What Is the Dcim Folder on Android?
Contents Every Camera — Whether It’s a Dedicated Digital Camera or the Camera App on Android or iPhone — Places the Photos You Take in a Dcim Folder. Dcim...
Every camera — whether it’s a dedicated digital camera or the Camera app on Android or iPhone — places the photos you take in a DCIM folder. DCIM stands for “Digital Camera Images.” The DCIM folder and its layout come from DCF, a standard created back in 2003.
Where is the DCIM folder on Android?
DCIM is a standard folder in digital cameras and smart phones. The DCIM folder on the microSD card in your Android device is where Android stores the photos and videos you take with the device’s built-in camera. When you open the Android Gallery app, you are browsing the files saved in the DCIM folder.
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Where is the DCIM Camera folder?
Photos taken on Camera (standard Android app) are stored on either a memory card or phone memory depending on the settings. The location of photos is always the same – it’s DCIM/Camera folder. The full path looks like this: /storage/emmc/DCIM – if the images are on phone memory.
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