I am trying to keep a folder from showing up in gallery. I have created a .nomedia file in the folder, cleared the data in gallery and rebooted but it keeps showing up. What am I doing wrong?
Most secure way is to freeze/disable gallery and use 3rd party apps for pictures and videos.
Make sure there is no extension on your file. Change your view in windows to show full file type.
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Devtodi said:
I am trying to keep a folder from showing up in gallery. I have created a .nomedia file in the folder, cleared the data in gallery and rebooted but it keeps showing up. What am I doing wrong?
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You need to clear data from media storage also and reboot. It's under all applications
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Devtodi said:
I am trying to keep a folder from showing up in gallery. I have created a .nomedia file in the folder, cleared the data in gallery and rebooted but it keeps showing up. What am I doing wrong?
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If you use QuickPic, you can "exclude" the folder with the video in it by long pressing it and picking "exclude"....if you do that then you can disable the stock gallery and you'll be good to go.
Devtodi said:
I am trying to keep a folder from showing up in gallery. I have created a .nomedia file in the folder, cleared the data in gallery and rebooted but it keeps showing up. What am I doing wrong?
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Here is a link to a free app that works well
"Gallery Excluder" from the google play store.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...lLm1yZmxvcHB5Y29kaW5nLmdhbGxlcnlleGNsdWRlciJd
You can also check out Vaulty. It's never failed in my own personal experience and its free
Hide it Pro - Disguised as "Audio Manager" app. Excellent app.
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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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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!
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
siberian tiger said:
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
vinhmac said:
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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Hey guys, so I have a rooted Droid Bionic on a custom ROM. My gallery has been working fine but all of a sudden it doesn't have any more files showing up. They are still on my phone which I can see with a file explorer but they just don't show up in the gallery at all. It's just blank with a toast notification saying 0 images/videos available.
I've tried clearing data and cache, uninstalling and reinstalling just the apk from titanium backup. I installed gallery ics from the play store. After all of that it's still blank. Any ideas would be really appreciated. thanks
Try this
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Hey guys, so I have a rooted Droid Bionic on a custom ROM. My gallery has been working fine but all of a sudden it doesn't have any more files showing up. They are still on my phone which I can see with a file explorer but they just don't show up in the gallery at all. It's just blank with a toast notification saying 0 images/videos available.
I've tried clearing data and cache, uninstalling and reinstalling just the apk from titanium backup. I installed gallery ics from the play store. After all of that it's still blank. Any ideas would be really appreciated. thanks
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There have been reported issues all over in regards to media getting deleted on the sd cards. so far IMHO is to create a blank .nomedia file on both the root AND your media folder (just to cover all basis). It has seemed to work for me so far and another tab that I get to work on.
basically use whatever file explorer you use and create a 'new file' and call it .nomedia (dot - nomedia) and that should cover it.
Hope that helps some.
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I just tried that. I used ES file explorer and my gallery is still empty. I restarted my device but still the same. Thanks for the suggestion though. Any more ideas?
Well I just downloaded quickpic after seeing some people suggest it as an better gallery app and it does show my pictures. Which makes it even weirder that the stock gallery app doesn't work.
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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misterpogs said:
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.
Hey there..I have a problem with my gallery. It isn't showing all photos in file manager .when i received photos yesterday from my friend which were received in the Bluetooth folder , I went to the gallery to view them but I didn't find them so i tried copying the Bluetooth folder in DCIM. Then i went back but still nothing happened. I also realized that when i take a retrica photo it doesn't appear in gallery but they appear only in file manager. Any suggestions?
Chrisamgad said:
Hey there..I have a problem with my gallery. It isn't showing all photos in file manager .when i received photos yesterday from my friend which were received in the Bluetooth folder , I went to the gallery to view them but I didn't find them so i tried copying the Bluetooth folder in DCIM. Then i went back but still nothing happened. I also realized that when i take a retrica photo it doesn't appear in gallery but they appear only in file manager. Any suggestions?
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Hm..never had this problem. Try app collecting everything. ( all SD cards)
f.i. :https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alensw.PicFolder&hl=en
If you can find it in file manager, this app must do the same.
Good luck.
I found them when i pressed on show hidden in options on this app. Thanks
Chrisamgad said:
I found them when i pressed on show hidden in options on this app. Thanks
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Check there file names, they prob have a character which marks them as hidden.
yup i think something hides it but i don't know whats that but they aren't the characters