topic Re: Photos/videos saving twice in M Series

Photos/videos saving twice

Aliasnotneeded — Mon, 29 Aug 2016 18:39:34 GMT

Hi,
Is there a way I can disable this feature?
When importing media to my pc I have to go through everything,
Pictures save as jpegs and dsc's.
I would like to set it up so everything gets saved on my memory card.
Kind regards
Paul

Re: Photos/videos saving twice

Uliwooly — Mon, 29 Aug 2016 18:44:56 GMT

@Aliasnotneeded

The pictures and/or videos will be saved twice if you share them through an app, such as whatsapp, could you elaborate more on your issue.

Re: Photos/videos saving twice

YoGem — Mon, 29 Aug 2016 18:46:53 GMT

Hi there...

So, when you say that you have to go through everything.. JPG and DSC... do you mean that you have 2 different files in your computer or that in both SD card and Computer you get also the DSC? Are you using some Nikon's app in your phone or computer?DSC is not really a picture BUT a file with few infos from Nikon's cameras or applications

Re: Photos/videos saving twice

Aliasnotneeded — Mon, 29 Aug 2016 18:51:28 GMT

Hi, thanks for the speedy reply, I do have canonbsoftware but on a completely different had (ssd actually) .
Everything seems to be saving both on my phones memory and my memory card.

Re: Photos/videos saving twice

Aliasnotneeded — Mon, 29 Aug 2016 18:55:28 GMT

I can't see how to attach anything, but I have two copies of the same photo, one labelled 14763748274.jpeg and another dsc_0039.jpeg

Re: Photos/videos saving twice

Uliwooly — Mon, 29 Aug 2016 19:02:29 GMT

@Aliasnotneeded

The real picture should be

DCIM > 100ANDRO

check the picture's details.

Re: Photos/videos saving twice

Aliasnotneeded — Mon, 29 Aug 2016 19:02:33 GMT

Hi uli,
I do use msgr but these photos haven't been shared. I also have photos of my daughter playing in the bath (which of course I won't share) duplicated.

Re: Photos/videos saving twice

YoGem — Mon, 29 Aug 2016 19:03:48 GMT

Now I finally understand it, no Nikon app involved.

The two files are:

Thumbnail (example: 23718371893.jpg)

Photo (example: dsc_123.jpg)

You can safely delete everything that is not dsc_*.jpg - the numeric file is just a low resolution thumbnail. Beware if you delete them from your computer you are safe, if you delete them from your phone it will be just temporary because the Album application will start generating them back as soon as you use the Album app. Also, if you delete the thumbnails your album app will be initially slow as it will start regenerate the thumbnails.

Just for the records, thumbnails are just small resolution previews of your full resolution photos.

Re: Photos/videos saving twice

Aliasnotneeded — Mon, 29 Aug 2016 19:07:51 GMT

I've now formatted my memory card, as it was well full and despite only having 3 extra apps, I'm constantly getting the"transfer data to" message

Re: Photos/videos saving twice

Aliasnotneeded — Mon, 29 Aug 2016 19:10:50 GMT

Thanks yogem.
So is there a way I can disable the "transferring of the thumbnails" when I import to my pc? As it is a pain in the proverbial going through the photos, to check which are duplicates.

Re: Photos/videos saving twice

YoGem — Mon, 29 Aug 2016 19:12:03 GMT

Aliasnotneeded, just a reminder. Using the Album application will generate again the thumbnails which are safe to be deleted. You don't need to format the card next time. Using a file explorer, from time to time, go in the hidden folder .thumbnails and delete all the picture you see there.

Again, as a reminder... the thumbnails will be regenerated again and if you delete them the Album app will be slow during the recreation process.

Re: Photos/videos saving twice

Aliasnotneeded — Mon, 29 Aug 2016 19:12:35 GMT

To add, what about my movies? They save as mov and mp4.

Re: Photos/videos saving twice

Aliasnotneeded — Mon, 29 Aug 2016 19:13:36 GMT

Ah OK, disregard my movie post above then please.

Thank you both for your help

Re: Photos/videos saving twice

YoGem — Mon, 29 Aug 2016 19:15:07 GMT

Anytime!! Glad to be of help.

Re: Photos/videos saving twice

BBJL — Sat, 17 Sep 2016 10:00:47 GMT

I have the same issue which a lot of thumbnail files been imported together with photos into PC. It was quite waste of time to do deleting in PC. Is there a way to avoid import the thumbails files?
And, I noticed that the name location of the photos doesn't automatically shown as part of the photo file name when import into PC. Is there a way to capture the name location of where is the photo taken automatically as file name when import into PC?