I don't know what I am doing wrong. I have placed a file called .nomedia in each of the image folders I don't want in the gallery, but they remain.
I've restarted the phone, Force Stop, and Clear Data. I've unmounted and remounted the SD card, manually, and through the USB mount.
Even deleted an image through the gallery and it refreshed.
To create the file I tried:
-touch .nomedia
-creating a file called .nomedia in a text editor
-empty .nomedia files, and ones with something in them
-creating it on the phone, and on the computer
The file has no 'hidden extension' I'm sure of that, especially when I used touch. I can see the file in ASTRO when viewing hidden files, it is correct.
I've either gone completely crazy, my phone is messing with me, or I've overlooked something very simple.
Any one have any ideas?
Running stock 2.2 right now.
Add a "." to the beginning of folder name instead.
Yes, I know that works. But I would prefer not to do that. Because I can't easily browse to those folders, as I need them for other things in different applications, some of which won't let me view the hidden files.
I am beginning to wonder if I should try a wipe of the SD card and put everything back on. It seems that there is something fishy going on.
I've recently done this with several folders on my N1, a few that had ringtone mp3's in it and some others with jpg's I didn't want showing up in notification or gallery.
After remounting the SD card, they no longer showed in Gallery... but you've done lots more than that, so I can't imagine what the problem could be.
I just created a new file using Ghost Explorer, but have also done it in the past mounting the SD card and creating the filename (touch)
Ok, so not sure how I fixed it, because I went the nuclear route. Backed it up, formatted, and copied everything back. Also opened the gallery while it was unmounted, and recreated all the .nomedia files.
Something there fixed it...
Wait a minute, maybe not... I don't see any images apart from the Picasa linked ones
The logcat actually showed that it was finding and ignoring .nomedia files though.
Well, I'll just have to find a happy medium. I'll give it some time to see if it will scan for more, and check for extra .nomedia in the wrong places.
Oh how lovely, they're all back. And I still see a whole lot of .nomedia being ignored in the logcat.
Eh, enough fiddling for the day.
Could you show us the lines in logcat where it's ignoring .nomedia?
Oh, it's not very helpful. No mention of the directory. Just a lot of lines saying
Code:
D/ ( 3214): found .nomedia, skipping directory
Over and over, exactly the same.
You say you placed a file called .nomedia in folders you want hidden but they still show. What about folders that already have .nomedia, are they showing as well? Maybe, if you haven't tried. Copy an orignal .nomedia file from a folder not showing up in your gallery to your personal folders.
It sounds like you created the .nomedia file from your phone directly. I don't know how that works, but here's what worked for me:
Open text editor (notepad in Windows), File -> Save As, give ".nomedia" as the name, and under "Save as type", use "All files". This made a file that worked for me.
Also make sure you have the file browser showing file extensions, so you know that .nomedia file isn't actually .nomedia.xxx.
Sistum Id said:
You say you placed a file called .nomedia in folders you want hidden but they still show. What about folders that already have .nomedia, are they showing as well? Maybe, if you haven't tried. Copy an orignal .nomedia file from a folder not showing up in your gallery to your personal folders.
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Yeah, I've tried that too, what I think is that there is some sort of cache or something in the gallery app that I an't get rid of. I've tried another gallery app form the market, and it works with the .nomedia perfectly. If this really ends up driving me crazy I'll wait until I flash CM6 and see if that fixes it, just don't want to right now while I'm away on vacation.
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It sounds like you created the .nomedia file from your phone directly. I don't know how that works, but here's what worked for me:
Open text editor (notepad in Windows), File -> Save As, give ".nomedia" as the name, and under "Save as type", use "All files". This made a file that worked for me.
Also make sure you have the file browser showing file extensions, so you know that .nomedia file isn't actually .nomedia.xxx.
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No, if you read my original post I've created the file many times, many ways. I know about extensions, I know how these things work. I've always just used touch before to do it, but this time since it didn't work I tried many other ways just to be sure. ls -al on the directory shows it is .nomedia exactly, nothing more, nothing less.
Clarkster said:
Yeah, I've tried that too, what I think is that there is some sort of cache or something in the gallery app that I an't get rid of. I've tried another gallery app form the market, and it works with the .nomedia perfectly. If this really ends up driving me crazy I'll wait until I flash CM6 and see if that fixes it,
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Yeah i'm in the same boat, i've got Google maps icons in the gallery and some other assorted stuff that doesn't belong there. Did a Google search on the .nomedia thing, tried to incorporate a .nomedia (TXT) file into the offending folder a couple different ways but they're still there. I think i'll do the same, flash CM6 then go from there.
Interesting thought about the cache thing, I wonder if it could be something related?
Did you all clear the Media cache? I'd say force close it, clear its cache, then relaunch it?
Something weird is going on.. I had this happen too, but only because I hadn't remounted my SD card.
khaytsus said:
Did you all clear the Media cache? I'd say force close it, clear its cache, then relaunch it?
Something weird is going on.. I had this happen too, but only because I hadn't remounted my SD card.
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Yup, I mentioned that in the first post. Force stopped it and cleared the cache.
There seems to literally be nothing left to do other than try a complete wipe, which I will do when I get CM6 on it.
So I have a folder called 'Icons' on my SD card. When I download an icon from the browser it goes into the 'downloads' folder. I goto my file manager and move the icon from 'downloads' to 'Icons'. Then I goto Gallery and see this:-
One instance of the Icons folder without the newly downloaded icon
A 2nd 'Icons' folder with only the newly downloaded icon and nothing else
the downloads folder still showing anything that I've moved across to the Icons folder or any other folder
I have rechecked the folder and file structure on my PC and the Gallery is definitely wrong. I only have one Icons folder and nothing in my downloads folder. The horribly slow refresh of the Gallery app is a common issue isn't it?
Aaarggh these annoying imperfections on the Nexus One really drive me nuts! I don't understand why Google, at times, produces these half-baked applications.
It's not half baked, did you rescan the media on the mSD card?
Thanks for the reply. How do I rescan media? A Google search on "android rescan media sd card" doesn't help me
Look in dev tools -> media scanner. (application on the phone)
That function is usually called after the sdcard has been unmounted after transferring files to the card.
PS. I don't find the gallery to be slow by any means, but I don't have thousands of pictures on it either. (not saying that's your case, just an over exaggeration)
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Look in dev tools -> media scanner. (application on the phone)
That function is usually called after the sdcard has been unmounted after transferring files to the card.
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Sorry, where is dev tools or media scanner? I think my original post needs a bit more clarification. I actually moved the files across from one folder to another using Estrongs File Explorer. I then reconfirmed the directory/file structure (after Gallery acted funny) using both ES File explorer and my PC.
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PS. I don't find the gallery to be slow by any means, but I don't have thousands of pictures on it either. (not saying that's your case, just an over exaggeration)
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I only have 21 images on my sd card (2 in camera folder, 15 in 'icons' folder and 4 in 'wallpapers' folder). I have absolutely zero issues with the speed of the Gallery app. My complaints are to do mainly with behaviour. I've just rebooted the phone, and Gallery still isn't able to identify the folder structure properly.
Connect USB to PC, mount and unmount your SD card.
That should do it.
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So I have a folder called 'Icons' on my SD card. When I download an icon from the browser it goes into the 'downloads' folder. I goto my file manager and move the icon from 'downloads' to 'Icons'. Then I goto Gallery and see this:-
One instance of the Icons folder without the newly downloaded icon
A 2nd 'Icons' folder with only the newly downloaded icon and nothing else
the downloads folder still showing anything that I've moved across to the Icons folder or any other folder
I have rechecked the folder and file structure on my PC and the Gallery is definitely wrong. I only have one Icons folder and nothing in my downloads folder. The horribly slow refresh of the Gallery app is a common issue isn't it?
Aaarggh these annoying imperfections on the Nexus One really drive me nuts! I don't understand why Google, at times, produces these half-baked applications.
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It rescans the card when it's mounted, but not all of the time, so if you manipulate it with a file editor it won't see the changes.
So remount the card, or if you do this often, there's a Market app.. http://www.cyrket.com/p/android/com.humanrobot.scanmedia/
Where do I find the folder of my camera pictures? How to hide?
Could someone help me out with the file path I should take from the file explorer?
And how do I hide certain pictures from the Gallery so that private pictures won't be seen by family members that just get a little too curious? Hopefully without using an App
Thanks.
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Where do I find the folder of my camera pictures? How to hide?
Could someone help me out with the file path I should take from the file explorer?
And how do I hide certain pictures from the Gallery so that private pictures won't be seen by family members that just get a little too curious? Hopefully without using an App
Thanks.
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You should find the pics from the Camera under the DCIM folder.
Full path would be
/sdcard/DCIM/Camera
I am not aware of how you can hide the pics from being shown in the gallery without using an App. From what I understand, no matter where you put your Pics on the phone, Gallery app picks them up.
/mnt/sdcard/DCIM/Camera
I haven't tried it, but apparently renaming folders with a period "." At the beginning denotes it as hidden. This would keep gallery type apps from finding and displaying any pics within. I think single files are specified hidden the same way. You probably would want to ensure your file manager is set to show hidden files/folders first, and you might want to create a new folder for your hidden stuff, as I'd guess your camera app will create a new folder from scratch if you rename the one it's using.
There are apps, but from what I've read, they just do the file/folder renaming with a period at the beginning. Just google "Android hide pictures".
Yes, renaming folders to begin with a period makes them hidden, but I tried that and they still show up in my "Gallery" app. Has anyone actually successfully used this procedure?
Try with put .nomedia in front of the folder wanna hide and it wont show up.
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Hi,
A quick question, where does the RecentCallsWidget.apk store the default contact .png?
I have changed the picture in all the drawable folders inside the apk but it has not changed the image on the widget.
I have also changed the .png in the Phonebook.apk, Conversations.apk, SemcGenericUxpRes.apk, framework-res.apk and SystemUI.apk. This has changed the image in the contacts and conversations apps but the RecentCallsWidget still has the old one.....
Any help?
I think these pictures are saved in a folder as a temporary ones. I had the same problem and removed the widget. After a few days and after deleting some useless "com.sonyericsson.blahblah" I placed the widget again and voila! Photos were correct.
Check internal SD card and android/data if there's a folder from that widget. Maybe it is so deleting it may fix this.
Tried that, there does not seem to be a folder from that widget.
But I have cleared cache and dalvik as well, still no luck.
It did manage to immediatley change the image for contacts, phone and conversations....just not this widget.. I will look a bit deeper into it though.
Any other ideas are still welcome
Uninstalled the apk, cleared data and reinstalled.
Hello, I put around 1000 images in my Favorites by pressing <3 icon from all around the phone (Downloads, Camera, SD card storage). The folder would go missing sometimes, but it was always back after restarting the Gallery. But now it's not showing up no matter what I do, I restarted Gallery and Huawei P9 phone itself a few times, but still no Favorites folder. The images still exist in their respective original folders and have <3 marking, it's just the folder itself that is missing. This is very inconvenient because now I'll have to filter through tens of thousands of images instead of having an easy access. If any of you know how to make the Favorites folder reveal itself, I will be very grateful for your knowledge and information. Thank you.