Has anyone managed to use the .nomedia method to hide unwanted photos etc? I can't seem to get it to work.
Edit: never mind I found a fix.
And .......?
Could you please let us know what the fix was?
You can hide photos from gallery by renaming the folder the photos are in with a "." period before the name.
Well use a .nomedia application from market to select folders you would like excluding from media scan. Then go to apply manager and find gallery clear defaults and data then (not sure if you need to) goto media manager and do the same. Then reboot. Not ideal but it works
Try using Quickpic from the market.... Hide pics and video and lock with passcode.
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Does anyone have an apk for gallery private for some reason it doesn't show up in my market and I can't seem to find it online any help is appreciated
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as a new user, I can't post a link, but you can find a download link for the pro version at getandroidstuff-dot-com. just search for gallery private. once it returns the app from the search result, click on the gallery private app name and it will take you to a description page where you'll find a download link. or if you can find it elsewhere, that's cool too.
once you install it on your phone, it won't show up in your applications window, but you do have it installed. it's supposed to be discreet that's why it doesnt appear among your apps. instead, to access it, you have to add it as a shortcut to your homescreen. you'll see a G.P. (Pro) selection. just select it and it will create a shortcut icon on your homescreen, which you can drag into a folder if you want. Then bingo, you got gallery private and can modify the icon and the name!
Or search for audio manager on the market, its a private gallery for pics, vids, and anything you want to hide.
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here is G.P. free. The easiest way to hide files is to use a file manage like astro and make a new file that starts with . (example .private) Any folders that start with the period are hidden folders and its contents will not show up on phone but you can still view them with the manager. you can then go to the settings in the manager and set it to not show the hidden folders. hope this helps
thanks everyone for the help i actually started using the audio manager one it works pretty good.
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here is G.P. free. The easiest way to hide files is to use a file manage like astro and make a new file that starts with . (example .private) Any folders that start with the period are hidden folders and its contents will not show up on phone but you can still view them with the manager. you can then go to the settings in the manager and set it to not show the hidden folders. hope this helps
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Hi bro. Thanks for share this app, but you can have the "G.P. (Free)" with "Search Files on SD" option?
Thanks so much.
I can't restore the old albums encrypted with this app... But your version not have a "search on sdcard" for encrypted old files with the app.
Thanks (again)
I placed ".nomedia" in my music folder and still the album artwork appears in the gallery, even after a reboot.
Is there another way to hide albums from the gallery?
I had this issue too, the following advice solved it for me.
Download an app called quickpic from the market. For some reason it correctly hid my nomedia folders despite them showing in the Xoom, so I told it to show hidden folders. Then for the folders that were misbehaving, long press them, click unhide, then long press again and click hide.
My guess is manually making the nomedia file goes wrong somehow, but doing the above hid the folders I was trying to hide
If it only shows folders with pics and you want to hide a music folder, I guess the workaround would be to also have a small picture file in each folder you want to hide.
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I want to hide one book/folder in SNote. Is there a way that I can do it within the SNote app? Or would I have to use a file manager like Astro and change the file name to hide the file? Or are there other apps that would hide the files for me?
I would like to hide a diary folder that I plan to use and add entries to several times a week. I have hidden photos in the past that I didn't want to access that often, so changing the file name with Astro was not a problem for situations like that. It would seem cumbersome to have to do that with every diary entry that I make though. Any suggestions are appreciated.
I think an actual diary app would be better in your case. That allows for passwords too
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I have tried the .nomedia approach (putting a .nomedia file in all the folders I want to exclude).
It works hiding all the existing pictures, but once you have new picture downloaded from browser or sent through whatsapp, it will still show up...
Kinda annoying.
Using quickpic atm but dont really like it...
help!!!
Download quick pic from the play store, from there you can hide albums or single pictures by holding down on them.
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download tip calculator from store.dont go on its name. it is a file hider.
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Lots of apps want to populate your "Share via..." menu and from the reading I've done, Android provides NO way to edit the built-in menu. I did try a 3rd-party app that you could add/remove, shuffle entries, etc but some of the stock Samsung apps use their own share menu (mainly, Gallery) and I didn't like the inconsistency.
Of course, one way to remove items from the menu is to remove the app itself ! That leads me to my question.....
Why are apps that are NOT installed showing up in my "Share via..." menu ?? I have Picassa and Backup+ Media in the list but the apps are not installed. I suspect there's some non-obvious app-helper that's putting these here that I missed when de-bloating.
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Lots of apps want to populate your "Share via..." menu and from the reading I've done, Android provides NO way to edit the built-in menu. I did try a 3rd-party app that you could add/remove, shuffle entries, etc but some of the stock Samsung apps use their own share menu (mainly, Gallery) and I didn't like the inconsistency.
Of course, one way to remove items from the menu is to remove the app itself ! That leads me to my question.....
Why are apps that are NOT installed showing up in my "Share via..." menu ?? I have Picassa and Backup+ Media in the list but the apps are not installed. I suspect there's some non-obvious app-helper that's putting these here that I missed when de-bloating.
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It has to do with it being coded into the package installer. There should be a mediauploader.apk that registered Picasa to be available for uploading. If you delete or freeze it, it might go away. I'm not exactly sure what would happen, but I know that's where it's located.
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mediauploader.apk ? It is only for Picassa ?
Edit: Moved it and that took care of Picassa. Now to find the Backup+ helper app...
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mediauploader.apk ? It is only for Picassa ?
Edit: Moved it and that took care of Picassa. Now to find the Backup+ helper app...
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You're on your own on that one, I have no idea where that is.
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