When I open my gallery, I see thousands of folders and one thumbnail image in each of those folders!! Those thumbnail images are the auto generated album art from various mp3 files that I copied to the sdCard.
Its almost impossible to find my folders and important pictures in all this mess.
I have been searching on the market, forums and everywhere for days now, and I did not find any way to stop the gallery from showing these auto generated thumbnails in the gallery.
This is a huge flaw in the android gallery app, there should be some option to include or exclude certain desired folders.
When I searched, I found the album art thumbnails which the gallery app was showing were in this folder - /sdcard/DCIM/.thumbnails/
This folder also has thumbnails for my important pictures and camera taken pictures. I don't want to remove those.
What I don't understand is, even if I clear thumbnail cache, it will again generate thumbnails for those mp3 files and show them when I open gallery again!!!!
Its like a loop and there is no way to fix this.
I searched almost everywhere to find a proper solution to this problem, but could not. If anyone has any proper fix for this problem, please help me out
P.S : dont tell me the .nomedia fix etc , i have tried all and it just makes the mp3 files disappear from the media player.
Arjs said:
When I open my gallery, I see thousands of folders and one thumbnail image in each of those folders!! Those thumbnail images are the auto generated album art from various mp3 files that I copied to the sdCard.
Its almost impossible to find my folders and important pictures in all this mess.
I have been searching on the market, forums and everywhere for days now, and I did not find any way to stop the gallery from showing these auto generated thumbnails in the gallery.
This is a huge flaw in the android gallery app, there should be some option to include or exclude certain desired folders.
When I searched, I found the album art thumbnails which the gallery app was showing were in this folder - /sdcard/DCIM/.thumbnails/
This folder also has thumbnails for my important pictures and camera taken pictures. I don't want to remove those.
What I don't understand is, even if I clear thumbnail cache, it will again generate thumbnails for those mp3 files and show them when I open gallery again!!!!
Its like a loop and there is no way to fix this.
I searched almost everywhere to find a proper solution to this problem, but could not. If anyone has any proper fix for this problem, please help me out
P.S : dont tell me the .nomedia fix etc , i have tried all and it just makes the mp3 files disappear from the media player.
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"Gallery exclude" in market search.
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Taavi
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Please go through my entire post :|
And read description of app on market:
Here's how:
Gallery Excluder lists all direct subdirectories of '/sdcard' respectively '/mnt/sdcard' and displays them in a list. If an item/directory gets checked a '.nomedia' file is placed in that directory. If the directory gets unchecked the '.nomedia' file is removed.
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All that is doing is creating that file. I already wrote above-
P.S : dont tell me the .nomedia fix etc , i have tried all and it just makes the mp3 files disappear from the media player.
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I need a proper solution to this, which I think does not exist at all .
Ok. What music player you using? Player setting mayby helps.
I had about 100 mp3 in sdcard BUT gallery dont show me any thumbnail..exept my photos.
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Use Quickpic - it's an awesome gallery replacement app - and exclude the main thumbnails directory. This does not create a nomedia file, it excludes the folder from being scanned by Quickpic and therefore the files don't show up. It will not fix the problem with the stock gallery, but I think you'll be happy with Quickpic's speed and functionality. It's a million times better than the stock gallery.
Be sure to "exclude" and not "hide". Hiding will place a nomedia file.
I know it's not the solution you were hoping for, but it does solve your problem.
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Use Quickpic - it's an awesome gallery replacement app - and exclude the main thumbnails directory. This does not create a nomedia file, it excludes the folder from being scanned by Quickpic and therefore the files don't show up. It will not fix the problem with the stock gallery, but I think you'll be happy with Quickpic's speed and functionality. It's a million times better than the stock gallery.
Be sure to "exclude" and not "hide". Hiding will place a nomedia file.
I know it's not the solution you were hoping for, but it does solve your problem.
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CoolIris stock Android gallery aka SlowPic <--> QuickPic
;-)
Still no solution.. not even a proper bypass
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Use Quickpic - it's an awesome gallery replacement app - and exclude the main thumbnails directory. This does not create a nomedia file, it excludes the folder from being scanned by Quickpic and therefore the files don't show up. It will not fix the problem with the stock gallery, but I think you'll be happy with Quickpic's speed and functionality. It's a million times better than the stock gallery.
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Thanks for helping me out
I have already tried using quickpic. This is the folder where the thumbnails are located, which I want to be excluded -
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
And this is what I see in the quickpic exclude folder options -
Maybe I am being really stupid and missing on something obvious, but otherwise...... Where is the .thumbnails folder ?? Its a hidden folder, which is not visible in the quickpic app.. so How do i select it to exclude ????
Lastly, the UI of the stock gallery app is really awesome looking, with images floating and blurred backgroud ( i.e cooliris ) . quickpic is really simple and boring looks.
So I am back onto my original question - Does any1 have any fix to this major flaw in the stock gallery app ??
Default Gallery is crap. It's no good having something that 'looks nice' but doesn't perform it's function.
1) Create a Folder on your SD called 'Pictures'.
2) Move all your images to 'Pictures'. (Create sub-folders if necessary)
3) Install Quickpic.
4) Select option to only include Pictures folder.
5) ??
6) Profit!
5) ??
6) Profit!
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err.. No!
I have a dropbox folder, where I have my dropbox pics
I have a screenshots folder where I have my screenshot pictures
I have a whatsapp folder, where I have all the pics we friends share on our group chat
I have a few other apps, which have their separate folders, and their pics automatically go in those folders. Which I like very much. And i would like to keep it that way.
When I open my gallery, all these folder show up nicely and its much more easier to recollect what pic is from when and where.
I liked everything about my gallery, UNTIL now! when it started showing all the thumbnails. My album art is embedded inside the mp3 tags. I just don't want it to extract them from there and display in gallery.
C'mon there must be some way to get rid of this little but annoying problem!!
Mayby use some file manager and make those pictures "hidden"
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Mayby use some file manager and make those pictures "hidden"
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i know you are trying to help me bro, but you have no idea what solution I am looking for, or maybe you are not able to understand what the problem is.
Still, let me explain it to you, those are mp3 files, i cant hide them. my media player won't be able to find them them. I cannot do anything with the files. I just have to find a way for the gallery to overlook them.
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i know you are trying to help me bro, but you have no idea what solution I am looking for, or maybe you are not able to understand what the problem is.
Still, let me explain it to you, those are mp3 files, i cant hide them. my media player won't be able to find them them. I cannot do anything with the files. I just have to find a way for the gallery to overlook them.
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The Gallery shouldn't see mp3 files, and the ".thumbnails" folder is hidden, the period in front of the folder name causes it to not be shown in apps. So whatever you're seeing in the Gallery app is not coming from that folder, and they aren't mp3 files.
Do you see the images in Quickpic? If so, long-press on one of the folders with the images you don't want to see. Choose exclude from the menu. In the dialog there is a dropdown, you can choose to exclude a parent directory instead of the folder you long-pressed. It's made for stuff like album art. Choose whichever folder holds the subfolders you don't want to see.
This will also tell you where the images are coming from so you can possibly do something else about it.
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The Gallery shouldn't see mp3 files, and the ".thumbnails" folder is hidden, the period in front of the folder name causes it to not be shown in apps. So whatever you're seeing in the Gallery app is not coming from that folder, and they aren't mp3 files.
Do you see the images in Quickpic? If so, long-press on one of the folders with the images you don't want to see. Choose exclude from the menu. In the dialog there is a dropdown, you can choose to exclude a parent directory instead of the folder you long-pressed. It's made for stuff like album art. Choose whichever folder holds the subfolders you don't want to see.
This will also tell you where the images are coming from so you can possibly do something else about it.
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The long-pressing method worked. I was able to select the parent directory and remove all the unnecessary images and have a organised view.
And yes its not extracting those images from the .thumbnails folder but the path which was showing on long-pressing, it was the path to the actual mp3 file itself.
example-
there is a Folder called eminem with its album art in the gallery, the path to that pic is -
sdcard/music/eminem/recovery/not_afraid.mp3
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So the gallery is thinking the mp3 file as a image file, because the image is embedded in the mp3 tags.
Though its not the solution I am looking for, but still because of you I have found a workaround, until someone figures out how to fix this default gallery flaw.
Arjs said:
err.. No!
I have a dropbox folder, where I have my dropbox pics
I have a screenshots folder where I have my screenshot pictures
I have a whatsapp folder, where I have all the pics we friends share on our group chat
I have a few other apps, which have their separate folders, and their pics automatically go in those folders. Which I like very much. And i would like to keep it that way.
When I open my gallery, all these folder show up nicely and its much more easier to recollect what pic is from when and where.
I liked everything about my gallery, UNTIL now! when it started showing all the thumbnails. My album art is embedded inside the mp3 tags. I just don't want it to extract them from there and display in gallery.
C'mon there must be some way to get rid of this little but annoying problem!!
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You can select exactly which folders you want to be included in your gallery with QuickPic...
I am so glad I am not the only one with this issue. In my case the stock photo gallery was picking up my folder.jpg image that is saved in each of my artist music folders. As you can imagine I ended with over a thousand images being displayed in my gallery. I will try the Quickpic option.
Found this fix, might be your issue
Not sure if you stated what phone you have, but I had the same problem with my Samsung GS3 and here's how I fixed. Apparently the Samsung Gallery app only scans for .nomedia files on first load, so unless you have the .nomedia files where they need to be on first launch you need to clear cache and data for both Gallery and Media storage apps. After I did this mine worked perfect. Might be more than just Sammy phones too so worth a shot either way I would say. I like the stock gallery app too and am glad I can use it again. I used StudioKUMA .nomedia Manager to quickly and easily add the .nomedia files where they needed to be. Hope this helps! :fingers-crossed:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27797700
Originally Posted by exge
Samsung gallery only scans it on first time, so
Place .nomedia files in all the folders you do not want displayed in Gallery
Go to settings - apps - gallery
Clear cache, clear data, force close
Go to settings - apps - media storage
Clear cache, clear data, force close
Hard reset (cold boot) this will not delete any data
go and click star on this issue, so it gets fixed !
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=35879&thanks=35879&ts=1343920475
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hello taavi,
gallery exclude also excludes your Music from your library, so as it hides Album Art from your gallery, it also hides Music from the music player... so is completely useless to me.
1) Start Quickpic.
2) Select a folder within the mp3 folderstructure - doesn't matter which one.
3) Click Menu -> Exclude
4) The path is clickable. Select it and from the folders you see, select the 'root' of your mp3 files.
5) Click on OK
Done.
When the list of folders looks like this:
/storage/extSdCard/Music/Albums/Elvis Presley/Music Diary 1
/storage/extSdCard/Music/Albums/Elvis Presley
/storage/extSdCard/Music/Albums
/storage/extSdCard/Music
/storage/extSdCard
then select this one:
/storage/extSdCard/Music
This will exclude every folder beneith /storage/extSdCard/Music too, so all your icons will be invisible in Quickpic.
My problem looks like it, but I need the gallery to see the Dropbox pictures. However, they are relocated with DirectoryBind to external SDcard. The gallery sees every folder twice. Unfortunately, the gallery cannot exclude certain folders with accompanying subfolders.
Interesting, I have yet to come across this issue myself. But I am quite curious to re-creating it so I can try to find a solution.
Arjs what is the process you are taking to get you music tagged in the first place?
For example, are you using windows media player or itunes to rip it (I ask because you mentioned a separate folder for each album),
Also, you mentioned the songs have a direct link to the album artwork in the TAG. Usually I am use to seeing a seperate file that links the MP3 to the JPG but I may be using a different app then you
I guess what I am asking is A-Z how do you get your music on your phone and what app are you using to play it, tag it, get artwork etc.
If I can re-create the issue myself I am willing to attempt a fix.
I find it annoying that ICS puts "albums" from all over the place in your gallery.
Anyone know if you can just show things like Camera, Videos and Downloads?
No joy in Q&A so wondered if anyone here knew?
Use this https://market.android.com/details?...GwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5zdHVkaW9rdW1hLm5vbWVkaWEiXQ..
If you are talking about photos from Google+ and Picasa showing up in your gallery app, you should go to Settings > Accounts & Sync and stop syncing (uncheck) both Google+ and Picasa. Then go to Apps > All > Gallery and hit the "clear data" button.
Now when you go into your Gallery app it will only show photos from your installed camera apps, videos and any photos you have downloaded.
If you are trying to hide porn, put those photos in a folder with a period in front of it (ex: .no-no-pictures) and the Gallery app won't index it
If this still doesn't help, you could use the Quickpic gallery app. With Quickpic you can long-press any gallery and choose to permanently hide it.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.alensw.PicFolder
almightywhacko said:
If you are talking about photos from Google+ and Picasa showing up in your gallery app, you should go to Settings > Accounts & Sync and stop syncing (uncheck) both Google+ and Picasa. Then go to Apps > All > Gallery and hit the "clear data" button.
Now when you go into your Gallery app it will only show photos from your installed camera apps, videos and any photos you have downloaded.
If you are trying to hide porn, put those photos in a folder with a period in front of it (ex: .no-no-pictures) and the Gallery app won't index it
If this still doesn't help, you could use the Quickpic gallery app. With Quickpic you can long-press any gallery and choose to permanently hide it.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.alensw.PicFolder
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That worked perfectly, and makes total sense now!
Cheers.
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If you are talking about photos from Google+ and Picasa showing up in your gallery app, you should go to Settings > Accounts & Sync and stop syncing (uncheck) both Google+ and Picasa. Then go to Apps > All > Gallery and hit the "clear data" button.
Now when you go into your Gallery app it will only show photos from your installed camera apps, videos and any photos you have downloaded.
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You know, I don't have G+ listed in my accounts/sync page. On both my SGS2 and my TPrime. I would like to remove those pics from my gallery but keep Picasa. Unfortunately it doesn't seem like I can remove G+ without removing Picasa as well.
V3ng said:
That worked perfectly, and makes total sense now!
Cheers.
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Which method worked? The quick pic app or other method.
Edit update: OK, that quickpic method works perfectly. You can use that app itself as album browser n just exclude photos/albums from it or you can hide them from all apps. When you choose to hide it adds that .nomedia file to directory you choose. It worked and now it won't show up in Gallery. Only thing though, I used quickpic to "UnHide" that directory and it doesn't work. At least in gallery app. It'll unhide in quickpic but still stays hidden from Gallery app. Don't get it..lol I used astro, es file explorer, and root explorer. All set to show hidden files. Can't find that file quickpic added to that directory to make it stay hidden from Gallery app. No big deal really but I like to always be able to revert stuff back if I want. ANYONE else notice this or know how to find that .nomedia file to delete it? To see if stuff reappears in gallery. Unhide method from quickpic doesn't work and stuff stays hidden in stock gallery app.
I'm having the same problem. The gallery is showing all my pics from picasa and google plus. I went to my sync settings and neither picasa nor google plus shows up (and even if they did, I would still want google plus posts synced). Quickpic doesn't show any of the pictures, probably because they are stored online.
Any other ideas for cleaning up the mess in the ICS gallery?
EDIT- the Apps > All > Gallery "clear data" option worked for about a minute, then the gallery started adding picasa and google plus pics again.
How about hiding all the pictures from my game data showing?
Alright I got it to work. This is what worked for me:
1. Go to Settings>Accounts & sync>Google Account> and uncheck Sync Google Photos and Sync Picasa Web Albums
2. Follow almightywacko's instructions above and go to Apps > All > Gallery and hit the "clear data" and "clear cache" buttons.
After that, open the Gallery and only the pics and videos stored on the device should be shown.
demandarin said:
Which method worked? The quick pic app or other method.
Edit update: OK, that quickpic method works perfectly. You can use that app itself as album browser n just exclude photos/albums from it or you can hide them from all apps. When you choose to hide it adds that .nomedia file to directory you choose. It worked and now it won't show up in Gallery. Only thing though, I used quickpic to "UnHide" that directory and it doesn't work. At least in gallery app. It'll unhide in quickpic but still stays hidden from Gallery app. Don't get it..lol I used astro, es file explorer, and root explorer. All set to show hidden files. Can't find that file quickpic added to that directory to make it stay hidden from Gallery app. No big deal really but I like to always be able to revert stuff back if I want. ANYONE else notice this or know how to find that .nomedia file to delete it? To see if stuff reappears in gallery. Unhide method from quickpic doesn't work and stuff stays hidden in stock gallery app.
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The first bit. Sync settings and then clear data.
Hi,
Whenever I try to set a photo as my wallpaper, the Gallery app just says "unable to save cropped image." It doesn't happen to all photos; it only happens to .PNG photos (which also appear blurry in my gallery). It's been frustrating me for quite a while now, and I haven't found any ways on how to fix it. I've tried force stopping the app, clearing the cache and data, and even wiping the cache parition. No luck!
I've tried using 3rd party gallery apps, and the images appear crisp on them (as I've mentioned before, .PNG images also appear blurry in my gallery), however, if I try to set the wallpaper using the 3rd party gallery apps, it'll show the same thing-"unable to save cropped image".
I'm really hoping someone can help! I'm not sure what caused this problem. My gallery app was working fine before the Lollipop update.
aizac101 said:
Hi,
Whenever I try to set a photo as my wallpaper, the Gallery app just says "unable to save cropped image." It doesn't happen to all photos; it only happens to .PNG photos (which also appear blurry in my gallery). It's been frustrating me for quite a while now, and I haven't found any ways on how to fix it. I've tried force stopping the app, clearing the cache and data, and even wiping the cache parition. No luck!
I've tried using 3rd party gallery apps, and the images appear crisp on them (as I've mentioned before, .PNG images also appear blurry in my gallery), however, if I try to set the wallpaper using the 3rd party gallery apps, it'll show the same thing-"unable to save cropped image".
I'm really hoping someone can help! I'm not sure what caused this problem. My gallery app was working fine before the Lollipop update.
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Did you find any solution for this problem ?
I'm having the same issue.
The way I fixed this was to open it up in the photo editor, "crop" it to the exact same size it was and save it again - it'll create a duplicate, but I believe it saves it as a .jpeg. The issue is just popping up with .png pictures.