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
sdotbrucato said:
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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journeyman82 said:
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
sdotbrucato said:
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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?
sdotbrucato said:
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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).
My gallery is not scanning my gtab for pictures. I have pictures in a subfolder in the DCIM but it is not being recognized. Pictures taken by the camera are. They are all on the internal card. I tried clearing data and rebooting, but nothing. All of the pictures can be opened up via a file explorer.
How do I fix this?
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My gallery is not scanning my gtab for pictures. I have pictures in a subfolder in the DCIM but it is not being recognized. Pictures taken by the camera are. They are all on the internal card. I tried clearing data and rebooting, but nothing. All of the pictures can be opened up via a file explorer.
How do I fix this?
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Have yet to have this problem with my GTAB but when it happened with my N1 I deleted the cache folder for the Gallery:
Android/Data/Com.Cooliris.Media/Cache
Then Rebooted, this forced the OS to rebuild the Gallery thumbnails.
I'm not sure this is a good fix though.
Throw this in there, look up JustPictures!. I never liked the included galleries on any of my android devices.
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?
Everything has been fine with Google Photos for me until recently other folders containing photos from apps like VSCO Cam other apps has disappeared from the "Device Folders" section of the app. As I said, these were all displayed until the last few days. I have no idea what happened. I use Solid Explorer and I can see the photos are all still on my phone so it's not like they've been deleted. Anyone come across this issue or would know how I can fix it? I've tried clearing the data/cache of the Photos app and that didn't work. I also tried clearing the cache of Media Storage but that didn't correct the problem either. I'm not sure what to do.
Anyone else had a similar issue or know how to resolve it?
Solved.
Needed to show hidden files using Solid Explorer, deleted the file called ".nomedia" and alas, all the device folders are now being displayed again in Google Photos!
Hello everyone.
today I wanted to send an email (gmail app) with PDF file attachment but I got a popup "can't attach empty file".
later I tried with JPG and MP3 and was no any problem.
I tried to attach several PDF's with different sizes and different locations and i got same popup.
Is anybody else encountered this problem or just me?
thanks
Corsus said:
Hello everyone.
today I wanted to send an email (gmail app) with PDF file attachment but I got a popup "can't attach empty file".
later I tried with JPG and MP3 and was no any problem.
I tried to attach several PDF's with different sizes and different locations and i got same popup.
Is anybody else encountered this problem or just me?
thanks
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If file size is more then 25mb, you'd to upload it on google drive.