Where is the folder of Google Photo

[satimis]

Hi all,

I have Google Photo installed on both my Samsung Galaxy S22 and S24 Ultra phones.

Connecting both of them to Ubuntu computer I couldn't discover its photos folder on S22. I could find its photos folder on S24

-> Internal Storage -> DCIM -> PhotosEditor

There is no such a folder on S22.

Please advise where is its photos folder on S22 ? Thanks

Regards

[Dinop43]

I should just have my drive or cloud services on computer unless u already moved them to another storage.im so confuse why u r going to internal storage instead of google

[Dinop43]

Go files,google drive,pictures,it should be there

[satimis]

Pls advise where is "File" sub-folder?

[realaud]

What are you trying to do that you need to locate the folder.  In any case, as I said, both Gallery & Google Photos use the DCIM folder. All photos taken with the camera end up in the DCIM folder and are backed up to Google Photos.  The Google photos app is just a viewer, as is the Gallery app.  The only difference between the two apps, is if you delete a photo from within Gallery, it deletes it from the phone only.  If you delete it from Google Photos, it deletes it from both the phone and the backup.  The backup photos are not stored on your phone, but this is why you may see more photos in Google than in Gallery.  They are stored in Google's cloud. You can access them by going to the site from a web browser on your device or on a computer - photos.google.com.  Google only gives 15 GB of free storage space.  This allocation includes everything contained in Gmail, photos, and Google Drive.  So, clean out your Gmail and Google Drive regularly and cull any photos you don't want to keep or offload the ones you do to a flash drive or computer.  Or you can always pay for more storage from Google if you want.

[Dinop43]

Totally agree

[satimis]

I have repeated many times here that there is no photos nor files on DCIM.  It is only a folder holding other sub-folders  on S22

[realaud]

Have you opened the sub folders? If you took photos and they appeared (ever) i. The Google photos app and you deleted them from within the app, there would be no photos either on the phone or in backup. The photos are ONLY stored in the DCIM folder unless you specifically directed them to save elsewhere. I don't remember if the S22 has an AD card, but if it does, you could have directed the photos there. If you do have an SD card, look for the DCIM folder on the SD card. If you do not have an SD card, do a search of the file manager looking for files with the . jpg extension. Failing all that, you did something that caused the loss of your photos.

[Dinop43]

Google drive url or app sign in you may find ina folder there because google photos backs upto your google account you can go there and click data in gaccount

[satimis]

What I'm trying to do is to find the photos on Google Photos from computer.  I have Galaxy S22 connected to computer via an USB cable.

I can find the photos on S22 phone direct by clicking Photos icon on the phone screen.

[realaud]

If you are on a computer, open a web browser and go to photos.google.com.  You don't need the phone connected if you backed up to Google.  If your photos are there, you will be able to download them or edit them or do whatever you want with them. On the phone, the ONLY folder that contains photos would be the DCIM folder and its subfolders or whatever location you chose to save your photos in.  Check your camera settings to see where you selected for your photos to be saved.  If you left it at the default, EVERY SINGLE PHOTO YOU TAKE will be saved to the DCIM folder.  Google photos does not use anything other than the same folder that the camera saves to.  It is not so very hard to comprehend.  As I have repeatedly stated the Google Photos app and the Gallery are merely picture VIEWERS/editors/organizers, but they utilize the same storage space.  If you can find no photos on your phone, something happened to delete them.

BTW, the photo editor sub folder only appears if you have edited photos. If it doesn't show on one phone, then you have never edited photos on that phone.