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.
SilverASH said:
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.
Hello,
I am having duplicate pictures show up in my gallery. The original pictures are on my SD card, but when I went and looked at the duplicate pictures and where they are located, they are on the SD card as well in the MNT folder. I deleted 1 picture from the MNT folder and it deleted it from the SD card as well. Anybody know how to fix this, I don't care if they are in 2 places, I just don't want them to show up in my photo gallery as a duplicate picture.
In the folder you don't want to show in gallery create or place an empty file named .nomedia.
Yes there is a period at the beginning of the name ( makes it hidden ).
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.)
hi... i have an issue with folder scan.
Only the children folders are found.
The files at the root of the scan folder are not.
very annoying
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.
ema93a said:
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.