Folders not just camera

[Android Central Question]

I would like to know why with pixel 3 all I have is camera and all pictures go there. I liked when I had a gallery put separate folders for all pictures wherever they came from. Now all my pictures even ones I didn't take all go to the camera. Please help and thanks

 

[N4Newbie]

Google's plan for the "Photos" gallery does not include placing images into separate folders, although it will recognize folders that you create outside of the app. So, for example, you could use a file manager app to create folders within the default images folder or outside of it - either way, the Photos app will find them.

The Photos app itself gives you the ability to create "Albums" and assign images to them. As near as I can see, these albums are not physical objects (as in actual folders/sub-folders), but simply classifications which can then be assigned to individual images. As such (again, from what I can see), a single image can be a part of multiple albums without making multiple copies. An advantage to the Albums system is that an individual album can be shared to friends or family.

If you prefer to put images into folders and want to manage them without resorting to using a file manager, there are numerous gallery apps available in the Play Store, at least some of which support folder management.

 

[foxbat121]

Use Google Photos app. It can organize your photos many different ways: by date, month, album, or by face.

Folders are so last century.

 

[TraderGary]

Folders are so last century.

Not if you use Microsoft Windows 10 computers!

 

[foxbat121]

Not if you use Microsoft Windows 10 computers!

Windows 10 is last century concept anyway. Microsoft tried a few times to break out of this folder stuff. They got very close during win XP time but decided to table the idea for good.

 

[Rukbat]

Not if you use Microsoft Windows 10 computers!

Or Linux computers. Or MacOS computers. They're only "not there" if you use IBM OS, and they're still there, they're just called 'Object Links' (but you still use the MD command to create them).

But, maybe if folders are becoming 'last century', we're going back to calling them directories again? (Calling them folders never bothered me that much - but people who called them files - as in "I put this file into that file" - made me wonder.)

 

[TraderGary]

Or Linux computers. Or MacOS computers. They're only "not there" if you use IBM OS, and they're still there, they're just called 'Object Links' (but you still use the MD command to create them).

But, maybe if folders are becoming 'last century', we're going back to calling them directories again? (Calling them folders never bothered me that much - but people who called them files - as in "I put this file into that file" - made me wonder.)

My first PC was the original IBM PC in 1982. Files were kept in directories back then. And yes, I too find it amusing that today if you want to make a "Folder" and you want to use the Command Line to do it, you use the command "MD" which stands for Make Directory followed by the new Directory Name. It's what I was used to doing 35 years ago. I'm old.

 

[Rukbat]

The icon for a directory is a folder, so now they're called "folders".

My first BBS ran on a PC, my first computer was an S-100 bus, 8080, running CP/M. (My first CPU was a 4004. But I wouldn't grace it with the name "computer".)

 

[TraderGary]

The icon for a directory is a folder, so now they're called "folders".

My first BBS ran on a PC, my first computer was an S-100 bus, 8080, running CP/M. (My first CPU was a 4004. But I wouldn't grace it with the name "computer".)

It's possible that you could be even older than I am.

 

[N4Newbie]

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[TraderGary]

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