If you haven't switched from the AOSP Gallery app, I highly suggest doing so

lorarzi42

treenutz68 Yes, I've been using the Gallery app on F-droid that was recommended by another user on here in another thread.

lorarzi42

yellow-leaves Yeah I should have been backing them up more often. I do backups from my phone far more often now, especially since I found out my Linux laptop doesn't experience weird random MTP USB file transfer issues unlike every PC and laptop with Windows I've tried using MTP USB file transfer on.

DeletedUser370

lorarzi42 I then held down on the first icon (which I thought was the video I wanted to delete) and pressed delete and confirmed it.

If I'm not very much mistaken, this recent commit is removing that button: https://github.com/GrapheneOS/platform_packages_apps_Gallery2/commit/7b3fb7327289978e099ccd32e8e5c797b321fe43

xxx

No need to switch anymore:
https://grapheneos.org/releases#2024120400

'Gallery: remove the Delete option for items that represent multiple images since the UI is badly designed and makes it too easy to accidentally delete images, ...'

missing-root

Btw the old AOSP gallerie's "share" feature does not open the normal Android share popup. This makes it useless when sharing between private space, work profile and owner

xxx

missing-root
I' m a single user. :-)

AccJustForThat

Thank you for degrading of software that has ever worked well. Instead of backup data or look before clicking. We simply remove a very common basic function.

2025 can come.

DeletedUser69

AccJustForThat simple answer to your prickly comments is disable it, don't use it. Obtain another gallery app and complain later, or rather don't. There are other more pressing issues to address like memory tagging errors in ProtonVPN.

Ammako

DeletedUser69 There are other more pressing issues to address like memory tagging errors in ProtonVPN.

That isn't GrapheneOS's responsibility to fix...

AccJustForThat

Its just annoying. Sure everyone can install another software to dodge problems.

But the fact that the Gallery app works perfect fine, some users complain and instant a feature get hilarious complicated.
Why not suggest to these users in first place, to switch the Gallery app because there is no time to repair old apps?

Now I need to change a running system because it got disabled.

But yeah now it is what it is. :/
I would call it bad development decision.

DeletedUser69

AccJustForThat Albums in the Gallery app are nothing but folders in the filesystem. If you want to manage multiple files and you absolutely need to use system app, you can use Files. To me the feature you talk about never existed since I manage multiple files differently.

Perhaps you should(!) be using Gallery only for viewing media and Files for modifying files.

Generalaccountuse

lorarzi42 I use Simple Gallery from FDroid.

Dumdum

Generalaccountuse I use Simple Gallery from FDroid.

Fossify Gallery is the updated fork of Simple Gallery.

AccJustForThat

DeletedUser69 as I said 100 times.
Sure you can use different software to dodge problems.

Fact is there was a feature which was smart and fast.
Some people aren't able to handle their phone properly, and now the app got a downgrade.

The obvious solution from begin would be not touching and messing with old software. Or simply assert a basic "Are you sure to delete XYZ?" Popup.

I get your point. Different software for different purposes is always a good idea. But fast handling and easy usage are also important.
With filebrowser it's as complicated to delete all Whatsapp-GIFs as with the gallery in its current state.

Time invested to disable a feature in the most basic app.
Doublemoral, and bad thought out development move.

missing-root

AccJustForThat what are you talking about?

Fupira

I don't really get the problem with the removal of the function.
Okay, sure, it's annoying to get used to a different workflow, but sooner or later it'd have to be changed anyway.
It's clearly bad design to have a "two click" deletion for an entire folder, with possibly thousands of pictures, in a gallery app without a trash folder.
Of the options to either fix up that old app or quickly remove that feature, the latter seems reasonable within context - limited development resources, the end goal being replacing the apps iirc, and there seemingly being some serious bugs (thread opener talks about the app showing false information).

It's still easily possible to delete an entire albums content:

Open album
Select one image/video in it
Select the option "Select all" in the drop-down menu (the "1 selected" button)
Press the garbage bin icon
Confirm

That's just two extra steps (1 and 3) and way safer. For someone who does that frequently - therefore needing a quick way - that usually shouldn't be too complex to quickly do, taking into consideration how close the areas to tap are.

I'd still recommend everyone to just user another app, pretty much everything is better than the AOSP one.
Aves is great. Fossify Gallery is more akin to the AOSP Gallery, and iirc. supports deleting albums as quickly as the pre patch AOSP one. Although I'm not confident about the quality of the latter.
You can also enable/disable a trash folder in both of those.

AccJustForThat

Fupira I think it's a "It is what is is" situation and nobody is really happy with.

For me it always was obvious that a Delete-Button really deletes data, and I'am the one who needs take care about what to delete.
And the problem with permanent losses isn't fixed at all.

The problem gets more annoying when you regularly filter and delete massiv of auto-saved data on the phone.
Now I need to tap in multiple albums to delete one by one always with this extra step.
It's kind of giving me a 4-Wheeler but I always and ever drives with a Bicycle.

Sure it dosnt hurt someone and isn't work. But if there is no time, then don't mess with software. It's like a law :/

At the end users who needs a trashbin now needs changing the stock gallery app, and also people who just needs a basic gallery app like me are suggested to change the app.

DeletedUser69

AccJustForThat change the app or finally get used to the way how current update works. Developers do not take meaningless steps but ones they think are needed and appropriate at the time. If they didn't think there was a need to make changes in the app based on the feedback from community, they would have left it alone.

AccJustForThat

DeletedUser69 Feeled you are neither a developer nor want helping somebody.

Your attitude of "shut up and never ask" is kind of toxic.

It's also a echo-chamber.
10.000 users have no problem with the app.
100 users accidentally deleted data what always everywhere could happen.

Devs thinks it's a huge problem because they never heard of the 9.900 users never had a problem.

DeletedUser69

AccJustForThat I don't know where you get your numbers from. It is okay to ask about issues, but not the way you do. I personally don't have a problem with the app, for me the matter is settled while you are unable to move on from old habits.

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