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In article <o3u6ib$idg$1@dont-email.me>, The Real Bev wrote:
>> You have a Gallery app that came with the Moto G2? That's
>> interesting.
> 
> The icon is a white-bordered green design with a stylized mountain
> and moon.  At least that's what I think it is.  I don't do icons
> well.  It came with the phone, honest.

I believe you!

I found and downloaded a PDF User Guide for my G4 Play, and it tells me 
that the photo viewing tools I can access by right-to-left swiping the 
screen are called "Gallery"; there's no icon to access it directly 
though, not on the G4 play.

I have other Android devices that have a "Gallery" app -- there's one on 
my cheap Asus 7" tablet, for instance, though its icon is a 
multicoloured hot-air balloon.

>> ... you seem to be expected to use Google Photos (which is OK as
>> an app, but wants to upload all your photos to Google).
> 
> They ruined Picasa.

Ah! That rings a bell. I never used Picasa when it was called Picasa, 
and I'd forgotten that Google Photos was the same thing (or its 
misbegotten progeny).

I'm not sure about this business of uploading photos to the cloud ... 
it's not that I don't want to share my pictures with Google (I don't, 
but that's secondary) it's more that I don't want to waste bandwidth 
doing so. Cellular bandwidth is slow and expensive, and not available 
everywhere; WiFi bandwidth is cheaper and may be faster but still 
(usually) has a cost and is available even less of the time.

> I swear to god I really don't want to use google 
> photos for ANYTHING, but I haven't had the energy to search for 
> something better that will suck in all my albums.  On my computer 
> they're just a mass of photos arranged chronologically rather than in 
> albums.

Most of my photos are taken with a real camera, not a phone, so the 
cloud doesn't come into it. I generally transfer them to a PC by taking 
the (full size) SD card out of the camera and inserting into a reader in 
the PC, and I organize them with Shotwell (on Linux). Shotwell isn't 
perfect, but it works more-or-less the way I want. I haven't found 
anything like it for Android.

-- 
Cheers,
 Daniel.
 

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                Re: Android 6 and SD cards ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2016-12-26 06:45 -0600
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                Re: Android 6 and SD cards ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2016-12-27 03:58 -0600
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      Re: Android 6 and SD cards Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2016-12-27 15:31 +0000
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        Re: Android 6 and SD cards tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2016-12-27 23:46 -0500
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  Re: Android 6 and SD cards tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2016-12-22 20:14 -0500
  Re: Android 6 and SD cards The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2016-12-22 21:43 -0800
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      Re: Android 6 and SD cards The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2016-12-27 08:59 -0800
        Re: Android 6 and SD cards Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2016-12-28 10:51 +0000
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            Re: Android 6 and SD cards tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2016-12-29 15:13 -0500
          Re: Android 6 and SD cards The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2016-12-28 11:20 -0800
            Re: Android 6 and SD cards The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2016-12-28 15:25 -0800
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