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What is wrong with my gallery?

My gallery is picking up every single folder that I have with images in it for some reason. I define the folder as hidden but it still picks it up. Even when moving pictures from one folder to another, it sometimes takes days to see the change in the gallery, even after media scans...
I am running Cognition v3.02, could this be a problem with my rom?
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yentlequible said:
My gallery is picking up every single folder that I have with images in it for some reason. I define the folder as hidden but it still picks it up. Even when moving pictures from one folder to another, it sometimes takes days to see the change in the gallery, even after media scans...
I am running Cognition v3.02, could this be a problem with my rom?
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1. If u want no app to pick up media from any folder, create an empty file in it and name it ".nomedia".
2. If u want gallery only not to pick, rename the folder to start with a ".".gallery skips looking into folders beginning with a ".".
If u put the .nomedia file it wont be picked by any app, not just gallery.
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Make a text file, rename it to .nomedia and place it in any folder you don't want scanned by media scanner.

I see some 1 near me to it

I already renamed the folders that I didn't want it to find and put a "." In front of it, but it finds them anyway.
Ill try the .nomedia thing and see if it works
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Placed some files in a ".nomedia" folder but the gallery is still picking them up, even after a rescan.
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This is getting ridiculous... I even tried downloading an app meant to hide files from the gallery, but nothing is working.
Does anyone have a solution?
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yentlequible said:
Placed some files in a ".nomedia" folder but the gallery is still picking them up, even after a rescan.
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Reboot pls after putting that .nomedia file. It will work for sure.

diablo009 said:
Reboot pls after putting that .nomedia file. It will work for sure.
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Nope... Even after a reboot, the pictures in my .nomedia file still show in the gallery.

for some reason my gallery is really, really slow at loading up all the pictures. i hate it.

yentlequible said:
Placed some files in a ".nomedia" folder but the gallery is still picking them up, even after a rescan.
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I believe you misunderstood. You don't put the files IN the .nomedia folder, you go to the location where the files are and make a .nomedia folder in there.
For example, say you have some icons in a folder that is named "icons". Us My Files or Astro to open that folder so you can see all those files, press the menu button, create new folder, name it ".nomedia" without quotes, rescan.
That should take care of it. When you're done, it should be:
.nomedia(folder with nothing in it!)
image.jpeg
image.png
song.mp3
This screenshot is an example of what it should look like.
And if you just have certain pictures or files or icons that you don't want to show up, but are in the same folder, easiest way to do it is to create a new folder and move all files that you don't want visible into that folder, and within that folder make a .nomedia folder and rescan.

task650 said:
for some reason my gallery is really, really slow at loading up all the pictures. i hate it.
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Lagfix fixes this up quite a bit! Also, depends on the r/w speed of your SD card I believe. Mine is a Class 2 and it is so slow, so now I put all Media on my Internal SD now. External is for all my music.

vunuts said:
I believe you misunderstood. You don't put the files IN the .nomedia folder, you go to the location where the files are and make a .nomedia folder in there.
For example, say you have some icons in a folder that is named "icons". Us My Files or Astro to open that folder so you can see all those files, press the menu button, create new folder, name it ".nomedia" without quotes, rescan.
That should take care of it. When you're done, it should be:
.nomedia(folder with nothing in it!)
image.jpeg
image.png
song.mp3
This screenshot is an example of what it should look like.
And if you just have certain pictures or files or icons that you don't want to show up, but are in the same folder, easiest way to do it is to create a new folder and move all files that you don't want visible into that folder, and within that folder make a .nomedia folder and rescan.
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Still did not work. I made a new folder and out images in it, but after a rescan AND a reboot, gallery still has them showing.
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yentlequible said:
Nope... Even after a reboot, the pictures in my .nomedia file still show in the gallery.
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are you creating a blank file with no extension called .nomedia and placing it inside each folder where pics exist you dont want in the gallery?

B-Naughty said:
are you creating a blank file with no extension called .nomedia and placing it inside each folder where pics exist you dont want in the gallery?
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Yes. I'm starting to think my gallery is just messed up. The pictures I hide show up but if I try and view them it shows a blank screen for most of them.
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Suddenly Gallery is blank....

I noticed that my Gallery app is showing I have no "albums" or anything. Up til now, it automatically added folders when I saved a pic, and it had a folder of pics I had on my SD2 card. Unfortunately this also affected the Multi Wallpaper App that I use. Any suggestions?
I am using Tnt 4.3.2.

Reggie777 said:
I noticed that my Gallery app is showing I have no "albums" or anything. Up til now, it automatically added folders when I saved a pic, and it had a folder of pics I had on my SD2 card. Unfortunately this also affected the Multi Wallpaper App that I use. Any suggestions?
I am using Tnt 4.3.2.
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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.

Thanks for the suggestions. But unfortunately, they did not work. Let me give you some more symptoms....
The pics are still on the storage cards. I can see then with my file app. When I try to open one of the pics, jpegs, Gallery will open it, but very slowly... thinking first, going to a blank screen, and then a few seconds later, displaying the file. If I choose to view it with ESFile Explorer, the pic comes up almost immediately. It's almost as if Gallery is unable to acknowledge the existence of the files unless forced to.

Reggie777 said:
I noticed that my Gallery app is showing I have no "albums" or anything. Up til now, it automatically added folders when I saved a pic, and it had a folder of pics I had on my SD2 card. Unfortunately this also affected the Multi Wallpaper App that I use. Any suggestions?
I am using Tnt 4.3.2.
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I have never gotten photos to show up in gallery. I use JustPictures and it works great. It works with pics on the device and any online services.

.nomedia solution works great
it2steve said:
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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Thanks Steve, the .nomedia file creation in the sdcard directory worked great!

this fixed my issue too thank you

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I noticed you can't delete from this app. Is anyone else having this problem?
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I just tried it. Moved a file from one folder to another. It was corrupted after the move. Deleted the app. Back to Root Explorer for me. It may not have as much eye candy, but I much prefer the functionality.
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I do however like the look and feel.
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Good start but lack of "Delete" and adds are a minus.

bink1r said:
I noticed you can't delete from this app. Is anyone else having this problem?
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Edit> delete

Looks good and works good. Just replaced astro.
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You can delete. Use edit then delete or long press a file, then edit, then delete. Or press the multi button at the top and batch delete multiple files at once.
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This is actually pretty cool looking. But it is definitely going to be tough to not use RootExplorer.

dean_fx said:
This is actually pretty cool looking. But it is definitely going to be tough to not use RootExplorer.
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Agreed 10chars

kgeissler said:
I thought this app was just ok. I didn't like the fact that you could not customize the quick links on the left side. For example, my movies and music folders are on my SD Card, but when you click the links, it takes you to the internal memory.
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You can bookmark folders by long pressing on them and the folders you bookmark will be on the left side as quick links.

By far the best interface and functionality I've seen on any similiar app, very close to windows explorer imo
Does it have root access, have not played with it much?

It's pretty but I like the functionality of ES File Explorer better.

i like it much better than astro..... i hope he adds root access like root explorer...then it would be perfect

i removed both astro and ES once they added Lan support and fixed the "move" feature. ES would work sometimes with LAN, but not all the time, and it had no "move" option, just "copy". I havent had any negative experiences using LAN on FM HD. There was one issue that i discovered recently, i tried to send a cbr file via bluetooth, but when i clicked on "share" the option wasnt there. But its there for all other types of files.
They are pretty quick at fixing issues. Two days after i mentioned the "move" issue (when you move a file, it would take really long, and it shouldnt because it was being moved within the same device, i.e. when you move a file on your c: drive to somewhere else on your c drive, it goes in an instant, even with Astro, moving was simple), but anyway, two days later, the issue was fixed.
Its a great file browser for the xoom.

A pain of a problem

I'm currently running icssgs 4.1 with devil 14.2
My problem is that I keep getting a few problems all my music tracks keep doubling and my picture gallery keeps getting blank copies yet nothing new has appeared in the folders I'd be so grateful if someone with a wider knowledge could help
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xstarbuckx said:
I'm currently running icssgs 4.1 with devil 14.2
My problem is that I keep getting a few problems all my music tracks keep doubling and my picture gallery keeps getting blank copies yet nothing new has appeared in the folders I'd be so grateful if someone with a wider knowledge could help
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Press your menu button and choose Manage Apps. From there find the Media Storage app, and select the Clear Data option. Reboot your phone, and the problem should be fixed

Kops said:
Press your menu button and choose Manage Apps. From there find the Media Storage app, and select the Clear Data option. Reboot your phone, and the problem should be fixed
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Thanks its sorted the music files out and removed the extra blank pictures but now the thumbnails show a totally different picture to what it is, very strange, is this a common problem.
Update you are my new best friend did a recovery to before I started to delete these files then just did what you said and its all back.
Whish Id of know this yesterday then I wouldnt have gone through flashing my phone 3 times

xstarbuckx said:
Thanks its sorted the music files out and removed the extra blank pictures but now the thumbnails show a totally different picture to what it is, very strange, is this a common problem.
Update you are my new best friend did a recovery to before I started to delete these files then just did what you said and its all back.
Whish Id of know this yesterday then I wouldnt have gone through flashing my phone 3 times
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Yeah, it was a pretty common problem for most people flashing to early versions of ICS roms, I think its a one time fix though - so you won't see it happen as you flash any other ROMs.
Glad to help

Also noticed another problem. Using the stock camera as it saves to SD is fine but if you use a 3rd party camera in my case camera FX so as to save to emmc you can't delete pictures/videos, they will remove from gallery but not the card and will pop back up again in the gallery unless deleted through file explorer.
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[Q] Cant Delete Pictures!

Hey guys, need a little help here and wanted to see if anyone else had this problem. My pictures are being saved to my microsd card. If I use quickpic for my gallery, delete a pic, it's gone from the gallery. If I restart the phone, it's back. I've tried going in through astro and deleting the files, and it just hangs, won't delete anything. I was able to go in through the camera app, then review pics through the camera app and delete from there and it worked, but I have no idea why quickpic, the stock gallery app, and astro all can't delete the pics! Any help would be greatly appreciated.
And just to clarify, I'll delete a picture in quickpic, so it doesn't show up there. But if i go through astro and look in my pictures, the pics are still there, so when I restart the phone, it reloads the pics into the quickpic gallery.

Use build in file manager to delete stuff from SDCARD, google screwd everyone up by locking up sdcard functionality , the only way to fix it is by having root.

milhouse21386 said:
Hey guys, need a little help here and wanted to see if anyone else had this problem. My pictures are being saved to my microsd card. If I use quickpic for my gallery, delete a pic, it's gone from the gallery. If I restart the phone, it's back. I've tried going in through astro and deleting the files, and it just hangs, won't delete anything. I was able to go in through the camera app, then review pics through the camera app and delete from there and it worked, but I have no idea why quickpic, the stock gallery app, and astro all can't delete the pics! Any help would be greatly appreciated.
And just to clarify, I'll delete a picture in quickpic, so it doesn't show up there. But if i go through astro and look in my pictures, the pics are still there, so when I restart the phone, it reloads the pics into the quickpic gallery.
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you can delete cache

ghost77 said:
Use build in file manager to delete stuff from SDCARD, google screwd everyone up by locking up sdcard functionality , the only way to fix it is by having root.
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Wow, that's unbelievable, I used the built in file manager and it worked, that's ridiculous that you can't even delete pictures from the stock gallery app either. Thanks for the help!

Man, what a pain. how can this even be an issue? unbelievable!

Not true. You can delete photo's from the stock gallery. I just did it with a photo located on my external sd card.
Also, from what I understand about the external SD changes Google made, it would be mostly the application developers fault if something like that doesn't work correctly. An app can only write to it's own folder on the external SD, but can read all. When uninstalling, the applications folder is also deleted. I imagine this would be very tricky with pictures as you don't want to store them in 2 locations. I guess this would actually render a stand alone gallery app and file manager app useless in Kitkat when dealing with external SD files.
Also, it says this on Quickpic's page in the play store, "Can't modify the external storage in Kitkat." Sorry bro.