So, hello! I’m here to say that when I take a lot of photos and wait for them to auto-upload once I get home or to work (any WiFi), sometimes they just block themselves. Then, when I go check why, I only see one picture.
I thought, “Maybe it’s the auto-backup from Google Photos?” So, I turned it off. But… nope! That wasn’t the problem.
Every time I see just one picture, I ask myself, “Why does this keep happening to me?” And now, here I am.
(I don’t know if this happens only with new streets, but it kinda seems like it…)
Hi boris, that’s right, I’m using android, But that’s not the proble of “One image of a sequence sometim…” I readed before doing this, and The author had an GoPro, and they just were saying about they weren’t connect, but here they dont upload and “robs” from mapillary app, like if mapillary auto-deletes the images when I take photos and gives me 1 photo (and I upload it like later 4-5 h later, or even a day later)
Not sure whether this is similar to your issue, sometimes while the images are uploading in progress, but the Wi-Fi signal is not strong enough, the upload will be temporarily paused, and when you check the app some sequences only shows one image. This does not affect the upload, when everything is uploaded to the server, all the images will show up. But it does not necessarily caused the “One image of a sequence sometimes left out and not uploaded” bug.
Yeah, that’s a slightly misleading UI. Mapillary Android creates a container which stores all the images, which has a specific format created for transferring over the network. At the same time, we keep one image to have it as a “preview” of the sequence (it’s the first image). During the uploading you can’t open the sequence, but if the upload was paused, then we unlock it though you can see only a single image.
We see the confusion and are already working on changes to make it clearer.
@notmyproblem1 no, Google Photos does not cause problems for Mapillary unless you:
Configure Google photos to “back up all device folders”
Then use the “Free up space on this device” feature which will delete all photos Google has backed up. In this case if you haven’t uploaded something to Mapillary yet, but already backed it up to Google Photos, it will be deleted by Google Photos.
If you are worried about this scenario your options are:
Make sure you have uploaded everything to Mapillary before running “Free up space on this device” in Google Photos
Or don’t use “back up all device folders” in Google Photos (you can still select individual device folders to back up if you wish)
Or disable “Save images to shared storage” in the Mapillary Android app settings
I think when you select “Backup all device folders” In that moment says “Ok this one, then this one”, And then Mapillary create a folder every scenario… so it doesn’t backup when there’s another folder new
(And for that I lost my images about work products in 2021)
@notmyproblem1 - “Backup all device folders” will actually also automatically backup all newly created folders. Google Photos calls this out in the setting - see screenshot.
Note that Mapillary only started saving images in device folders accessible to Google Photos fairly recently (within the last ~6 months)
