Hi guys,
Just wondering if anyone knows of an app or mod to block certain apps from reading certain directories?
I mainly want to block doubletwist syncing my screenshots and other non dcim photos by blocking those directories.
I still want to see them in my gallery so the .nomedia trick won't work...
Any ideas?
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Ever since I got in contact with Android I've noticed this annoying problem (if I can call it a problem): the gallery scanner grabs all the pictures on the card, not being limited to a folder or something. That's not bad in itself, but when the music library contains album art, you get lots of extra, useless pics in the picture viewer.
Yes, I already know about the <.nomedia> file and the dot at the beginning of the folder name, but that doesn't solve my problem.
Basically I don't want to hide folders all together from the media scanner, as that would cripple my audio/video player's functionality, but keep the picture viewer confined to a single (maybe two) folder.
Did I miss something while searching around or something like that is not possible at the moment?
Thank you!
PS: As noticed in my signature I have a Motorola Defy with CM7
I also knew about the .nomedia trick.. it should work
you can also hide albums (with a HTC that is)
if you go to your gallery (HTC phone) and press menu
you can select albums to show or hide
No, it's not possible. That's why most of us use a third party gallery app. QuickPic is the most popluar one, and does what you want.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.alensw.PicFolder&feature=search_result
or you can use vaulty free hides pictures, which i believe integrates with your current gallery app
As Android is a linux thingamagic, it will hide the media of folders where you create a file called ".nomedia" without the quotes. Use your favorite file explorer to do this.
I use that, and it works
Hi there.
Think about the following situation:
A digicam contains a WiFi-SD-Card. The pictures taken are automaticly transferred to an Android device.
(Until here there are a lot of Apps doing just that)
But now the pictures saved locally should AUTOMATICALLY be Geotagged using the GPS-Information from the SmartPhone.
So what I need is an app that checks a folder periodicly and geotags any image that is added to that folder.
I already found a lot of Apps that do this indirect and save GPX-Files which later can synchronize the data. But I do not want to start the tagging manually at all.
Has anyone seen such a solution? Maybe with the help of tasker or something like that?
They're not all private but let's assume they are. After I delete photos and videos somehow they're still in my phone, actually I think they're being synced somewhere, but I know this because whenever I do something with any app that is trying to access my files to say upload a pic for an avatar, it uses the system's file retrieving ability to access my media and it's accessing all media I've recently dealt with saved and deleted. But when I delete something, I want it gone, not saved somewhere. How do I access these files and stop this phone from saving them?
So I'm running OB3, and it's flawless so far aside from one thing:
Saved media files aren't showing up in Facebook or Textra.
I'm unable to access downloaded ringtones or notifications in any app, and I have a folder that I use to post images on facebook, and it's just not showing up in the app.
Has anyone else seen or had this happen?
Is it possible to somehow prevent certain applications from accessing certain folders on Android?
I use Adobe Lightroom that has an option to automatically add pictures to my library. The problem is, Adobe provides very little customisation for what gets added, which means it doesn't just add my phone photos, but also all my screenshots, WhatsApp images, Instagram posts and basically any media folders on my device.
I'm hoping there's some way I can block Lightroom's access to those folders at OS level so it can't even see them. Is that possible?
itsChimpanzee said:
Is it possible to somehow prevent certain applications from accessing certain folders on Android?
I use Adobe Lightroom that has an option to automatically add pictures to my library. The problem is, Adobe provides very little customisation for what gets added, which means it doesn't just add my phone photos, but also all my screenshots, WhatsApp images, Instagram posts and basically any media folders on my device.
I'm hoping there's some way I can block Lightroom's access to those folders at OS level so it can't even see them. Is that possible?
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To block the app per folder at system level is not possible. However, you can try a good old trick to make them invisible, maybe the app won't recognize them after: put a dot before the name of the folders you want to hide, for example: ".WhatsApp"
Try that and let me know
Thanks Raiz. I'll give that a go.
Nice idea but unfortunately, WhatsApp stops recognising the folder and just creates a new one and Lightroom uploads from that instead.