I have had a Samsung Captivate and if I put pictures in folders they were separated in the gallery on the phone by those folders. With the streak they just throw all of them together no matter if I separate them in folders on the SD card. Anyone have a work around? Thanks.
kevinwatson5 said:
I have had a Samsung Captivate and if I put pictures in folders they were separated in the gallery on the phone by those folders. With the streak they just throw all of them together no matter if I separate them in folders on the SD card. Anyone have a work around? Thanks.
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2.1 will sort this out with the new gallery.
Other than that, I have no idea.
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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'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"
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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?
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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?
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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.
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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?
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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.
I've placed pictures on an SD card in media/pictures. Most are in sub-folders with only a handful with no designation just floating around in media/pictures. When I went into pictures to choose a wallpaper EVERYTHING is there. All out in the open. No groups. Even album pictures from my media/music folder.
What's going on? I'd just like to, from the home screen, hit menu > wallpaper > pictures and have them show up in groups so I can just go to my media/pictures/wallpaper folder.
How can I just add walls to the Wallpaper Gallery? What file explorer is good to get from the Market Place?
I've looked around but the answers are scattered and file explorers are mentioned but no one's said outright "yeah, use this one..."
rly? i mean rly!? come on now...
So much activity around the forums and no one knows what to do for sorting pics on an SD card or accessing the default location for wallpapers...
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Hi, how is you VB. Coding?
I had the same issue and I just wrote a simple program to rename the .jpg’s in the date order I wanted.
I can post the code if you want? I think its possible to do it in VBA as well, but I found there was a lot more information relating to the .NET stuff
Thanks but I was really just looking for a recommended directory structure for the SD card and a way to get the gallery to NOT show album art for my music. I tried naming the folder .music but then the phone could not find the music!
Also, I have custom ringtones/mp3's used as ringtones on my SD which the phone loses after having mounted it to the pc?! I set a ringtone for a contact then at some point I mount the phone to USB and then I find on my contact that the ringtone is now "unknown." I tried copying the mp3's I most use as ringtones to the phone but I was told that it could not be done by AndExplorer...
Kinda sad at this point. :\
Does anyone know if there is a way for my folders in my picture albumn to come up? In my sd card I have everything sorted in folders but when I open my photos on the Steak, they are just all together and mixed up... Can anyone help?
My gallery app has a horrible tendency of creating folders that definitely don't exist on my internal memory.
I have at least 20 folders simply named things like:
1
10
11
12
15
18
This has been going on for a while now, but it's never REALLY bothered me until now. Any idea how to fix it?
This happens to me sometimes. I think they are thumbnails from the web or some other source.
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I agree ^
One of your apps might be creating folders, to name a few examples Heroes of Sparta creates a folder with a new video. NFS downloads a whole bunch of music, Bestube downloads a lot of pictures (useless), etc. So it might not be the gallery but a third party app.
It's not any of my apps.
The pictures in that folder are pictures I've taken with my camera or downloaded from people who have texted them to me. They just appear as duplicates in the gallery, even though when I look at the files on the memory stick and phone, they only exist once in the Camera/Downloads folder.
Edit: Some of these pictures SHOULD be in my downloads folder because I saved them from an MMS but aren't.
I can't seem to find the folder they're actually stored IN, though...
You can try backing up the files you know you want to keep, format the internal sd through the phone, then restore your files. That should remove any dupes on your sd. You may want to do the same with the external sd as well.
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You can try backing up the files you know you want to keep, format the internal sd through the phone, then restore your files. That should remove any dupes on your sd. You may want to do the same with the external sd as well.
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That's a great idea, thanks!
Before I do that though, there are pictures that SHOULD be in the downloads folder, but are in those weird folders. However, I can't find those anywhere with any file managers. Any idea how to find those pictures and move them to the downloads folder?
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That's a great idea, thanks!
Before I do that though, there are pictures that SHOULD be in the downloads folder, but are in those weird folders. However, I can't find those anywhere with any file managers. Any idea how to find those pictures and move them to the downloads folder?
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That I don't have a clue, I'm ocd about my files, they get put where I need them as soon as they hit my phone. If you're seeing them in the gallery, they have to be stored somewhere, sorry I can't offer any advice on that part.
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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
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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?
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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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