Monday, April 23, 2012

How to remove the Picasa synced photos from Android?

Force stop (Kill) the Gallery App and disable the data transfer.

Go to Settings >  Accounts & Sync > your Google account and uncheck the Sync Picasa Web Album option.

Now go to Settings > Applications > Manage Applications > Gallery and clear the cache & data.

Enable the data transfer, open the Gallery again, hopefully you should be good.
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34 comments:

  1. AnonymousJuly 25, 2012 at 10:43 AM

    Thank You Very Much.....
    I;m not able to disable to sync but the second idea of removing data and cache worked for Android 2.2.....
    Parth Patel....

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  2. AnonymousJuly 27, 2012 at 5:53 PM

    Worked for me with gallery force stop, thanks a lot!

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  3. AnonymousAugust 9, 2012 at 2:07 AM

    thankyou so much!!! it worked like a charm!!

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  4. testAugust 16, 2012 at 11:30 AM

    Great!!! Thank you.

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  5. AnonymousSeptember 28, 2012 at 4:09 AM

    thanks, that has botherd me for so long.... ur the best ;)

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  6. GONEOctober 21, 2012 at 10:29 PM

    You know why I researched this? Porn

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  7. UnknownOctober 23, 2012 at 9:35 AM

    thankyou very much.

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  8. AnonymousNovember 1, 2012 at 11:59 AM

    thanks a lot for the info , was not having the same option had to go to application manager , then selected the running app >gallery , stopped the process and clear data option , and the syn pics were deleted :)

    thanks again ..
    PAURUSH

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  9. UnknownNovember 18, 2012 at 4:17 PM

    I am not having the option to uncheck the picasa sync. android 2.3.6

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  10. Rajesh V VNovember 23, 2012 at 2:07 PM

    Thanks for the info buddy, It worked :)

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  11. AnonymousNovember 25, 2012 at 3:54 PM

    Ευχαριστώ!

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  12. ShaanNovember 25, 2012 at 4:09 PM

    Thanks for the update. I was searching like mad for 2 months. :P

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  13. SniggyDecember 5, 2012 at 7:08 AM

    This was just like a cake walk.. Everytime i had this problem I had to reinstall the OS itself as suggested by the technical support team for my fone.. Thank you very much... :)

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  14. AnonymousJanuary 4, 2013 at 3:08 AM

    thank you!!!

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  15. AnonymousJanuary 6, 2013 at 12:07 AM

    This works! Thank you so much!

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  16. AnonymousJanuary 8, 2013 at 11:12 AM

    does not work

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  17. SajJanuary 8, 2013 at 2:40 PM

    @Anonymous could you follow all the steps with out any problem?

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  18. UnknownJanuary 18, 2013 at 8:29 PM

    Thanks dude :D

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  19. AnonymousJanuary 30, 2013 at 12:22 PM

    thank u. worked in galaxy 3

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  20. AnonymousFebruary 5, 2013 at 6:20 AM

    Perfect. Went to applications/sync, clicks on my gmail account, unchecked the picasa box and POOF problem solve. THANKS!!!

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  21. AnonymousFebruary 5, 2013 at 10:59 AM

    Does not work on Android 2.3.6 after killing the Gallery process and I killed it using a "Cleaner" app. Any ideas?

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  22. OrionFebruary 6, 2013 at 1:40 AM

    For 2.3.6 it works. Open Accounts and Sync and select the checkbox for "Background data" and then also select the next option "Auto-sync" (*no data sync will happen at this moment). Once we do above, all the sync icons will bece GREEN. Now tap the account and you can remove sync for picasa (or others). Once you are satisfied with the sync selections for the account go back and untick the checkbox for "Auto-sync" if u prefer manual sync. ;-) Hope this helps. it worked for me. - samsung galaxy s, froyo 2.3.6

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  23. UnknownFebruary 11, 2013 at 6:21 PM

    Thank you. So simple it was. Very clean instruction.

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  24. AnonymousFebruary 12, 2013 at 5:54 PM

    Thank you. It worked.

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  25. AnonymousFebruary 18, 2013 at 10:26 PM

    Thanks dude. It worked. :)

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  26. hashmeetFebruary 25, 2013 at 1:34 PM

    thank u very very very much before, as soon as i opened the gallery my phone forcefully reboots but now that problem is solved........:)

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  27. AnonymousFebruary 25, 2013 at 8:57 PM

    will it work with no internet?

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  28. Jaggi MachinesMarch 4, 2013 at 10:52 AM

    Thank you so such. it worked ......

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  29. AnonymousMarch 8, 2013 at 11:49 AM

    It worked for me also but in sense the photos are replaced by blank frames. i have Android 4.1. any suggestions.

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  30. NC NandaMarch 12, 2013 at 11:57 PM

    thank a lot Sajain...it is a fantastic experience about Android OS.

    Best Regards,
    Niroj Kumar Nanda

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  31. AnonymousApril 2, 2013 at 11:45 PM

    I can't get this to work. I can't find the sync option. I have an s3.

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  32. AnonymousApril 8, 2013 at 9:19 AM

    Thank u

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  33. SteveM.June 24, 2013 at 5:57 AM

    I am worried that if I 'clear' the gallery, ALL of my photos will go.
    I ONLY want to get rid of the picasa albums which somehow appear on my phone.
    I have photos in albums on the phone (Galaxy S4), and want/need to keep. Yet the other Picasa albums are there. I already unchecked the sync buttons, but they are still there.
    Any ideas about how I can get rid of ONLY the Picasa albums?

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    1. SajJune 24, 2013 at 10:19 AM

      Clearing the cache & the gallery data will not delete the original source. It will clear the local cached copy of the photos and the thumbnails of them. Photos you have clicked using your mobile camera should be safe.

      If you are really worried then I would suggest you to copy the photos to your computer and then follow the steps above. Later you can copy the photos back to phone.

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