Some gallery albums will not show up when trying to add pictures to Airbnb etc..

[suz4x466]

Some of my albums do not show up when trying to add pictures to Airbnb, when I look in google photos on this device tab they don't show there either.

I went to one drive and, you have to dig to find any sort of order in one drive, but found the album there. 

But from Airbnb I can't use any other way to get pics other than gallery. I need photos that are in an album so I don't have to go back years in all the pictures. This is frustrating!

I've tried permissions, checking album is backed up etc...

Please help🙏

[realaud]

Do you have any of your Gallery albums hidden?  When you take a photo with the phone's camera, the default is to save to the "camera" album.  It stays there until you create an album and move the photo to that album (I assume you know this, just reiterating for clarity).  If you have albums that do not show up when the picture selector shows up on AB&B, a workaround could be to create a specific album for AB&B and move or copy all related photos there.  I don't know how the selection process works on AB&B, but when I go to Facebook, for instance, the picker shows the default as all photos, with what appears to be most recent first (other apps seem to show them in random order).  If I tap on the arrow next to Gallery/all photos/photos -whatever the header is - (depending on the app), there is a drop down that lists all the albums that I can choose from.  It lists all of my albums.  Perhaps there is a header at the top of your photo list in AB&B that is actually a drop-down menu.

[Magicant1983]

This isn't a Samsung issue. This is a site issue and most likely isn't allowing 3rd party media storage for a security reason. You'll most likely have to copy the pictures you want to upload to the area on your phone that Air B&B is only accessing first, upload them, then go back and delete them to have the memory space back... Unless someone is aware of an add-on that forces the connection to the site.

[suz4x466]

On Airbnb It shows some albums just not all which I can't figure out why it's not showing them all. None are hidden.
They also aren't showing in google photos or one drive.

[realaud]

I would suggest copying the photos you want to use on AB&B to one of the albums that do show up.  You can delete them later if you want. You could rename the albums that do show up to something other than what they are and name the album where you put the photos you want to use to one of the former album names.  Does AB&B's picture upload feature offer a sort option?

[suz4x466]

Hi Thank you for your quick response!
Unfortunately on your phone Airbnb only gives you the choice to select Gallery, photos or Albums if your album doesn't show up which many don't, you have to painfully search through thousands of photos.
I have my photos backed up to one drive and google photos, but not all the albums that show in the gallery show in those either. Trying to find anything is a giant pia worse than ever in my opinion.
The specific folders aren't hidden they show up in the gallery app, just not other places.
I've looked at permissions etc... just can't figure it out.

[Magicant1983]

I keep forgetting to hit reply so you're notified.😂

[LongHiker]

@suz4x466 FYI, OneDrive only backs up the albums that you specify. If there are albums not being backed up, you can add them. To add an album:

1. Open Gallery.
2. Click the 3 line menu in lower right.
3. Click on Settings
4. Click on Sync with OneDrive
5. Click on Albums to sync.
6. Here you can choose which albums are backed up. 

[suz4x466]

I have, I have every album selected and in one drive on the app the folder is still not showing. I even created a new Album in gallery with a simliar name and moved it all to that and it still will not show up. I also have it all backed up to google photos and that also will not show some of the albums even though the pictures are the main camera  pictures folder as well. this shouldnt be this hard to create an album and see it.

[Magicant1983]

Try renaming those certain pictures in the album you can easily find to something very alphabetical like "Aardvark" or beginning with a "1." That should at least put them very first in the long stream of photos to hunt through.