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?
sandy7874 said:
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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I have two problems and i wanna ask if there is anyone alse sharing this problems
1. Gallery it froze every time, sometimes when i open it, sometimes when i open folder there... after update I literally didnt see single photo there
2. Music, songs have different album pic...
Porcupine tree is Offspring now... Slipknot is Sex pistols etc. restart didnt help..
what's wrong??
I don't know the problem but there have been a few issues with it going slower etc with some people.
I had same problem gallery freezing. I think some files are reason because of gallery app try to create thumbnails, and i put in folders .nomedia files which i suspected. and now its ok this fix my gallery "force close" problem.
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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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.
Bielinsk said:
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 have some photos in my SD card which showed up properly in the gallery before. However, all those photos don't show up after I flashed a new Rom. Only photos taken after flashing are showed in the gallery. I tried to reboot, wipe cache, rescan media but nothing success.
Any one can help?
tintin814 said:
I have some photos in my SD card which showed up properly in the gallery before. However, all those photos don't show up after I flashed a new Rom. Only photos taken after flashing are showed in the gallery. I tried to reboot, wipe cache, rescan media but nothing success.
Any one can help?
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Yes, because different Roms use different folders for gallery. Just take a picture and browse your card and see where it puts it (somewhere in DCIM folder). After locating the folder just move the photos from old folder to the new one where your picture was taken and you should now see all your photos.(Some roms put pictures in folder named "100Andro", other in "pictures", "images", "camera".....
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Yes, because different Roms use different folders for gallery. Just take a picture and browse your card and see where it puts it (somewhere in DCIM folder). After locating the folder just move the photos from old folder to the new one where your picture was taken and you should now see all your photos.(Some roms put pictures in folder named "100Andro", other in "pictures", "images", "camera".....
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Yes, I toke a testing picture, located the new folder "Camera" and move all old photos to there. But still just the testing picture is shown up. All moved old pictures are still missing in the gallery. Already reboot to renew the media library.
Can you try using a 3rd party pic viewer I use quickpic, which seems to work well.
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tintin814 said:
I have some photos in my SD card which showed up properly in the gallery before. However, all those photos don't show up after I flashed a new Rom. Only photos taken after flashing are showed in the gallery. I tried to reboot, wipe cache, rescan media but nothing success.
Any one can help?
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You should try Rescan Media in google play.
vuhungkt881 said:
You should try Rescan Media in google play.
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I already stated I had tried Rescan Media in the OP.
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zolaisugly said:
Can you try using a 3rd party pic viewer I use quickpic, which seems to work well.
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Thanks. I also used quick pic and it loads all pictures. But I prefer SE stock gallery as there is a geo map function, so wanna sort out a solution.
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try some of these
- clear all defaults for the gallery app
- clear all data
- take out and put back in sd card
- make another gallery app the default and then reboot, clear defaults and revert default back to the stock gallery app
I have a chat app on my device that can save received photos locally. The photos are stored in /sdcard/(appname)/images. I prefer that those images do not show up in Gallery, so I placed a .nomedia file in /sdcard/(appname)/ and also in the images subdirectory.
However I noticed after the upgrade to 4.2, when I saved a photo from chat, an "images" album appeared in Gallery with just that one photo in it (and not the others in the directory). I long pressed and chose Details to verify, and indeed it's a photo in the images directory that has a .nomedia file (the exact path it lists is /storage/emulated/0/(appname)/images)
I tried forcing a few media rescans. It's sticking around. Something I tried yesterday resulted in one of said images getting hidden again from Gallery but I can't seem to reproduce that with a newer image.
Has anyone else experienced this? It seems that perhaps the chat app explicitly published the photo to the media database, and in <4.2 the .nomedia file prevented it from staying there, but in 4.2 it appears.
Nobody just gets respect, first the .nomedia files have to earn respect. jk
QuickPic will let you hide the folders w/o using .nomedia files.
It would appear that QuickPic's feature to hide photos from Gallery uses .nomedia files as well. And I don't want to be using a 3rd party gallery.
cmstlist said:
It would appear that QuickPic's feature to hide photos from Gallery uses .nomedia files as well. And I don't want to be using a 3rd party gallery.
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I believe there are two ways to do it within the app - HIDE & EXCLUDE. One of these does not use .nomedia i believe.
The reason is because I use PowerAmp and it downloads album art, but I dont want that showing in mt gallery.. Quickpic hides the folders so I dont see them, and because PowerAmp still uses the album art, I dont think it's placing .nomedia files.
WiredPirate said:
I believe there are two ways to do it within the app - HIDE & EXCLUDE. One of these does not use .nomedia i believe.
The reason is because I use PowerAmp and it downloads album art, but I dont want that showing in mt gallery.. Quickpic hides the folders so I dont see them, and because PowerAmp still uses the album art, I dont think it's placing .nomedia files.
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Hide uses a .nomedia file to hide it from all galleries. Exclude means QuickPic won't show it but has no effect on other apps.
Anyway it seems that renaming the photo and rescanning does the job. Once it finds the old photo path is dead, it doesn't re-add the new path.
cmstlist said:
Hide uses a .nomedia file to hide it from all galleries. Exclude means QuickPic won't show it but has no effect on other apps.
Anyway it seems that renaming the photo and rescanning does the job. Once it finds the old photo path is dead, it doesn't re-add the new path.
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Okay good deal.:good: Yeah I knew the "exclude" feature doesn't work in other apps, there are allot of people that like QuickPic better than the stock gallery, thought it was worth a try you might too. It works perfect for me just for the hiding folders w/o using .nomedia.
When I open the gallery app it is grabbing all the photos I have there this is a major issue for me because I have over 1300 books with covers and I have thousands of photos saved in my dropbox account. This is causing my gallery to be extremely slow.
Is there a place in settungs I can limit what gallery looks at? Or do I need to go to each folder and put .nomedia file in each folder.
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When I open the gallery app it is grabbing all the photos I have there this is a major issue for me because I have over 1300 books with covers and I have thousands of photos saved in my dropbox account. This is causing my gallery to be extremely slow.
Is there a place in settungs I can limit what gallery looks at? Or do I need to go to each folder and put .nomedia file in each folder.
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go to gallery app, click options, click view by and from there you can choose which accounts to have or not to have inside your gallery. just disable dropbox, picasa etc. and you will see the speed back to normal. hope this helps.