How do you organize photos, video, contacts and text messages on s7?

[LaurieDutch]

Hello.

We had our pics, videos and contacts transferred from an iPhone to our s7 phones. The gallery is chaotic, with all the pics (taken by the camera and photos moved onto the iPhone from a PC) and videos together.

I found "My Files" in the Apps but that's a mess too.

Is there a way to sort things into folders/albums (or whatever the Galaxy terminology is) in this fashion:

-- photos taken with the s7 camera
-- photos transferred from a computer
-- videos

I saw an app called "Quickpic" mentioned in some older threads.

Same goes for contacts. I'd like all the sms/text contacts together and separate from email addresses. When I opened gmail, it added ALL email addresses to the phone numbers for texting. If I want to text someone, I don't want their email(s) popping up.

Concerning text messages, does the s7 archive "older" messages? Some text messages that were transferred onto the s7 when I bought the phone seem to have disappeared from the phone recently. Is there somewhere where I can find them? I don't have many text messages stored, so it's not an issue of too much data.

Thanks for any help!

 

[chanchan05]

It's a mess because of the different ways on how the iPhone arranges it. Basically, on the S7, opening the My Files app is the same as using Windows Explorer or Files program in Mac. The pictures would be in a folder depending on how you transferred them over. Each folder will be displayed as a separate album under gallery. By default all pictures taken will go to the camera folder in the gallery app.
To arrange into different albums, you can use a PC or your phone. In the gallery itself, just select the pictures/videos you want to arrange into a separate album, then select the more option, then move to album>create new album.
For transferring from computer, just plug the phone in, open it via Windows Explorer (not sure it it works this way on Macs) and copy paste the pictures into the folder under DCIM you want them to show up in. If you do wireless transfers, all pics transferred will show up under the Downloads album. Videos will appear under camera if you took them with the phone. Samsung has a separate Videos app which shows only the videos throughout the phone if you prefer to see them that way. DO NOT USE QUICKPIC. It's been bought by Cheetah Mobile (CM). Do not use any of their products, like CM security, etc.

Not sure about the sms app part since I never used the stock S7 SMS app. I prefer using chompSMS. I've never had problems with email addresses popping up using that.

 

[LaurieDutch]

Many thanks! Gonna get organized now

 

[LaurieDutch]

Hello again,

I see a folder called Samsung-SM > Phone > Pictures. Is this where I should move the photos (directly into "Pictures") and/or create folders there if I want them in folders?

So perhaps Samsung-SM > Phone > Pictures > 2016

After the transfer, currently all pics are in Phone > My iPhone.

To get pics off the camera, I have used this folder: Samsung-SM > Phone > DCIM > Camera

Thanks.

 

[chanchan05]

You can create folders inside the pictures folder if you want them to show up as separate albums in the gallery app. Note however that if you use the gallery app to create new albums, they appear as new folders inside the DCIM folder.