Oh my GOD. W-what even is this?
So now I have all my dope-ass technology, it's becoming more and more apparent technology feels I should have no secrets from anyone ever. I understand we're all hyperconnectivity now and everything is touch-intuitive and psychic, but maybe I don't WANT to instantly upload pictures of my penis.
Okay, so not really, but I'm having a lot of problems figuring this thing out. And rather than having to sign up to some other forum or submit a help ticket, I figure I'd just ask you nerds.

I'm trying to organise, synchronize and generally tidy my online life and Google+ seems to have the capacity to do this in theory. In particular I'm having a hard time sorting out these photos. My android tablet has a bunch of empty photo albums that i can't delete because they're synced from the web, and according to everything else, those albums no longer exist, unless they're.... invisible or something.

I'm not sure Google+ will be a huge hit in it's current form. I mean, it seems like it has a lot to offer, but only if you spend a good few hours first getting it in order. Joe Public just doesn't have that kinda patience!

elad said:
Oh my GOD. W-what even is this?
So now I have all my dope-ass technology, it's becoming more and more apparent technology feels I should have no secrets from anyone ever. I understand we're all hyperconnectivity now and everything is touch-intuitive and psychic, but maybe I don't WANT to instantly upload pictures of my penis.

But that is how google makes money off of you. By giving your penislength to advertisers who then show you the best working techniques or pills to help you increase the size of your wiener.

elad said:
I'm trying to organise, synchronize and generally tidy my online life and Google+ seems to have the capacity to do this in theory. In particular I'm having a hard time sorting out these photos.

So google is too lazy to sort the information out themselves and so you have to help them to bring you the proper penis enhancement advertisement.
Sneaky bastards.

But to your problem, did try to sync it once from both sides? That should get rid of ghost folders.
Otherwise copy everything down to another pc and clear the gallery on your tablet and then sync it again.

Additionally to that you could look at the helpdesk of the application or google+ service. The google help sites for their own products are generally really helpful and informative.

I got into the closed beta for Google+ and I'd say they've brutally slaughtered it since then. It was simple and it worked.

Facebook is the only massively-successful website of its type; All predecessors have achieved moderate-at-most success before collapsing.

Google is trying to create Facebook without the suck, which is a thing that's never been done before. When you do something that's never before been done, it's likely it will be terrible until it's worked on more.

So basically, have patience. Google of all people on the Internet can have detailed minute-by-minute metrics of what people are and are not doing with and without its product, so they will be well-aware of what does and does not work. Give 'em time.

Facebook, Xing and some highly specialized communities are simply too dominating. Serious competition needs to offer a huge advantage to compensate for the lacking userbase and the difficulties of getting accustomed to a new platform. I am going as far as to say that even if there is any not yet discovered magical advantage a competitor like google+ could offer, facebook would easily copy it.

Meeting a hot new guy and want to check out whether he has some nice beach photos online?
If there are any, you definitely won't find them on google+!

elad said:
My android tablet has a bunch of empty photo albums that i can't delete because they're synced from the web, and according to everything else, those albums no longer exist, unless they're.... invisible or something.

That sounds familiar.
I had some trouble getting the shirtless photos I shot of my highschool crush during a class reunion vacation off my "icloud photo roll".
On the last day of that vacation I pulled together my self confidence and made my move on him, though he didn't reciprocate my feelings. That ruined the last of our "friendship" that remained after school. Now seeing each other is always a little bit awkward.
I still have my peeping tom pictures though.

I'm reading "technology sucks because I don't understand how to operate it" in this thread.

null0010 said:
I'm reading "technology sucks because I don't understand how to operate it" in this thread.

Google+'s success depends on luring away the majority of the drooling mass that uses Facebook because it's so easy. The people in this thread so far, who range from "competent" to "savvy", are the smaller part of the demographic.

"Stop being bad" is fine and dandy for us, but not for a giant corporation trying to make a profit.

null0010 said:
I'm reading "technology sucks because I don't understand how to operate it" in this thread.

Read the manual.

One of my CS professors swore up and down that "RTFM" stood for "Read that fine manual!", but he also winked every time he said it. Such a devious man.

Foobaria said:
One of my CS professors swore up and down that "RTFM" stood for "Read that fine manual!", but he also winked every time he said it. Such a devious man.

I'd suggest rebooting google+ but they might not want to hear that.

PEBKAC, imo.

null0010 said:
I'm reading "technology sucks because I don't understand how to operate it" in this thread.

then you didn't read it, bro :V

>Google+ sucks.

Disable it (Settings>Accounts & Sync) and disable the accounts you don't need.
Dunno how different is a mobile (A2.2) from a tablet (A4.0, I guess), but the OS is the same so it should work *shrug* /nerd

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/idjit

elad said:
then you didn't read it, bro :V

i use google+ and i have literally zero of these problems that you have

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Xch3l said:

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i can't read it, there's no words!
E's? What does that mean?

null0010 said:
i use google+ and i have literally zero of these problems that you have

indeed! no one seems to have this problem. like, at all. I have a weird knack for making digital anomalies.
to elaborate: I have the same account synced to multiple devices. according to all of them (except the tablet) these 7 empty folders that I can't delete do not exist.

I used a file browser to find the folders in question so i could delete them manually and they aren't there either! they're already empty so i can't go in them, and I cant delete them from the outside.

Try recreating the folders and then re-deleting them?

elad said:
indeed! no one seems to have this problem. like, at all. I have a weird knack for making digital anomalies.
to elaborate: I have the same account synced to multiple devices. according to all of them (except the tablet) these 7 empty folders that I can't delete do not exist.

I used a file browser to find the folders in question so i could delete them manually and they aren't there either! they're already empty so i can't go in them, and I cant delete them from the outside.

Go to your application manager, clear all user data from that app on that device, best would be without internet, then set up the app again. If that doesn't get rid off these folder than only an exorcism may help.

Clawstripe said:
Try recreating the folders and then re-deleting them?

Well that did something at least. The new folder was created separately from the old one, and when I deleted it I had another empty unopenable folder!

NotMeNotYouMobile said:
Go to your application manager, clear all user data from that app on that device, best would be without internet, then set up the app again. If that doesn't get rid off these folder than only an exorcism may help.

Didn't seem to help at all, which leads me to believe it's a problem with the nexus 7 rather than google+.
Man... I mean, it's not like this is a show-stopping bug or anything, I just put a lot of effort into getting everything nice and neat and this sets my OCD sense going haywire.

elad said:
Well that did something at least. The new folder was created separately from the old one, and when I deleted it I had another empty unopenable folder!

That sounds like a corrupted file system, do android and windows/linux refuse to delete the folder?
If so the only option to get rid of it would be either formatting of the disk or the filesystem repair option in Windows/linux.
I would definitely try a filesystem check, if it is what I think it is then this could cause some other strange bugs as well in the future.

google+ is absolutely slick and a lot cleaner looking than facebook. and hangouts?? hangouts.

better then facebook

Y'know? I havent used Facebook in a while and you people are making me try G+ -3-

Google+ is created from sacrificed puppy souls.
Many, many of them; that's why it works, but it's finicky.

Have you ever tried to get a bunch of puppies to do something?

Aeshma said:
Google+ and/or Win ME is created from sacrificed puppy souls.