Is there any way from keeping the Profile Pictures from popping up every time one enters the picture gallery?? And no, I don't have a 'profile' set up in my contact list.
Once you are in the gallery and then choose Settings>View By>
I change it to Content in device, but it only remembers it until the next time you open the gallery.
Is there any way to get rid of Profile Pictures once and for all??
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To prevent media scan on boot of certain photos etc so they don't show on gallery?
1. Create folder named ".nomedia" (with full stop but no quotes) on your internal or external sdcard.
2. Move required files there and reboot.
The moved files will not be scanned by media scanner should not be visible in gallery.
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UpInTheAir said:
If I understand you correct....
To prevent media scan on boot of certain photos etc so they don't show on gallery?
1. Create folder named ".nomedia" (with full stop but no quotes) on your internal or external sdcard.
2. Move required files there and reboot.
The moved files will not be scanned by media scanner should not be visible in gallery.
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That's the problem. Those files aren't anywhere on my device. They are profile pictures from Facebook and Google. You would think that if Settings gave you a choice, it would remember it for the next time.
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I`ve tried all the photo album apps on the market, and all of them for some reason scan the whole device searching for images. As a result it grabs all CD covers I have stored along with muisc, and shows it in the album. I HATE it. Why do I need CD covers mixed with my album photos?????
Does anyone know a photo album app which can be instructed to search for photos only in a specific folder?
I had the same problem but I don't think there is a way around it. What I ended up doing was using 'picture folder' app for photos and then 'doubletwist' for music and deleting all of the cover images from the music folders as doubletwist can get the cover art from the ID tag of the files.
Only really helpful if your OCD like me and make sure all your musics ID tags are correct
Picture Folder has a feature of hiding folder
Picture Folder has a feature of hiding folder .
Hide your music folder, and recursively hides all subfolders under it.
So won't see any album arts.
Just a work around
I have finally found a program which works on a folder basis and on which one can set the home folder. It is called PiQu. Unfortunately this is a paid application, but since it works exactly as expected, i don`t mind paying 2 euros for it.
i use justpictures which allows you to select folders on your local drive and also syncs with facebook. and it's free!
chupachup said:
i use justpictures which allows you to select folders on your local drive and also syncs with facebook. and it's free!
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Again - it scans ALL folders, and shows ALL pictures. There is no way to define which is the pictures folder by default, and stop scanning other folders (except for adding.nomedia file which has to be done manually). Also I prefer to see thumbnails as thumbnails and not as a deck of playing cards on the table.
Use 3d Gallery 2.0. You can find it here on Xda or google.
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sascha6982 said:
Use 3d Gallery 2.0. You can find it here on Xda or google.
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3d gallery has same problem. It scans all folders on SD.
Just use " Picture Folder" works great!
Is there a way to hide certain folders from showing up in the gallery? Thanks for the help
Download Quickpic from the market, I use it as my default Gallery. You can hide and even lock certain pic folders.
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Ok thanks a lot
Came in here to say QuickPic as well. Not only can you hide stuff, you can choose to exclude folders from showing crap you'd rather not fill up your gallery. Great free program.
a more manual way would to be create a blank file using root explorer called ".nomedia" and place it in the folder with the images you are wanting to hide from the gallery.
make sure after you use something like sd rescan or just reboot your phone
I use the ".nomedia" method, but you could also put all of the files you don't want in the gallery in a folder whose name begins with a period as well. Ex: "sd_card\.MyPics\img001.jpg"
I use file copy. It even uses a password to get in which I like
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Is there a way to block certain folders from showing their images in the Gallery app? I love mClock and the skins for it have image files. So whenever I open the gallery app it shows all the images for mClock and just clutters up the gallery. Is there a way to block this?
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If you make a file called .nomedia and put it in the folder you want to block it should block it. Just a blank file, starts with a period, all lowercase. This is respected by many apps, but not all. Official google ones should respect it though.
Here's how...
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Old thread but here is a no Computer needed option:
Download ES File explorer (its free)
Install and open it
Navigate to the folder you want to exclude (remember it propagates down e.g. if you place it in the root of SD then the whole of SD is excluded including all the sub-folders)
Press Menu and select "new"
Select "File"
Call it .nomedia
Rescan your memory Cards
Sorted no PC required
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You can also create a text file in Windows Notepad. Save a blank document named ".nomedia" (w/o the quotes) and instead of saving as "txt," use the drop down and save it as "all." Drag the document in to the folder you want to block the OS from scanning.
Ok got it fixed thanks guys...
On a related note, the pictures from my google+ account haven't been syncing with my TP Gallery. Usually if I take a picture with my Galaxy Nexus it will sync with my TP Gallery. Kinda cool except it hasn't been syncing. The photos are synced in the Gallery on my Galaxy Nexus, but no show on my TP since 1/27...
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From my experience with my galaxy s, just adding a '.' Before any folder name will prevent it from showing in your gallery. You can call it whatever you like.
Just got my phone. I've inserted an SD card that has a lot of music, and each album has an image for the album cover.
The problem is that the stock Gallery app reconizes each album folder as a gallery. Is there a way to exclude a folder from the media scanner?
This could be done by creating a File with the name .nomedia in the folders you want to exclude.
The media scanner should then ignore those folders.
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Create a folder .nomedia (include the full stop at the beginning) and move required files inside. Reboot
Edit, see answered above while I was procrastinating.
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Should you create a file or folder with the name .nomedia????????
I have the same problem and creating a file ".nomedia" is not a good solution...
I have like 250 albums, I should create one in every album folder?
Thank you all for answering.
@UpInTheAir, what do you mean by "(include the full stop at the beginning)"
pedrohp said:
Thank you all for answering.
@UpInTheAir, what do you mean by "(include the full stop at the beginning)"
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It must be called ".nomedia" can you see the full stop? It MUST be there
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It seems not to work anymore. When you create .nomedia files in the folders this will be ignored. What worked for S1 and S2 does not work on S3 (Android 4.0.4) any ideas?
irony17 said:
I have the same problem and creating a file ".nomedia" is not a good solution...
I have like 250 albums, I should create one in every album folder?
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Install quickpic select the folders you want to hide and they won't appear in stock gallery too
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Install quickpic select the folders you want to hide and they won't appear in stock gallery too
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Thanks a lot!
If the music files are formatted properly, they won't show in the gallery....period.
QuickPic is hands-down, the BEST photo gallery on Android.
Download it, use it as your default, and never look back.
ekjl said:
QuickPic is hands-down, the BEST photo gallery on Android.
Download it, use it as your default, and never look back.
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I've tried it. Still prefer the new ICS gallery.
pedrohp said:
Just got my phone. I've inserted an SD card that has a lot of music, and each album has an image for the album cover.
The problem is that the stock Gallery app reconizes each album folder as a gallery. Is there a way to exclude a folder from the media scanner?
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U can name it what ever u want u just need to put a dot in front of whatever u name it and it would show up.
I found that renaming the images to folder.jpg for instance removed them from gallery view
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I found that renaming the images to folder.jpg for instance removed them from gallery view
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That worked, but i really don't want to rename every single image manually nor i want to write a piece of code to do that.
Just installed QuickPic and it not even showed such "album art" images! automatically detected and hidden.
Stock gallery still showing them (even after quickpic installed)
Is there a way to clear the media scan cache and start it again (manually)?
ekjl said:
QuickPic is hands-down, the BEST photo gallery on Android.
Download it, use it as your default, and never look back.
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I did this but QuickPic doesn't have the option to include the Picasa/Google Images I have stored online.
the ".nomedia" file works. A reboot is needed though
Want to hide that private stash, right? "album art"
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My S4's Gallery won't recognize old .jpgs. It will take new pictures, and load them to the DCMI folder as normal. The same folder also contains all my old pictures but the Gallery will only show the new pictures.
How can I "import" my old pics, or have the Gallery App recognize them?
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My S4's Gallery won't recognize old .jpgs. It will take new pictures, and load them to the DCMI folder as normal. The same folder also contains all my old pictures but the Gallery will only show the new pictures.
How can I "import" my old pics, or have the Gallery App recognize them?
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Hello! You can try going to app settings and clearing the cache/data for the gallery app. This should force the app to rescan your sd card for content the next time you open the gallery. It doesn't hurt to unmount and mount your sd card from the storage option under settings. The latter won't work if you're storing pics on the internal card. Hope this helps.
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Hello! You can try going to app settings and clearing the cache/data for the gallery app. This should force the app to rescan your sd card for content the next time you open the gallery. It doesn't hurt to unmount and mount your sd card from the storage option under settings. The latter won't work if you're storing pics on the internal card. Hope this helps.
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Neither worked but this did:
1: from Google play download fish bowl photo free..
2: open the app and go to menu or press menu on your phone.
3: click on advanced and then press start media scanner, app will close and scan wait 5 min and open gallery and check if your picture are there, if this doesn't work follow step 4.
4: click advanced then on find
missing photo go to sdcard,and click the folder where u have your pictures in my case DCIM,camera and select that folder with the check mark on the right the press menu on your phone and click add to gallery and it will start adding all the picture to your gallery let it finish now all your picture will be on your gallery use this process to add any picture on on your sdcard to gallery any question please ask...:thumbup: for me!
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It seems the media scanner was not running upon reboot as it should (still don't know why), so the solution was downloading an app called "scan media" and all it does is launch the media scanner process to search for media and populate the media storage. The app doesn't require any permissions at all.