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Hide media folders

Looking for an app, mod, commandline, something, that can make a folder on my SD card, not be read by the gallery.
Id like some stuff to not show up in the gallery by default. The same would be nice for music as well, something that will allow you to select a folder on the SD card to not include music files in the music app.
Anyone know of anything like this, whether it be an ADB command line, something i can do in terminal with su, an app, a mod, etc etc?

Create a file named ".nomedia" and put it in the folder you are trying to omit

Another tip to stop a folders contents showing in Gallery is to simply put a "." (a fullstop/period) infront of the folder name.

Also, to refresh the galleries once you've done the above, go into Dev Tools and run 'Media Scanner'

Thanks for the replies... seems simple enough. Thank you for all the suggestions.

Just to give you a little more breakdown, the easiest way to do this (from a Windows PC) is to create a blank text file on your PC and copy it to the folder on your SD Card, then use an explorer app like Astro File Manager to rename it to .nomedia (since Windows won't let you name a file .nomedia).

Just to give you a little more breakdown, the easiest way to do this (from a Windows PC) is to create a blank text file on your PC and copy it to the folder on your SD Card, then use an explorer app like Astro File Manager to rename it to .nomedia (since Windows won't let you name a file .nomedia).
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That's exactly what I did. Once on my SD card, I used astro to copy paste it to the other directories I wanted to exclude.
Again, thanks for the help.

stshannon said:
That's exactly what I did. Once on my SD card, I used astro to copy paste it to the other directories I wanted to exclude.
Again, thanks for the help.
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would that be a working work-around solution for such badly written apps such as Asphalt 5 (which makes its music & sounds appear in the Music playlist)?

Answer and suggestions provided; thread closed.

Folder Structures in SDCARD

Hi everybody!
I just got my 1st Android Devide (DHD) and already root, clockwork, changed rom, etc. However, my problem is related to the directories structures inside my SDCARD.
I have 2 questions:
1- I moved some apps that I have in my main memory to my SDCARD via App Settings. However, when I go to my sdcard in windows explorer, I don't find these files. I'm not sure then if is really moving to my sdcard. I just realized some new folders, but they are empty. Does anyone knows what I'm doing wrong?
2- The second question it's linked with the first. I would like to organize in my SDCARD a nice folder structure. Something like:
/
/Songs/
/Photos/
/Documents/
/Backups/
/Games/
/Apps/
And then if you go inside the Apps folder, you have another folder with the name of the application. Pretty much like Program Files folder in Windows.
Is this possible? For Songs, Photos, Documents, I created a folder and it worked. But what about for apps and games that I got on the market?
My SDCARD has also a lot of folder/files that were copied when I put the sdcard on the device. I don't know if I can delete that. Any idea?
Thanks for the help in advance!

Moved to Q&A, not dev related.

Anyone?
Any tip?

[Q] file locations

ive downloaded some ringtones/notifications and they automatically show up in the respective fields when going to select them as such, but for the life of me i cannot find them anywhere on the phones internal and external memory (i want to delete the ones i dont like). i have a folder setup on my sd card for such items. i know on my desire everything i downloaded showed up in a download folder on my sd card but with the mesmerize only pictures that i download show up there. i've tried locating them with root explorer and file manager but not having any luck. any insight or advice would be greatly appreciated

detroyt said:
ive downloaded some ringtones/notifications and they automatically show up in the respective fields when going to select them as such, but for the life of me i cannot find them anywhere on the phones internal and external memory (i want to delete the ones i dont like). i have a folder setup on my sd card for such items. i know on my desire everything i downloaded showed up in a download folder on my sd card but with the mesmerize only pictures that i download show up there. i've tried locating them with root explorer and file manager but not having any luck. any insight or advice would be greatly appreciated
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If you downloaded them from your phone onto your phone, they'll be in your download folder on your sdcard. If it was from an app, that app might have made a folder on your sd card, titanium backup made one on mine.

I know that's where they should go but if I download from myxer.com it automatically goes into the ringtones/notifications under settings and yesterday when I unzip a file that contained sounds it did the same thing. I can't find them in my system memory in the audio folder or on my SD cards audio folder.

try looking in sdcard/media/audio/(ringtones/alarms/notifications)

/system/media/audio
is the location of the default sounds
You could also try running a search like *.mp3 or *.ogg

Tried looking every where I could think of and suggested I even tried searching for then, still no luck locating them. If all else fails I'm just going to do a factory reset just to rid myself of this annoyance.

[Q] What's on my SD Card?

I wanted to start this thread because I am having trouble, (and I assume other noobs are as well), understanding what's on my SD Card and how to navigate through it.
I've attached what I see when I open my device and check the internal storage.
My main reasoning for trying to understand all that's on my SD Card is because it's important! And because I'm trying to figure out where all my apps are stored. I recently installed the venom custom ROM, and since then have lost the knowledge of where my .apk files are stored. That's really what I'm after trying to find those files. I've searched every folder but still no dice. I used Titanium Pro to backup all my files but there is nothing located in the Titanium folder.
Can anybody help me identify where my .apk files are located?
I also have a few .apk files I wish to install on my phone. From what I've gathered the way to do this is to add them to where the other .apk files are located and then Fix Permissions. If I cannot locate my .apk files is there another file path I could save it to?
Lastly I have these two files I have not recognized before, BUGSENSE and .profig
What are these files?

So if you're downloading the apks off a website they'll be in the downloads folder if you downloaded then through Google play..they won't be on your sd unless you manually backed up them up through titanium

a box of kittens said:
So if you're downloading the apks off a website they'll be in the downloads folder if you downloaded then through Google play..they won't be on your sd unless you manually backed up them up through titanium
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Right okay, so if I choose to back them up onto the SD card then my .apk file paths should appear? Because as you can see now I have no app folders on my phone (sd card) currently.

I've backed up my phone via titanium still nothing in there is an .apk file.
I'm also interested in keeping my phone clean of useless things (another reason for this thread).

As file explorer. Settings allow up to root allow root. Go up from sd card. System/data folder
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Boom. That's what I was searching for. Thanks.
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dmcin23 said:
I've backed up my phone via titanium still nothing in there is an .apk file.
I'm also interested in keeping my phone clean of useless things (another reason for this thread).
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If you go to titanium backup location on sd card and open it you will find what you looking for. Its pretty easy to restore backup in titanium app itself.....also a true backup should be done in twrp recovery as it backs up everything (file partitions,kernel,radio,apps) it will save a copy (known as a nandriod backup) on your sd card that you can recover if your rom won't boot or you just need to restore .
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Make sure you enable writing to the root folder as well. System apps are in system/app.

Empty directories

Hi. I need to find all empty dirs in the specific dirs, so I started google that question and found following:
1. "find" on android doesn't work with "-empty" arg.
2. Google shows me some play store apps, which should find empty dirs, but they delete ALL of them right away on the whole system (or Android dir) and some of them can't even see SD card, but in my case I only need found them only, not auto delete.
So how one can find all empty dirs on android ?

Xda801 said:
Hi. I need to find all empty dirs in the specific dirs, so I started google that question and found following:
1. "find" on android doesn't work with "-empty" arg.
2. Google shows me some play store apps, which should find empty dirs, but they delete ALL of them right away on the whole system (or Android dir) and some of them can't even see SD card, but in my case I only need found them only, not auto delete.
So how one can find all empty dirs on android ?
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I use an app called "Empty Folder Cleaner" on Google Play store. It's never deleted a folder that couldn't easily be re-written by a seldom used app. Been using for over a year now with no problems. Ad-Free, too.
Only catch, is you can't do your SD card w/o root access. Internal storage works fine though, (non-root)
Description by the app publisher;
Annoyed with loads of empty folders in your file manager? Use this app.
Key Features
1)Multiple options to delete empty folders
2)Delete empty folders from internal storage(No root required)
3)Delete empty folders from external storage/memory card(Root required for this feature only)
4)No advertisement
With a single click all the empty folders will be deleted.
Options to delete empty folders
1)Show progress - get the progress of which file is being checked for empty folders
2)Log deleted empty folders - get the list of all the empty folders deleted
3)Scan ANDROID created folders - will not delete empty folders from the directories /Android/data, /LOST.DIR, /DCIM
Note: folders with ".nomedia" and other hidden files will not be deleted as they might be required by the system or the app which has created it. Developer is not responsible for any problem created by the app. You use the application at your own risk
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darth_vapor said:
I use an app called "Empty Folder Cleaner" on Google Play store. It's never deleted a folder that couldn't easily be re-written by a seldom used app. Been using for over a year now with no problems. Ad-Free, too.
Only catch, is you can't do your SD card w/o root access. Internal storage works fine though, (non-root)
Description by the app publisher;
Annoyed with loads of empty folders in your file manager? Use this app.
Key Features
1)Multiple options to delete empty folders
2)Delete empty folders from internal storage(No root required)
3)Delete empty folders from external storage/memory card(Root required for this feature only)
4)No advertisement
With a single click all the empty folders will be deleted.
Options to delete empty folders
1)Show progress - get the progress of which file is being checked for empty folders
2)Log deleted empty folders - get the list of all the empty folders deleted
3)Scan ANDROID created folders - will not delete empty folders from the directories /Android/data, /LOST.DIR, /DCIM
Note: folders with ".nomedia" and other hidden files will not be deleted as they might be required by the system or the app which has created it. Developer is not responsible for any problem created by the app. You use the application at your own risk
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Yes, this is one of the apps I found, but it is not what I need, as I said in the first post.
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