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

[hook]

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.

Default storage location

It seems that at least since /e/OS 2.7, it is possible to format the SD card (again) as an extension of the internal storage.

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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[hook]

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?

[tcecyk]

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

[hook]

Awesome, thanks.

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

[tcecyk]

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

[hook]

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.

[tcecyk]

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 - mostly I’ve seen users reporting failures to recognize the sdc after OS upgrades

[hook]

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”

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.