I read... alot! And every time I download an EPub book it puts the cover art into my gallary as a new folder. I have over 200 in there now! Is there a way to put them into a separate folder and keep the main gallary folder for just my photos - still have them work as far as displaying the art and download to the new folder?? Or perhaps have my photos go to a specific folder?
rogerperk said:
I read... alot! And every time I download an EPub book it puts the cover art into my gallary as a new folder. I have over 200 in there now! Is there a way to put them into a separate folder and keep the main gallary folder for just my photos - still have them work as far as displaying the art and download to the new folder?? Or perhaps have my photos go to a specific folder?
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Create a .nomedia file in your ebook folder and it will skip that folder for scans.
I had to do that for quite a few locations to skip them.
intelliriffer said:
Create a .nomedia file in your ebook folder and it will skip that folder for scans.
I had to do that for quite a few locations to skip them.
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I appreciate it but how would I go about doing that? Not a complete newb, just a partial one.
I use an app called es file explorer for all sort of file/folder related tasks.
I browse to the folder on my internal or external card and hit new to create file in that folder and name that file .nomedia
intelliriffer said:
I use an app called es file explorer for all sort of file/folder related tasks.
I browse to the folder on my internal or external card and hit new to create file in that folder and name that file .nomedia
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Tried that but it doesn't seem to be working. I"m searching the device for other places to do this with and see if that works.
That worked! Thanks alot!
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Hey, is there any way of preventing pics/videos in a certain folder showing up in the gallery?
LuftWalk said:
Hey, is there any way of preventing pics/videos in a certain folder showing up in the gallery?
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Just put a .nomedia file in the folder where you have the pics and videos you want to hide.
You might already have this file in your sdcard (some ebook reader or other app that has pics not show in the gallery).
If not, just create an empty text file and rename it.
lohpsch said:
Just put a .nomedia file in the folder where you have the pics and videos you want to hide.
You might already have this file in your sdcard (some ebook reader or other app that has pics not show in the gallery).
If not, just create an empty text file and rename it.
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Doesnt work for me... Stil shows the folder.
It definitely works. Either your media files didn't update yet or you don't have a correct nomedia file...
elburna said:
It definitely works. Either your media files didn't update yet or you don't have a correct nomedia file...
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Can confirm. This does work. Try restarting phone.
Tried it with a .nomedia file already but it didn't work. Gonna see if it needs to update though.
Rename the folder to .folder, the whole folder becomes in invisible.
Your other option is to install estrongs security thingy, which allows you lock down apps totally
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I found the best way is to create a zip file and store them in that as it cannot see through a zip file. Has always worked for me, hope that helps
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Can someone just rename this thread to 'how hide porn and pics of the bird your cheating with'
By the way. The ext partition is a good place to put 'sensitive' material. Gallery wont look there and it wont show up when plugged into a windows PC.
Ok so I thought I had read that creating a "nomedia" folder on the sd card would keep the gallery from showing its contents? I tried that but everything still shows up, got any hints?
If you have a file explorer...I use Astro...you have to name the folder (and I do the files also) specifically so that Android will ignore them.
... MyPics ----> .MyPics
The dot is what hides it from Android and from people that want to 'see ur phone'. Unfortunately I told this trick to my GF already...:^(
LOL.
Use QuickPic instead of gallery.
Its faster, and you can specify folders, even password protect your "private" ones.
joehunni said:
Ok so I thought I had read that creating a "nomedia" folder on the sd card would keep the gallery from showing its contents? I tried that but everything still shows up, got any hints?
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AFAIK it is a 0 byte file named .nomedia not a folder.
fenixjn said:
AFAIK it is a 0 byte file named .nomedia not a folder.
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Yeah just make a text file and rename it .nomedia put it in the folder and it'll be excluded from the media scan.
Lol thanks guys.
Hi guys,
I'm really struggling with saving album art in poweramp so it displays every time without having to download it. And it not showing up in Gallery.
Is there a way to download the album art once and save it?
I have tried downloading album images from google put each one in the corresponding folder on my SD card and renamed each one to: albumart.pamp
it works fine but despite it being a .pamp file my gallery still displays bloody thumbnails of each one, very frustrating!!
Does anybody know a way of saving album art and it NOT showing up in the Gallery?
Thank you!
Download Quickpic from the Market. Simple long press the Album Folder and choose Hide it. Quickpic create a file named ".nomedia" in the right folder.
Or you can do it with a Filebrowser by your own (like Solid Explorer or ES File Manager). Go in the folder and create a new file, name it ".nomedia" (without the quotes). Done.
porto777 said:
Download Quickpic from the Market. Simple long press the Album Folder and choose Hide it. Quickpic create a file named ".nomedia" in the right folder.
Or you can do it with a Filebrowser by your own (like Solid Explorer or ES File Manager). Go in the folder and create a new file, name it ".nomedia" (without the quotes). Done.
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Thank you for your reply.
I am wanting to find a way of these not showing up in the stock ICS Gallery. Will this method work for stock Gallery?
I have tried Quickpic before and I really didn't like it.
Thank you for your time
I think so, but i can´t remember. I use Quickpic and also Poweramp.
Just try it... create the new file (.nomedia) and put it in your Music Folder and see what happend. If it don´t work... erase the .nomedia file
I made a backup of my files before updating to JB.. After the update i copied my files back to the phone.. But the stock album app doesn't show me all the images i have.. for example, in a folder named "Instagram" i' ve put all my instagram photos.. But it shows me only the new ones i take.. Why this; Αny solution;
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I made a backup of my files before updating to JB.. After the update i copied my files back to the phone.. But the stock album app doesn't show me all the images i have.. for example, in a folder named "Instagram" i' ve put all my instagram photos.. But it shows me only the new ones i take.. Why this; Αny solution;
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Run a media scan
Marsou77 said:
Run a media scan
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how; i installed 2 apps from play store for this, but didn't work..
Try Settings->Apps->All->Album-> Delete data and cache.
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Try Settings->Apps->All->Album-> Delete data and cache.
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i did this several times.. didn't work either..
Where did you copy this instagramm folder? Try renaming it or moving it to another path on the memory. Also check out if there is a .nomedia file somewhere in the folder or in the folders above (depending on what file browser you use, you maybe have to turn on "Show hidden files"). If you find a .nomedia file, just delete it so that the media scanner is allowed to search for pictures in this folder and all the subfolders..
Setting > App > All > Media Storage
Clear data and cache.
Media rescan.
Settle.
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Where did you copy this instagramm folder? Try renaming it or moving it to another path on the memory. Also check out if there is a .nomedia file somewhere in the folder or in the folders above (depending on what file browser you use, you maybe have to turn on "Show hidden files"). If you find a .nomedia file, just delete it so that the media scanner is allowed to search for pictures in this folder and all the subfolders..
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Τhank you so much!! that was the answer!! I found a.nomedia file in the folder of pictures, so i suppose that was the reason why it didn'd show me the files edited after the update.. Thanks again..
You're welcome
solution to this annoying problem that occurs in the gallery? I installed messanger Facebook or other applications I appear emoticons.
You need to have have a file on the map you want to exclude from the HTC gallery named ".nomedia" then this folder will be excluded from scans from HTC gallery. If you look on external sd and then on the folder Android you will see such a file, copy it and paste it on the root of the folders you want to exclude.
the folder is not there, you could explain? the destination folder and paste it where I find it?
Open the Gallery app tap the settings icon in the top right corner (the 3 dots) and choose "Show/hide albums".
Now you can choose which albums is visible in the Gallery app.
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the folder is not there, you could explain? the destination folder and paste it where I find it?
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sorry I meant sd card>android>data then you will see a file named ".nomedia" copy it and put it on the folders/maps you want to exclude from scanning.
That file is also present in other folders just search a bit with (htc) file explorer.
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sorry I meant sd card>android>data then you will see a file named ".nomedia" copy it and put it on the folders/maps you want to exclude from scanning.
That file is also present in other folders just search a bit with (htc) file explorer.
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I did not understand what folder copy / maps you want to exclude from scanning?
HTC gallery app scans your maps/folders looking for images. In the facebook messenger folder ( internal memory or external) there are images that's why you see them on the HTC gallery. If you use the ".nomedia" file and put it on the root of the facebook messenger folder then HTC gallery will not scan this folder for images and therefore you will not see them .on the gallery.