If you go to to your file manager on your phone and then sdcard > DCIM > .thumbnails I have noticed that there are thumnails of photos which I have already deleted from the gallery in this folder. Is it safe to delete all the files in here? Why is there still a thumbnail of the photos I deleted in this folder? Please help! am using HTC Desire HD...Newbie to Android
taz_mw said:
If you go to to your file manager on your phone and then sdcard > DCIM > .thumbnails I have noticed that there are thumnails of photos which I have already deleted from the gallery in this folder. Is it safe to delete all the files in here? Why is there still a thumbnail of the photos I deleted in this folder? Please help! am using HTC Desire HD...Newbie to Android
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.thumbnails is supposed to be hidden, the android OS uses this folder as a cache to quickly show the gallery. i suppose you can clear it, the next time you open the gallery i think it will remake thumbs. not to shure.
did you delete photo's with an file manager, or with gallery?
Patrock.nl said:
.thumbnails is supposed to be hidden, the android OS uses this folder as a cache to quickly show the gallery. i suppose you can clear it, the next time you open the gallery i think it will remake thumbs. not to shure.
did you delete photo's with an file manager, or with gallery?
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Hi Thanks...I deleted the images in the gallery app. Yesterday I deleted the images in the .thumbnails folder...android did re-create them, but the ones I had deleted were no longer there so sorted!
But I still think android should delete the temporary thumnail once the photo has been deleted from the Gallery too!
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When I use a file manager to move photos from my dcim folder the thumbnails stay in my gallery. So I delete the .thumbnails folder and reboot. The spaces are still there, but the image placeholders are still there. This is a new problem with OTA 2.2. Anyone know of a fix?
I'm not sure what happened, but I was having trouble using my camera. It would close right after opening. I cleared my cache and uninstalled a few apps and rebooted and now my camera works and the files are out of my gallery. Weird, but at least it's fixed.
I have a few questions re: the gallery that I'd love some help with.
1. Gallery doesn't update a folder if I move a picture using a file explorer (Astro or Root Explorer for example). If I reboot the phone then the picture shows up in the correct directory. I'm guessing that restarting the gallery app would do the same thing. Anyone else having this issue?
2. Is there a way to have the gallery only look to one location for pics? I hate how it always grabs every image on my SD Card. Especially if you have Bejeweled installed. It adds about 10 folders of images that I don't want to have to browse through. Is there another gallery app that would allow me to set this if the stock gallery doesn't work that way?
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
Also noticing that the Gallery just doesn't update frequently. I thought it did this every time you opened it, but I guess not. Is there a way to force programs to re-scan the SD card?
SDRescan in the market works perfectly... and if you want to keep the folder from being seen in the gallery, just add a blank text file to the folder and rename it .nomedia
Thanks odrecords. Both of those work perfectly.
stock gallery will grab images from any folder on your SD if you don't want your gallery to load em theres two ways when in gallery hit menu then show hide. this will do as it says and either load or not load certain folders. Other option is to place a period in front of the folder name u want hidden i.e. ".test". This will hide it from the Android system in general but not file explorers.
Hey guys, I am chinese, not very good english, so I try to explain my problem finely to understand.
my s4 device storage is16G(auctualy only have 8.69G can be used), And I have a 64G SD card. Now, when i take a picture, the picture is saved in SD card, that is very good, that is what I want. But if I move the pictures to a Album, then the pics are saved in my Device storage. that is not what I want. I want when I moved the pic to Album, the pics still are saved in SD Card. How can I fix this problems guys?
Do you guys understand what I mean and what I want? I am not sure if you guys got my piont. anyway, thanks a lot.
Yes. I understand.
However, the stock gallery that came with the phone creates Albums in "/storage/sdcard0/Pictures/" which is in your device.
After you moved pictures to a new Album using the stock Gallery app,
Open "My Files" or any File browser (ES File Explorer), navigate to "/storage/sdcard0/Pictures/", move the Album you've created to "/storage/extSdCard/".
Gallery will automatically update the new location.
psycovirus said:
Yes. I understand.
However, the stock gallery that came with the phone creates Albums in "/storage/sdcard0/Pictures/" which is in your device.
After you moved pictures to a new Album using the stock Gallery app,
Open "My Files" or any File browser (ES File Explorer), navigate to "/storage/sdcard0/Pictures/", move the Album you've created to "/storage/extSdCard/".
Gallery will automatically update the new location.
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Thank you sir, now I am doing like this, only have this idea.
hope somebody or sumsang can solve this problem.
thanks again.
I have a ton of photos on my G2 and I wanna move some of them to pc to save some space
now what happens is when I go to my file manager (or device storage from pc) there's a folder named Gallery but when I enter it I find only one album there! and I have like 9 albums on my phone. and I made sure that no files are hidden and that this folder actually contains only this album :\
so..please help
thanks
zain555 said:
I have a ton of photos on my G2 and I wanna move some of them to pc to save some space
now what happens is when I go to my file manager (or device storage from pc) there's a folder named Gallery but when I enter it I find only one album there! and I have like 9 albums on my phone. and I made sure that no files are hidden and that this folder actually contains only this album :\
so..please help
thanks
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Look in /sdcard/DCIM/camera That's where all my photos end up.
yeswap said:
Look in /sdcard/DCIM/camera That's where all my photos end up.
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Thanks! they're all there!
Hi all
As per subject, i keep having this "mei" folder in DCIM folder. After i delete it, it keep reappearing again. The "mei" folder is always empty.
1) Anyone know what is this "mei" folder in DCIM folder?
2) And also how to stop it from reappearing again?
I googled and didn't find any answer and solution to this.
Thanks in advance.
Tiongkia said:
Hi all
As per subject, i keep having this "mei" folder in DCIM folder. After i delete it, it keep reappearing again. The "mei" folder is always empty.
1) Anyone know what is this "mei" folder in DCIM folder?
2) And also how to stop it from reappearing again?
I googled and didn't find any answer and solution to this.
Thanks in advance.
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Sounds like to got another app adding photos to your gallery
Google shows loads of responses possibly a cloud sync or something one guy says he went to manually syn instead of auto and it stopped
HoosierDaddy said:
Sounds like to got another app adding photos to your gallery
Google shows loads of responses possibly a cloud sync or something one guy says he went to manually syn instead of auto and it stopped
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Thanks mate
My Google drive is manually synced but the mei folder keeps coming back
Anyone?
Tiongkia said:
Anyone?
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Use root explorer, find the dcim folder. Inside there find the mei folder. Inside mei folder create a file and name it .nomedia now that folder or any files won't show in gallery. Or delete the mei folder from dcim with root explorer not via gallery
callumbr1 said:
Use root explorer, find the dcim folder. Inside there find the mei folder. Inside mei folder create a file and name it .nomedia now that folder or any files won't show in gallery. Or delete the mei folder from dcim with root explorer not via gallery
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Thanks but i am not saying that there is pictures inside. I said the mei folder keeps appearing. Its always empty. I always delete the folder using es explorer not gallery but it will reappear again.
Tiongkia said:
Thanks but i am not saying that there is pictures inside. I said the mei folder keeps appearing. Its always empty. I always delete the folder using es explorer not gallery but it will reappear again.
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Then it must be down to an app that's using storage permission to create that folder. Try to find the app and disable permissions or delete
I have the same too, but that folder is not a big deal... If you deleted the "mei" folder, it will reappear again when you open LINE app...