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Simple question: How do I view N1 files & folders from PC?

I know this is a total noob question, but how do you view files and folders on the n1? Plugged in the usb cable and the drive showed up on the pc but it's unreadable. What's missing? Like to transfer apk files from the pc to the storage card.
Thanks

Turn on mass storage from the notification bar... be sure to safely remove before turning it off.

Sorry, just got this today and embarassed to ask how is this done.

What do you mean, "it's unreadable"?
You view files and folders on the N1 just the way you are describing. That's how I do it.

Got it sorted guys thanks. Didn't know to drag the the status screen down to enable the mass storage.
How do you see the internal phone storage to delete files? Been trying to figure this out. Have a file manager app and been through all the folders and can't locate where data is stored internally.

Get the EStrongs File Explorer app. You can even connect to shared folders in your network

Got it, nice app. Trying to figure out where "browser" downloads are stored? Have some stuff like to clear that are not on the sd card.

They are on the SD card, in the /downloads folder.

Unless you're rooted (which I believe isn't the case), you can't change anything or even see anything in most of internal folders. And you can't see them anywhere, unless you're familiar with Linux and ADB.

Installed some file explorers and can see all files and folders. Bought direct from google for AT&T.

Gallery is not honoring .nomedia

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.
cigar3tte said:
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.

Gallery still needs to be fixed doesn't 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)

evilkorn said:
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.

TT1986 said:
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/

[Q] MTP transferred files missing

Hi,
I have a Nexus 7 32GB on 4.2.1.
I just copied about 20 gigs worth of video files into the "Movies" folder. Copying was fine, and they all looked like they were there. After unplugging the device, I can't find them with File Manager or with MX Player. If I plug the device back in, the Movies folder is empty.
I've rebooted the device, that didn't help.
I've done a "Storage Analysys" in File Manager, and it shows no folders which have that much data in them.
However, the device still reports itself as mostly full! Not only did the files disappear into thin air, they didn't release the storage!
Has anyone had this problem before? Any idea what to do?
Man I want USB Mass Storage back...

I just re-copied one of the files into a new folder that I just created, rather than the "Movies" folder which already existed. Worked just fine there...
I tried deleting the "empty" Movies folder. It went away, but I'm still missing all of my space!

SSH'd in with SSHDroid. Went to the root and did a "du -hc".
In total, it only found 4.5G of data, including all OS, app, and user files. Where is the rest of my space? Am I going to have to do a factory reset to get it back?

stoanhart said:
SSH'd in with SSHDroid. Went to the root and did a "du -hc".
In total, it only found 4.5G of data, including all OS, app, and user files. Where is the rest of my space? Am I going to have to do a factory reset to get it back?
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Try this App called "Forever Gone" from the Play Store It should Help and Get Your Space Back . I can't post links yet but just search that in the play store and iut should come up
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda app-developers app

So I feel stupid now...
Multi user accounts. Apparently you get completely separate storage roots. When you plug the device into the computer as one user, other users can't see what you copied. Seems so obvious now.
Thanks for the suggestion though.

Can't USB transfer video to Macbook

Hi, I am trying to transfer a video from phone to Mac. Both ways fail.
1. Whilst I can open Android File Transfer on my Mac and can transfer files, I cannot get into the DCIM>Camera folder. I see a spinning cursor then the app closes with the error:
Can't access device storage
Make sure your device is unlocked and "File Transfer" or "MTP" mode is enabled
My device is unlocked and file transfer is enabled.
2. Using MTP mode (by pulling down the phone notification and choosing "Transfer images" the phone appears in Apple Photos as "SM-N950U1". However the photo section is blank, despite my having many on the phone.
Great camera but I can't access the videos for editing. Please note I'm not looking for other cloud methods, I want to do it via USB cable as it is MUCH faster.
Thank you.

this is a MAC issue more than a phone issue i would think.
Are your files on sd card or local storage?
if on internal storage, try to copy one of the videos in an other location. maybe in the download folder? (using phones file manager)
there are also good wifi/http server file sharing apps, if computer and phone are on same LAN, you create an http site via an app and simply use a browser on your mac to access phone via LAN ip adress. it is acctualy quite convenient.

bober10113 said:
this is a MAC issue more than a phone issue i would think.
Are your files on sd card or local storage?
if on internal storage, try to copy one of the videos in an other location. maybe in the download folder? (using phones file manager)
there are also good wifi/http server file sharing apps, if computer and phone are on same LAN, you create an http site via an app and simply use a browser on your mac to access phone via LAN ip adress. it is acctualy quite convenient.
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Thanks. Turns out there were too many files for the file transfer to load the folder. I cleaned some out and it worked.
Still can't access in image transfer mode though, which would be ideal.
They're in local storage.
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CJSnet said:
Thanks. Turns out there were too many files for the file transfer to load the folder. I cleaned some out and it worked.
Still can't access in image transfer mode though, which would be ideal.
They're in local storage.
Sent from my SM-N950U1 using Tapatalk
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videos will never be available in PTP(picture transfer protocol)
this is normal hence the name.

bober10113 said:
videos will never be available in PTP(picture transfer protocol)
this is normal hence the name.
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Oh. It says "media" on the drop down. I'm pretty sure I've seen videos there before. Either way, I don't even see my pictures there now.
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mtp should show everything but ptp will only yeild pictures. but as you said, seeing nothing dosent make sense.