Screenshots creating TempFiles

[marselisgn3]

I take some instagram screenshots and than crop them to save the area i like more. This is the best way im used to and its been working perfectly fine until yesterday. On my google photos account they are showing twice. And when i check the gallery they are double there too. When i check my files images one is with the screenshot name and the other woth the Tempfile name. Whats going on. Do i have to clear anything??? Sry for long post

 

[VidJunky]

Are the doubles exactly the same, or is one the org file and the other the new cropped file? What app are you using for cropping? It may be a setting with how you are saving the image after the crop. With some apps it saves the org file and the cropped image becomes a new file, could this be what you are seeing? Check the app you are cropping with and see if it has an option to overwrite the org file.

FYI you're post isn't long at all. Too many people come in and offer no information about their problem and expect that someone will just be able to guess at what they are meaning or trying to say.

 

[marselisgn3]

Are the doubles exactly the same, or is one the org file and the other the new cropped file? What app are you using for cropping? It may be a setting with how you are saving the image after the crop. With some apps it saves the org file and the cropped image becomes a new file, could this be what you are seeing? Check the app you are cropping with and see if it has an option to overwrite the org file.

FYI you're post isn't long at all. Too many people come in and offer no information about their problem and expect that someone will just be able to guess at what they are meaning or trying to say.

I use the standard crop in the edit tools right after you screenshot. I didnt always do this. I checked the settings of gallery and google photos but cant find anything. Tried chace wipe nothing. Turned on off autobackup. Nothing. Really strange
Thanks for your reply

 

[VidJunky]

There may have been an update to your gallery app that caused this, which would explain why it just started happening. Meanwhile, if there was an update you could try locating it in your app list at the PS or in your app manager and uninstalling the update. Being a preinstalled app you can only uninstall the update, and see if things return to normal. This will at least let you know what changed, and I would imagine that you wouldn't have to install the update again if it wasn't something you liked or if it didn't offer you somthing that you needed or wanted. I am assuming, yeah yeah all of the punny jokes I know, that this is only happening if you edit the screenshot and not if you only take the screenshot. Which offers another option, of editing it in another app. There are several free photo editing apps at the PS, but that may not be as convenient for you... Just a thought. Speaking of clearing caches, why do you think it is a temp file, and not a new file created from the edit? Are there differences between the two files? Is one the full pic and the other the crop?

 

[marselisgn3]

There may have been an update to your gallery app that caused this, which would explain why it just started happening. Meanwhile, if there was an update you could try locating it in your app list at the PS or in your app manager and uninstalling the update. Being a preinstalled app you can only uninstall the update, and see if things return to normal. This will at least let you know what changed, and I would imagine that you wouldn't have to install the update again if it wasn't something you liked or if it didn't offer you somthing that you needed or wanted. I am assuming, yeah yeah all of the punny jokes I know, that this is only happening if you edit the screenshot and not if you only take the screenshot. Which offers another option, of editing it in another app. There are several free photo editing apps at the PS, but that may not be as convenient for you... Just a thought. Speaking of clearing caches, why do you think it is a temp file, and not a new file created from the edit? Are there differences between the two files? Is one the full pic and the other the crop?

Thanks for your replies. Its a temp file because i can see the file name it says tempfile. The image is cropped the way the normal image is

 

[VidJunky]

Well I actually just went ahead and tried it for myself to see if I could reproduce your issue. I took a screenshot, cropped it in my gallery, selected share to Instagram, Instagram prompted me to drop it again, and posted it. I ended up with 5 copies of the pic. The original, the gallery crop, a thumbnail version (.png), the Instagram selection, and the final pic that was posted to Instagram. None of mine were named temp or found in a temp file. Of the 5 versions of the pic only 3 showed up in my gallery, I see all 5 in my file manager. Sorry I couldn't be more help, but I'm just not seeing.

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[marselisgn3]

Well I actually just went ahead and tried it for myself to see if I could reproduce your issue. I took a screenshot, cropped it in my gallery, selected share to Instagram, Instagram prompted me to drop it again, and posted it. I ended up with 5 copies of the pic. The original, the gallery crop, a thumbnail version (.png), the Instagram selection, and the final pic that was posted to Instagram. None of mine were named temp or found in a temp file. Of the 5 versions of the pic only 3 showed up in my gallery, I see all 5 in my file manager. Sorry I couldn't be more help, but I'm just not seeing.

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Thanks for taking the time to try and fix this issue. Take a look at this

 

[VidJunky]

Interestingly they all look like the same image, and all have the same extension (jpg). The only thing I can think of is to use a file manager and look up one of the temp file names and see what temp folder they are in, and that would tell you what app is creating them and may answer why as well.

So if you open your file manager and searched tempFile_2015, it will show you all of the files that begin that way. Click on or press and hold one of the images to see the details and find the file path. So if your fxcamera app is creating the temp file you may be able to go into it's settings and change some options that would affect the creation of these temp files.

 

[paius]

Did you finally found a way to get rid of the "temp" files?
If yes, could you post how to get rid of them?
I seem to be having the same problem on my Note3 after I upgraded to kitkat (5.0).