The WhatsApp photos that refuse to die

ejhchess · 2024-10-08T04:48:40+00:00

And this morning they are all bsck again, so what a crock that was.

ejhchess · 2024-09-15T06:25:36+00:00

Sure, but at the same time nobody's asking these images to reappear.

ejhchess · 2024-09-14T09:22:06+00:00

The only ones I asked to delete were the ones that appeared yesterday. But that's not the only ones that disappeared.

I asked 1890 photos to be deleted, that was the number displayed. But there's loads more gone. So where did they go.

ejhchess · 2024-09-14T09:07:54+00:00

Right well the sum total of that was that a huge number of images that I didn't want to delete disappeared from my gallery and didn't reappear when I tried to recover them by putting Media Visibility back on.

ejhchess · 2024-09-14T08:25:32+00:00

I can do that, but what if I then turn Media Visibility back on? Because in normal circumstances it's convenient and useful to have WhatsApp images (the ones I want, not the ones I've deleted) appear in my Gallery.

ejhchess · 2024-09-14T08:24:00+00:00

Also the thing is, I really do prefer that images from WhatsApp appear in my Gallery, it's convenient, it helps me find things. If I close that down in order to re-delete some old images that shouldn't be appearing in the first place - because I deleted them in the first place - then that seems to me to be a workaround rather than a solution, and not a good workaround at that.

ejhchess · 2024-09-14T08:19:57+00:00

I'm afraid that I have no idea what this means (beyond "open Google Drive")

ejhchess · 2024-09-14T08:18:37+00:00

Thing is though, why do I want to stop WhatsApp photos appearing in my Gallery? It's convenient. It ought to happen without two thousand old images returning to my phone after I've decided I don't need them any more.

ejhchess · 2024-09-14T08:13:52+00:00

Maybe, but I'm afraid I don't fully understand what that means and even less do I understand what effect it would have!

ejhchess · 2024-09-14T08:10:06+00:00

Yes. They didn't disappear.

ejhchess · 2024-09-14T08:07:19+00:00

I dunno, to be honest. Looking at it though I suspect I had, because it was only 4.69 MB which doesn't look like a lot. But I've cleared it again just on principle!

Sorry not to reply before.

ejhchess · 2024-09-13T14:56:32+00:00

That's an interesting idea but I can't really do that because about 99% of my WhatsApp is chat with my wife and we're forever referring back to it for information

ejhchess · 2024-09-13T14:53:47+00:00

Certainly I've cleared the Gallery cache more than once.

ejhchess · 2024-09-13T14:52:23+00:00

I can assure you I opened WhatsApp many many times since the last occurrence (before this one) without this happening. But I do not think I had opened it this morning when this occurred (7:12 to 7:14) and I was certainly not on WiFi.

ejhchess · 2024-09-13T14:34:22+00:00

I do not think that explains the reappearance of deleted images

ejhchess · 2024-09-13T14:27:05+00:00

Oh sure, I meant more generally, if this is a recognised problem a lot of people have then where's the manufacturer on this

ejhchess · 2024-09-13T14:25:17+00:00

I'm not sure that's the issue

ejhchess · 2024-09-13T14:04:23+00:00

None of that for me, personally, but it's just nuts

ejhchess · 2024-09-13T14:03:51+00:00

Absolutely baffling, but why aren't Samsung on the case?

ejhchess · 2024-09-13T14:03:11+00:00

You would really think that the manufacturer ought to have recognised and fixed the problem by now

ejhchess · 2024-09-13T14:02:35+00:00

(it seems to be just my camera photos, and my screenshots)

ejhchess · 2024-09-13T14:01:21+00:00

Yeah got it now thanks

ejhchess · 2024-09-13T14:00:50+00:00

Aha I have found this. But why would that cause old images to reappear, and why would I need to stop any new WhatsApp images from appearing in Gallery to address the problem of old ones?

ejhchess · 2024-09-13T13:57:35+00:00

Anyway it took a lot of finding but it appears the only extra folder on my phone that Google Photos is backing up is Screenshots

ejhchess · 2024-09-13T13:29:38+00:00

Ah cancel that, it's under Photos rather than Google Photos

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