Camera (and screenshots) app(s) does not save pictures

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I recently bought a new SD card and migrated from my old SD card to the new one.

In the process I made the new SD card extending the internal storage (not as an external mount just for transferring stuff to PC), which I think I had the old card set up as well.

While I was moving the data, I did mess around with the DCIM, Camera and OpenCamera folders a bit.

But what happened now is that when I take pictures in the /e/OS camera app, it does not save pictures and I get an error saying so as well.

When I take a picture in a different app (e.g. from a messaging app) it works, so I assume the problem lies in the location where the camera app is storing.

But if I take a screenshot with the power button, it again does cannot save the screenshot.

How can I fix this?

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Hmmm, it seems that I’m missing Camera, OpenCamera and even DCIM folders … I probably messed up something.

Would it be worth a try to simply make those folders again? And if so, where exactly?

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this should work for Photos

mkdir -p /sdcard/DCIM/OpenCamera/
mkdir -p /sdcard/DCIM/Camera/

Screenshots go to

mkdir -p /sdcard/Pictures/Screenshots/

btw

new SD card extending the internal storage (not as an external mount … )

proved to be error prone whenever the sdcard feels like vacationing

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Awesome, thanks.

So what’s a better way to use the SD card to automatically store pictures and videos on it?

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both Camera (I guess the grapheneos release?) and OpenCamera allow for custom locations.

  • Camera has a proper storage-access-framework dialog to grant access to that folder
  • OpenCamera just takes a string? didn’t test if it takes absolute paths to the sdcard mount. Even if, it can fail on permissions. I guess it’s only there to change the name within DCIM/

sdcards can be unreliable, as in if you do this, have a sync/backup strategy to at worst lose just the time interval to last sync/backup

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The Camera vs OpenCamera thing I think happened during one of the updates. This is an FP3+ that I bought from Murena directly, so it’s “stock /e/OS” and never saw anything else.

The string in OpenCamera is a bit weird, yes. I haven’t figured it out yet, but didn’t experiment much either.

What I wonder is if I can re-format the SD to be “external” and then tell OpenCamera to store the pictures and videos there. If that were possible, that would be a fine enough solution for me.

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ah forum search… OpenCamera: I was blind (thanks), one option below the folder location is a settings switch for the “storage access framework”, then it opens a folder dialog. It should show an external sd card.

But again, with sdcards, plan b :pray: - mostly I’ve seen users reporting failures to recognize the sdc after OS upgrades

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I did’t find the time to move things and re-format the SD card, but the camera saving seems to have started working “by itself” :person_shrugging:

Not sure what to think about that, but I’ll leave it be for now. At least the photos get automatically uploaded to my Nextcloud server anyway.