Hi. I have read a lot of post about media scan in i9300 and I cannot figure out what happens to me.
I have a folder of image , (for example whatsapp image) the folder was stored in the internal memory (mnt/sdcard/Whatsapp/media/whatsapp_image)
I copied some images to the folder from computer and my whatspp downloads the new image sent by my friends.
the most interesting thing is Gallery only shows the image downloaded by whatspp. The other images that I put into the folder from computer are missing.
I use "ASTRO File Manager" to see what happens. I found that the file manager cannot even generate the thumbnails of those image I copied from computer to the folder. It only have the thumbnails that downloaded by whatspp. (On the other words, only the image with thumbnails are shown in Gallery and they are downloaded by whatsapp)
But I can still open the image without thumbnails by pressing them and choosing "Use Gallery to open", It can be viewed perfectly. It proves the images are not damaged.
(P.S. If I use My Files, the stock file manager, all images have thumbnails. But the images are still missing, nothing changed or improved)
Then I use File Managers, (My Files, Stock File Manager, and ASTRO File Manager) to move the images without thumbnails to external sd cards (mnt/exSdCards/Temp). After that, ASTRO File Manager can find the folder and generate the thumbnails, Gallery can show the images after rescanning the media.
However, after I move the images back to internal memory (I even create a new folder under root of the internal memory), the thumbnails gone and gallery cannot show them after rescanning media.
Does anyone know what happened and how to solve it? I know I may use other Picture Viewer to "solve" this, but I hope to find out the real solution first. Thank you.
Sorry my thread are too long and my english is poor.
I may post some screenshots later if you want.
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On my other Android devices I can simply put a . in front of folders that I don't want the gallery to display (such as avatar pics and shortcut icons and what not) and it wouldn't. Then I could use eStrongs file manager or similar to browse to them when I needed them. I popped a 2GB MicroSD card I had laying around that already had some files on it from another Android device and ALL of the folders with images are showing up in the gallery... even those with a . in front of them.
Is there any way on an Archos 101 to set the Gallery to NOT display items inside of a '.' folder? Seems this is default with other Android devices so I'm hoping it's at least an option on these.
Ideas?
Thanks for the help.
Moved to general as not android development.
OstrichSak said:
On my other Android devices I can simply put a . in front of folders that I don't want the gallery to display (such as avatar pics and shortcut icons and what not) and it wouldn't. Then I could use eStrongs file manager or similar to browse to them when I needed them. I popped a 2GB MicroSD card I had laying around that already had some files on it from another Android device and ALL of the folders with images are showing up in the gallery... even those with a . in front of them.
Is there any way on an Archos 101 to set the Gallery to NOT display items inside of a '.' folder? Seems this is default with other Android devices so I'm hoping it's at least an option on these.
Ideas?
Thanks for the help.
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Create a 0kb file called .nomedia. Place it in the folder of items you don't want shown. That should work.
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Create a 0kb file called .nomedia. Place it in the folder of items you don't want shown. That should work.
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Doesn't appear to work. I searched before posting this and found a few things about .nomedia and thought maybe you had to rename the actual folders w/the images within to .nomedia to hide them? Seems like this would be a PITA way to go about it.
Am I doing something wrong? Any other ideas?
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Doesn't appear to work. I searched before posting this and found a few things about .nomedia and thought maybe you had to rename the actual folders w/the images within to .nomedia to hide them? Seems like this would be a PITA way to go about it.
Am I doing something wrong? Any other ideas?
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It should work just fine. Did you name the file specifically .nomedia? No ext name. Did you reboot to see if that helps? Did you put the file in the folder of the items you don't want showing?
Here is some more specific instructions (I didn't write them):
1. On your computer, open Notepad or any other text editor
2. Save the blank file with the filename “.nomedia”, make sure that the Save as type is set as “All Files” instead of “Text documents”
3. Copy that file to the folder on your SD card containing picture files you don’t want to show up in the gallery. (Example: If you want to block aDyno image files from coming up, place the .nomedia file in the sdcard/aDyno folder)
4. Reboot your phone and hopefully the unwanted files should no longer be viewable.
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It should work just fine. Did you name the file specifically .nomedia? No ext name. Did you reboot to see if that helps? Did you put the file in the folder of the items you don't want showing?
Here is some more specific instructions (I didn't write them):
1. On your computer, open Notepad or any other text editor
2. Save the blank file with the filename “.nomedia”, make sure that the Save as type is set as “All Files” instead of “Text documents”
3. Copy that file to the folder on your SD card containing picture files you don’t want to show up in the gallery. (Example: If you want to block aDyno image files from coming up, place the .nomedia file in the sdcard/aDyno folder)
4. Reboot your phone and hopefully the unwanted files should no longer be viewable.
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Alright, w/more information I tried it again. I created a file just using a file browser on the device. This time around I created a file in Notepad on my PC called .nomedia and made sure the filetype was set to 'all files' before saving and that there was no extension (deleted the .txt) and then copied that file to my Archos 101. I first tried in the folder on the SD card that contained all the folders in question. I rebooted and it didn't seem to help. I then copied the file into each folder and rebooted. Still no dice. Whenever I open Gallery all the folders and images are still there. What am I doing wrong? Do I need to clear a cache or something or delete any tumbnails or ?? I'm sure I'm just doing something wrong but for the life of me I can't figure it out. I keep searching and am coming up with nothing. This was SO easier on my other Android devices as I just put a period in front of the name of the folders I didn't want to display and it was done. Simple as that. This is a royal PITA and I feel I'm not making any progress.
In the market search Studiokum or .nomedia. whit this app is easy control. Nomedia files
ramso said:
In the market search Studiokum or .nomedia. whit this app is easy control. Nomedia files
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Do either of these allow you to simply hide w/o signing in or encryption? I found two other programs & both required this which I don't want to deal with. Just seems odd that others are saying this is working for them & I'm not having any luck. I don't mind installing an app as long as it works but I'm not sure why my Archos 101 would be different than the rest.
OstrichSak said:
Do either of these allow you to simply hide w/o signing in or encryption? I found two other programs & both required this which I don't want to deal with. Just seems odd that others are saying this is working for them & I'm not having any luck. I don't mind installing an app as long as it works but I'm not sure why my Archos 101 would be different than the rest.
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This app working rigth for me, only add the .nomedia in the folders. Now the pictures in the folders i marked don't displayed in thr gallery
OstrichSak said:
Do I need to clear a cache or something or delete any tumbnails or ??
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Reset multimedia library in Settings - Repair & formatting.
lolo33 said:
Reset multimedia library in Settings - Repair & formatting.
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Yes! This is EXACTLY what I needed. Thanks!
Hi guys
I've noticed that if I use apps like total commander or files by zenfield or any file manager by matter of fact and let's say cut/paste photos from gallery to different folder, go back to gallery photos are still in the same folder plus same photos in new folder.
It looks like photos are copied but the cache isn't.
However if I use built in file manager that is included with touchwiz ux all photos are moved properly.
Any ideas?
I had two files named .thumbdata3-1763508120 and .thumbdata3--1967290299 in sdcard/DCIM/.thumbnails. It keep generating when I delete them until my memory full. So I dont know exact size of fully grown these files. when I delete them size about 380+ MBs. Google not help me much (except the cure for avoid genereting files) I want to know what they are and deleting them harm the android?
Dilushan said:
I had two files named .thumbdata3-1763508120 and .thumbdata3--1967290299 in sdcard/DCIM/.thumbnails. It keep generating when I delete them until my memory full. So I dont know exact size of fully grown these files. when I delete them size about 380+ MBs. Google not help me much (except the cure for avoid genereting files) I want to know what they are and deleting them harm the android?
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These are the Thumbnail files of Photos..
Thumbnails are Small pictures shown in album while browsing the album which you click to open image
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These are the Thumbnail files of Photos..
Thumbnails are Small pictures shown in album while browsing the album which you click to open image
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Not possible. I only had images less than 10MB in sdcard while these files 380+MBs. by the way all the thumbnails also in .thumbnails folder explicitly. So clearly thumbnails has nothing todo with these big two files.
Those are the index files of the thumbnails that get's generated by stock camera app. Not using the stock camera app solves this. A simple google gave me this answer.
Search before you post.
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gouthamthemostwanted said:
Those are the index files of the thumbnails that get's generated by stock camera app. Not using the stock camera app solves this. A simple google gave me this answer.
Search before you post.
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Yaa. I did. im afraid I cant still find what u are talking about
In simple terms,
1.Stock camera app indexes the thumbnails and saves the respective image's properties in a thumbdata file.
2.The problem is that each and every pic present in your memory card will be indexed in the thumbdata file and even if you remove the image, the indexed properties of the image still remains dormant in the thumb data file.
3.If the removed image is again restored in the memory card, it creates another new id for the image and indexes it once again so two entries are present for a single image (it may be the same image for us but the operating system takes the date of creation of the image in the sd card into consideration so it's another new image for it)
4.This thumbdata file increases in size in time if you keep on adding and deleting images in your sdcard because new entries gets created and old entries are not at all removed and still remains in the thumbdata file as dead weight.
5. Eventually it's size increases to hundreds of megabytes that's why you have a heavy thumbdata file even though at the particular point of time your gallery is only few megabytes because you have added and deleted files before and those entries remain there in the thumbdata files.
6. This thumbdata file can be deleted with no hesitation what so ever because it's not so important and it eventually gets generated again.
7. You may ask "what is the purpose of this thumbdata files?" the main purpose is to load images faster into memory using the indexes generated so that when you open apps like gallery it doesn't lag to display the thumbnails.
8. That's all I know . I might be wrong somewhere but that's the whole point of thumbdata files generated, getting so heavy.
9. This is again, sourced from google
the answers for your questions are not always found in the first page of your google search
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pitchblack5691 said:
In simple terms,
1.Stock camera app indexes the thumbnails and saves the respective image's properties in a thumbdata file.
2.The problem is that each and every pic present in your memory card will be indexed in the thumbdata file and even if you remove the image, the indexed properties of the image still remains dormant in the thumb data file.
3.If the removed image is again restored in the memory card, it creates another new id for the image and indexes it once again so two entries are present for a single image (it may be the same image for us but the operating system takes the date of creation of the image in the sd card into consideration so it's another new image for it)
4.This thumbdata file increases in size in time if you keep on adding and deleting images in your sdcard because new entries gets created and old entries are not at all removed and still remains in the thumbdata file as dead weight.
5. Eventually it's size increases to hundreds of megabytes that's why you have a heavy thumbdata file even though at the particular point of time your gallery is only few megabytes because you have added and deleted files before and those entries remain there in the thumbdata files.
6. This thumbdata file can be deleted with no hesitation what so ever because it's not so important and it eventually gets generated again.
7. You may ask "what is the purpose of this thumbdata files?" the main purpose is to load images faster into memory using the indexes generated so that when you open apps like gallery it doesn't lag to display the thumbnails.
8. That's all I know . I might be wrong somewhere but that's the whole point of thumbdata files generated, getting so heavy.
9. This is again, sourced from google
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Can i delete them ?
khaledreno said:
Can i delete them ?
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Yes, there shouldn't be any problems after deleting them
Sent from my Nexus 4 running Android 4.3
Solution is to create a file with exact same name including the period in front . Place your .thumbdata3--1967290299 file into the dcim/thumbnails folder . You may have to use your file manager to allow hidden files to be viewed. Make sure there is no extension just exactly .thumbdata3--1967290299 as shown or whatever thumbdata file you may have. Now delete the old file andriod had made. Will keep andriod from making huge index files . This occurs when using stock camera , this solution will fix It. Hit thx if this helped you
HTC sense 5
Suddenly all my pictures and videos disappeared.All Viber, Whats app, Screenshots, camera, downloaded - everything... Only new ones I take are showing. The files are missing in the folders too. I have two DCIM folders - one on internal and another on external drive but they are empty now. I tried File Explorer, ES File Explorer with "show hidden files", and I've checked all of the device folders, but I can not find any of my pictures or videos. I tryed with QuickPic - same sh**... If i connect my device to my PC the result is the same. The PC recovery soft which I test, found about 3000 files, and with all emoticons and trash there were my pictures but in very low res. So I tried Hexamob Recovery Pro (from the Play store), but the result was the same - about 12 000 junk files and some of mine in low res... The method with deleting all .nomedia files doesn't work. Than I've installed Undelete - This app found about 300 files, and these were all of the missing files, but when I tried to restore them, It asked for a license key... The free version could restore only pics...one by one... You can't select all!!!
So how to restore all my stuff without stupid apps!?
*my camera freezes often. "Could not connect the camera" appeares, and I need to reboot to solve this prob
Samsung GT-I9300
Android Version 4.1.2
Baseband I9300UELK1
Kernel 3.0.31 -Siyah-1.8.6+
AOKP Milestone -1 Jelly Bean
Omega v4.2
Where are these files stored (hidden), what is there extension? And why only Undelete can find the proper files with their full resolution!?
So, I found that Undelete detects files at DCIM\DCIM\Camera, but even with "show hidden " explorers does not see the second DCIM folder... Any suggestions !?
You can try
http://android-photo-recovery.com/tutorials/recover-deleted-photos-from-samsung-galaxy-s3.html
Or buy the Undelete licence .
Or read the multiple identical lost photos / files posts .
jje
Thanks!
But I already checked similar posts, and stil can't find solution .. The soft that you recommended, resulting small images too.. The idea is not only to recover, but to prevent future problems of this kind.. I want to understand what causes that
I have renamed DCIM folder and its vanished, But it contained 30 GB of photos. But in microseconds.
Anyone could advice whether can restore. thanks.
Do you mean that folder and all photos in it have disappeared after you renamed the folder?
In general, this is impossible. Open the 'Files' app to find the renamed folder and your photos.
Hi Mr James,
Yes, totally gone missing. It was about 30gb.
James_Watson said:
Do you mean that folder and all photos in it have disappeared after you renamed the folder?
In general, this is impossible. Open the 'Files' app to find the renamed folder and your photos.
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After renamed, i did undo rename in windows PC. Then happened this
lakshmi_SG said:
After renamed, i did undo rename in windows PC. Then happened this
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Did you have them backed up on the PC?
Renaming that folder as is now obvious to you is not a good idea, here's why.
Why Does Every Camera Put Photos in a DCIM Folder?
Every camera — whether it’s a dedicated digital camera or the Camera app on Android or iPhone — places the photos you take in a DCIM folder. DCIM stands for “Digital Camera Images.”
www.google.com
The camera will also not recognize the renamed folder when you take a picture unless you edit the cam app's coding.
I copy the DCIM folder subfolders to a renamed folder on my SD card then back that folder up. I then delete the images in the DCIM subfolders and start over about once a month.
If you really deleted the DCIM folder (I don't think this is possible on a stock Android but never tried it!) things will get dicey.
Search by file type, image or jpeg and check the SD card. If MiX file explorer is already installed try using that. If they have been deleted the files are still there until they are overwritten. Using the device can cause this to happen.
Use only known good recovery software; some offer free recovery but encrypt the results and require a payment to unencrypted the actual images all the while potentially overwriting the originals if it hasn't already deleted them.
Be warned.
If you do manage to recover them it will only be the image files. The folder structure is already lost and the image exit information is disassociated from its image, lost is a sea of files. So there be no timespamp, pic number or any other information for the images and no way to recreate it. 30gb be a complete jigsaw puzzle of images in mostly random order. You can sort by file type but that's all.
You better hope it was renamed and not deleted!!!
blackhawk said:
Did you have them backed up on the PC?
Renaming that folder as is now obvious to you is not a good idea, here's why.
Why Does Every Camera Put Photos in a DCIM Folder?
Every camera — whether it’s a dedicated digital camera or the Camera app on Android or iPhone — places the photos you take in a DCIM folder. DCIM stands for “Digital Camera Images.”
www.google.com
The camera will also not recognize the renamed folder when you take a picture unless you edit the cam app's coding.
I copy the DCIM folder subfolders to a renamed folder on my SD card then back that folder up. I then delete the images in the DCIM subfolders and start over about once a month.
If you really deleted the DCIM folder (I don't think this is possible on a stock Android but never tried it!) things will get dicey.
Search by file type, image or jpeg and check the SD card. If MiX file explorer is already installed try using that. If they have been deleted the files are still there until they are overwritten. Using the device can cause this to happen.
Use only known good recovery software; some offer free recovery but encrypt the results and require a payment to unencrypted the actual images all the while potentially overwriting the originals if it hasn't already deleted them.
Be warned.
If you do manage to recover them it will only be the image files. The folder structure is already lost and the image exit information is disassociated from its image, lost is a sea of files. So there be no timespamp, pic number or any other information for the images and no way to recreate it. 30gb be a complete jigsaw puzzle of images in mostly random order. You can sort by file type but that's all.
You better hope it was renamed and not deleted!!!
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Hi,
Thanks for your kind support.
i will try the above and update the output. thanks.