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Google Photos app is not uploading any picture

I can not upload any pictures to Google Photos for several weeks now, so yesterday (Sunday), I decided to poke around 

Photos 5.15.0.337400196 <- condition before troubleshooting

Space used

App 123 MB

Data 618 MB

Cache 642 MB

Total 1.38 GB

Android 10

First, I deleted data and cache and it worked for a while.

Second, I tied tricks mentioned in this article Google Photos Power Management

Battery -> Apps power Management ->Put unused apps to sleep, OFF

Battery -> Apps power Management -> Apps that wont be put to sleep, add Google Photos

Deleted data and cache

Force stop app

Launch app

It works until this article is published.

Termux moving files

After moving files using termux mv command, the update doesn't necessary propagated to Gallery application as shown bellow. 

To update it, run this command line:

am broadcast -a android.intent.action.MEDIA_SCANNER_SCAN_FILE -d /sdcard/path

It will  fix the Gallery app file list problem. 

Read: 

• ACTION_MEDIA_SCANNER_SCAN_FILE
  
• 2018-08-27 Manually trigger MediaScanner to scan files on Internal Storage on Nougat/Oreo
  
• Platform codenames, versions, API levels, and NDK releases
  

Side note: I am noticing weird behaviour, the developer page states that this intent is deprecated as of  API level 29 (Android 10), but the intent is well broadcast and act upon.