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How to stop gallery from showing EVERY picture it finds.

Tiresome sifting through pages upon pages of pictures from apps and such to find my personal media. Thanks
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Should be able to move the pics to a new folder titled ".nomedia"
Shouldn't scan that folder.

actually, I think all you need to do is create a file called .nomedia and place it into the folders you don't want the media scanner to scan.
Works great to keep the gallery from adding all of the images that Touchdown (my corporate email program) caches on the phone.

Is there a method to include folders rather than exclude -because I have way too many files from wherever that I would have to exclude with that method. Thanks
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Bump. What does "bump" mean? Does it mean 'no one is looking at my thread, hey you, will you look at my thread? Either way, hey you... kidding, but please, does anyone know of a way to choose folders for the gallery rather than choose to exclude which as I mentioned would be way to cumbersome? Thanks
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Put your pics you want private in a desperate folder. Rename the folder to anything with a period in the beginning and voila!
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Hiding private media isn't the issue.
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If you don't mind a 3rd party solution, get QuickPic. I seriously haven't used my stock gallery in over a year. It has the option to exclude certain folders ( and thus scan the rest of the SD card ), or include folders instead ( only scans the folders you choose ).
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DIMENSIONAL said:
If you don't mind a 3rd party solution, get QuickPic. I seriously haven't used my stock gallery in over a year. It has the option to exclude certain folders ( and thus scan the rest of the SD card ), or include folders instead ( only scans the folders you choose ).
Russian smashed across the interwebz from my Galaxy SII.
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Thanks. I'll go check that out
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Works great. Thanks
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You could also make a text file and rename it to .nomedia no name with that file extension and it will not show up, which is what quickpic does for you.
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yabbb said:
You could also make a text file and rename it to .nomedia no name with that file extension and it will not show up, which is what quickpic does for you.
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what exactly are you saying will not "show up"?
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RushAOZ said:
Put your pics you want private in a desperate folder. Rename the folder to anything with a period in the beginning and voila!
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thanks. that's the solution.
edit: actually no, gallery still finds private media and now the folder just renamed with a dot in front has now disappeared.
edit: actually, there is a setting in astro to display such files, BUT then now the gallery app will display contents of private but visible folder so...
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GMAIL Attachment issue... dropbox n gallery? huh?

I think I found a thing I do not like about the Note 2 finally.
Situation:
Sending email to client and need to attach a pdf from my google drive (or say my files for isntance)... I hit attach file while in google mail...Dropbox and Gallery only show up as options.. WTH! I know a work around to go to the file, then share, but that doesn't work when writing an email and then wanting to attach a file.
Do any of you know a fix for this? I am rooted, new kernel and all of that jazz but on stock rom.
Haaaaalllppp!

I just tried the native email application as well and still do not have google drive as an option...

Try downloading a file manager app such as astro file manager. Then try attaching from within the Gmail app again. Your file manager should show up and let you find a file from there. You need a program that handles the different types of files you are wanting to attach, if that makes sense.
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smark72 said:
Try downloading a file manager app such as astro file manager. Then try attaching from within the Gmail app again. Your file manager should show up and let you find a file from there. You need a program that handles the different types of files you are wanting to attach, if that makes sense.
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Smark thanks for the suggestion, I do currently have a file manager but it cannot load up Drive and only my phones memory or sd card. I am wondering what options I have to possible add it in.

I am not really sure what you are asking. When you hit attach file, drop box shows up? When you select it, what happens? Do you have drop box set up correctly, to sync the stuff from your phone so it shows in dropbox? When I hit "upload here" in dropbox and choose "other", my internal and external phone memory show and I can choose to upload anything from that point. Once it's uploaded, you should be able to choose whatever you uploaded as an attachment.
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He is saying that you can't attach from Google drive.
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I am not really sure what you are asking. When you hit attach file, drop box shows up? When you select it, what happens? Do you have drop box set up correctly, to sync the stuff from your phone so it shows in dropbox? When I hit "upload here" in dropbox and choose "other", my internal and external phone memory show and I can choose to upload anything from that point. Once it's uploaded, you should be able to choose whatever you uploaded as an attachment.
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Try astro file manager. I can access Google drive, dropbox etc after choosing astro, when I hit attach file from within Gmail.
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FYI google drive does not mean the drive on your google device. google drive (drive.google.com) is a google service similar to drop box.
I also notice the new gmail won't let you attach APK's (at least it won't let me they never arrive at the other end)
AND gallery is missing the "hot link" to your preferred upload method now you have to hit share and scroll to your desired upload method (I like the S3 better for this as I use that A LOT)

Accidental memory wipe please help!

I was using Astro file manager to clear some space on my phone, and noticed that I had a folder called emulated on there that had all the same files, figuring that was what was taking up so much space I deleted it. Now all my files are gone from sddisk0 too! Is there any way to reverse a mass delete like this??
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Maybe try connecting to a PC (or Mac) and running an undelete prog. or check to see if there is an undelete app out their.
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Just tried two apps from the marketplace once couldn't scan it the other just FC instantly :-/ I need to get my files back
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The apps you are trying to use wont work as the phones internal sd is MTP and cannot be mounted as a disk. THIS HERE is your only option. Its a pain in the ass but youll get all your stuff back provided you havent been using the phone heavily overwriting the stuff u want to recover. Used this on two GS3's, a Galaxy Nexus and my Note II. Flawless if you follow the instructions

S-Beam

Is it possible to share large files over SBeam? Files that are not pictures or music.
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I don't see why not, since all it is doing is using NFC to enable a Wi-Fi direct connection between the two devices. I've shared 1GB movies so why not regular content?
Edit: All you have to do is hold the sending phone and the receiving phone back to back. When "Touch to beam" is displayed, press anywhere on the screen to start, and follow the instructions from there.
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I can't figure out how to send a zip file. About 1.2 gb. Not sure if it's my file browser or what. Every time I select the file and put the phones back to back I end up sending them to the play store to download the file browser. (X plore)
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Music - Please Help before I beat myself to death with industrial grade aluminum

So, apparently none of the stock music players give any option to add local files/folders?
WHAT THE **** is the reason for this? Have to purchase every track from HTC or Google play to listen on my device?
Added songs to device in standard mp3 format. Can not figure out anyway to play them without downloading some ****ty third party file manager, navigating through the cluster **** android folder tree and selecting them each time I want to play.
Please help before I dig out my UT starcom PPC because it's more user friendly than the 'best phone you can buy'
I hope I'm a total noob idiot and there is something preposterously easy I missed. Please help.
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I put it in the /sdcard/music folder and it's detected automatically... Though I don't think it even needs to be in that folder for Android to detect it. Not sure where you're going wrong.
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What format files are you putting on the phone?
My Sprint version finds all my local music (in MP3 format) on the SD card fine with both Google Music and HTC Music Apps.

I just created a 'music' directory on my sd card and filled it up. I have a mix of mp3 and flac in there. Music player found it and played.... you don't have to buy from Google.
For that sh** you want Apple.

bigjodaflo said:
So, apparently none of the stock music players give any option to add local files/folders?
WHAT THE **** is the reason for this? Have to purchase every track from HTC or Google play to listen on my device?
Added songs to device in standard mp3 format. Can not figure out anyway to play them without downloading some ****ty third party file manager, navigating through the cluster **** android folder tree and selecting them each time I want to play.
Please help before I dig out my UT starcom PPC because it's more user friendly than the 'best phone you can buy'
I hope I'm a total noob idiot and there is something preposterously easy I missed. Please help.
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How did you add them? If you are using a wireless transfer like ftp or one of the apps out there, it may not work. Let me know how you added and i'll tell you how to fix.

Downloaded rar from Google drive. Extracted files into
/downloads
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Fixed. Thanks. There is something wrong with my folder tree. Will only recognize files if they are in /music. Problem is that third party 'file manager' can't read the storage on my phone properly, created/displaying 3 to 4 copies of diff folders, sd cards (im only using internal storage), etc. Had to try 4 diff /music folders to find the right one.
Is there a native file Explorer that I missed? I've noticed that some programs are in the phone without having icons in launcher. 'Voice recorder' is one. I can open it with google now voice, but it shows up nowhere in my launchers.
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bigjodaflo said:
Downloaded rar from Google drive. Extracted files into
/downloads
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Simply use a file manager and move everything you downloaded to another directory and move it back. When you extracted the files, the system never implemented them like if you were to transfer using windows or aft on a mac or htc sync. The system doesn't actually know they are there. If this does not work, dowload that rar on your computer and manually move music to the device, it will pick them up automatically

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Downloaded rar from Google drive. Extracted files into
/downloads
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What format are the music files in?
Are you sure you actually extracted them?
I wouldn't keep music in "Downloads" that seems like an awkward place to keep it and might be treated specially.
I consider downloads a "Temp" folder that I can wipe any time because it fills up with junk over time.
Also are you rooted? There are issues of 3rd party apps accessing the external SD Card.
You may have two /downloads one on external SD card and one on internal SD card.
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Simply use a file manager and move everything you downloaded to another directory and move it back. When you extracted the files, the system never implemented them like if you were to transfer using windows or aft on a mac or htc sync. The system doesn't actually know they are there. If this does not work, dowload that rar on your computer and manually move music to the device, it will pick them up automatically
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That's nonsense. That sounds like you never really extracted them. And when you "copy" them you are actually extracting them.
Once extracted they should be EXACTLY like you copied them there. If you are doing it right.
Some compression formats and browsers make it look like they are extracted, but they are not. You are just browsing within the RAR or ZIP file.
You need to explicitly "Extract" to somewhere else.
The best test is. Delete the RAR file. If you still see the files then they are extracted and no need to copy them back and forth.
But again. I think downloads is a bad place to keep your music.

Still ridiculous to not allow me to manage my own library.
Let Apple dumb it down for everyone. We aren't buying their products for a reason, and this is it.
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They were definitely extracted and moved to several locations. Each time (before I found the 'correct /music) I could use a file manager to force open them in a media player, but they were never added to the library until copied into the magic music folder.
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Thanks again for all the help. XDAers = $$
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You can get poweramp if you want to manually manage directories. There is no magic music folder btw, stock app picks up any folder but i'm glad you got it working.

If you do get PowerAmp, make sure you untick everything except your Music folder (under Settings>Folders & Library), or you'll have ringtones and notifications show up, too.