I have a user who uses a golf gps program for his Droid X and the program downloads the holes to his phone. Afterwards he sees them in the gallery and it pisses him off.
Is there anyway to hide folders of pictures so that the app can use them, but will not show up in the gallery?
Place a file called ".nomedia" without quotes in the directory
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I have the same issue but its pulling folders from my picassa account, has pics I want to keep but with past ex's. I want to keep them in Picassa but not on my phone. Anyone know if there is a way to stop Picassa syncing? It doesn't pull the files off the web till you open the folder but the folder thumbnails are bad enough...
I use an app called hideitpro, but that won't do anything about the picassa. If you want to stop picassa from syncing, go to settings from the homescreen, accounts and sync, google, and uncheck picassa syncing
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Place a file called ".nomedia" without quotes in the directory
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Awesome. This stuff works. I had to create a nomedia file from XP and move it over to the folder via USB Mount. I couldn't create a .nomedia in XP. Later I just renamed it to .nomedia in the device. It worked! Thanks.
That picassa setting did it thank you! I was wondering were the setting was, I never went far enough!
Interesting. I don't have the picasa option.... Any reason why?
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While on the topic f Picasa, anyone know if there is a way for two people to sahre one account? Of course, Picasa uses your Google login, and so for example, I'm thinking that two different Google users wouldn't be able to share one account. For example a husband and wife...family account.
I should add, I'm thinking for both of us to be able to upload from our phone to the same account.
I know you can share albums with different accounts just been a while since I've done out, I'll look when I get home
As far as not having that setting, is it syncing your picassa pics?
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I know you can share albums with different accounts just been a while since I've done out, I'll look when I get home
As far as not having that setting, is it syncing your picassa pics?
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nope. It's never really been a big deal until recently. Don't know if I'm missing something or what...
easy fix
This is easy to fix. Download a file explore that you can rename files with, and simply put a "." In front of the file or folder you trying to hide or not show up in gaollery. Pic would be .pic hope this Is helpful
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Place a file called ".nomedia" without quotes in the directory
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Is this for just the directory you place the file in or will it stop media scanning for all subdirectories also?
Thanks
the only problem with .nomedia is that it hides your music too, so if you were using .nomedia to hide album art that's in your gallery, your music won't show up. Anyone know of a work around?
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where exactly do you put that .nomedia folder. In the root directory or in my picture directory. thanks
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where exactly do you put that .nomedia folder. In the root directory or in my picture directory. thanks
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The no media should be a file not a folder, and you should but it in the folder you want to stay hidden
I hope I'm not screwing something up but I've noticed that putting a "." (dot/period) in front of any folder's name its contents won't show up in either the stock gallery or 3rd party image viewers/galleries (QuickPic is one example).
It's handy for me since I keep a boatload of icon folders on the external SD and was tired of seeing them load when I opened the gallery. I don't want to bury them too far since they aren't considered "private" to me. For private pics/movies I just use Vaulty app so they're PW "protected".
So this brings a question for the brains- Am I hurting anything by just using a dot in front of the folder or is the "nomedia" part of the equation a necessary part?
No you are not hurting anything. The files are all still there, putting a . in front of them hides them from the OS.
This is a basic Linux command. And is an easy way to hide files. You will still be able to see them on windows machines.
Workaround to show them is use a pic viewer that you can manually configure your pic files and include the .xxxxx folder in the search. That being said, I dont know of a program to do this on Android. Anyone else?
Ok, cool. I dunno enough about the inner workings of the OS (or any OS, really) to know if that affected how the software reacts to/reads the folders (killing battery by constant scanning, etc).
I read somewhere (here on XDA) that placing the dot worked fine (but I didn't remember the "nomedia" part being mentioned).
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I guess this may be a silly question. But if someone sends me an email with an attachment to my gmail account, I know I can click the "Preview" button and preview it. The phone will download it and play it. But how can i just make it download the attachment and save it to my sdcard?? Like I want to email myself a couple of mp3's then save them to my sdcard and use them as ringtones, or do the same with jpegs and use them as wallpaper. That way I dont have to be at home to plug my phone into my computer to do file transfers.
I don't have my phone yet and I've used WinMo in the past, so I can't directly help answer your question. But have you tried using Dropbox as another way of getting the same thing done? I think it has an android client. You should just be able to save the files in a certain folder on your computer and they automatically sync to whatever other devices you add the account to (including your phone).
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I guess this may be a silly question. But if someone sends me an email with an attachment to my gmail account, I know I can click the "Preview" button and preview it. The phone will download it and play it. But how can i just make it download the attachment and save it to my sdcard?? Like I want to email myself a couple of mp3's then save them to my sdcard and use them as ringtones, or do the same with jpegs and use them as wallpaper. That way I dont have to be at home to plug my phone into my computer to do file transfers.
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You can't.
Try opening gmail in the Web Browser, then you can do it....
Get dropbox from the market and install it on you computer for easy OTA file transfers. Installs in seconds, works well and includes 2gb of storage for free. Also a good way to backup update.zips and .apks without having to keep them on the phone.
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I guess this may be a silly question. But if someone sends me an email with an attachment to my gmail account, I know I can click the "Preview" button and preview it. The phone will download it and play it. But how can i just make it download the attachment and save it to my sdcard?? Like I want to email myself a couple of mp3's then save them to my sdcard and use them as ringtones, or do the same with jpegs and use them as wallpaper. That way I dont have to be at home to plug my phone into my computer to do file transfers.
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I found that by configuring the internal mail application (the one at your home screen) as your mail client instead of the gmail app will allow you to save attachments
You can't download certain attachments.
If you want to do that, navigate to mail.google.com, login and download the attachment.
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I guess this may be a silly question. But if someone sends me an email with an attachment to my gmail account, I know I can click the "Preview" button and preview it. The phone will download it and play it. But how can i just make it download the attachment and save it to my sdcard?? Like I want to email myself a couple of mp3's then save them to my sdcard and use them as ringtones, or do the same with jpegs and use them as wallpaper. That way I dont have to be at home to plug my phone into my computer to do file transfers.
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i'll have to check, but in the gmail app i get the option to preview or download. i cant seem to get the preview to work, but download works fine.
Actually, you can download them. In the market there is an app called Blackmoon. Get it. When you hit preview, it will open a window asking what you'd like to do. You do have to type in a name and ext for it though.
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Why would droid OS have all attachments in emails download into your gallery?
How can I stop it? I unchecked "download attachments", but as soon as I open the email to view the attachment, it downloads and puts a copy into my gallery. After vewing the pic, I have to go into gallery and delete it.
Is there anything I can do about this?
Question 2, I saved a pic from a MMS by pressing the and holding the pic. I saved to "SD card". when I go into gallery, its not there?
So for this droid has been okay, but why do they make things so difficult at times!
Any suggestions!
Downloads go into the download folder. While in the gallery you can select to view/hide this folder, or "album" by pressing the menu button. They may not show up immediately in the gallery due to a media scan being required.
i think this is a new bug in sense UI or something because i read this elsewhere about all png's and gif's and email attachment junk showing up in the gallery, and it should not be doing that in any way. like if i receive an email with a border around the email, that border should not be showing up in my gallery as a photo!!!!
so far i've not seen any solution to this.
Yep, I am glad some else is familiar with this!!! Can anyone else confirm this?
Same here. This is my first day on a non-Apple phone since 2007. This is top among a growing list of annoyances. And not just because "Apple doesn't do it that way" but because no one should do it that way.
I can confirm that on my AT&T Inspire 4G, every tiny little logo in everyone's signatures on my corporate email account has bloated my Gallery to over 200 images in one day. Only one of those images is one that I actually wanted to save from an MMS.
I've seen people posting suggestions about how to selectively disable the gallery from seeing certain folders by adding .nomedia files to those folders, but images saved from the Messages app get saved to the same folder as all the garbage harvested from email attachments, and I would like to see those.
This needs to be fixed. People shouldn't be fiddling in the file system for something as basic as browsing the photos on their phone.
Yep I agree 100%, there must be a way for us new guys to do away with this. I am sure it can be done if I would root my phone, but also myself coming from a Iphone, jailbreaking was a easy task. After reading the steps involved in rooting, I do not feel comfortable, I simply don't understand the language. I would love to root it and unleash this beast.
no idea if this will work on the inspire, but on the captivate to get a folder to not show up in gallery you had to put a file called .nomedia in the folder you don't want included.
An easy way to get this is from a command prompt: adb shell
then do touch .nomedia /whatever/folder/you/want it in.
I'm guessing this is only using the sense email app. I don't have a problem with this using gmail. I would suggest using a different email app until HTC gets an update out. Downloading and setting up a different email app takes way less time than deleting hundreds of images daily. Make sure you contact HTC support in regards to bugs and security. Files and pictures being auto downloaded is a pretty big security hole IMO.
I called att today and they called HTC, they never heard of this issue. They are sending me a new phone to replace mine!
I have two folders in my gallery called profile photo and instant uploads, I don't know what they are for and I don't know how to delete them. How do you delete them?
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same here, will give a try with root explorer..
I tried looking for them in root explorer but I couldn't find them.
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These are likely directories created by an application you have installed or that came installed by default. Find this directory using root explorer or any other file browser then create a file in this directory named ".nomedia".
By doing this, you'll stop android from treating this directory as a directory containing media files (audio/video/photos) and after a reboot you shouldn't see this directory and it's content in your gallery.
It looks like its for Google plus but I don't have a Google plus account.
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It looks like its for Google plus but I don't have a Google plus account.
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That doesn't really matter, it's just a folder created by an application. If you do a search for the directory and find it, do as I said and you won't see it anymore in your gallery.
The Instand Upload is an album that your photos are uploaded to in G+ photos / Picasa Web. The Profile Photo one is also for G+. It sounds like you have your photo sync on. If you don't have a G+ account, they may just be artifacts of having the photo-sync turned on.
Polobunny's suggestion is interesting. I've never tried it but I'll definitely keep it in mind.
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The Instand Upload is an album that your photos are uploaded to in G+ photos / Picasa Web. The Profile Photo one is also for G+. It sounds like you have your photo sync on. If you don't have a G+ account, they may just be artifacts of having the photo-sync turned on.
Polobunny's suggestion is interesting. I've never tried it but I'll definitely keep it in mind.
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Works wonderfully, I use it "often" for programs that have image files that get picked up by the gallery. Just make sure the file is named .nomedia without any extension and with the period before the nomedia.
I had photos in my picasa account so I deleted them and it fixed it.
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solved... got account sync on with picasa album, unflagged from settings>account> tap account and deflag google photo sinc and reboot
Doesn't really work for me, that's one of the main reasons I disabled the gallery completely. Even when I clear the data and lose the web albums, I uncheck photo sync it still syncs them as soon as I click refresh in the gallery.
I'm just wondering is there an app that can transfer files over wi-fi? back when I was on iPhone, they had apps that allowed you to wirelessly transfer files from your PC to your phone. searched around and nothing came up.
Also I'm on CM9, is there a way to NOT sync your media that's on your SD card to the Gallery? I've only found how to not sync it with my emails. When I was on stock, the gallery didn't sync with my SD card.
Thanks in advance.
Air droid, WiFi file explorer etc. there's literally loads lol, where did you search ?
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The sync issue is simple to fix also. You create a file called .nomedia and place it in what every directories you dont want to sync.
I just enable the FTP server feature in ES File Explorer, that way I can still use Windows Explorer to copy files to my phone.
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The sync issue is simple to fix also. You create a file called .nomedia and place it in what every directories you dont want to sync.
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So I have a main folder and then a sub folder. I created the .nomedia in the subfolder which contained what I didnt wanna sync but it still shows up in the Gallery. If i make it in the main folder then nothing syncs in the Gallery, not even the camera roll.
Did you reboot and fix permissions?
I have searched around and found nothing on XDA or anywhere else about this. With that being said, I understand the existence of Gallery and Photos. Not complaining about that.
Is there any way to keep Hangout MMS pictures from populating their own albums in the Gallery app? Here's the issue, every picture I send, creates an album with prefix Hangouts then the name of the contact. Deleting the pictures from the Gallery app deletes it from my conversation in Hangouts too leaving a white picture and the three dots at the bottom which means that the pictures can't be found. This is not only for chats, but MMS as well. Yes I could go get another Gallery App etc... But wanted to try and see if anyone has it figured out first before going down that route.
There is no option to only view albums on the device itself. Disabling the sync, disables auto-backup.
Thoughts or solutions anyone?
+1 on this, I was randomly searching around google support for this the other day but never hit paydirt. Its annoying as hell.
Edit. You inspired me to go look again. Go into the gallery app select settings and turn off sync with google account. Go into main settings/apps/gallery and delete data and cache. Reboot. Worked for me.
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+1 on this, I was randomly searching around google support for this the other day but never hit paydirt. Its annoying as hell.
Edit. You inspired me to go look again. Go into the gallery app select settings and turn off sync with google account. Go into main settings/apps/gallery and delete data and cache. Reboot. Worked for me.
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Thank you! While you solution does work and I have tried it, it isn't quite exactly what I am looking for. Reason being because I do sync my pictures to my google account considering I just blew through over 70GB in DropBox storage and can no longer automatically upload pictures I take. Basically, I am looking for a way to selectively pick what to display in my Gallery app(I don't want anything Picasa/Google+/Hangouts/Photos in there). Since the intro of the Photos app which is mostly tied in with G+, it shows everything online, and if they are going to keep the gallery app, then they should at least allow it to be used for offline images available on the device(Just like Play Music has, where it gives you the option to to use music on your online account or what you have on your device).
Unfortunately, the dependency of the camera app on the gallery app, makes it impossible to revert back to a previous version of the gallery.
Ah, sorry about that. Not sure how you can pull that one off, I sure didn't see mention of such when I was searching.
Try making a .nomedia file in the picassa folder where it downloads the pics. And same to every other folder you don't wanna see in your gallery. This will help you select what displays along with auto sync enabled.
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Try making a .nomedia file in the picassa folder where it downloads the pics. And same to every other folder you don't wanna see in your gallery. This will help you select what displays along with auto sync enabled.
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It creates one for every contact I send a picture to in Hangouts.
That's going to be a lot of files to be created. I guess there is no other way. Unless I just install another gallery.
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It creates one for every contact I send a picture to in Hangouts.
That's going to be a lot of files to be created. I guess there is no other way. Unless I just install another gallery.
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I've been using Quickpic for years, and it's very stable and easy to use.
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It creates one for every contact I send a picture to in Hangouts.
That's going to be a lot of files to be created. I guess there is no other way. Unless I just install another gallery.
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No it's not like that. You would have to copy paste only one .nomedia in the main folder of the data file of hangouts and one in picassa.