Is there a way to hide folders or photos in the stock gallery?
Album art and other things show that I would rather hide.
Deebo took your bike too?
I don't think so. Only way I can think of is move them to SD card and unmount SD whenever you have the need to hide them.
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Check out Gallery Lock from the market. .99 cents and the app hides any pictures from the gallery you want hidden, also has stealth launcher, so the app that says gallery lock is also hidden. To open it, you dial a 4 digit code in the dialer, and it opens. I reply like the app!
-Matt
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mylexon20s said:
Check out Gallery Lock from the market. .99 cents and the app hides any pictures from the gallery you want hidden, also has stealth launcher, so the app that says gallery lock is also hidden. To open it, you dial a 4 digit code in the dialer, and it opens. I reply like the app!
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Can apps still use them if they're locked?
Deebo took your bike too?
U can get gallery excluder apk from xda, just do search. That would work perfect, it's what I use
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You can also add a blank file named ".nomedia" to the folder with the files you want to exclude from the gallery. It's recursive and all sub folders from that point will be excluded.
I had to do this with podcasts that were showing up in my gallery.
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KLR Rico said:
You can also add a blank file named ".nomedia" to the folder with the files you want to exclude from the gallery. It's recursive and all sub folders from that point will be excluded.
I had to do this with podcasts that were showing up in my gallery.
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Right Android ignores all files and folders with labels beginning with a period.
.backup
.porn
.bachelor_party
will not show up in gallery.
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mettleh3d said:
Right Android ignores all files and folders with labels beginning with a period.
.backup
.porn
.bachelor_party
will not show up in gallery.
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You forgot .evidence
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KLR Rico said:
You can also add a blank file named ".nomedia" to the folder with the files you want to exclude from the gallery. It's recursive and all sub folders from that point will be excluded.
I had to do this with podcasts that were showing up in my gallery.
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yup, this is the best solution .nomedia works across all android devices, it will make the graphic apps ignore the folders with the empty .nomedia file
Photo vault does the trick
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Thanks for everyone's input and ways of doing this. I wasn't able to hide the album art, but the rest is now hidden.
Thanks again. xoxoxo
Deebo took your bike too?
hide it pro is legit you can hide pics videos apps conversations etc and it it disguised as a program called audio manager
The .nomedia file has to be the first file in a folder in order to ignore media there. If files are already indexed, just rename such folders forth and back (opening the Gallery in the middle) and there you go.
You can use the Nomedia application for creating easily the .nomedia
Quickpic is a good app, hides full folders with password and it won't show unless you put the password. You can use your regular gallery app and have quick pic just hide the folders desired and they won't show on your regular gallery app
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jorgerangel159 said:
Quickpic is a good app, hides full folders with password and it won't show unless you put the password. You can use your regular gallery app and have quick pic just hide the folders desired and they won't show on your regular gallery app
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I think he just wants to hide them, not password protect them.
Put a . In the folder name
I.e.
.pix = hiden
Pic = shown
You can then see them in a filemanager app
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xile6 said:
Put a . In the folder name
I.e.
.pix = hiden
Pic = shown
You can then see them in a filemanager app
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This doesn't work when the folder name has to be preserved, you can't just add a dot to the name. Even if this did work, there are some applications that won't read files or folders marked as hidden, even if that is the predefined folder for their data.
So, there are two quite different solutions: one is adding a .nomedia to the folder and other renaming the folder or file itself with a dot in the front. Just choose what you need most.
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I downloaded a pic from my Gmail account and now it has it's own photo album, for some reason I can't delete the picture or the damn album??
I also have what looks like a Picasa album that I can't delete but I don't even have a Picasa account.
Any suggestions. The only pics I can delete are camera photos.
NM figured it out. Annoying.
What did you end up doing?
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I'd like to know as well. I have a lot of folders that are empty but i can't get rid o, on both my Transformer and my Nexus
Yeah, I posted a photo to my Google + account and now I have a "posts" album in my gallery. I deleted the photo but the album still exists and it won't let me delete it.
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Try using astro file manager.
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I suggest you delete it from the sd card.
How do I keep google+ photo sync enabled so that all the pics i take can be synced to google+ for backup, but NOT to have the exact same photos from online showing up in my Gallery App? It's really annoying. I can't find a way to disable the online album from showing up in my Gallery App.
Do I need a new Gallery App replacement?
try adding a .nomedia tag to the folders you don't want to see?
harveydent said:
try adding a .nomedia tag to the folders you don't want to see?
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This^
or a new gallery app. I use QuickPic.
Andie00 said:
This^
or a new gallery app. I use QuickPic.
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harveydent said:
try adding a .nomedia tag to the folders you don't want to see?
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I believe the .nomedia tag doesn't work with ICS
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Those galleries are online, how do I add the ".nomedia" tag?
I think I'm just gonna ditch the app and get a 3rd party gallery app.
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I believe the .nomedia tag doesn't work with ICS
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It's not a "tag" like metadata if that's what you meant?. It's a file with .nomedia filename and it works. That's how quickpic hides folders.
lifanus said:
Those galleries are online, how do I add the ".nomedia" tag?
I think I'm just gonna ditch the app and get a 3rd party gallery app.
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Doh! Well you are right. Just use a 3rd party app
Yes I know it isn't a tag, thanks for pointing that out. But my answer remains the same. The .nomedia file doesn't work on ICS.
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For me it doesn't work. Supposedly it works for some.
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Is there a way to hide a group of pictures and keep them from showing up in the gallery without downloading an app to hide such items?
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Create a folder titled .nomedia on your sd card.
Place applicable pictures in this newly created folder and they will not be scanned by gallery.
Thanks Rod3 I've wondered this myself.
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i just use quickpic to hide from stock gallery, when i wanna see my hidden pics i use quickpic for my gallery viewer.
Quickpic is good for hiding picture folders. it's also password protection.
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Is there a way? I have a bunch of various icon folders, clocks, and weather skins that show up in my gallery. Very annoying.
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You can try to add a file to your folders called .nomedia
make sure you put the period in front of it.
I have that in some of my folders and they dont show up in my galler app.
How do I just create a file? You mean like an empty folder and just name it .nomedia?
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How do I just create a file? You mean like an empty folder and just name it .nomedia?
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an empty text file named. . nomedia
Not a folder, you put this on every folder containing pictures you don't want gallery to show.
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i had hundreds of icons folders deleted all that mess .I'm thinking there from theme i flashed idk.
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gallery excluder
app called gallery excluder
in root explorer you can press menu and select new file. Just name it .no media like it was said previously. Or you can scrap the junk gallery and dl quick pic. Its a much nicer faster cleaner gallery app. And you can hide entire folders by long pressing and select exclude folder
Does anyone know how to hide photo albums in the gallery?
I have quite a few junk files associated with pdfs and others that just fill up my gallery with junk I don't want to see.
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I went into my extSdCard and built a folder called .nomedia
Then ran everything to it that I didn't want showing up in the gallery. You have to actually go to that folder to open it.
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I will give it a try. In 4.2 it was easy. For some reason they had to take something that worked and break it.