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[Q] Possible to filter Samsung Gallery?

Is it possible to filter the pictures which appear in the Samsung Gallery on the DC? Each time I start it up it is filled with TONS of pictures I do not want, including Google map fragments as well as album covers from my music files...pretty much making the display a mess.
I looked in Settings > Applications > Manage applications as well as Menu in the gallery and did not see any options...
All I want to see are my pictures in "My Pictures" folder on my SD card as well as the camera (DCIM folder if I must)!
Thanks!

Try QuickPic, free from the market.
You can select which folders it loads from, and it loads much faster due to a cache. Also it displays pics in higher resolution, so you can zoom in.
Much better than stock gallery.

Or go into each folder of the images you don't want to see with a file browser and create a ".nomedia" file - sans quotation marks.

Definitely try Quickpic. It is great.

binglejellsx2 said:
Or go into each folder of the images you don't want to see with a file browser and create a ".nomedia" file - sans quotation marks.
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Thanks, I'll give it a try. If I put it in a folder such as "My Music", will it block all of my album subfolders underneath? If not, Quickpic here I come!
Thanks everyone!!!
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rmanaka said:
If I put it in a folder such as "My Music", will it block all of my album subfolders underneath?
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I believe it does. What I think happens is it stops searching the contents of that folder, including subfolders, once it sees the file.
If you have music in there too, they might be blocked from showing up in a media player.

How to organize pics from gallery???

I am trying to organize all my pics, i am just tired of trying to find one out of 523 pictures. So im trying to find out if there is a way to add folders???

4ive said:
I am trying to organize all my pics, i am just tired of trying to find one out of 523 pictures. So im trying to find out if there is a way to add folders???
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You can do the show hide folders via Menu > Show and Hide and then select what you want.
Otherwise, you might find an app like QuickPic better.

4ive said:
I am trying to organize all my pics, i am just tired of trying to find one out of 523 pictures. So im trying to find out if there is a way to add folders???
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You can also use a file explorer such as ES File Explorer or Astro File Manager to creat a folder and place the specific pictures you want in it. The Gallery app will automatically find the folder and show it with your other picture folders.

I'm not too sure but I believe quickpic (download from market, it's free) can create folders and move pics. Plus it's a good gallery replacement. Fast and you can sort folders by name or date and also sort the photos in the folders the same.
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Just as T-Macgnolia suggested, the ES File Manager (free app) in Google Play does it for you. And then in Gallery you can Show/Hide the folders you want.

[Q] Deleting photos in Gallery

Now that Samsung in their INFINITE wisdom has taken out the menu button. Can someone confirm to me how to delete photos directly from Gallery? No.. not from File Manager or 3rd party software. Just the standard Gallery App that came default. If I wanted to go through my pictures and delete certain ones, then how? I can hold down on some pics and tag/select. There is a SHARE button on there but nothing else. No editing, No rotate option, no print, no move options. NOTHING.
REALLY unhappy about this.
Please help..

When you tap and hold on the picture, above it shows three options SHARE, DELETE, MORE.
Also if you just tap and open the picture, on the bottom it shows more options as well.

This did not work. The only option I have is to share-not to delete. Very frustrating. Anybody know how??

What changes have you made to your phone. I never use the regular gallery but it is easy to use

bchliu said:
Now that Samsung in their INFINITE wisdom has taken out the menu button. Can someone confirm to me how to delete photos directly from Gallery? No.. not from File Manager or 3rd party software. Just the standard Gallery App that came default. If I wanted to go through my pictures and delete certain ones, then how? I can hold down on some pics and tag/select. There is a SHARE button on there but nothing else. No editing, No rotate option, no print, no move options. NOTHING.
REALLY unhappy about this.
Please help..
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The infamous PICNIC error.

possible solution?
bchliu said:
Now that Samsung in their INFINITE wisdom has taken out the menu button. Can someone confirm to me how to delete photos directly from Gallery? No.. not from File Manager or 3rd party software. Just the standard Gallery App that came default. If I wanted to go through my pictures and delete certain ones, then how? I can hold down on some pics and tag/select. There is a SHARE button on there but nothing else. No editing, No rotate option, no print, no move options. NOTHING.
REALLY unhappy about this.
Please help..
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Ive just discovered quite by accident that if you select camera you will see a thumbnail bottom right hand corner of screen of the last pic you took. click on this and you get the option to delete!

bchliu said:
Now that Samsung in their INFINITE wisdom has taken out the menu button. Can someone confirm to me how to delete photos directly from Gallery? No.. not from File Manager or 3rd party software. Just the standard Gallery App that came default. If I wanted to go through my pictures and delete certain ones, then how? I can hold down on some pics and tag/select. There is a SHARE button on there but nothing else. No editing, No rotate option, no print, no move options. NOTHING.
REALLY unhappy about this.
Please help..
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What have you done to your phone since getting it? ROOT? Custom ROM? IF neither i'd factory reset as all those options are available on a normal S6. You can press delete on the little icon on the bottom of the picture or you can hold down on a pic and the delete option comes up.

bchliu said:
Now that Samsung in their INFINITE wisdom has taken out the menu button. Can someone confirm to me how to delete photos directly from Gallery? No.. not from File Manager or 3rd party software. Just the standard Gallery App that came default. If I wanted to go through my pictures and delete certain ones, then how? I can hold down on some pics and tag/select. There is a SHARE button on there but nothing else. No editing, No rotate option, no print, no move options. NOTHING.
REALLY unhappy about this.
Please help..
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Are you still having the problem?

bchliu said:
Now that Samsung in their INFINITE wisdom has taken out the menu button. Can someone confirm to me how to delete photos directly from Gallery? No.. not from File Manager or 3rd party software. Just the standard Gallery App that came default. If I wanted to go through my pictures and delete certain ones, then how? I can hold down on some pics and tag/select. There is a SHARE button on there but nothing else. No editing, No rotate option, no print, no move options. NOTHING.
REALLY unhappy about this.
Please help..
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Simply change the category top left from categories to anything else and your issue will be resolved. Not sure why delete is not an option when you are on categories.

Same problem here!!
And you press on Help, it says to tap on "delete" even though they should no there's no Delete!!! Only Favorite, Share and Editor....Very frustrating!

Do this
Close gallery then Access gallery from camera. Select camera. Then tap bottom right icon. Select album. Or gallery I think. All photos there with delete option

Deleting from Samsung Galaxy S6
Go to Gallery
In the top left hand corner it gives you options to change your gallery display to time, albums, events or categories
Tap Time
Then tap the image you want to delete
then tap the screen
there should be 4 icons on the bottom the fourth one should be delete.

Thanks! Changing from "Categories" to "Time" allowed me to delete the photos. When I was under "Categories", the delete option would not appear.

Delete Photos
mikie15zd37zj said:
Simply change the category top left from categories to anything else and your issue will be resolved. Not sure why delete is not an option when you are on categories.
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Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!

samsung galazy s6
Whitesnakewoman said:
Ive just discovered quite by accident that if you select camera you will see a thumbnail bottom right hand corner of screen of the last pic you took. click on this and you get the option to delete!
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Found a solution
Go to setting. Application manager gallery clear cache force stop. It should go back to being able to delete photos.

Go to settings , storage, used space then select pictures and videos. Make sure you open with photos as you get all images. Have fun deleting

This really worked for me! I changed the Category to like ALBUMS and I was able to delete an image, Yay!!Thank you!
mikie15zd37zj said:
Simply change the category top left from categories to anything else and your issue will be resolved. Not sure why delete is not an option when you are on categories.
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I had to download an alternate camera app and access my pictures from there

Click on the album where your pics are located. Click more then click edit. Select the pics or all photos then click delete. I just did it 3 times. It works.
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I just did this and it works. Select the album where your photos are located. Click more. Click edit. Select the pictures you want to delete. Then click delete.
bchliu said:
Now that Samsung in their INFINITE wisdom has taken out the menu button. Can someone confirm to me how to delete photos directly from Gallery? No.. not from File Manager or 3rd party software. Just the standard Gallery App that came default. If I wanted to go through my pictures and delete certain ones, then how? I can hold down on some pics and tag/select. There is a SHARE button on there but nothing else. No editing, No rotate option, no print, no move options. NOTHING.
REALLY unhappy about this.
Please help..
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How to hide albums in stock Gallery?

When I open my gallery, I have about 60 "Albums" displaying.... Mostly folders with movies and music in them, some with downloaded pictures too. In previous versions, I used to be able to "hide" or "exclude" the selected album from the gallery, but I don't see that option any more?
I know Quickpic, Pikture, A+Gallery, ect... works, but want to stay with stock gallery app if at all possible?

tele_jas said:
When I open my gallery, I have about 60 "Albums" displaying.... Mostly folders with movies and music in them, some with downloaded pictures too. In previous versions, I used to be able to "hide" or "exclude" the selected album from the gallery, but I don't see that option any more?
I know Quickpic, Pikture, A+Gallery, ect... works, but want to stay with stock gallery app if at all possible?
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Create a file named .nomedia and place it in each folder you want to block from gallery app.

You can move albums to Private Mode

LGmarly said:
You can move albums to Private Mode
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How can we do that?

Bright.Light said:
How can we do that?
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You would just long press on an album, and the option to move to private should appear.

LGmarly said:
You would just long press on an album, and the option to move to private should appear.
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Nope, long press only gives me a check and a way to change the name.
I use Quickpic, so don't use the gallery anyhow, but it made me wonder... Never saw this possibility in the default gallery.

The .nomedia method works best, I found that setting certain folders to private caused issues especially with Nova Launchers icon cache.

and what about appicons?

Why does the camera roll show ALL images (Camera, WhatsApp, Screenshots etc.)?

Hey guys,
Since a couple of days I've start to notice this little 'problem' on my Samsung Galaxy S7 (Android 7.0). For some reason the camera roll is showing ALL my images (and videos) instead of just the pictures that I have taken with my phone. So, WhatsApp images/videos, screenshots, downloaded images, it's all there.
Now, I've read alot about the .nomedia 'solution' to hide/excluse certain albums from showing up in the Gallery, but I don't want that. I like my WhatsApp images/videos etc. being shown in the Gallery application, I just don't want to see them in/on my camera roll.
So, the Gallery application is working just fine, and everything is stored in (pre-located) albums ('Camera', 'Screenshots', 'Twitter' etc.). I've looked at the settings in the Gallery app, but couldn't find anything relevant that would likely be causing this problem. Same goes for the Camera application.
What can be relevant is that I am storing the pictures taken by the Camera on a SD-card.
So, I was wondering if someone could help me. Is this problem related to Nougat? My phone isn't rooted, by the way.
Many thanks in advance! ?

Same problem here... Really annoying

What do you mean by "Camera Roll"?
If you open the "Album" section of the gallery, are you saying ALL images are showing up in the "Camera" album folder? Rather than their individual folders?
Obviously if you choose the "Pictures" tab, it will show all images on the device on the same screen
The "Albums" tab should be showing them in individual folders though

*Detection* said:
What do you mean by "Camera Roll"?
If you open the "Album" section of the gallery, are you saying ALL images are showing up in the "Camera" album folder? Rather than their individual folders?
Obviously if you choose the "Pictures" tab, it will show all images on the device on the same screen
The "Albums" tab should be showing them in individual folders though
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With "Camera Roll" I mean the pictures that can be accessed through the Camera App - when you open the Camera App it's the circular icon placed on the bottom right of the screen (right next to the shutter/camera button).

Same problem here. When I try to look photos from camera app, it shows all photos, not just camera roll like it should

Yonix360 said:
With "Camera Roll" I mean the pictures that can be accessed through the Camera App - when you open the Camera App it's the circular icon placed on the bottom right of the screen (right next to the shutter/camera button).
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The camera roll accessed from the camera app just opens the "Pictures" tab of the gallery app, which contains every image on the phone that does not contain a .nomedia file in it's folder
Samsung would have to patch the camera app to open just the "Camera" album folder I assume
But generally you would only use that button in the camera app to view the last few shots you just took, if you want to view a specific folder, open the gallery Albums tab

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The camera roll accessed from the camera app just opens the "Pictures" tab of the gallery app, which contains every image on the phone that does not contain a .nomedia file in it's folder
Samsung would have to patch the camera app to open just the "Camera" album folder I assume
But generally you would only use that button in the camera app to view the last few shots you just took, if you want to view a specific folder, open the gallery Albums tab
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It wasnt like this in 6.0

NeoDJW said:
It wasnt like this in 6.0
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This isn't 6.0
Complain to Samsung if you want it changed
Things in Windows 10 aren't the same as they were in Windows 8
Things change

Naaah, it's easier for me to cry here

NeoDJW said:
Naaah, it's easier for me to cry here
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Unlikely going to have the same effect crying here, as crying to the people who can do something about it would
Could always flash back to MM if it's affecting you that badly
Personally when I want to look at some photos on my phone, I open the gallery app, not the camera app, I use that for taking the photos...

Thanks for all the help and responses, guys! I guess I'll just have to get used to it. Maybe Samsung will patch this in the future. Who knows.

That's a pretty dumb reply, to be honest. It's a camera app. Why would you want to review every downloaded or received image through the camera app? Sure, why don't I just jump off a bridge if I don't like it? It's a ****ty function and I can't blame people for asking if there's a fix. You can keep your "eat it or die" answers to yourself if you don't fancy being helpful.

I guess the question is:
why is the gallery opened when one opens the camera in whatsapp seeing that line of pictures is very irritating.(S5 mini)

Any solution?

This is killing me. Such a silly system by Samsung.
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If you don't want your WhatsApp (or any other App for that matter) images to be shown between the rest of your Gallery images, you have to install and use a File Manager, navigate to the WhatsApp images folder and 'hide' this folder. Normally you can also hide a folder by creating a new file in that folder named ' .nomedia' like noted by Detection. The WhatsApp images folder is normally located at: 'Internal Storage' (or sdcard) > 'WhatsApp' > 'Media' > 'WhatsApp Images'. This way the gallery won't show your WhatsApp images anymore but WhatsApp will still show his own images. I hope I am correct with this info and this helps some of you.

Hi guys,
I asked to add this option (open last media in camera folder when gallery is called from camera app) in this camera mod app. Maybe you could increase the importance/priority of the request showing your interest on this feature in the mod post.
I'm trying the @martin.delbi method: should be a good workaround, but you should do it for all the folders with media you have in your storage/sd without .nomedia file that you do not want to show in Gallery.

I've tried this solution and realized it's not what I actually want since other apps don't even see those folders too. How do I undo it? I've deleted the .nomedia files I created and I still can't see the album. Thanks

unable to view watsapp status in myfile folder in samsung j7 max.
kindly help to resolve the problem

The_Ulf said:
That's a pretty dumb reply, to be honest. It's a camera app. Why would you want to review every downloaded or received image through the camera app? Sure, why don't I just jump off a bridge if I don't like it? It's a ****ty function and I can't blame people for asking if there's a fix. You can keep your "eat it or die" answers to yourself if you don't fancy being helpful.
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I totally agree. It's ridiculous that every photo or media file is right there after you take a picture, if you downloaded something or if someone sent you something in a text or you have something risque in a totally different directory on an SD card and it's dated just before that photo, BOOM! It's right there for your mom to see next to the family pics.
Can you change the default viewer that gets activated from the camera app?
Is there another camera app that does not have this problem?
The "camera roll" or the the icon from the camera app should ONLY show recent pictures in the DCIM/camera directory. PERIOD.
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You can go into Gallery, go to Albums Tab, touch the three dots, there's a Hide or Unhide Albums. You can hide most albums, except for a few including Camera, Screenshots, Downloads, and Pictures (at least on my phone). The newest picture still seems to come up in the camera circle preview pane, and shows up for a second when you click the gallery circle from the camera app, but if it's in a hidden directory disappears. If you latest media file is in the camera directory, you don't have this problem.