I've been having an issue with Google Photos and I'm trying to pinpoint what in the world is going on.
When I delete a photo from 'Photos', it is supposed to delete from everywhere. It used to take a few minutes to remove from 'Device folders' but it eventually did. On my Nexus 4, it's almost instant, so this threw me off at first. Then I noticed while it removed it from 'Device folders', I actually could still see it in the DCIM/Cameras folder via a file manager. I checked with the Nexus 4, it was gone from the Cameras folder. When I reboot, it shows up again in 'Photos' and 'Device folders'. I'll delete from 'Photos' again but it seems to never go away from 'Device folders'
I've tried uninstalling Photos, G+ (or, at least as much as the G4 will let me), and of course restarting between all this, and going down to no mSD card installed, but it seems to happen across the board, and inconsistently. Sometimes I get the above. Sometimes the photos stay in 'Device folders' and never are removed until I explicitly do so. Hell, one time, it said it couldn't delete and would not delete from withing Google Photos until I rebooted.
It's been suggested that photos are in the trash still, but I was under the impressing the trash was just for the uploaded copy. But this behavior is completely different from my Nexus 4, where when you delete from 'Photos', only the online version is in the trash, and it is removed from the device almost immediately.
I feel like I'm the only one having this odd issue. Which means the one thing I haven't done, which is wipe the phone, may have to be done.
When I delete a photo from 'Photos', it is supposed to delete from everywhere. It used to take a few minutes to remove from 'Device folders' but it eventually did. On my Nexus 4, it's almost instant, so this threw me off at first. Then I noticed while it removed it from 'Device folders', I actually could still see it in the DCIM/Cameras folder via a file manager. I checked with the Nexus 4, it was gone from the Cameras folder. When I reboot, it shows up again in 'Photos' and 'Device folders'. I'll delete from 'Photos' again but it seems to never go away from 'Device folders'
I've tried uninstalling Photos, G+ (or, at least as much as the G4 will let me), and of course restarting between all this, and going down to no mSD card installed, but it seems to happen across the board, and inconsistently. Sometimes I get the above. Sometimes the photos stay in 'Device folders' and never are removed until I explicitly do so. Hell, one time, it said it couldn't delete and would not delete from withing Google Photos until I rebooted.
It's been suggested that photos are in the trash still, but I was under the impressing the trash was just for the uploaded copy. But this behavior is completely different from my Nexus 4, where when you delete from 'Photos', only the online version is in the trash, and it is removed from the device almost immediately.
I feel like I'm the only one having this odd issue. Which means the one thing I haven't done, which is wipe the phone, may have to be done.