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Question about SD card and downloads

Was going through my SD card and organizing a few thing then I notice under "Download" every document, form, letter, attachment etc that I ever received over emails has been saved to my SD Card under Downloads folder regardless if I deleted the email/documents or not. Is there a way to manage this? Is there a way that when I delete the email/document, it completely removes it off my device? If unattended this could be a lot of documents that I accumulate through out the year. Or do I have to go in there ever few month and delete them one by one?
also what is "LazyList"? I have a folder in there labeled LazyList with a bunch of small files in there....
FYI, I am NOT rooted if that helps

Can any tell me if this is a isolated issue with my phone?

I looked in the Download folder on the SD card of my stock Inspire and only saw what I intentionally saved.
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biglittlegato said:
I looked in the Download folder on the SD card of my stock Inspire and only saw what I intentionally saved.
Sent from my Inspire using the dark side.
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+1 Same here

I looked around, am i missing a setting somewhere perhaps?

Just select setting under email & check off download attachment to NEVER. But previous one need to be delete manually. However whenever u select to view attachment file, it downloads under folder.
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Great will give it a try, I noticed I had "always" check off.
Thanks for the suggestion!

ashupanchal said:
Just select setting under email & check off download attachment to NEVER.
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I don't have that option in my email settings. Are you using a custom ROM, or stock? I'm using stock.

swatcop1 said:
Can any tell me if this is a isolated issue with my phone?
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It's not just your phone. Mine does it also. As far as I can tell, if an attachment is download to your SD card, the file stays there.

Yea, the min you open the attachment, boom! its on the SD card until you go delete it. IMO, its a flawed part of the system. In my case, I receive tons of maps, charts etc throughout the day. This can build up in time. If I haven't decided to go explore the SD card, I would have never known.
Thoughts?

Gallery loads EVERYTHING

Ok i have some movies and lots of albums on my SD card.
When i open my gallery it loads all pictures even screen shots of the videos and the album art as pictures.
And there are many.. i have dozens and dozens of albums on the phone.
How can i get all those hidden from gallery?

For the folders on your phone that require "ahem" discretion. You can rename the folder to start with a period. e.g. "/.pictures/" and wipe the stored data for the gallery app to remove the cache of thumbnails it has created. This does mean a lot but not all apps won't look in the folder. However, if other apps need to look in the folder for music etc. they will also ignore folders starting with a period.
There's also a couple of apps on the android market that will remove items from the gallery without deleting them.

I know your problem.
Some phones also allow you to choose which folders you want to be shown in the gallery.
When in the main screen of the gallery, press the menu button and see what comes up. Hopefully you can hide your dirty habits that way.
Dallasalien's method should work on any phone.

Dallasalien said:
For the folders on your phone that require "ahem" discretion. You can rename the folder to start with a period. e.g. "/.pictures/" and wipe the stored data for the gallery app to remove the cache of thumbnails it has created. This does mean a lot but not all apps won't look in the folder. However, if other apps need to look in the folder for music etc. they will also ignore folders starting with a period.
There's also a couple of apps on the android market that will remove items from the gallery without deleting them.
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woohoo.. the .pron worked..thanks... http://media.xda-developers.com/images/icons/icon10.gif
wife doesn't mind.. but my 3 yr old daughter doesn't need to see when she wants to view pictures..hehehe

Download Quickpic from the market let's you hide, exclude any folders you like
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Are you drag n dropping folders from a windows machine? If so it's even copying the folder with the art work for your media player which the gallery will see. You could always just drag over the wanted video into a folder instead, or hide with a app or name the folder with a period like mentioned

john94si said:
woohoo.. the .pron worked..thanks... http://media.xda-developers.com/images/icons/icon10.gif
wife doesn't mind.. but my 3 yr old daughter doesn't need to see when she wants to view pictures..hehehe
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*I do like that post*

If you make a new file named .nomedia in any folder of your sd card it will stop the gallery from loading the pictures in that folder.
I use astro file manager to create an empty zip and just rename it to .nomedia without the .zip at the end. You can also copy and paste the file into any other folders. It hides the pictures in subfolders as well so just 1 in your music folder will hide album art for all folders inside.
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john94si said:
woohoo.. the .pron worked..thanks... http://media.xda-developers.com/images/icons/icon10.gif
wife doesn't mind.. but my 3 yr old daughter doesn't need to see when she wants to view pictures..hehehe
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Your kid needs her own skyrocket!

[Q] Pictures storage ?

I feel stupid to ask this!
Where are the pictures that I see in the photo gallery located! All I see in my astro file manager are the pictures I took with the camera but I can't find all the other albums that are in the gallery!
I have a g2x on 2.3.3 and I am not rooted!
Thank you for your help!!!

Everything Ive got is in mnt/sdcard/DCIM. Not sure where else they could be. Some are in a folder related to whatever photo app I used, or if its a picture for an app, its usually in a folder related to said app. At least thats what QuickPic says.
Ah! Maybe you could download the QuickPic app and it will show you all your file extensions?

I wish than I would find them! Quick pic does not find the albums that are in my gallery. I want to copy all pi tires in the main dcmi pi tire album! That's why I am asking.
Thank you for trying
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Different apps store pictures in different locations. i.e. - there is a /pictures folder, /mnt/sdcard/dccim has pictures, and there is a /camera folder on my sd card as well.
The gallery scans all media on your phone, and then shows it in the app itself. I would try to figure out what application the gallery is pulling that picture from, and that might help you locate it on the phone.

dbl3dge said:
Different apps store pictures in different locations. i.e. - there is a /pictures folder, /mnt/sdcard/dccim has pictures, and there is a /camera folder on my sd card as well.
The gallery scans all media on your phone, and then shows it in the app itself. I would try to figure out what application the gallery is pulling that picture from, and that might help you locate it on the phone.
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Thats why I thought quickpic would be a good app. It tells you the file path under the albums, making it easier to pull them up on the phone when looking through your SD card on a computer or whatever.
I guess I dont understand the question

Filtering gallery folders

Hi guys,
I am having some issues with the Stock Gallery. I have bunch of assignments and homework on my sd card and gallery decides to add all the photos into the library...... i.e. I can't even find my photos and videos among the few thousands graphs and diagrams.. Is there a way for the app to only scan specific (e.g. media) folders? Thanks!

I am afraid that the answer is NO unless one of the dev-cracks here found a solution.
But meanwhile You could use any gallery-app with a hide function or - since You obviously just want to make them not to show in stock gallery: -simply use
Keep Safe

I see. Any cool gallery app that support include/exclude folders? Thank you!

salmonsushi said:
I see. Any cool gallery app that support include/exclude folders? Thank you!
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QuickPic is the best one out there and with that one you can hide folders, it's free so why don't you try it out.

dropping a ".nomedia" file in the directories you don't want seen in gallery doesn't work?
Hmm, looks like there is an app that will help with these. I have not tried it: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.studiokuma.nomedia&hl=en

You can add a . to the beginning of the folder name of any folder you do not want gallery to look at and the images will not be seen. Of course this may cause some other apps to not see the folder also.

Barsky said:
dropping a ".nomedia" file in the directories you don't want seen in gallery doesn't work?
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It seems not to, which is driving me nuts.
There is a few folders I would like to hide and putting a . at the start of the folder name does not work either.
EDIT:
It does actually work putting .nomedia file in folders for samsung's gallery. The media scanner seems super slow or something and not specifically updated by a reboot. I have an app called "Rescan Meda" that does not seem to get the media scanner's ass in gear.
It seems that the media scanner will still do recursive if there is not a .nomedia in each folder of the tree.
making the folder hidden by putting a . at the start of the foldername does not work tho.

.face Folder Is Choking With Thousands Of Files...

I have a folder called .face it has thousands of files residing. I opened a few of them in the text editor and did see a jpg header. I copied and renamed them to *.jpg. they seem to be resized thumbnails of some sort. Can anyone tell what is generating these files, and is there a way to stop future creation? Is it safe to delete them?
Thanks and regards,

Sounds like caching for an image gallery type app...

blud7 said:
Sounds like caching for an image gallery type app...
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Indeed. Searching for a setting option in Gallery and quickpic still no luck at this time.... thanks.

GalaxyBill said:
I have a folder called .face it has thousands of files residing. I opened a few of them in the text editor and did see a jpg header. I copied and renamed them to *.jpg. they seem to be resized thumbnails of some sort. Can anyone tell what is generating these files, and is there a way to stop future creation? Is it safe to delete them?
Thanks and regards,
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How long have you had your GNote 19.1? I have had mine for about 2 months and I only have 2 files in the .face folder.

.face folder
I've 110 files in the .face folder, almost all dated at the first days I had the GNote.
Couldn't it be something related to the "Smart Stay" function?.
Maybe they are sort of pics taken from the front camera to help the GNote identify your face and your eyes. Someone has not activated this function and so, for him, there aren't much files in the folder.
Just a supposition...

donec said:
How long have you had your GNote 19.1? I have had mine for about 2 months and I only have 2 files in the .face folder.
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About 6weeks for me...

sphere314 said:
I've 110 files in the .face folder, almost all dated at the first days I had the GNote.
Couldn't it be something related to the "Smart Stay" function?.
Maybe they are sort of pics taken from the front camera to help the GNote identify your face and your eyes. Someone has not activated this function and so, for him, there aren't much files in the folder.
Just a supposition...
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I was going there as well. Until i found many of the pic's are from my customer folder (on my exrSD) that were not taken from the GN camera.

GalaxyBill said:
I was going there as well. Until i found many of the pic's are from my customer folder (on my exrSD) that were not taken from the GN camera.
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I've examined my files.
They are thumbnails of (mainly) some of the photos I took with my camera. From these photos it seems that only the face has been thumbnailed.
Anyway there are also faces coming from the few pics I downloaded from Internet.
I wonder what's the use for all these thumbnails...
Now I'm very curious...

The files are from the facial recognition feature the camera has, you can turn this off in your camera settings if you choose .

Granna said:
The files are from the facial recognition feature the camera has, you can turn this off in your camera settings if you choose .
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Why then there are faces from pics not taken with the camera (i.e. saved from internet)?

It recognises any face in the gallery even downloaded images... you can then tag them from your contacts
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extrememonkey said:
It recognises any face in the gallery even downloaded images... you can then tag them from your contacts
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Thank you. That makes sense...
Can i delete them with doing any harm?

This .face folder is driving me crazy.
The system settings for face unlock are all off, the Face Unlock apk is disable but the .face folder keeps being created, also it keeps growing with new files. I don't know what else to do.
What is the apk that creates the folder and also creates new files in it? Hopefully i will be able to disable if i ever figure this out.
I hope anyone here can point me into the right direction, cause I can't, and google hasn't help me either.
Thanks.

Same here on Note 2 N7100
Went to Camera settings but no where to turn it off.
Anyway is it safe to remove the folder? I mean maybe next time I wanna re-enable the face tagging again who knows
Thanks!

Ok... I guess I might have found out what causes the .face folder filling up wih files! It's "Gallery" application's "Tag Buddy" feature... as soon as I disabled it, it didn't re-create those thousands of files.
I had deleted them all and periodically checked if they would be recreated after opening any new application. I hadn't opened "Gallery" in a while, but it opened automatically when I reviewed a photo I had just taken... and guess what: as soon as the application started, the files in the .face folder started to reappear! After stubling around the settings and sub-menus and force-closing the app a few times to verify it as the cause for the .face folder choking up with thumbnails, I isolated the cause: "Tag Buddy"... a feature that I don't even know what it does! ...and for me, having a few thousand photos in the phone's tsansflash card (actually I have a Note II phone, but I guess some apps are on both devices... if not on even more Samsung tabs and phones) generated something around 28000 files in the .face folder, choking up the file system and therefore effectively even slowing down file operations!!!

taltosgr said:
Ok... I guess I might have found out what causes the .face folder filling up wih files! It's "Gallery" application's "Tag Buddy" feature... as soon as I disabled it, it didn't re-create those thousands of files.
I had deleted them all and periodically checked if they would be recreated after opening any new application. I hadn't opened "Gallery" in a while, but it opened automatically when I reviewed a photo I had just taken... and guess what: as soon as the application started, the files in the .face folder started to reappear! After stubling around the settings and sub-menus and force-closing the app a few times to verify it as the cause for the .face folder choking up with thumbnails, I isolated the cause: "Tag Buddy"... a feature that I don't even know what it does! ...and for me, having a few thousand photos in the phone's tsansflash card (actually I have a Note II phone, but I guess some apps are on both devices... if not on even more Samsung tabs and phones) generated something around 28000 files in the .face folder, choking up the file system and therefore effectively even slowing down file operations!!!
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Face is part of Android 4.1+ camera app. On a Samsung phone this is how it is turned on and off.http://skp.samsungcsportal.com/integrated/popup/HtgDetailGuide3.jsp?seq=10370&cdsite=in

Its just a cache for the face recognition feature of the Galaxy series on the camera on the gallery. just by opening the gallery and it find a face in a photo it will make the cache.

What i did was DELETE the ".face" folder and then create an empty file named ".face"
Android wont be able to create a folder with the same name and just give up.

thanks for the .face file idea
zemoxuni said:
What i did was DELETE the ".face" folder and then create an empty file named ".face"
Android wont be able to create a folder with the same name and just give up.
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I tried that and just a file didn't work. My wife kept creating folders. I laughed a little at her and explained if she creates a folder there is really no point in deleting it. Then she goes and shows me up and does something brilliant. She opens up the burstly image folder and copies one of the cache files to the root directory deletes the .face and renames the cache file .face and damn it she did it. A .face file not a folder...no more face data for Samsung.

Burn your house down, the feds are on to you. Also, lawyer up, hit the gym, etc...