Android Chrome browser is making a duplicate of every photo downloaded to my external SD card Every time I download a photo (.jpg or .png file) with the Chrome browser (stable version) to my external SD card, it gets duplicated and stored also in &quot;/storage/emulated/0/Pictures&quot; folder (internal storage). The duplicate has always somewhat a smaller file size. How can I disable this and why is this happening ?
This doesn't happen when I download a photo with Opera Mini or MS Edge browser to my SD card for example. It only happens to pictures downloaded with Google Chrome when the download location is set to &quot;SD card&quot;.
My SD card is formated as portable storage on my HTC 10 (Android Oreo).
This answer I found on google.support and I  Copied and pasted, I'm not sure if that's okay? Or not I'm sure I will find out momentarily .
We are aware of this issue and are working on a fix for this. To resolve this immediately, you'll need to reset the permission for the Google Photos App by following the steps below. Once these steps are complete, the duplicates should disappear after a few minutes.

Long press the Photos App icon
Tap the &quot;i&quot; button on the top right corner to go into App info
Tap &quot;Permissions&quot;
Tap &quot;Storage&quot; under Allowed
Tap &quot;Deny&quot; and tap &quot;Deny anyway&quot;
Re-open the Photos app
Tap &quot;Allow&quot; when prompted with &quot;Allow Photos to access photos, media, and files on your device?&quot;
Hope that helps....    :)