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is it possible to control what is placed in your picture gallery?

it seems like it just puts every type of picture in my gallery, i dont want album art covers, screenshots, etc... in my gallery.
I would like to add specific folders to show up only. Is this possible?

gr1fter said:
it seems like it just puts every type of picture in my gallery, i dont want album art covers, screenshots, etc... in my gallery.
I would like to add specific folders to show up only. Is this possible?
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Ditto. I only want what I stick in the Pictures folders to show up... All that Album Art is a PITA to sort through.

TexUs said:
Ditto. I only want what I stick in the Pictures folders to show up... All that Album Art is a PITA to sort through.
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I did a little research and at least for the album art, if you name your .jpg - albumart.jpg it will be excluded. all mine were cover.jpg and i renamed them to albumart.jpg and they no longer show.
but i would like to know other exclusions or options that we can choose, specifically on how to choose a default folder only to scan.

Create a folder with a dot at the beginning. I'll look for the link later.
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phlunkie said:
Create a folder with a dot at the beginning. I'll look for the link later.
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? How's that prevent other folders from showing up though?

I've finally got all of my album art out of my gallery, it seems that there were TONS or .jpg's per album (up to 6). I deleted a bunch of "follder.jpg" and a bunch of "album art.jpg" there were also quite a few <album name>_front.jpg.
Delete anything that's not containing "albumart" (one word) and you should be all set.
Thanks for the heads up on the albumart string!

Symmetric said:
I've finally got all of my album art out of my gallery, it seems that there were TONS or .jpg's per album (up to 6). I deleted a bunch of "follder.jpg" and a bunch of "album art.jpg" there were also quite a few <album name>_front.jpg.
Delete anything that's not containing "albumart" (one word) and you should be all set.
Thanks for the heads up on the albumart string!
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Actually I found out, if your album art is appended to the file itself (like it should be).
You can safely just do a "del c:\music\*.jpg /s" (or wherever your music folder is at from Windows) and it'll delete all the crap for you.

Nice to get that stuff out of there!

folder.jpg files should be fine, you can leave those in there, they don't show up in the album.

if you create a file called .nomedia in a folder, it won't be scanned

The gallery SHOULD have an option to tell it what folders to look in/not look in. Are there any other good photo viewer apps available? I've tried a few, but most just suck.

App Icon Pics fill up Gallery

Greetings All,
Just a quick question. I've noticed recently (well really about a couple weeks now) that my gallery is filled with individual folders with single icons of the apps I have downloaded. Thus when I open up the gallery I have to scroll for what seems like forever just to find a folder with my pics.
This is annoying because I have a number of apps on my phone. I've found my self searching for folders of pics that were in between these single icon folder that I zoomed past thinking they were organized in some logical order.
I'm wondering if this is because I have moved a number of apps to my sd card? How can I fix this?
P.S. I've attached a pic of my gallery and these nuisance icons.

go into the folder that icon is in and create a new file named ".nomedia" (without quotes)

zephiK said:
go into the folder that icon is in
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Thanks zephiK.
Can you tell me how to figure out what folder the icons are in? I've tried using Astro File Manger with no luck because I don't really now where to look.

[Q] Possible to filter Samsung Gallery?

Is it possible to filter the pictures which appear in the Samsung Gallery on the DC? Each time I start it up it is filled with TONS of pictures I do not want, including Google map fragments as well as album covers from my music files...pretty much making the display a mess.
I looked in Settings > Applications > Manage applications as well as Menu in the gallery and did not see any options...
All I want to see are my pictures in "My Pictures" folder on my SD card as well as the camera (DCIM folder if I must)!
Thanks!

Try QuickPic, free from the market.
You can select which folders it loads from, and it loads much faster due to a cache. Also it displays pics in higher resolution, so you can zoom in.
Much better than stock gallery.

Or go into each folder of the images you don't want to see with a file browser and create a ".nomedia" file - sans quotation marks.

Definitely try Quickpic. It is great.

binglejellsx2 said:
Or go into each folder of the images you don't want to see with a file browser and create a ".nomedia" file - sans quotation marks.
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Thanks, I'll give it a try. If I put it in a folder such as "My Music", will it block all of my album subfolders underneath? If not, Quickpic here I come!
Thanks everyone!!!
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rmanaka said:
If I put it in a folder such as "My Music", will it block all of my album subfolders underneath?
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I believe it does. What I think happens is it stops searching the contents of that folder, including subfolders, once it sees the file.
If you have music in there too, they might be blocked from showing up in a media player.

[Q] Pictures are gone!?!?!?!

So here is the deal. Any old or saved picture will not show up as a gallery in any gallery app. no thumbnails nothing. if you go to the file manager, the picture is there, you may open it up and view it in the gallery app. but as soon as you exit that view, the photo will not show up in the gallery app. If you take a picture, only that picture will show up in the gallery, thumbnail and all. all old pictures are still there, but no thumbnail. Anybody got any ideas?

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So here is the deal. Any old or saved picture will not show up as a gallery in any gallery app. no thumbnails nothing. if you go to the file manager, the picture is there, you may open it up and view it in the gallery app. but as soon as you exit that view, the photo will not show up in the gallery app. If you take a picture, only that picture will show up in the gallery, thumbnail and all. all old pictures are still there, but no thumbnail. Anybody got any ideas?
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Your media store might be outdated.
Try forcing the mediascanner to run by using an app from the play store. There are tons of them
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Also check if there's a file called ".nomedia" that stops the mediascanner from scanning that folder. If it's there just delete it.

Thymo said:
Also check if there's a file called ".nomedia" that stops the mediascanner from scanning that folder. If it's there just delete it.
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Thank you very much.. You saved my life. There were tons of unsaved pics of my 2 month old son. I was scared to death.
How did the .nomedia file get created in the first place?
Thank you
Regards
Raghu

Glad I could help. I wouldn't really know why that file got created, perhaps some kind of bug or glitch.

From where to find .nomedia file brother. Still my photos are not getting open. Please tell me in which folder it is there. Thank a ton

Why does the camera roll show ALL images (Camera, WhatsApp, Screenshots etc.)?

Hey guys,
Since a couple of days I've start to notice this little 'problem' on my Samsung Galaxy S7 (Android 7.0). For some reason the camera roll is showing ALL my images (and videos) instead of just the pictures that I have taken with my phone. So, WhatsApp images/videos, screenshots, downloaded images, it's all there.
Now, I've read alot about the .nomedia 'solution' to hide/excluse certain albums from showing up in the Gallery, but I don't want that. I like my WhatsApp images/videos etc. being shown in the Gallery application, I just don't want to see them in/on my camera roll.
So, the Gallery application is working just fine, and everything is stored in (pre-located) albums ('Camera', 'Screenshots', 'Twitter' etc.). I've looked at the settings in the Gallery app, but couldn't find anything relevant that would likely be causing this problem. Same goes for the Camera application.
What can be relevant is that I am storing the pictures taken by the Camera on a SD-card.
So, I was wondering if someone could help me. Is this problem related to Nougat? My phone isn't rooted, by the way.
Many thanks in advance! ?

Same problem here... Really annoying

What do you mean by "Camera Roll"?
If you open the "Album" section of the gallery, are you saying ALL images are showing up in the "Camera" album folder? Rather than their individual folders?
Obviously if you choose the "Pictures" tab, it will show all images on the device on the same screen
The "Albums" tab should be showing them in individual folders though

*Detection* said:
What do you mean by "Camera Roll"?
If you open the "Album" section of the gallery, are you saying ALL images are showing up in the "Camera" album folder? Rather than their individual folders?
Obviously if you choose the "Pictures" tab, it will show all images on the device on the same screen
The "Albums" tab should be showing them in individual folders though
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With "Camera Roll" I mean the pictures that can be accessed through the Camera App - when you open the Camera App it's the circular icon placed on the bottom right of the screen (right next to the shutter/camera button).

Same problem here. When I try to look photos from camera app, it shows all photos, not just camera roll like it should

Yonix360 said:
With "Camera Roll" I mean the pictures that can be accessed through the Camera App - when you open the Camera App it's the circular icon placed on the bottom right of the screen (right next to the shutter/camera button).
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The camera roll accessed from the camera app just opens the "Pictures" tab of the gallery app, which contains every image on the phone that does not contain a .nomedia file in it's folder
Samsung would have to patch the camera app to open just the "Camera" album folder I assume
But generally you would only use that button in the camera app to view the last few shots you just took, if you want to view a specific folder, open the gallery Albums tab

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The camera roll accessed from the camera app just opens the "Pictures" tab of the gallery app, which contains every image on the phone that does not contain a .nomedia file in it's folder
Samsung would have to patch the camera app to open just the "Camera" album folder I assume
But generally you would only use that button in the camera app to view the last few shots you just took, if you want to view a specific folder, open the gallery Albums tab
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It wasnt like this in 6.0

NeoDJW said:
It wasnt like this in 6.0
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This isn't 6.0
Complain to Samsung if you want it changed
Things in Windows 10 aren't the same as they were in Windows 8
Things change

Naaah, it's easier for me to cry here

NeoDJW said:
Naaah, it's easier for me to cry here
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Unlikely going to have the same effect crying here, as crying to the people who can do something about it would
Could always flash back to MM if it's affecting you that badly
Personally when I want to look at some photos on my phone, I open the gallery app, not the camera app, I use that for taking the photos...

Thanks for all the help and responses, guys! I guess I'll just have to get used to it. Maybe Samsung will patch this in the future. Who knows.

That's a pretty dumb reply, to be honest. It's a camera app. Why would you want to review every downloaded or received image through the camera app? Sure, why don't I just jump off a bridge if I don't like it? It's a ****ty function and I can't blame people for asking if there's a fix. You can keep your "eat it or die" answers to yourself if you don't fancy being helpful.

I guess the question is:
why is the gallery opened when one opens the camera in whatsapp seeing that line of pictures is very irritating.(S5 mini)

Any solution?

This is killing me. Such a silly system by Samsung.
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If you don't want your WhatsApp (or any other App for that matter) images to be shown between the rest of your Gallery images, you have to install and use a File Manager, navigate to the WhatsApp images folder and 'hide' this folder. Normally you can also hide a folder by creating a new file in that folder named ' .nomedia' like noted by Detection. The WhatsApp images folder is normally located at: 'Internal Storage' (or sdcard) > 'WhatsApp' > 'Media' > 'WhatsApp Images'. This way the gallery won't show your WhatsApp images anymore but WhatsApp will still show his own images. I hope I am correct with this info and this helps some of you.

Hi guys,
I asked to add this option (open last media in camera folder when gallery is called from camera app) in this camera mod app. Maybe you could increase the importance/priority of the request showing your interest on this feature in the mod post.
I'm trying the @martin.delbi method: should be a good workaround, but you should do it for all the folders with media you have in your storage/sd without .nomedia file that you do not want to show in Gallery.

I've tried this solution and realized it's not what I actually want since other apps don't even see those folders too. How do I undo it? I've deleted the .nomedia files I created and I still can't see the album. Thanks

unable to view watsapp status in myfile folder in samsung j7 max.
kindly help to resolve the problem

The_Ulf said:
That's a pretty dumb reply, to be honest. It's a camera app. Why would you want to review every downloaded or received image through the camera app? Sure, why don't I just jump off a bridge if I don't like it? It's a ****ty function and I can't blame people for asking if there's a fix. You can keep your "eat it or die" answers to yourself if you don't fancy being helpful.
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I totally agree. It's ridiculous that every photo or media file is right there after you take a picture, if you downloaded something or if someone sent you something in a text or you have something risque in a totally different directory on an SD card and it's dated just before that photo, BOOM! It's right there for your mom to see next to the family pics.
Can you change the default viewer that gets activated from the camera app?
Is there another camera app that does not have this problem?
The "camera roll" or the the icon from the camera app should ONLY show recent pictures in the DCIM/camera directory. PERIOD.
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You can go into Gallery, go to Albums Tab, touch the three dots, there's a Hide or Unhide Albums. You can hide most albums, except for a few including Camera, Screenshots, Downloads, and Pictures (at least on my phone). The newest picture still seems to come up in the camera circle preview pane, and shows up for a second when you click the gallery circle from the camera app, but if it's in a hidden directory disappears. If you latest media file is in the camera directory, you don't have this problem.