Hi
i use Hd2 and got the microsoft facebook apps installed. i discovered that i now have many photo folder existed when i open the photos tab and then click "albums" and "albums" again.
i realize all photo folder show under the "My Device" tab is due to the photos downloaded due to my facebook apps. is there anyway we can hide the unnecessary folder shown at the photo apps?
dan97
I too have found out that the facebook app is copying the profile pic of each FB person in the recent news etc, and putting into my albums
Hiding folders in htc albums
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If somehow HTC Album on your device is displaying pictures or folders as Albums you'd prefer to hide from various reasons, this could be easily achieved with a Registry tweak that instructs HTC Album to ignore a specific folder.
You need to edit your registry by going to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\HTCAlbum\Ignored. This is the place where all the folders to be ignored and not displayed in the Album application are stored. Say you have a folder called Project you'd like to hide from the application then create a new string in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\HTCAlbum\Ignored and set its name to Project and its value to the path of your folder (i.e.: \Storage Card\Project). This will hide all subsequent folders as well so make sure to hide only the folder you want to keep from Album application. Add as many string values as you wish.
Note: Additionally, if you want to hide a specific picture, just set its attributes to hidden and it will not be shown in the Album application. Do that for all individual pictures you want to keep from the program.
i would have put a link but im not alowed.
think you need to hide \Temp or at least thats what took my facebook pictures off albums
Peter
thank you
THANK YOU prob1. my problem is solved.
After adding a .nomedia file to the Touchdown attachments folder I tried many things to try to get the Gallery to stop displaying these folders (in various combinations):
Rebooted
Wiped the data of the HtcMediaCacheService
Wiped the data of the Gallery app
Renamed the folder to one thing, opened the Gallery, renamed it back, opened the Gallery again. (As per this suggestion.)
I don't want to use the "Show/hide albums" feature because Every email with a picture attachment creates it's own album. Is there some way to solve this?
EDIT: After yet another reboot, they're finally not showing!
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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.)
Hello friends!
I recently updated my Nexus 5 to LP 5.0.1 and since then I am not able to access any images through any app like Facebook etc. I am able to access images through an app called Quickpic or through ESexplorer, but if I open Gallery, only the pics that I have clicked from camera are accessible, rest are not. When I opened Facebook and tried to share a pic that I had downloaded, I wasnt able to access that file. I even copied the file to the DCIM folder but still only the pics those were actually clicked from this phone were accessible and the rest were not.
Please help.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/general/sdcard-problems-upgrading-android-t2938749