asked 2015-10-11 15:49:36 +0200
in order to save space on internal memory, i deleted pictures and videos folders from home directory and created simlinks to pictures and videos folders on sdcard.. everything works great except that now, gallery displays my pictures and videos twice. once from home links, and another time from sdcard.
is there a way i can tell tracker not to do so??
answered 2015-10-11 15:53:24 +0200
That is an expected behaviour. Simply don't bother with the symlinks. Tracker will index your SD card too, as you have discovered yourself.
answered 2015-10-11 18:50:39 +0200
In sdcard, store pictures in hidden folder, begin name with . and tracker will ignore them
answered 2015-10-12 22:22:47 +0200
Haven't tested this, but should work I think.
Asked: 2015-10-11 15:49:36 +0200
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I don't think so. Try to refresh the tracker. Once I tried this the tracking was good, but the camera photo roll got empty every time I closed Camera app.
AliN ( 2015-10-11 16:01:47 +0200 )editWhy just not to move older pictures to SD card? Or do you access them via file browser not via Gallery or similar app?
kandelabra ( 2015-10-11 17:32:16 +0200 )editThe day your SDCard will go read only (it seems like it will do that sooner or later, there been a number of peple reporting that Jolla "killed" their SDCard),then the tracker will not include the files photos anymore which makes it impossible to see the images in Gallery, you need to use a file browser capable to show images. This is what has happen to my SDCard, mounts read only and I'm missing ~1800 images from the gallery, I can see them if I use a file browser, but really suxxy user experience.
Trizt ( 2015-10-11 20:55:41 +0200 )editThis question is very similar to https://together.jolla.com/question/17691/camera-cant-store-pictures-to-sd-card/
Just added there my script to automate this.
saturn ( 2015-10-11 21:08:44 +0200 )editAlso to add, I had this solution few months back and it was quite annoying. Reason was that the tracker was not updating on new pictures and it needed either a manual trigger to refresh all or reboot the phone.
Maybe this is solved in the latest versions of the OS.
Does it work now? If you take a picture does it appear in the gallery right away?
saturn ( 2015-10-11 21:47:42 +0200 )edit