
Organise your pictures into albums
The Photos app organises the pictures you take or add to your smartphone into predefined albums. The following table tells you where to find your photos both in the Photos app and in your smartphone’s USB Drive storage.
Table 2. Photo locations
Origin of photos | Album in Photos | Folder in USB storage |
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Downloads | downloads | |
MMS | Messaging | Messaging |
Copied from computer | Miscellaneous | Root level of USB |
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| storage |
Camera on | Photo roll | DCIM > 100PALM |
smartphone |
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|
Smartphone | Screen captures | screencaptures |
Smartphone | Wallpapers | wallpapers |
Copied from | [Folder created by you | [Folder created by you |
elsewhere | in USB storage] | containing at least |
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| one BMP, JPG or |
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| PNG] |
You can use any photo in any album in Photos as wallpaper (see Save a picture as wallpaper). The photo does not have to be in the Wallpapers album.
You can assign any pictures on your smartphone to one of these albums or to an album you create. To create and assign pictures to albums, you must put your smartphone into USB Drive mode. You then create the albums and move pictures into them using your computer.
TIP Besides using USB Drive mode to copy your photos, videos and
To organise your pictures into albums:
1Connect your smartphone and your computer using the USB cable.
2On your smartphone, tap USB Drive. If prompted, tap OK. On your computer, your smartphone appears as a removable drive.
3On a Windows computer, if the Found New Hardware wizard opens, click Cancel to close the wizard.
4Open My Computer (Windows XP), Computer (Windows Vista/ Windows 7) or the Finder (Mac) and
5To create an album, use your computer's controls for creating a new folder. To be sure the Photos application can find the album, create it at the root level of the drive representing your smartphone, not as a subfolder.
6Assign pictures to albums using your computer's controls to copy or move items. It is easiest to find the pictures you want by displaying them as thumbnails.
7End the connection safely. If you do not eject your smartphone safely, your smartphone resets, and may experience data loss, when you disconnect the USB cable. To eject your smartphone safely:
On a Windows computer,
On a Mac computer, from your desktop, drag the drive representing your smartphone to the Trash. The Trash icon changes to Eject.
8Disconnect the USB cable from the computer and from the smartphone when the USB Drive screen no longer appears on your smartphone.
NOTE To delete an album, connect your smartphone to your computer and tap USB Drive. From your computer, open the drive representing your smartphone and delete the folder representing the album.
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