I have an SD card which includes many folders of CDs and Scans.
When I opened the Gallery, the pictures of CD scan will appear but I want to hide them.
Here comes the problem: I know I can creat a .nomedia file to make it hiden but that will also prevent the music file in the same folder from being scanned by the music player. Besides creating those files is such an exhausting work.
So is there's a way I can hide pics in gallery but not influence my music? Or make media scanner scan the specific folder only.
PS: Why the stock Gallery App doesn't have a hide function. (-.-
Sorry for my bad English. Appreciate for your help. (^_-)
You could download an app like secrecy which can be used to hide and encrypt photos and videos.
Photo Hide
Use Photo Hide App From Play Store
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Hi everyone!
I used to use Gallery Enabler (later renamed into Media Hidden) to exclude folders from SD media scanning, but I seem can't find the app on Market anymore. Could anyone please post a download link to the app?
More information about the app can be found here:
http://www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/tools/media-hidden_gxdt.html
Thanks indeed!
You could try Pandora or Private Media as well. In my opinion pandora is better as it lets you play files without restoring them to their original location.
Otherwise a very simple way of hiding a folder from gallery is to insert a .nomedia file in the folder. Creating a .nomedia file is easy. Just open a text editor & save a blank file with the name ".nomedia".
Hope this helps.
seventyfivein said:
You could try Pandora or Private Media as well. In my opinion pandora is better as it lets you play files without restoring them to their original location.
Otherwise a very simple way of hiding a folder from gallery is to insert a .nomedia file in the folder. Creating a .nomedia file is easy. Just open a text editor & save a blank file with the name ".nomedia".
Hope this helps.
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Wicked!! Learn something new every day! I've been wondering if that was possible
You can also try Hide it Pro application. It can do all sorts of hiding like photos,videos,audio,application
I would like to hide certain folders from some applications but not others. In particular I would like to hide my podcasts from my mp3 player but not my podcast player.
Can this be done?
I have problem when all pic and small music from games folder appear in music apps and gallery, I try to use gallery excluder and nokumastudio apps that put a .nomedia file to exclude folders from media scanner, this method work in gingerbread but this method do not work in ICS..Is there any other method I can use to exclude folder?.
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Use this app
Use Gallery Excluder By Mr floppy Encoding
Confirmed and working for ICS and I use it so I know
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...lLm1yZmxvcHB5Y29kaW5nLmdhbGxlcnlleGNsdWRlciJd
Gallery excluder work..just need to clear data..
If you have a file / folder explorer. Create a folder in your /sdcard and /mnt/external1 that could be called
Code:
.NOMEDIA
Note: the period (.) is required.
Place everything you want in there and it should exclude from any application that scans for pictures, music, etc...
Ok
I copied a bunch of drawings, learning sheets to my sd card however, when I goto gallery is there an option where I can just view that folder and not show everything as it does already like mu mp3 album art to videos. Its really annoying gripe but is there an alternative if not?.
Yep, if you don't want the files in a folder to show up in gallery you just create a file and name it .nomedia inside that folder... This means that the gallery will ignore anything in this folder, whether it's images, mp3's or movie files...
I have a few album arts in my music folders, but I want to stop them from showing up in the gallery. I tried putting a .nomedia file in, BUT then the big problem is that play music doesn't show my music anymore.
Any ideas how to solve this?
I don't use the stock Gallery app for displaying my pictures. A much more powerful and useful gallery app is QuickPic, which I definitely recommend. On top of many other features, you can choose to exclude specific folders/directories so they don't appear as one of your albums. This should solve your problem.
so in android 6.0, when i used my camera, the images (when clicking the little preview button on the bottom) would go to gallery, but would read only from Camera folder where the captured images would be saved.
now with 7.0, if i click that little preview button to the right of the shutter, it starts off showing ALL the pictures from all the folders, including wallpapers, screenshots, etc. and none of them are in order.
can i change that somehow?
also, i can't seem to change another gallery app as default, like QuickPic.. is that really not possible?
Not sure about switching default gallery apps, you can't switch default video player apps, but you can create a file named .nomedia in the folder of each folder you don't want media to show up in the gallery from
Create .nomedia in the folder containing the images/videos etc, reboot the phone, it should remove those images from showing in the gallery, but they will still be accessible form the folders themselves
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Not sure about switching default gallery apps, you can't switch default video player apps, but you can create a file named .nomedia in the folder of each folder you don't want media to show up in the gallery from
Create .nomedia in the folder containing the images/videos etc, reboot the phone, it should remove those images from showing in the gallery, but they will still be accessible form the folders themselves
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oh that's cool to know. will that only affect the Gallery or other apps like QuickPic as well?
UPDATE: the .nomedia file affects other apps like QuickPic gallery as well. however, in QuickPic i can click "show hidden" and those appear.
its a decent workaround, however i wish samsung didn't screw up their gallery even more.
thanks for the advice.