Does anybody knows an application, where i can protect a folder on my sdcard
meo said:
Does anybody knows an application, where i can protect a folder on my sdcard
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You can hide your folder, but you can't protect it with password. At leaste for now.
To hide your folder on your SD card you have to use Astro File Manager. Create new folder and rename it ".nomedia" - without quotes. On some phones you have to do restart.
So if you put pictures/videos in that folder, gallery don't show them. No thumbnail pictures either.
SilverASH said:
You can hide your folder, but you can't protect it with password. At leaste for now.
To hide your folder on your SD card you have to use Astro File Manager. Create new folder and rename it ".nomedia" - without quotes. On some phones you have to do restart.
So if you put pictures/videos in that folder, gallery don't show them. No thumbnail pictures either.
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Actually, there are two ways (well, there are more, but I think these will do for now).
1. Just place a . in front of the folder name. Eg. /sdcard/download becomes /sdcard/.download
2. You can place an empty file titled .nomedia in the folder you don't want seen by the gallery and video apps, etc.
Hello,
I am having duplicate pictures show up in my gallery. The original pictures are on my SD card, but when I went and looked at the duplicate pictures and where they are located, they are on the SD card as well in the MNT folder. I deleted 1 picture from the MNT folder and it deleted it from the SD card as well. Anybody know how to fix this, I don't care if they are in 2 places, I just don't want them to show up in my photo gallery as a duplicate picture.
In the folder you don't want to show in gallery create or place an empty file named .nomedia.
Yes there is a period at the beginning of the name ( makes it hidden ).
Hello. I have thousands of pictures. I would like to know If I am able to create folders inside the DCIM -> 100MEDIA folder of my M8 and label them for certain events ("birthday 2014, xmas, friends party"... etc etc etc). I created a "test" folder and moved pictures to it, and it does not show up in gallery camera shots, or anywhere else in gallery app.
How do you guys organize your pictures?
Also, lets say I move a picture named "IMAG3400" from DCIM to a different folder and or delete it, will any future pictures I take ever be re-named that SAME name? I did a test and it was named differently... So does this mean future picture names will not ever be re-named the same as a previously taken picture?
Hello, I like to take photos and videos using my Note PRO 12.2 However, it has happened a few times that when I showed people photos/videos in Gallary, those that I did not want to show also showed up. What is the best way to hide these videos/photos? I am using an un-rooted device. Thanks.
Rename those files (or folder containing them) to start with "."
They should not show up on your gallery.
Spere said:
Rename those files (or folder containing them) to start with "."
They should not show up on your gallery.
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Create a new empty file and name it ".nomedia" without the quotes. It will hide any media in the folder that you place it from any gallery/media app.
Thanks. In the case of putting confidential photos and videos in the folder called .nomedia , how do I view those files?
I guess the above approach is very good if everything is in one folder. If I organize the files into folders like "Summer trip to the US", "winter 2014", "school", "research", etc., it may be a bit inconvenience to move selected files from each folder to one big .nomedia folder or create one such folder inside each bigger folders.
Alternatively, is there a good photos/videos viewer that allows me to drag and drop files or folder to it so that they are perhaps password protected?
Try Quickpic. Under its settings there is a browse menu where you can exclude certain folders.
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petercohen said:
Thanks. In the case of putting confidential photos and videos in the folder called .nomedia , how do I view those files?
I guess the above approach is very good if everything is in one folder. If I organize the files into folders like "Summer trip to the US", "winter 2014", "school", "research", etc., it may be a bit inconvenience to move selected files from each folder to one big .nomedia folder or create one such folder inside each bigger folders.
Alternatively, is there a good photos/videos viewer that allows me to drag and drop files or folder to it so that they are perhaps password protected?
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You're mistaking two things for eachother.
A .nomedia file is a file. You can find one, for example, in the Android folder. It excludes the content of the folder it is located in, as well as any subfolders, from the MediaScanner/Indexing Service process. (Thus the solution for excessive Media battery usage). This excludes the files from the gallery, no matter the gallery setting.
Renaming a folder with .[foldername] does not require it to be called NoMedia, you can call it anything you want. This excludes the folder from apps that have the settings 'exclude folders starting with .' to hide the folder. Meaning you can also show the folders if you want.
Folders with a .nomedia file in it will not show up in the gallery or mediaviewer, but the files can still be opened the normal way from a file explorer.
I've excluded all folders with media in it except for the Alarms, Ringtones and Notifications folders (or the alarm/ringtone won't go off), and opening videos, pdf's and images is done by simply opening the file through a file explorer.
Basically, you can either make a .[foldername] folder and drop them all in there, or make a regular folder, drop all the images in there and copy a .nomedia file into it. The effect will be the same, except that you can choose to show or hide them if you use a .[folder]. .nomedia can not be disabled in the regular gallery. (It can in Quickpic.)
I think this just recently started happening but why does my Note8 keep creating a folder called Android in both my internal and SD card? In that folder are a ton of other folders. Basically one for each app on the phone. Anything I download on Chrome, goes to the com.android.chrome folder. Camera pics go to the camera folder. Amazon Mp3s go to amazonmp3 folder and so on. I don't want these things in these folders. Any Chrome downloads or camera pics don't show up in my gallery when they go to the android folder. I have to move them from that folder into another before I can see them in gallery. I removed everything, and deleted the 2 folders but when I restart my phone, they reappear and everything starts downloading to those folders again!! How can I stop this?