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
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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?
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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).
I have my phone unlocked and I have the touchexplorer installed. I viewed a PDF about 2 months ago and I want to look at it again. Is there a temp folder that holds these documents and where is it?
normally u would find all your pdfs in Adobe reader unless you deleted them, now if u did I am not sure but I do not think it would show up in temp or anything coz that would just waste precious memory.
Pdf Reader sometimes doesn't store files when you receive few different files with the same name. Like I receive my carrier bill having the same name every month. Because you can't rename files hence the conflict appears. Another great "advantage" of lack of file explorer.
And if in this case you deleted the email containing this file than Pdf is gone.
I was able to find the PDF by going opening the Adobe App (simple right..) now I would like to get it to my computer. I have it set so windows explore on my computer can access the files on my phone but where would that specific file be stored?
I recently got root and was moving some apps to the sd card and accidentally deleted my documents app thinking it was the "Google Documents" app for text editing, when it was actually the default file explorer on the moto 3, android 6.0. This is pretty bad because a lot of apps direct me to this app (for instance to choose a backup file like in "reddit is fun"). The documents app then instantly crashes because it's not there. It also crashes randomly everyday.
Can I download an apk of the documents app somewhere? I already searched but couldn't find any. Does anyone maybe want to get an apk file from there documents app?
tl;dr: deleted documents app, need it back
Whenever I try to copy a .nomedia file to my folders in order to hide the media from gallery apps, they get deleted.
any ideas? I've never had this weird problem with any other phone.
I just tried it and some folders delete it while others don't. DCIM/Screenshots deletes it but DCIM/ScreenRecorder doesn't delete it. Just know that google photos will upload everything in DCIM no matter if the folders have .nomedia inside.
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I just tried it and some folders delete it while others don't. DCIM/Screenshots deletes it but DCIM/ScreenRecorder doesn't delete it. Just know that google photos will upload everything in DCIM no matter if the folders have .nomedia inside.
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I actually dont care about the google photos app becuase I always have it disabled.(Data charges are too much to let it upload so many heavy photos) but I just dont want the normal gallery apps to show all my private photos (especially DCIM)
I've always used .nomedia files for this matter and by always I mean since my first android device back in 2013 so that's a bummer.
Okay this is a weird one
Google removed free photo uploads except for those uploaded on older Pixels, so I want to sync all my images to my old Pixel to get free uploads. It's not about the money, it's about the philosophy.
I found resilio, a great app to sync files between devices in almost real time. Problem is: Google Photos does not see the new images until I reboot the device or change something in this folder in a file explorer app. So, if I for example create a dummy file and delete it, Google Photos will now see the new images synced to this folder. If I don't do anything except for the sync, the pictures will never be seen by the Photos app until I reboot.
So I thought, maybe I can push the system to somehow show the new pictures to the Photos app. I tried using tasker to move the new files to another folder, but failed because I could only manage to move the whole folder or a specific file, wildcards did not seem to work.
Another idea was creating and removing a dummy file in this folder via tasker, but Google Photos still did not take notice. It seems like I have to do this manually in my file explorer to get the system to notice the change...?
Now my only idea would be to restart my phone every few hours, but this can't be the solution
Any ideas where the problem might lie and how I can solve this?