hello my friends
U knows that :
every folder that contain pic o video file , shows in album menu (list of folders that have media files)
is there a way to not showing some filders in this list ???
No matter which android phone i use my gallery always shows a dropbox folder with some photos on it. I want to remove it but i can't seem to find a way how. I logged in to my dropbox account and checked out my folders, i have nothing in there. Kinda frustrating. Any ideas?
Insert a text file named ".nomedia" in the dropbox folder
That's the thing, i don't have a dropbox folder on my phone.
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That's the thing, i don't have a dropbox folder on my phone.
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New version of dropbox stores data on external SD, if u have one. Check for the folder named dropbox on ur external sd.
I too have this problem, but I never knowingly did anything with dropbox
I use sugarsync for that functionality
Something I did in the past (I install and uninstall a lot of apps to test them) must have created the single picture in my folde called dropbox.
The dropbox folder seems to be related to Picasa (it has a small picasa logo bottom left)
I cannot find the image folder or anything on my device or sd card and I can't delete it - even deleting the cace and rebooting it rediscovers the file
and it turns out it was a picasa web album associated with my google account
So I could delete in picasa hooray
how do I remove pics from my dropbox folder on my samsung phone?
Gallery still display pictures from the directory even though it has the file .nomedia.
I have cleared data from media and gallery, then reboot still has problem.
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Just put a full stop in front of folder name
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Do you mean change the folder name? But this won't work right since some folders with default name such as "download"
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I just rename folders I made like .picture and this will hide it from gallery. If you can't do it in default folders just move the items in your own folders.
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Adding a file name .nomedia in the folder will prevent media scan for picture file in that folder, it is working in GB. After upgraded to ics it's not working.
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Just make a new folder and put a fullstop infront. Copy your files into that. Simples
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hmm, strange, same thing is happening with me, but only for newly added .nomedia files.
i have .nomedia files in loads of folders containing app specific pictures, and they don't appear in the gallery, but if i add a .nomedia file to one of my own folders it seems to be ignored by the default gallery, even though quickpic hides the folder as intended.
have you tried wiping the "media storage" data under application settings?
I have exactly same problem as your. After I cleared gallery and media data, only existing pictures are ignored. If I add new picture, gallery will show up again.
Did you perform factory reset after upgraded to ics?
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i've had ics since the german rom was released, and yes, i did a factory reset afterwards.
i have numerous folders with .nomedia files in them that are constantly being updated with new pictures by apps etc. and the gallery still ignores them, it only seems to be a folder that the gallery has already indexed, when i add a .nomedia file to it, the gallery still shows it.
just did a media storage wipe and the folder i put the .nomedia file into has disappeared as expected after a reboot.
moved another picture into the folder and checked again and it's still hidden from the gallery.
I think this is being caused by a change to the behaviour in ICS that triggers a media scan. I have an issue where just renaming a .nomedia file would trigger a media scan in gingerbread but does not in ICS, hence files in the folder are not shown in the gallery even though the .nomedia file is renamed.
I suspect this is the case here, that adding the new .nomedia does not trigger the media scan.
I am having the same problem, but with mp3 and wav files. I have many that are created by programs like Loopstack, Caustic and Audio Evolution that I don't want appearing in my music player.
What I found works, is if you create the .nomedia file on the phone.
Then connect the phone to a PC via MTP.
Rename the folder (I just add a 1 to the end).
Rename it back to the original folder name.
Disconnect the phone and it rescans and "recognises" the .nomedia file.
HTH,
Rich
I added the .nomedia file to my folder, wiped data from media storage (under applications), rebooted the phone and the files no longer appear in the Gallery.
This method only work for existing media file, subsequent new add media file will be shown up again.
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.nomedia with images and music files
I think I've been able to solve this somewhat.... For those who have an audio file and an image(in your music folder) and you don't want the image showing up in the gallery but you do want it showing in your music directory(album art), you will need to go into the folder with the picture-create a folder(i call it 'pic')-put the image in that folder along with a '.nomedia'. Make sure that the music file is not in the new folder but the new folder is within the overall folder.... Confused? Music/U2/The Joshua Tree/Pic/Image and .nomedia file - Hope this helps
you can see images here:
androidforums.com/samsung-galaxy-s3/595398-nomedia-your-music-images-showing-gallery
It still shows your image with the music\artist in the media player, but now doesn't show in the gallery. You do not need to rename the music folder(like you would if you were just adding a .nomedia file) because your adding a new folder all together.
just clear cache as someone said and reboot phone.. good enough to have the .nomedia work with existing photos.. As mentioned when you add more you will have to do it again.
I believe I have a similar problem as this guy ( http://forums.androidcentral.com/verizon-galaxy-s-iii/195932-cant-transfer-pictures-my-s3.html ).
The pictures should be in the DCIM/Camera folder but aren't. I looked up the file path of the pics. Only one old picture is shown.
All pictures shot by me are missing. Could have something to do with permissions?
Edit: Come to think of it. The most likely explanation is that "DCIM/Camera" exists somewhere and is accessed via MTP or PTP in the PC's explorer. The cache file folder has a bunch of .tec and .arc files e.g. 20125440784004.tec
thumbnails is missing.
When accessing the DCIM/Camera folder via the Android file explorer, all pictures are there in storage/sdcard0 along with cache and thumbnail folders. There are no other DCIM/Camera folders or anything other than sdcard0.
What is going on?
Any help is much appreciated.
Well, right after I posted the "Edit", the most reasonable next step would have been to rename the folder and see what happens. Indeed DCIM -> DCIMx did the trick.
Ultimately the renaming brakes down to a bunch of Linux file system commands, probably even resetting permissions. So I figure another renaming step of DCIMx -> DCIM should solve the problem.
Update: It worked, but not after a reboot. I simply renamed the folder again, and let Android create a new DCIM folder. Everything is accessible within this one.
Report if you have similar problems.
Recently brought a z3 compact after years of samsungs
On my Samsung I used to be able rename a image folder with a full stop infront of it and this would hide the folder and pictures from the gallery and alsothe pictures wouldn't show up to send if you were trying send a photo on WhatsApp/Facebook. If I wanted send a picture from this folder I'd go in the file manager rename the folder and after a few moments the folder and pictures were viewable/sendable again.
Is there a way of doing this on the z3? apart from connecting to a pc? I know my folder is there on my SD card at the minute named .images but it can't be found on the phones file komander to be renamed without the . So it can be viewable. Thanks in advance
just create a file named ".nomedia" without the quotes and put it on the folder that you want to keep out you gallery.
The images be accesible via explorer.