for my old iPhone, i can have albums/folders called
Family
Friends
Pets
etc....
but in my DZ now, i only have
camera shots, all photos, and all downloads,
is there are way i can config my photos into different albums/folders?
right now i copied all my photos in folders and dumped into the micro SD, DCIM folder, and now it only shows me that i have +1000pics in "camera shots"
is there a free app or widget i can config my photos?
please advise~
All photo's you put in the DCIM folder show up as camera shots. If you want them to appear as albums you have to put the folders in the root of your SD card.
Sucks? not really i think, Android already makes an unbelievable clutter of your SD card.
For example if you put all your family photos in a folder called 'Family', there should be a Family folder displayed in the Gallery with those photos you put in.
It doesn't matter where those images are stored in the sd card - Gallery will scan the whole sd card.
Thx for the quick responds!
it works!!!
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I have a few applications (Juiceplotter for example) that store some graphic files on the SD card.
When I view the gallery, I don't want to see these graphs. (I also have an issue with MP3s from Lets Golf and the music player)
Can I hide these directories by adding a "." to the name of the folder without effecting the actual application?
Bielinsk said:
I have a few applications (Juiceplotter for example) that store some graphic files on the SD card.
When I view the gallery, I don't want to see these graphs. (I also have an issue with MP3s from Lets Golf and the music player)
Can I hide these directories by adding a "." to the name of the folder without effecting the actual application?
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yes, that should work.
pr0nz !
Yeah that's what some people are doing to hide folders ... folders with sensitive pictures. Stealth folder.
doesn't work.
While it does hide the folder form the gallery, it also hides it from the application. So the application pukes.
there is a way to prevent the media scanner from scanning folders, something like putting a blank/empty 'noscan' file in the folder.
Maybe someone else will remeber the exact filename, otherwise I'll repost when I have it.
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try an empty text file '.nomedia' in the folders you want not scanned
http://www.google.com/support/forum...n&fid=38ae9cef358fc8de0004839c47779068&hltp=2
that would be great if there is a way to do that.
If you do find it, please share.
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doesn't work.
While it does hide the folder form the gallery, it also hides it from the application. So the application pukes.
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interesting.. i'll do more testing then.
TeknoJnky said:
there is a way to prevent the media scanner from scanning folders, something like putting a blank/empty 'noscan' file in the folder.
Maybe someone else will remeber the exact filename, otherwise I'll repost when I have it.
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try an empty text file '.nomedia' in the folders you want not scanned
http://www.google.com/support/forum...n&fid=38ae9cef358fc8de0004839c47779068&hltp=2
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this... this is very useful.
There's an app called HideNSeek for 99 cents. It's supposed to be used by playas that don't want various girls to see pics of other various girls in the gallery (it's even disguised as a flashlight app), but I think most people use it to block regular folders/pics (like album art) from showing up in the gallery.
shift_ said:
interesting.. i'll do more testing then.
this... this is very useful.
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Don't do that ! Or be aware of the consequences.
If you put a .nomedia empty file in your folder in order to prevent the Gallery from loading pictures, it will also prevent any media players (ex : music player, winamp, meridian, etc...) from scanning these folders to find music !
So, I still don't know how to prevent Gallery from showing pictures in music folders (because I prefer having a "polluted" Gallery than a useless music player!).
I'm quite sure the File Manager app that comes with CM6.1 includes the ability to "exclude from Media Scan" on any folder. Haven't tried it myself. I like my nudies exposed at all times.
+1 for .nomedia!
Theres also a vault app that hides your pics and videos
I hate to ressurect an old thread but I can't find an answer anywhere. How do I exclude album art from the gallery in AOSP ROMs without also disabling music files or the album art in a music app? I have several GBs of music and hundreds of album art files that pollute my gallery.
Thanks in advance.
I have a similar issue and I am going mad with my 1000s of media art showing on my gallery. There should be a way to manually assign afolder for indexing.
Why don't you use . (Dot) if you want to hide anything (etc .Pictures)? Adding dot in front of the name will make folder as hidden and will be visable only via some app (root explorer, bluetooth file transfer)
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why it becomes so complicated??
you dont need to rename any folder.
just place .nomedia file in folder which contain files you don't want people to see. (i.e pr0n)
don't place it on your camera (DCIM) or music folder, thus gallery app still can access it.
chmod will do it.
boku_baka said:
why it becomes so complicated??
you dont need to rename any folder.
just place .nomedia file in folder which contain files you don't want people to see. (i.e pr0n)
don't place it on your camera (DCIM) or music folder, thus gallery app still can access it.
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Its complicated because in different case its not that simple, for example I have many deep rooted folder structure which have links to 1 master html page (actually its an offline html site where the pix are sliced) now i keep on changing over writing this folder structure so as per suggestion I will need to create .nomedia file & copy in all the sub folders>sub folders right upto the last directory. Gallery in this case index 1000s sliced images & polluting the whole gallery.
Even if I do this once I will have to do it again as it will get modified when I overwrite.
Best would be (if possible) I create a master folder & tell gallery not to index any media for all the folders & sub folder from this master folder. So I copy the folder=file in thsi master folder if i don't need them to be indexed in gallery.
But what do I do for the music album art? the media player needs to display the art so if i put .nomedia file will the music player be able to display it & the gallery wont index it?
I am yet to try this solution.
seriously dudes between chmod and chown you should be able to do anything you want. If the app tanks or ? you might have to write a small script. Worst case scenario you could probably put files on a different partition and crate a symbolic link to it.
I recently flashed my EVO from CM6 over to the alpha Gingerbread Rom. No issues there, love the new ROM but one thing I noticed was that anytime I scroll over to my Gallery, it says I do not have any pics or vids to view. Same issue when i go to my music app, no music. But I can open up Linda Manager or File Manager and all my pics, vids, and music is there. Any help would be greatly appreciated because I am lost!
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I recently flashed my EVO from CM6 over to the alpha Gingerbread Rom. No issues there, love the new ROM but one thing I noticed was that anytime I scroll over to my Gallery, it says I do not have any pics or vids to view. Same issue when i go to my music app, no music. But I can open up Linda Manager or File Manager and all my pics, vids, and music is there. Any help would be greatly appreciated because I am lost!
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What folder are they are in on your SD card? And when you take new pictures do they show up in the gallery or not their either? It may be that the Gallery is somehow not detecting pictures, or the old pictures are just not in a place where it can.
HELP!!
I am having this same problem with my phone. I am rooted with unrevoked 3 and now when I take a pic it will show up in my gallery until i reboot my phone then they dont. I can plug my phone up to my computer and they are in the DCMI folder on my sd card. When I unplug my phone from the computer and go back in to my phone they are not there. What would be causing this? I have not put any roms on my phone or changed any kernels.
It's probably a really odd SD card issue. Try going into settings & unmounting then mounting the sd card again. If that doesn't work it could be an issue with the media scanner. Download an app that lets you manually run the media scanner. I know Widgetsoid 2.x has a media scanner toggle. If you can't find another way, download the app & make a 1x1 toggle widget with the media scanner, apply, and tap it.
If that doesn't work, I'm stumped.
I tried that but I couldnt get the widget to actually do anything. Thank you though
I believe the sdcard is the cause, because I've had a similar issue myself and fixed it. I would suggest either re-flashing the rom, or backing up your sdcard and then formatting it, and copy it back over. Also, if you have, in particular, a folder with a lot of pictures in it, I had one with like 300+ because it was an animation, that too slowed it down.
Did you check the folders to make sure there aren't .nomedia files in them? I'm not quite sure how they would get there unless an app put them there.
Have you removed any system files? If so, you could've removed something that keeps the media scanner from running, or possibly removed the media scanner altogether.
Last idea - have you tried opening the files from the sd card to their respective apps? Open the images with the gallery & maybe they'll show up?
Last, last idea - if you're using stock apps, try downloading a third party gallery and/or music player. I use QuickPic, it's fast & caches images so if you can get them to show up in app, they should remain after a reboot.
I'm tapped out of ideas :/
Hello.
After restarting phone i can not see pictures and videos in the Gallery. it's empty. I have seen there is no .nomedia file. Then i have captured some pictures and they are appear in the Gallery but old pictures not. i can see they from file manager. how can i return my old gallery??
p.s. i have no memory card
p.s.2 my phone is Motorola Droid Razr M - android 4.4.2
Has anyone thought of making an app which will act as viewer (like the PC version) that will allow the viewing of the contents of a folder on the memory card for example on the phone?
With the great packs of faces that are popping up I've got them on my memory card in the phone, but both facer and watchmaker won't import a folder. I don't own a pc only a mc, so can't gallery view my collection?
Thanks in advance
Hi,
I have noticed that, default camera apps load all the pics from your storage's "DCIM" folder and its subfolders.
Do we have any solution on this?
its supposed to do that. DCIM folder is specifically for the pictures taken by your camera. just put the pictures in a different folder than DCIM. They wont show up in your camera app and in default galley's collection.
bonham1988 said:
its supposed to do that. DCIM folder is specifically for the pictures taken by your camera. just put the pictures in a different folder than DCIM. They wont show up in your camera app and in default galley's collection.
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Agree, but other folder under DCIM are not created by me, these are app generated. Like FB App, creates it folder under DCIM as "FaceBook" to save the pics from app. What do you suggest?
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Agree, but other folder under DCIM are not created by me, these are app generated. Like FB App, creates it folder under DCIM as "FaceBook" to save the pics from app. What do you suggest?
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I tried the same thing and yes any file in DCIM or in its sub folder is showing on camera app. I think this has to do something with the facebook app. None of the other apps are saving pictures in the DCIM folder in my phone.
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Long story:
First timer with custom rom OSs.
I can't format my SD card as internal storage. It's 32 GB and formats this way as 64 GB. I'm not even sure it was formatted this way in original Galaxy S5 OS.
Tools, info etc.:
Galaxy S5
Lineage OS 16 (latest), Gapps full (latest), SuperSU (latest - doesn't work though).
Google Photos, Dropbox, Onedrive, Camera FV-5 & Cinema FV-5.
Phone is not rooted.
I seem to remember when installing LineageOS first time a few days ago, that everything worked properly, besides my SD card being the wrong size, when formatting it as external storage.
Goal:
To be able to shoot AND screenshots (latter if possible) and saved instantly on SD card.
To be able to view all photos with best photo viewer (Google Photos for now).
To be able to have *any* "sync aut. to cloud" app see and perform automatic sync of photos. E.g., when taking photos, they instantly are saved to cloud via Dropbox or preferable OneDrive.
To be able to use *any* camera app for the above. Preferable Camera FV-5 & Cinema FV-5.
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So here we go!
First goal was to get the default camera app to work, by selecting external SD card as storage. Choosing this in the app, option is saved, but photos still end up on internal card. Screenshots the same.
Solution: Use Camera FV-5, as it allows any path.
Problem: No photo viewer app takes that folder into account, which means that I *can't* swipe through recent photos easily. Photos aren't backed up by cloud apps.
Second goal to get the default path moved in any way and recognized properly. Boy, did I spend a lot of time on this!
Solution: Finally this thread gave me a solution.
Problem: Same as the above - no viewer or cloud app gives a s**t about this new location.
I tried other solutions like auto move files apps, but doesn't work because folders are still not recognized by viewer apps.
Another issue is, that my SD card seems to "come and go", meaning that sometimes when I connect my phone to Windows 10 and enable USB for file transfer, the SD card doesn't show up in Explorer. However, the card is still present in "Files" app on the phone.
Some apps I've tried, sometimes see the SD card, sometimes they don't. FolderSync and other apps needs to get permissions to SD card every time I open these apps. They still work though and do their jobs.
Camera FV-5 seems to use the full path and not a linked folder, which is probably why this camera app always works.
There are no issues with my SD card, as I've tried to reinstall default OS and everything is working as usual there.
My S5 is incredible laggy with default OS, but runs exceptionally great with LineageOS, but it's a complete deal breaker, if I can't get something as simple as the above to work!
I hope this wasn't to long a thread