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Hide images from G1 picture viewer??

I've believe I seen a how to around here somewhere about how to keep images or certain folders with images from showing up on the G1s picture viewer.
I got some pictures I dont need people seeing when they look though my pictures stored on my SD card.
I would like to be able to view them in ASTRO or something similar or when I mount my SD card to a PC. Maybe a certain app can disable certain folders?

Sistum Id said:
I've believe I seen a how to around here somewhere about how to keep images or certain folders with images from showing up on the G1s picture viewer.
I got some pictures I dont need people seeing when they look though my pictures stored on my SD card.
I would like to be able to view them in ASTRO or something similar or when I mount my SD card to a PC. Maybe a certain app can disable certain folders?
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I just put a period in front of each folder. Like from "folder" to ".folder"
and reboot. Voila! Probably won't work for apps that need to access that specific directory though.

Haha, u get the pix from the chicks 2, I c, but yea put them in a folder and put a "." in front of the folder name like binary said, and reboot
Sistum Id said:
I've believe I seen a how to around here somewhere about how to keep images or certain folders with images from showing up on the G1s picture viewer.
I got some pictures I dont need people seeing when they look though my pictures stored on my SD card.
I would like to be able to view them in ASTRO or something similar or when I mount my SD card to a PC. Maybe a certain app can disable certain folders?
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Sistum Id said:
I've believe I seen a how to around here somewhere about how to keep images or certain folders with images from showing up on the G1s picture viewer.
I got some pictures I dont need people seeing when they look though my pictures stored on my SD card.
I would like to be able to view them in ASTRO or something similar or when I mount my SD card to a PC. Maybe a certain app can disable certain folders?
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There is indeed an app that will hide files. It is called "Hide & Seek" and acts like just another Flashlight app. After launching the app you hit the Menu button three times and enter a password. Then you can "View" or hide additional files... I have found it very useful to hide content such as the pics downloaded by the "Phandroid" app which would show up in the picture viewer...

You guys are awesome and lifesavor, thanks. We need a rep system or something like other forums have.

wow, ive been looking for a way to do this without the app, never thought of putting a . in there, nice work guys

The way the app does it, is it changes the nome from "pic.jpg" to "pic.kpg.hide"

mmm
AsaSpades said:
Haha, u get the pix from the chicks 2, I c, but yea put them in a folder and put a "." in front of the folder name like binary said, and reboot
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I have tried this from within Windows, but it doesnt allow me. Do you have to change the name from the phone directly?
thanks
N

nmesisca said:
I have tried this from within Windows, but it doesnt allow me. Do you have to change the name from the phone directly?
thanks
N
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Anyone please?

Yeah, you have to do it on the phone.

Using ASTRO is how I did it. I renamed the folder with the "." in front of it, (Long press folder>Edit>Rename) then you can set ASTRO to view files as thumbnails, (Menu>View>Change View>Thumbnail Icons) and then browse the picture folder in ASTRO. When you click a picture, you can set it to open in the native View Picture or in ASTRO's picture viewer, your choice.

backup
Make sure you have a backup copy of ur pics before u try this. For some reason when i put .folder whenever i reboot, it deleats all my pics in that folder! Did it 5 times in a row, but i had backups on my comp. If i put .pic for file name then it still shows up. Gonna just change the file extension i guess and see how that works...
Anyone else have any probs like this?

nmesisca said:
I have tried this from within Windows, but it doesnt allow me. Do you have to change the name from the phone directly?
thanks
N
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Yeah... Astro... Linda... whatever you use should allow you to add the . in front of the name. You need to reboot for the changes to go into effect.

How to hide pictures?

Hello,
I have some pictures of my girlfriend when shes naked on my phone and i dont like that when i open my photos & videos first thing you see is my girlfriend naked. Its pretty annoying if my friends uses my phone and i cant let them go see pictures becouse im not that kind of boyfriend So is there any way to hide pictures / make folder with password? And sorry for my bad english i hope you guys understand.

like your honesty!!!

using file explorer.. go to...
(depending where your pictures are stored)
cut and paste the pictures contained in DCIM\100media\
into a new folder somewhere else on the storage card.. and it will no longer appear in the image gallery

nutmegy said:
using file explorer.. go to...
(depending where your pictures are stored)
cut and paste the pictures contained in DCIM\100media\
into a new folder somewhere else on the storage card.. and it will no longer appear in the image gallery
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That doesnt work, when i click "all albums" you can see those pictures.

Mate - have a look at this, in the hits & tips thread linked in my sig...
64. Disable Unwanted Folders From Showing in HTC Album
It just hides a folder from the album app. You can still manually browse to it with file explorer, for example, and open images from there.
Hope this helps

johncmolyneux said:
Mate - have a look at this, in the hits & tips thread linked in my sig...
64. Disable Unwanted Folders From Showing in HTC Album
It just hides a folder from the album app. You can still manually browse to it with file explorer, for example, and open images from there.
Hope this helps
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Thanks man =) that helped

lol i forgot to add that bit!!, anyway your "Friends" shouldn't be rooting around your phone anyway!!!! heheh

simple..send them to me and I'll hide them for you

twisted-pixel said:
simple..send them to me and I'll hide them for you
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Haha =D you wish

i edited thet registry key but i'm having troubles.. while it is actually hiding pictures in htc album, they are still showing up in manila's tab, am i doing something wrong?

WinRar the files. You can even put a password on it so that if you loose the phone no one can see the pics. I found it the easiest and most secure way to hide your girlfriends pictures.
RReckless

Free app to protect pictures
Hi,
Search for an app called FreeOTFE4PDA. It allows you to create a fully encrypted, password protected folder on your card. This can then be mounted as a storage card when needed. Within this you can create folder and do anything else you can do on a storage card. The important part is of course that you can not mount it if you do not know the password.
Regards

i run both windows and android, so what i'm trying to do is to hide android's gallery cache files (why did developers think that using readable jpg files as cache would be a good idea in the first place?)
that's the reason i want them to remain accessible for android use, but still don't want them to fill my windows photo tab with duplicates, so no rar storing can solve my problem
i fear i'll have to give up the 3d glory of android's gallery due to this stupid issue...

Use Total Commander, find the pictures, press & hold a picture, tap Properties, check the box "Hidden", press OK. The pictures can only be accessed through Total Commander.
It's a good thing my 900th post went to a good cause!

l30 said:
i run both windows and android, so what i'm trying to do is to hide android's gallery cache files (why did developers think that using readable jpg files as cache would be a good idea in the first place?)
that's the reason i want them to remain accessible for android use, but still don't want them to fill my windows photo tab with duplicates, so no rar storing can solve my problem
i fear i'll have to give up the 3d glory of android's gallery due to this stupid issue...
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That's exactly the problem i'm having. You just have to keep the photos rarred while you using android. Not the perfect solution, if you find a better 1 i'm interested too.
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1)Change the extension to some other (from jpg to ipg in example). So no one program will open it. When you need it change again to jpg.
2)make it hidden or system

[Q] Xoom Gallery

Does anyone know how to hide pictures in Honeycomb like you could with Gingerbread/Froyo and before?
You used to be able to put a period in front of a folder (.video) and it would not show up in the gallery. I've tried this and it fails.
Yes, this is partially because there is pictures that no one needs to see (girlfriend and what not), but its also because I do use it for work and have pictures of NDA projects. If I'm showing a customer pictures of their project, I can't be showing the other pictures as well.
If anyone has found a decent work around please let me know.

Try .nomedia

notmybbq said:
Does anyone know how to hide pictures in Honeycomb like you could with Gingerbread/Froyo and before?
You used to be able to put a period in front of a folder (.video) and it would not show up in the gallery. I've tried this and it fails.
Yes, this is partially because there is pictures that no one needs to see (girlfriend and what not), but its also because I do use it for work and have pictures of NDA projects. If I'm showing a customer pictures of their project, I can't be showing the other pictures as well.
If anyone has found a decent work around please let me know.
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did you try placing a .nomedia file in the folder you want to hide? that works for me. i just made an empty text file on my desktop then renamed it .nomedia and then copied it to folders i don't want to show up in gallery

I was not aware that this worked. Thank you guys!

False alarm I suppose. Did you do this in Honeycomb? i just deposited a .nomedia file in each directory and they still show up.

Ok I found out how to get this working.
The .nomedia method still works.
But you cannot create a nomedia file in Honeycomb, you have to copy it to your Xoom from the PC.
Once you copy the nomedia file to the folders you want to be hidden, you have to REBOOT your Xoom. Yes, for some reason the method won't work straight away, you need to reboot the Xoom for the effect to take place.
Unless you know a way for the Xoom to refresh the cache or relist the internal storage files.

Would SDscan work?
Sent from my Xoom

The trick is to rescan after creating the nomedia file. Rebooting is the easiest way but there are others (tools on market to force rescan.)
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Or you could use QuickPics and set the folders to hidden

I used astro (free in market) and created a new folder called .data and put pics in that do not show in gallery. I tried doing this first from the PC and it did not work.
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[Q] Honeycomb optimized Photo hider

Trying to find a picture hiding app for pics i don't want the general public to see... i know i can go the route of locking my galery but id rather keep that open..... you know its kind of suspicious to have a locked photo gallery.........
I have been using audio manager pro (hide it pro) on my Atrix... need something that works good for honeycomb!! Help please....

do a market search for stocks and you should stumble upon a $4.99 photo and video hiding app... I think you can only hide media taken with the tablet though.

usermmg said:
do a market search for stocks and you should stumble upon a $4.99 photo and video hiding app... I think you can only hide media taken with the tablet though.
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I have paid for that before so i have it but i didnt think it would work good on the tab
let me check it out

Works decent enough but still on the lookout for something built for honeycomb........ the ui would be really nice

If you place a '.' at the beginning of a folder name, it will hide it from the gallery.
EX: .motherwouldbeashamed

dstudios said:
If you place a '.' at the beginning of a folder name, it will hide it from the gallery.
EX: .motherwouldbeashamed
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This is a good suggestion. Works on nearly any android device. Doesn't even matter what directory it is in. Keep in mind though, it is still visible when exploring the directory.

Naked pictures!!!!!!!
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Hide pics from gallery with 'File Expert'
I have searched for the same with no luck, however discovered that 'File Expert' can do the job.
Just long press on a folder that contains the pics you want hidden from the gallery (you could make a new folder for all the pics you want to hide if needed?), and click on "Hide Pics for Media Detection".
I use a different app as a file explorer, but keep file expert to hide music album covers etc from the gallery.
Market link:
https : // market.android.com/details?id=xcxin.filexpert&feature=search_result[/url]

Quickpic is a great gallery alternative that lets you move pictures and hide folders and it's free.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.alensw.PicFolder

Samsung gallery app scans whole device.

Hi
When I set the photo frame widget on my home screen, it shuffles images from the whole device. So it even shows icon images, screen shots, clipboard images, and any images that are part of the android or Samsung system in the photo frame.
Is there any way of just selecting ffrom the SD card? I've gone into the photo frame settings and there are just 3 options. I can choose either one photo to display, a specific image folder, or shuffle all images. Absolutely useless...I only want my photos to show up....not system or clipboard images.
I resent having to pay for another app to replace something already on my device, but with such a simple and obvious oversight as this.
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Just put a .nomedia file in folders you want media scanner to ignore.
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Thanks. Just tried that and it hasn't worked. I put touch.nomedia in one of the folders but it still appears in the gallery.
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Try text file .nomedia inside that folder .
jje

Clear app cache for media server as well.

Markhypnosis said:
Hi
When I set the photo frame widget on my home screen, it shuffles images from the whole device. So it even shows icon images, screen shots, clipboard images, and any images that are part of the android or Samsung system in the photo frame.
Is there any way of just selecting ffrom the SD card? I've gone into the photo frame settings and there are just 3 options. I can choose either one photo to display, a specific image folder, or shuffle all images. Absolutely useless...I only want my photos to show up....not system or clipboard images.
I resent having to pay for another app to replace something already on my device, but with such a simple and obvious oversight as this.
Sent from my GT-N8010 using xda app-developers app
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wouldn't it be easy to make a new folder just for the widget and copy the photos you want to appear on the widget into that folder?

Mikest1978 said:
wouldn't it be easy to make a new folder just for the widget and copy the photos you want to appear on the widget into that folder?
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Not really no. I have over 20 folders of sorted photos.....roughly 6gb altogether, it would take ages to copy the photos from each folder into a single folder. Plus I don't want to double the amount of memory taken up just so I can have the photo frame without all the other system and app images showing up. It really is utterly ridiculous that Google missed this basic need.....I have over 3000 images added to the widget, but I only have 500 photos, come on Google, you can do better than this!!!

Sometimes its easier to create the .nomedia file on a pc and trasfer across.
smrsxn said:
Clear app cache for media server as well.
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I've found that i have to delete the media storage every time i add new photos or icons etc. The media scanner doesn't seem to recognise new content.