Bug 340612

Summary:	Android Gallery does not update after filetransfer
Product:	[Applications] kdeconnect	Reporter:	cryptkiddy
Component:	android-application	Assignee:	Albert Vaca Cintora <albertvaka>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	breversa, kde.bugzilla.2012
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Android
OS:	Android 4.x
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description cryptkiddy 2014-11-03 18:15:15 UTC

Product version 0.7.3.2

When using the "Remote Filesystem Browser" Plugin to transmit a picture (e.g. *.jpg) from PC to Android, the Gallery is not updated. That means: after the transfer finishes one can open the Gallery app and is not able to see the new image nor work with it. Rebooting fixes this, as it forces a reindex of the gallery.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Connect Device with KDE-Connect
2. Open the device for fileaccess in dolphin (small folder icon after leftclicking the tray icon )
3. Copy a *.jpg somewhere to device memory (not Camera folder) and wait for transfer to finish
4. Open Gallery on the device
5. Search for image

Actual Results:  
Image does not show up in the Gallery

Expected Results:  
Image shows up in the Gallery

( Device is a Nexus 4 with Cyanogenmod 11-20141030-nightly-mako )

Comment 1 Albert Vaca Cintora 2014-11-06 03:41:05 UTC

It's not going to be easy to fix, because we don't really know what you are transferring. When sending individual files, we can add them to the index when we receive them, but for this case the only solution I can think of is triggering a full re-scan.

Comment 2 cryptkiddy 2014-11-07 01:05:07 UTC

If rescanning is costly maybe a button that allows to manually force a rescan when needed could work. Although I do not see how to intuitively integrate that into the userinterface...

Comment 3 breversa 2015-07-16 13:36:15 UTC

You might want to have a look at SD Scanner : https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=scanner&fdid=com.gmail.jerickson314.sdscanner

Though manual and not automatic, I guess it does precisely what you're looking for.

Comment 4 Albert Vaca Cintora 2018-01-16 23:47:11 UTC

This was fixed in an earlier release.