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.
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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?
My xoom is not working nomedia.
I installed the osu, the music game,
that game has many images and music.
so i copy and paste the nomedia that folder, but it can't work it.
so those files are still scanning the music app, and gallery app.
How can i solved it???
Thx to read my post.
kokjsch said:
My xoom is not working nomedia.
I installed the osu, the music game,
that game has many images and music.
so i copy and paste the nomedia that folder, but it can't work it.
so those files are still scanning the music app, and gallery app.
How can i solved it???
Thx to read my post.
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I would like to help you but I can't understand what you are saying.
What is "nomedia?"
What is osu-the music game? Can you be a little more clear?
okantomi said:
I would like to help you but I can't understand what you are saying.
What is "nomedia?"
What is osu-the music game? Can you be a little more clear?
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.nomedia is a file that works disable the media scanning in android.
If the '.nomedia' is in folder, that folder disable the media scanning.
You see the page - http://osu.ppy.sh/p/about
osu need to many pictures and mp3 because of running games
So, If the '.nomedia' is not in Osu folder, their all files(musics, pictures) are scanning,
and therefore i can see their music in music app, and can see their picture in gallery.
If i put the .nomedia to Osu in android 2.2, 2.3, that files didn't scanning.
but, xoom it's not.
I used tiamat 2.1 hammerhead.
I'm having the same problem, rooted on stock Rom. Pictures still show up in Gallery although the .nomedia file has been used.
Is there a fix for this?
You should just be able to open your gallery, highlight the folder that they are in and click Delete. It will not delete the files. Just their entry into the gallery. Shouldnt show up again unless you do another media scan. Not sure what happens then. I usually just delete the folder after removing it from the gallery first. Never tried scanning again to see if they come back
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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...
Title says it all... Having my music on my SD Card, with album cover in each folder causes each cover to be inside the gallery.
Thoughts?
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Put an empty file called ".nomedia" (with no file extension like ".txt or other) in the folder where the cover pictures are
(you can copy the .nomedia file from others folders)
(if doesn't work immediatly, reboot)
Yeah, this is an issue for me too. I want only pictures in the gallery, not my videos appearing too.
I'll try that, thanks.
But I have everything separated by folder with the album cover where the music is for that album.
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Put an empty file called ".nomedia" (with no file extension like ".txt or other) in the folder where the cover pictures are
(you can copy the .nomedia file from others folders)
(if doesn't work immediatly, reboot)
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The issue there will be if you place the .nomedia file in a music folder that folder won't be read at all by media scanner. So your songs will not be read either. You might be able to use a workaround such as telling your music player what folder to look in but I'm not sure if that will work either with a .nomedia file in there.
Okay, I've got another solution (which takes a bit more time). Let's sum those solutions up now:
You can put a .nomedia file into your music folder. This should stop Androids media scanner from scanning sub-directories, too. Ah, damn. Just read the answer above mine. He's right. This method will "hide" all the files in the music folder and therefore your music player won't be able to find them (except it has an internal media scanner).
Embed the album covers in the mp3 files itself and then delete the cover .jpg file from the directory (most likely this file is hidden). Embedding works with various tools (for example MP3Tag for Windows). This takes way more time than option 1.
I hope this helped
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