Recently I tried to stop the gallery from scanning the media files (pictures) on storage with .nomedia.txt. It didnt seem to work so I ignored it. After a few days I found that my videos were "duplicated" At first there were two and then more and more. Everytime I scan media, more pops up. It seems these are just thumbnails that link to no where. As I have tried to play the files and it says file was not found. I have removed the .nomedia.txt file does not seem to resolve the problem.
Im on GT-i9000 Firmware 2.2 JPM baseband.
Just wanted you to know, you're not alone.
I'm on 2.2 JPD and have the exact same issue. Thumbnails for videos are massively duplicated in Gallery.
Don't really know why this happens, but I don't really use Gallery in the first place so it doesn't bother me as much since all my vids are in 1 directory and pictures in another.
No problems with picture thumbnails, just vid thumbnails.
The file you are making shouldn't be .nomedia.txt , Its .nomedia (without the .txt) Also I recommend you use Mvideoplayer to view videos as its awsome. If you are gutsy you could delete the /mnt/sd_card/.gallerycache folder.
To make that .nomedia file just make a blank file using notepad but when saving select ALL FILES in the option that says "Save file as"
ickyboo said:
The file you are making shouldn't be .nomedia.txt , Its .nomedia (without the .txt) Also I recommend you use Mvideoplayer to view videos as its awsome. If you are gutsy you could delete the /mnt/sd_card/.gallerycache folder.
To make that .nomedia file just make a blank file using notepad but when saving select ALL FILES in the option that says "Save file as"
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oh, ok. Ill give it another shot then. tx
nickbarau said:
Just wanted you to know, you're not alone.
I'm on 2.2 JPD and have the exact same issue. Thumbnails for videos are massively duplicated in Gallery.
Don't really know why this happens, but I don't really use Gallery in the first place so it doesn't bother me as much since all my vids are in 1 directory and pictures in another.
No problems with picture thumbnails, just vid thumbnails.
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Yup just video thumbnails. Anyways I decided to delete all the extra thumbnails and did a few reboot n rescan. the issue seems to have resolved itself how strange !
check this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=831042&page=6
it solved my multiple thumbnails.
I fixed mine by formatting my SD card and putting everything back in afterwards. and I deleted the thumbnail folder in DCIM.
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Hi. I found a way to make htc album ignore some folders you don't want to see . For example i do not want it to show me all pictures stored in "/Program files".
You just have add values to the registry with the route of the folder you want to ignore in
HKLM/Software/HTC/HTCAlbum/Ignore
the problem is that it doesn't work for folders in the Internal Storage, like tom tom map folder ("\Internal storage\Iberia" in my case)
Any help?
Thanks
Does this work for music and videos too?
music???? its about htc album, so i guess pictures and videos, but nothing related to music..
jpresencia said:
music???? its about htc album, so i guess pictures and videos, but nothing related to music..
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If you store album art in the form of jpg's, then the Picture Viewer will display those mixed in with your real photos. Ideally, you would want to exclude the Music folder.
in fact, the music folder is by default excluded in my daimond, but only music folder in main memory.
the problem is that i can not manage to exclude folders in internal storage, it just doesnt work.. if someone manages to exclude folders in internal storage, we will be able to exclude any folder we want..
Don't have a Diamond for myself to try it but worth a try if you haven't already. Have you tried e.g. using "\Iberia" instead of "\Internal storage\Iberia"?
thanks for your answer. yes, i did, but did not work.
also tried "storage card\iberia" and "\%storage card%\iberia
Any update on this?
Would be nice to get rid of unwanted folders in Album...
...If I find something I will post it here...
Any updates?
Really want to hide the tens of game folders on my storage card full of images from the HTC Album.
thx a lot
it is usefull
demonizator said:
Any updates?
Really want to hide the tens of game folders on my storage card full of images from the HTC Album.
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This has been mentioned a few times before.
Connect the diamond to a PC in disk drive mode and use windows explorer to find all image files. Select the ones you don't want to see in album and mark them as hidden. Once the files are all hidden, the folders will no longer appear in Album.
Thanks man,
Stupid me never thought of that.
Davey101 said:
This has been mentioned a few times before.
Connect the diamond to a PC in disk drive mode and use windows explorer to find all image files. Select the ones you don't want to see in album and mark them as hidden. Once the files are all hidden, the folders will no longer appear in Album.
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TY for this info mas now Album folder is usable !
This usually happens when the SD Card has been changed and you've drag and dropped the DCIM folder to the new card. Try renaming the current DCIM folder, then reinsert the card and take a new picture. Copy paste the old 100media folder to the new DCIM folder. Soft reset. Tada!
Have you ever been listening to your Britney Spears, Daft Punk or Tupac and suddenly you start hearing files that aren't music (i.e ringtones, notification sounds, etc.)? I find it pretty annoying that there is no current method to hide these files from the music player, until now.
I would like to give credit to Scheff's Blend for this idea, and after tinkering with the the doom game folder on my memory card, I found a file called ".nomedia". Within that same folder was over 100 sound files for the game doom, BUT my music player was not reading that specific folder.
I figured it had to do something with that ".nomedia" file, and coincidentally it DID.
Instructions:
1) Download and unzip nomedia.zip somewhere onto your computer
2) Inside is a file called .nomedia, copy it into the directory of media files you want to hide
3) Reboot your phone
P.S. This also works for pictures and video files, BUT for newly taken pictures and videos, or music files added, a REBOOT is REQUIRED to hide them again.
WARNING: this completely hides the files from the phone, so they become unusable to any application until the .nomedia file is removed, and the phone is restarted. I know Scheff's Blend found a way to use those files while hiding them, yet I haven't. If anyone wants to help me out, feel free to.
I know a lot of people wanted to know how to do this, so sorry to any mod who notices I double posted, but I just realized I should have put it in this forum section to begin with. Feel free to delete the other thread in the "Dream" section.
Right on.
Another option that works is placing files you want hidden inside of a folder that starts with a period, such as ".hiddenfolder" or ".stuffimhiding"
Files and folders that begin with a period are considered hidden files by the Android OS and do not show up in Gallery or the music app
Thanks man..
was looking for a way to do this..
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Right on.
Another option that works is placing files you want hidden inside of a folder that starts with a period, such as ".hiddenfolder" or ".stuffimhiding"
Files and folders that begin with a period are considered hidden files by the Android OS and do not show up in Gallery or the music app
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Thanks, thats good to know. But can they be used by lets say the dialer.apk as a ringtone?
I do the same thing with Astro. Like Dave said, keeping a folder with a dot at the front and anything within won't be read unless opened by Astro or renamed. This may not work for the ringtones, but its quicker than having to reboot if you just want to hide photos, documents, videos, etc.
I have problem where videos in folder w/ .nomedia get deleted at each reboot... Now using Cyan 4.1.11.1... Really weird. Each reboot deletes videos in those folders
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I have problem where videos in folder w/ .nomedia get deleted at each reboot... Now using Cyan 4.1.11.1... Really weird. Each reboot deletes videos in those folders
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i too got that problem so am just using the .folder method to hide the files for now...
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i too got that problem so am just using the .folder method to hide the files for now...
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Never heard of.. Same thing as with the .nomedia ?
Just create a .folder in the folder ?
TY
is there a way to have specific folders not show up in 3d gallery
it shows every single picture on my memory card every icon or instance of one
my gallery has like 20 folders
and is lagging my 3d gallery app and deleting them messes with the app or
permanantly deletes the picture
any thoughts??
put at . in front of the folder name.
.icons
Or search your SD card and see if you can find a file called .nomedia and copy that into the directory you don't want shown
wow thank you so much 3dgallery is smokin now
there was so many stupid soundboard icons and extracted pics from bootanimations it was finding and it was taking foreverrrrrr
-removed- ;\
3D Gallery doesn't find my pictures
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is there a way to have specific folders not show up in 3d gallery
it shows every single picture on my memory card every icon or instance of one
my gallery has like 20 folders
and is lagging my 3d gallery app and deleting them messes with the app or
permanantly deletes the picture
any thoughts??
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WOW, that's strange , cause my Aria CM6 3D Gallery doesn't find any of my .jpg and I have all my pictures in the DCIM file of my microSD.
Any insight anyone? Thanks
my 3d gallery picks up pictures that are not stored on my card or phone... i am confused cause the pics that are showing i deleted last year when i had my evo shift
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my 3d gallery picks up pictures that are not stored on my card or phone... i am confused cause the pics that are showing i deleted last year when i had my evo shift
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Find the folder where the photos are saved and delete the pictures you don't want.
If you want to keep them but have them hidden put a . in front of the folder name. so it shows up as .foldername. This makes it a hidden folder and most apps will not see it or its contents.
felixlecky said:
my 3d gallery picks up pictures that are not stored on my card or phone... i am confused cause the pics that are showing i deleted last year when i had my evo shift
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The images may be synced from your Google Picasa account. Go to http://picasaweb.google.com/ to see if they are there.
So I loaded Serendipity today. Master cleared and everything. So I was really surprised to find old pictures on my phone when I opened the gallery app. And strangely it wouldn't let me delete them. Hmm. So I looked in the sd folders, dcim etc. Cannot find these pics anywhere! The gallery app did tell me the file names So I loaded up root explorer and ran a search... NOTHING!
These pics show in my gallery but I can't find the files anywhere. Where are they hiding?
Carl
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Went into the stetting, manage applications, to the gallery app and hit clear data, and these strange photos vanished! Still don't know where they were. but they are gone now. Would loveto hear where they were stored if anyone knows...
Spoke too soon! So after a reboot, the folder of pics comes back! If I clear the gallery app's data, it vanishes again, but returns after every reboot. Can anyone help with this?
Is it a stack of thumbnails (separate folder path) or viewable image files? If you have external SD maybe browse it on a PC.
It still there with no external SD, and I can't find it from the PC or root explorer.
You, know, I have a blog, and these all seem to be photos on my blog. And blogger seems to be hooked to Picasa Web albums. So I'm thinking Gallery pulls pulls the contents of my Picasa Web album down to the phone... could this be? Can it be stopped?
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It still there with no external SD, and I can't find it from the PC or root explorer.
You, know, I have a blog, and these all seem to be photos on my blog. And blogger seems to be hooked to Picasa Web albums. So I'm thinking Gallery pulls pulls the contents of my Picasa Web album down to the phone... could this be? Can it be stopped?
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If you have them linked then yes that is where they are comming from and why they keep comming back. The only way to stop it would be to but a no media file in the target folder, back draw is that the file will hide it from all Android apps that look for media
I am a new user of Xperia SP and i don't want to show my whatsApp images in the gallery.
Is there anyone who are facing same problem and also please give me some tips.
nathanmiller said:
I am a new user of Xperia SP and i don't want to show my whatsApp images in the gallery.
Is there anyone who are facing same problem and also please give me some tips.
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Open file manager and goto the folder where whatsapp images r stored and just creat a file name ".nomedia"
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nathanmiller said:
I am a new user of Xperia SP and i don't want to show my whatsApp images in the gallery.
Is there anyone who are facing same problem and also please give me some tips.
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It's not possible, because Whatsapp triggers the internal media library. You could manually clean media storage and sony gallery data or use an alternative app.
I would recommend Quicpic for general pictures like DCIM and Sony Album for dirty Whatsapp Images
solid0snake said:
It's not possible, because Whatsapp triggers the internal media library. You could manually clean media storage and sony gallery data or use an alternative app.
I would recommend Quicpic for general pictures like DCIM and Sony Album for dirty Whatsapp Images
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undisputedpro's method is better, creating a folder prevents media apps from scanning the contents with that folder present on same directory. I'm using this method since i always save pages with the UC Browser and its annoying to see that the images embedded on the page is being scanned by our phone, result is it is displayed on the Picture widget of our Home launchers and gallery apps.
Thanks for the tips.
I have this same problem with TomTom, despite all the folders have a nomedia file in them, the images still show up in album. However, the whatsapp sent folder, which also contains a nomedia file does not show up...
They broke my signature...
.nomedia file not supported by xperia sp
undisputedpro said:
Open file manager and goto the folder where whatsapp images r stored and just creat a file name ".nomedia"
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infect i am also facing same problem and xperia sp not supporting .nomedia file. Is there any other solution for same.
Pratiek Parker said:
infect i am also facing same problem and xperia sp not supporting .nomedia file. Is there any other solution for same.
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I use quickpic so .nomedia file works i dont use album for veiwing pics
The pictures, movies and sounds sent and recieved from whatsapp are stored in the internal SDcard in the folder Whatsapp. IF you place a .nomedia file do this in all the folders This helps for me
I second what @mrjraider had written.
The Xperia Album galery app does honor .nomedia files... but only if the .nomedia file is located on the same folder as the pictures. It will still scan subfolders underneath for pictures.
So, go to Whatsapp's Images folder (by default located in /storage/sdcard0/WhatsApp/Media/WhatsApp Images ), and create a file named ".nomedia" (dot nomedia, without quotes) there. Inside that folder, there's a Sent subfolder. You might also want to create the ".nomedia" file there.
Do likewise for ther folders inside /storage/sdcard0/WhatsApp/Media, if necessary.
Don't forget to 'close' the Album app (tap "Recent Apps" button [the rightmost one] and swipe the "Album" app to the side), before opening it again.
You'll see that the Album app honors the .nomedia files.
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so let me check if I got it right.
I have to create ".nomedia" FILE not FOLDER in the folder that contains the pictures I want Album app to not see.
rexxxxx said:
so let me check if I got it right.
I have to create ".nomedia" FILE not FOLDER in the folder that contains the pictures I want Album app to not see.
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Yes.
Also, clear cache on album and media scanner.
They broke my signature...
Use app published by me on Play Store
Forget the pain of manually doing it every time. Just use this app published by me on Play Store.
The app name is: Hide Whatsapp Media
Sorry, as i can't post a play store link as this is my first post on xda and xda doesn't allows posting url until you r done with 10 posts.
For reference, please check the attached screenshot and app icon image.
If you like it, please rate it 5 stars
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use Gallery Lock App .. its the best app with very little ram usage and great features
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.morrison.gallerylocklite&hl=en