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).
Is there a way to back up certain files in the background on the phone and just save them in a designated place? Not apps, or app data and stuff like Titanium does. But a way I can have certain files save themselves at periodic times in the background?
Is there any way I can lock some of my apps with another another app? I have many cousins and they like to go threw my phone and I would like to lock just certain apps like my messages and pictures not my whole phone.
Same here
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Some launchers let you hide certain apps. For Windows Phone, that's probably not possible. Without some sort of exploit, the design of a Windows Phone app is supposed to be very limited.
On the other hand, you could have an application with a password-protect feature that would store your archived pictures and messages.
I'm afraid that this isn't possible in WP7. You would probably need some kind of replacement launcher to make this happen.
Same problem
SecureIt app for photos
You can always download SecureIt app from the marketplace. You can store private pics there and then delete them from your camera roll, or albums. As for text messages I have no idea.
I wasn't able to find SecureIt app on the Market Place. Has it been removed or non existent anymore?
Hi all. On a rooted Chacha and using Root Explorer, what files or apks can be safely removed in order to gain precious internal storage space and so we could load more preferred aps?
None. Don't delete files using root explorer. Use som other app to remove not needed system apps and thats all. If you remove some system files, you can brick your system or even phone.
Use titanium if you have root.
I've removed:
All Facebook apps
HTC hub
Mail
Mail widget
Live wallpaper
Streetview
HTC likes and likes widget
News
News and weather
Htc sync
Peep
Green immersion
Stocks
Several more but as I remember I'll edit this post.
I removed then put back due problems:
Music related apps, they affected ringtones and alerts.
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qbert456
Thanks so much for the tips. Instead of deleting those files it might also be good to move them to a folder on the external disk so in case we'd want to bring them back to system in the future. Though that may be a tedious chore to do as I cant see a multiple file select on Root Explorer while R/W is active
With titanium you can "freeze" them to test if they matter before uninstalling, also backup in case you need to re install.
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Here's what I still have in my system/app
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=17299030&postcount=26
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