Jeff Layman wrote:
> I don't usually bother saving photos attached to messages,
I'm being kind heated here when I respond to your rants.
I'm trying to help you.
Most people do save their pictures (in my humble experience).
a. For most, it's automatically saved anyway,
b. And, for most, the pictures arrive pre shrunk so they're small,
c. And, for most, they _want_ pictures of the dog, cat, baby, whatever.
You don't.
But it's been my experience that most people do.
Still... you can just NOT set the MMS/SMS app to automatically save all the
photos to the /Internal Storage/Pictures/. folder and that's all you need.
But all my prior suggestions were to help the OP who was the one with the
stated problem set, which I think I solved handily with a couple of
well-chosen apps which do _exactly_ what the OP asked for them to do.
> but as I sent
> one a few days ago thought I'd see what happened if I tried (Xiaomi
> Redmi Note 10 5G). Touching the photo within MMS gave me the option of
> sharing it or saving it.
That's a good start, although you might wish to look in the settings of
your MMS/SMS app to see if you can save the step of having to touch it.
> I chose the latter and it reported "One photo
> saved to your messages stored media" (no option to choose what folder to
> store it in).
Yeah. I agree. PulseSMS, which is my favorite MMS/SMS app, doesn't ask
where to put it either. It's in /Internal Storage/Pictures/Pulse for me.
In the olden days, I used to run daemons which sensed a file in any given
folder location and then they automatically moved the file to where I
wanted it to be. But that was too much of a pita to maintain.
So now I just look in /Internal Storage/Pictures/Pulse, which, at least is
a rather intuitive location if you're looking for pictures stored by Pulse.
> But can I find where it's stored? Of course not - this is
> Android - the most opaque system ever invented.
Hmmmm.... Android isn't opaque in the least. It's kind of like Apple pie.
You pretty much know what's there because you can see it thru the crust.
And it's no more (or less) opaque than Linux or Windows.
It's almost certainly far (far!) less opaque than is iOS (& maybe macOS).
So we have two choices when I respond to that statement:
a. I can tell you how to find the stored pictures, or
b. We can let you rant but your rant is like ranting against apple pie
> Total Commander is a pretty good file manager, but it can't find the
> folder. I assume it's got a name which doesn't have "messages",
> "stored", or "media".
Did you look in /Internal Storage/Pictures/ yet?
Or Downloads?
Or DCIM?
> I then tried sharing the photo, which gave me
> options to email it, etc. I noticed a long file name, with about 20
> digits, and ending in.jpg, at the top of the share options screen.
That's the wrong rant. That long file name is a good thing.
It's meta information. It's the _file_ name. Not the directory tree.
Let me _repeat_ that it's the name of the file.
Not the folder.
It's a good thing that the name of a file has the time & date stamp.
It's not a good thing that you are ranting against a simple file name.
What you need to do is stop ranting and start looking for the folder.
(Note: You sound like the Apple morons, by the way, so stop that.)
The Apple morons couldn't find their fingernails if they weren't attached
to their fingers and they can't find their fingers if they weren't attache
to their hands - and so on - which is why _they_ rant about everything.
Everything is too complicated for the Apple morons.
Android users are supposed to own at least a normal IQ.
> That's great, I thought, I'll use Total Commander to search for that
> file. Only trouble was that I couldn't copy the long file name, I had to
> do it manually.
Given the time stamp is unique down to, likely, the microsecond, all you
needed, realistically, were a few digits (maybe as few as four or five).
> I entered the first half-dozen numbers and returned to
> the share screen, only to find it had disappeared, and I had to touch
> the photo again to share or save it. The share screen reappeared, but
> with a completely different *.jpg name! Still 20 digits, but obviously
> different. It does that every time. I assume, though didn't try, that
> saving it as an email attachment might allow easier access as I'd hope
> email attachments would be simpler to detach and store in a folder of
> choice. But, again, we are dealing with Android.
It's not Android.
It's you.
You probably can't find your car keys every morning.
You probably rant against Mom and Apple Pie too.
Stop the ranting.
It's unbecoming of an intelligent person.
Just find the folder which I suggest is likely in the "Pictures" folder.
If not in "Pictures" then in "Downloads".
If not in "Downloads", then in DCIM.
This isn't hard for a person of normal intelligence, although I do realize
that it's nearly impossible for typical Apple users who are usually morons.
> I hate Android.
I think you rant against things which nobody normal would rant against.
You likely rant against Mom and Apple Pie.
Stop that.
It's unbecoming of an adult.
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Posted out of the goodness of my heart to disseminate useful information
which, in this case, is to help this user find where his files are stored.