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.
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.
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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I'm having a problem with regards to the photo gallery displaying way too many photos and only want to display photos I have stored on the phone and the Instant Upload folder that google plus generates. What do I have to do to make this happen?
I've gone into picasa web galleries and deleted a ton of old ones which aren't relevant anymore, but no matter what I try my gallery app is a mess of photos from posts on google plus with no recognizable folder structure or organization at all.
Should I just give up and use gallery only for local photos and then the google plus app for viewing the instant upload folder?
Is there a third party app that will do what I want?
I really can't help you with the stock gallery app as it blows IMO.
QuickPic from the market will let you display or hide anything you wish.
I love quickpic but it's local files only isn't it?
Clear media storage data
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Settings/accounts & sync / click on you Gmail account(s) and uncheck the photos so it doesn't sync with your device.
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gunnyman said:
I love quickpic but it's local files only isn't it?
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Look at you! What happened to "htc one x is the best phone"? yes quickpic is local files only.
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One X is a great device. So is this one.
I was wondering if there had been a fix to have the Picasa folder from Google+ "Photos from Posts" stop being split into various folders according to date on our Galaxy S3. Is there any way to fix this but maintain the rest of the Picasa folders?
Perhaps a way to "Hide" said folders while being able to maintain the rest visible?
If neither, maybe an alternative gallery replacement app that is able to see both the pics on the phone as well as sync to Picasa?
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Try going online and doing it. I. I'm not sure you are able to within the gallery. What if you add them to one folder using a file manager app?
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I've tried to find a way to hide that entire folder within Picasa to no avail. If anyone has found a way I'd love to hear it.
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Did anyone find a fix, this is so annoying. I sure wish it would just work like it did on my Nexus.
No one find a fix for that? Or a replacement app?