Does \Windows\Fonts folder serve any purpose?
Mine is empty and all fonts are located directly under \Windows.
ROM is 3VO's 2.80.
The fonts are in Win Dir, it serves purpose for some programs install to the Win\Font location.
Rule of thumb everything in a ROM is there for a reason if don't know why leave it alone
So even tho Tahoma (or some other font) is already in Windows folder, some new application might need it in \Fonts folder and since it is not there it will add it and Tahoma will be on phone twice?
That sounds like a waste of resources. Doesn't it?
Not to mention the .pngs and .jpgs repeated quite a few times in different folders. The thought of doing some cleaning has come to my mind but then what you said (everything there for a reason) stops me.
"cleaning" is never a good idea....some of those files are invaluable when you need a backup....or have tweaked with something you shouldn't have (found that one out first hand)....if your system is running clean, you know...
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The thought of doing some cleaning has come to my mind but then what you said (everything there for a reason) stops me.
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For some simple cleaning ClearTemp does the job
hey, foonts folder IS useful for programs like WisBar, u put fonts in there- and then can use them system wide on anything from start menu, to tabs and even soft keys, and of course- system font, plus- its ,uch easier to handle tyhem from there- if u need to look for a font in windows folder- its a pain in an asssss
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Either I'm retarded and can't figure this out or it really is a pain in the butt to try and get to the \Windows system folder via Mobile Device Center in Vista. Who knows how?
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Either I'm retarded and can't figure this out or it really is a pain in the butt to try and get to the \Windows system folder via Mobile Device Center in Vista. Who knows how?
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I would like to know also
Show up System/Operating System Files and Folders:
Start - Control Panel - Folder Options - View (TAB) - and uncheck Hide Protected Operating System Files (Recommended) - Click OK
they are hidden by default... as suggested above. However, I would highly recommend rechecking the option when done browsing the /windows directory
WHY!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am not starting anything, I am just curious as to why you wouldn't want to leave the box unchecked. It's not like we're 3 years old around here. If we wanna look at our folders that we OWN, then we should. Why put a "child-proofing" feature on these folders? I think you should leave them visible at all times. Hell, this encourages people to mod their phones. We all know that the world needs new mods. That's why we come here. Just thought you might have some more light to shed on this subject.
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they are hidden by default... as suggested above. However, I would highly recommend rechecking the option when done browsing the /windows directory
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I've noticed recently that there's quite a few people asking how to hide folders on Windows Mobile. There's a few applications out there, but they're either completely overkill (they do a million more things and are therefore massive), or they're not free (or a mixture of the two).
Since I wanted this functionality myself, I decided to write a very simple application to allow me to toggle the hidden state of folders. This application should be considered in beta state, but it works fine for me so far. It's not fancy in the slightest, and I have no plans to make it look anything special, but if I get enough response then I'd put some time aside to "tart it up" a bit.
I'd be grateful if people could let me know of any problems with it. It's targeted for WM 4+ (I have 6.1), using .Net 2.0.
All that aside, I hope some of you do find it useful.
You can download it here...
http://www.johnmolyneux.co.uk/downloads/hidefolders.cab
I was recently informed about a review for this application, which can be found here...
http://mobilityupdate.com/hide-your-folders-on-windows-mobile-using-hidefolders-application/
Thanks for the great review Ella
Cheers,
John.
Hi,
Works well on my Kaiser (See my sig for the rest of my specs).
Nice little app, I use Resco and Total Commander, so I don't have much use for it, but I'll keep the CAB just in case.
I like the loading when you expand the tree rather than loading all folders at the start.
Ta
Dave
Cheers for doing that Dave - I don't know about you, but I'm always relieved when things work for others!
As for the loading when you expand the treeview nodes, I had to add that because it was taking about a minute to start the program, if it was getting the whole directory structure. The Windows folder alone was taking around 40 seconds!
Anyway, thanks again. I appreciate the test and report
Updated to v1.1. I've sorted the folder lists alphabetically, and I've added an about screen, mainly to acknowledge the guy that made the icons I used for the application.
it didn't work. i set a folder in the storage card to hidden mode bt the folder is still visible! when i use file explorer!
i have asus p320
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it didn't work. i set a folder in the storage card to hidden mode bt the folder is still visible! when i use file explorer!
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Hi.
It sounds to me like you've got 'Show all files' enabled. In File Explorer, go to Menu and make sure 'Show all files' is unchecked.
Cheers.
hide folder working fine
working great in htc 3450...
but make sure in file explorer u unchecked show all files....[]
Work well on Xperia, thanks
Great piece of app. Really appreciated. You need to uncheck "show all files" & you will have your files hidden. But the problem I faced is mainly with the Touch commander 2.51 which doesn't have any of this option. I tried this on Resco explorer & files were hidden. So overall w/o touch commander it worked like charm.
Just an humble suggestion John
WHy don't you create an app that could lock files, I mean that could just rename them with ascii letters which can't be opened unless provided password[which would rename the folder again.] I have searched for this kind of app but couldn't find one so your release would be a hit with this function. Thanks allover.
Regards
Saksham Katyal
hidefolders review:
http://mobilityupdate.com/hide-your-folders-on-windows-mobile-using-hidefolders-application/
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working great in htc 3450...
but make sure in file explorer u unchecked show all files....[]
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Yeah but still doesnt work successfully. if you use a photo viewing program like resco photo viewer hidden files are still viewable. SKB mobile safety suite locks well, cant see it but takes forever with large files and you need alot of phone memory.
Im sure someone must have a program that has the best of both worlds???
How do i use it???
Hello and thanks for the cab....How do i hide a folder in Htc hd?The program just lets me go through the paths and when i find the folder i want to hide it has to options ...on the left "about" on the right "exit" It does't says anywhere menu or hide.....Any succestions?
Thank you in advance.
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I'd be grateful if people could let me know of any problems with it. It's targeted for WM 4+ (I have 6.1), using .Net 2.0.
All that aside, I hope some of you do find it useful.
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thanks 4 the app!
works great on ipaq 600
if it is not to hard can you make the app popup as a combination of hardware keys?
2 make it simple one can select from predefined combination
like: key1&key4 ,key1&key2…. (from settings/buttons)
or if it is not to hard adding read key combination option (in the app settings)
anyway thanks
Edit: to not let it woke in the background the combination will be entered after taping the apps icon (the apps icon says )
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Hello and thanks for the cab....How do i hide a folder in Htc hd?The program just lets me go through the paths and when i find the folder i want to hide it has to options ...on the left "about" on the right "exit" It does't says anywhere menu or hide.....Any succestions?
Thank you in advance.
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Found a program called Hide my stuff v3.6, works much better than this one and the SKB. it truly hides files or all files within a folder, no frills so is very fast to hide, unhide, you can even edit or beam files whilst its in a hidden state etc. found it by chance but works very well.
thank you veru much ! I will try that!
appreciating your help . it is working fine for me
Works great on my BlueAngel..thank you man!
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if it is not to hard can you make the app popup as a combination of hardware keys?
2 make it simple one can select from predefined combination
like: key1&key4 ,key1&key2…. (from settings/buttons)
or if it is not to hard adding read key combination option (in the app settings)
anyway thanks
Edit: to not let it woke in the background the combination will be entered after taping the apps icon (the apps icon says )
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works great!! Thanks
and if could add up some function like that, it would be perfect!! Thanks again
You need AEButtons to assign software to hardware keys. I've never used it myself, but lots of people use it very succesfully.
Hope this helps
Im glad to say that the hide folders works great. Does anybody know a way to hide files (not folders) under the My Device for a WinMobile 6.5? I want to do this to clean the screen and not to accidentally delete files.
The only files/folders I want to see when I open File Explorer are:
My Documents
Storage Card
I know the difference between the two versions. I just want to know why so many are creating for just rc33 lite. Only fade to blue works with my regular rc33 version. Other then getting rid of notifications and ringtones (which i dont want to do) how can i make these themes work. Thanks.
Its an issue with allocated space.
That's why the notifications and ringtones are removed in lite.
Maybe once theme devs start compressing more we wont need lite.
just copy them to the media/audio directory ringdroid creates, ull save the phone mem space and have all ur ringtones/alarms/notifs
Topdnbass, Thanks. Pablizzo how do i do that.
Its not that they are making it for RC33 lite, Lite was made to accomodate those themes. Larger, more full, themes are higher in size and need to have space in the OS to be run. The only way to work around that would be to have smaller/less developed themes or make room some other how
check THIS thread and d/l the audio. install reingdroid (if not already installed), make a custom ringtone to create the folder and symlinks. Then copy the files you downloaded into sdcard/media/audio/
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Its not that they are making it for RC33 lite, Lite was made to accomodate those themes. Larger, more full, themes are higher in size and need to have space in the OS to be run. The only way to work around that would be to have smaller/less developed themes or make room some other how
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It has nothing to do with more or less developed themes...my theme is pretty full, but i figured out by compressing the png files the theme will work with the full RC33, not only that but its a lot faster and more stable. Some of these other themes i have tried are very slow and clunky. I believe all of those images are loaded into ram, so the smaller the file size the better.
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It has nothing to do with more or less developed themes...my theme is pretty full, but i figured out by compressing the png files the theme will work with the full RC33, not only that but its a lot faster and more stable. Some of these other themes i have tried are very slow and clunky. I believe all of those images are loaded into ram, so the smaller the file size the better.
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What are you using to compress your images?
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What are you using to compress your images?
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I use save for web & devices in in Photoshop CS4...PNG 24.
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I use save for web & devices in in Photoshop CS4...PNG 24.
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I used that too...but then found out it didnt compress that good. Someone posted a link to PNGOutWin somewhere here. It compresses the images a tad bit more, after doing it in PS. The only thing is, it's a trial version.
Yeah i seen that post...problem with that though is if its a .9 will it keep the hidden border?
the 9.png's don't look good when being compressed with pngoutwin . It compresses the images a tad bit more, and you can compresses all the images in a folder and folders in the folder but need to remove the 9.png's.
i noticed to when you run the .9's thru Eclipse and compile the .9's it shrinks them to. But i think my next theme will need to run on RC33 lite. the fancier the graphics the less it will compress them...check these out at the bottom. The originals and the boring strait colors were 1kb or smaller.
The images are for the textfield in the contacts and dialer. when you press any numbers on the dialer.
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you can actually just create a folder named "audio" in the root of your sd card with a folder for "notifications" and one for "ringtones" and any media files located within will be read as such. atleast after i did a full whipe on mine and rooted it with rc33l thats all i did and it read everything automatically. this way i didnt have to install ringdroid and it still picks up custom ringtones and alerts.
You can also name the "audio " folder as "music" and still have the same effect.
This was actually the first thing i was able to figure out, due to my want for all my personal ringtones and notifications. As long as the folders in that folder are correctly named "ringtones", "notifications", and "alarms"
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I used that too...but then found out it didnt compress that good. Someone posted a link to PNGOutWin somewhere here. It compresses the images a tad bit more, after doing it in PS. The only thing is, it's a trial version.
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I know this is an old subject, but for compressing PNG's quickly, you can also try PNGGauntlet. It's freeware.
Hi, I'm looking for a way to customise the icons for folders created on the Home screen. I realise that we can change the png files but that would change all folders, what I want is to be able to customise each folder I create separately.
Currently I'm using Apps Organizer to do this and while it works well it is slow to load the shortcuts inside.
I don't want to run a home replacement so does anyone know of a simple and effective solution to allow custom icons for each folder? (I think this is something that Android should have by default)
Is that a no then?
thats an option i would be glad to have in my device!
please suggest it to irrenhaus to aplly it in his AdvancedLauncher
in this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=540880
I will think about this, it shouldn't be much work . But no promises yet
That's great to hear, it seems like a pretty basic function to me and I can't see why Android doesn't just support it to begin with. I hope you manage to conjure something, it will be much appreciated by many people I think
Mik
have a lot of text files i use. i have problem viewing them if file is larger than 9KB.
any content of the file that is beyond 9KB is not seen in text editor. some editors that have autosave even reduces the file once it's open an closed..
is this a bug or what? is there any program that can handle this?
i tried this with lots of text editors and on different phones.
p.s. Thinkfree office can handle this files, BUT program is quite slow and file can't be saved in txt format afaik
anybody??
please, i need reading and editing "large" text files and NO GO with text editors
Aha! A potential customer.... ;P I was experiencing the same problem, so I wrote an app to solve it and just uploaded it onto the market today. It deals with large text files just like your thread wants.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=898083
Let me know if you have any questions about my app.
Ummmm, just a warning, my app is sometimes slow on startup, I think its due to the file write when it first creates some log files for tracking progress. Even so, it only takes around 4 secs to open a 10MB txt file.
oh, so there is this silly size limitation for text files.. :\ big thnx for this. i thought i was the only one with that problem.
will try your app.
again, thnx for solving this mistery
Android has this max size limiting the textboxes, I could in theory set it to
android:maxLength="99999999" or so, but even if the phone has that much memory, it can be pretty slow loading even 1-2 MBs of text. So I went with the file chunking approach, which bottlenecks in file write operations, but is still acceptably fast to me and is overall more specs friendly.
hmm, installed your app, but still same problem. can see few more lines than in other text editors, but that's it, only few more, not whole file.. do i need to set anything??
file i was testing is 15KB size..
other comments on program: it's fast, smooth scrolling, with just the right amount of options,.. looks great
It works by loading only a small chunk of the file at a time. To see the subsequent chunks, either:
1) Do a short horizontal swipe to the left which will load the next chunk.
2) Use the GoTo in the menu.
3) Scroll to the bottom, then briefly tap the bottom of the screen. But (3) only works during View mode since it will interfere with the cursor placement.
TO load the previous chunk, just 1,2, or 3 in reverse
You can try experimenting with MB-scale files too. So long as your internal SD has the space to support it, there should be no problems.
BTW: the screwy cursor placement when the original blinking cursor location is a few pages away is due to some inherent bug of the EditText class. I dunno how to fix it actually, but luckily it's not too complicated to overcome on the user's side; just type something after tapping at the place you want your cursor to be shifted, and the page will scroll back to where you originally tapped your finger.
after some testing, i can say this is a great program !!
only 2 things if i may:
-sliding between chunks is hard to achieve(sliding doesn't work well)
-there are temp files left in .NeedToWrite folder on internal SD card.. which is not good if there are stored some passwords
Glad you liked it!
Yup, Sliding is tricky, because the in-built vertical scrolling tends to interfere when there is a slight vertical slant in your horizontal swipe. So I made the horizontal swipe very sensitive to compensate. To take advantage of this, try doing a tiny horizontal swipe rather than a long one. It is much easier to make a tiny swipe be horizontal enough than a long swipe.
As for the tmp files, I wasn't aware tmp files got orphaned! Hmmm.... do tmp files still get orphaned after you've installed v1.31? Pls do install it if you haven't yet.
Update: Just found out that the orphaned tmp files probably occurred if you open mnt/sdcard/[folder/example.txt] and sdcard/folder/[example.txt]. The difference is the mnt/ folder. Although they have different paths, they are still the same file, but NTW creates the backup folder hierachy based on the file paths, so.
Anyway, I've come up with v1.32 which will place the tmp files on the same folder as the original file. Although this makes your folder more cluttered, but the benefit is reduction in "Force Close" errors due to the length of the backup file paths in .NeedToWrite exceeding the file path limit. And no more duplicate backup files created due to opening the same file from mnt/sdcard/example.txt vs sdcard/example.txt. And also much easier for user to maintain personally.
However, one user aptly pointed out that the extra clutter is really not welcomed and would also mean extra copying time when copying the whole folder over to the PC. So v1.33 will again return to the old system of placing all backups in .NeedToWrite/tmp