, finally.) Since the upgrade I have a new folder in my gallery called auto backup. It contains only 1 picture, from 6 months ago. I cannot remove the folder or the picture. Tapping on a picture usually brings up the icon for sharing and delete. This one does not show the delete icon. If i connect my phone to my computer, my normal way of managing pictures, this folder doesn't even show. Is there any to get rid of this picture and this folder?

 

[SebaKL]

Yesterday, we finally got the upgrade to 4.1.2 from AT&T. (yeah, I know, finally.) Since the upgrade I have a new folder in my gallery called auto backup. It contains only 1 picture, from 6 months ago. I cannot remove the folder or the picture. Tapping on a picture usually brings up the icon for sharing and delete. This one does not show the delete icon. If i connect my phone to my computer, my normal way of managing pictures, this folder doesn't even show. Is there any to get rid of this picture and this folder?

Auto Back up is a recent Android feature, which backs up automatically your photos and videos to G+ private gallery. The folder in your gallery, is a mere mirror of your G+ photo. If it's just one, I assume is some profile pic you used before.

Anyway:
Go to Settings, and under Accounts open Google and deselect the SYNC for Auto Back up.
Then open Application Manager, view ALL and look for gallery. Open Gallery app, and CLEAR DATA.
Clear data will not physically remove any photos from the gallery. It will only trash and rebuild folder structure based on existing folders content. And it will remove the Auto Back up, till you enable that feature back on again.

 

[PhoneMatt]

Thanks, that worked, but only after I rebooted. The picture wasn't a profile pic, I don't have one for Google+. I'm not sure where it came from, but it wasn't even me. Anyway, it's gone. Thank you very much.

 

[SebaKL]

Thanks, that worked, but only after I rebooted. The picture wasn't a profile pic, I don't have one for Google+. I'm not sure where it came from, but it wasn't even me. Anyway, it's gone. Thank you very much.

Glad you got it working

cheers