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.
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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.
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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.
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?
This tablet is awesome, however the stock gallery app seems to be useless or am I missing something? I bought tablet because of the stylus and photo editing possibilities. I copied my photos from my pc on a micro sd card and inserted it into the note. However the gallery app does not seem to sort the resulting folders in any order, just a random mishmash of dates and names, I'd rather use the stock gallery due to the multi screen support however it is a real chore to find a folder / photo when it's presented randomly....does anyone know how to make the folders sort and appear alphabetically? Or even how the gallery app sorts the folders that photos are in?
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That's easy:
Arrange photos in Folders (= Albums) and You have them sorted in Albums. (Which by themselves can be sorted by time, location etc .)
Once You are IN an Album You can sort them by tTime, location, persons or groups
troed said:
That's easy:
Arrange photos in Folders (= Albums) and You have them sorted in Albums. (Which by themselves can be sorted by time, location etc .)
Once You are IN an Album You can sort them by tTime, location, persons or groups
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I'm missing something with the gallery, too. I have my photos in folders, and when I have albums selected from the upper-left menu, I see a bunch of randomly sorted "albums." If I choose something else from that menu... say, time, for instance, each item on the screen (each thumbnail) is a group of photos from a specific day. I'd like the folders to be sorted in such a way that makes sense. Ideally, I'd like to sort them by name, as my folders are named with year and month (yyyy_mm). And I'd also like to not see every folder on that main screen, because some of them are inside the yyyy_mm folders. Ideally, I would only see a bunch of thumbnails named yyyy_mm, in chronological order... the way they appear in my folder structure on my PC.
Is this possible?
What I've found out about the stock gallery..........
Firstly there seems to be a limitation on android that it whilst it knows folders are nested, it will not support displaying only the parent folder, rather it displays all the orphan folders, I've tried lots of photo organising apps and they all have this limitation....this is a right pain if you want to sort your folders in logical way without every single folder displayed on the root display
In the stock gallery app the display options are based on..
Place, uses GPS data on the photo
Album, the folder names that your pictures are stored in on the device
People, face tagging which you have to enable on the device and then assign names from your contact directory.
groups, will display face tagged photos in the group's that are set up in your contact directory.
The limitation of face tagging is that you can't just enter a name for a face, it will only use your contacts directory so you have to enter a load of names in your directory to use for this feature, I suggest you make a group for these entries.
The main problem with the stock gallery is that once you have your photos in the gallery displayed in one of the ways detailed above you can not sort them, hide folders or enter manual information such as a location on places.
For my purposes I just want the folders to be displayed as I have them saves in my sd card, I have a parent folder for each year since 2000 within each oh these folders are a series of further folders for each set of pictures such as holiday, wedding etc. I just want my parent folders displayed in the gallery root, sorted by date. This doesn't seem possible as the stock gallery has no sorting options, my albums are displayed with no logic just, it seems, randomly.
I use the excellent quickpic app, which has loads is display and sorting options but has the "can't display only the parents of nested directorys" feature of android.
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manmikey said:
What I've found out about the stock gallery..........
Firstly there seems to be a limitation on android that it whilst it knows folders are nested, it will not support displaying only the parent folder, rather it displays all the orphan folders, I've tried lots of photo organising apps and they all have this limitation....this is a right pain if you want to sort your folders in logical way without every single folder displayed on the root display
In the stock gallery app the display options are based on..
Place, uses GPS data on the photo
Album, the folder names that your pictures are stored in on the device
People, face tagging which you have to enable on the device and then assign names from your contact directory.
groups, will display face tagged photos in the group's that are set up in your contact directory.
The limitation of face tagging is that you can't just enter a name for a face, it will only use your contacts directory so you have to enter a load of names in your directory to use for this feature, I suggest you make a group for these entries.
The main problem with the stock gallery is that once you have your photos in the gallery displayed in one of the ways detailed above you can not sort them, hide folders or enter manual information such as a location on places.
For my purposes I just want the folders to be displayed as I have them saves in my sd card, I have a parent folder for each year since 2000 within each oh these folders are a series of further folders for each set of pictures such as holiday, wedding etc. I just want my parent folders displayed in the gallery root, sorted by date. This doesn't seem possible as the stock gallery has no sorting options, my albums are displayed with no logic just, it seems, randomly.
I use the excellent quickpic app, which has loads is display and sorting options but has the "can't display only the parents of nested directorys" feature of android.
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Wow, that seems like a pretty silly limitation. I would think a lot of people would want to be able to sort the way you described. I organize my photos almost exactly the same way, except that I have a folder for each month. But then, like you, I have subfolders that describe an event. I, too, just want to see the top level. I hope, at some point, someone comes up with an app that does that. In the meantime, I'll try QuickPic, as it seems to have more sorting options and, hopefully, I can at least sort the "albums" in a way that doesn't seem competely random.
Thanks!
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?
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.