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Htc Album with folder selector/folder ignore?

Hi everyone,
My name is Carlos and i'm from Barcelona, and this is my first post here.
I have a HTC Diamond, and i would like to know if there is a way to ignore folders into the HTC Album, because i'm very tired of browsing on dumb folders when i want to see my real photos.
I've read in other threads about putting folders the "Ignore" entry in the registry, but it seems it doesn't works... or maybe i do not know how to do it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=404948
Is there a way to get rid of these folders that i do not want to see? Is there a new version of the HTC album with some kind of folder selector? Or any other third part software to do this?
I'm really desperate on this, because i love the HTC Album, but is really annoying to browse so long to find my photos amongst that crap...
Many thanks!

you can always select the folder you want to browse by clicking "album" (left softkey in htc album) and then select the good folder

Set the "hidden" file attribute on all jpegs in folders you want to ignore.

does the photo viewer pick every single jpeg on the phone by default or does it only show pictures from certain folders - i.e my pictures folder (wether internal storage or located elsewhere).
I got a load of photographs I dont want anyone to see (wink wink nudge nudge) just by picking up my phone and selecting photos.
Ive got to many to mark each one as hidden.

I remember I managed it to work before last hard reset, but now I forget how I did that... I'll look into it and let you guys know if if find anything out

That's just the problem, the album picks EVERY single jpg in the phone, and there's no option to avoid it.
Now I have about 200 folders when i click on Album list, so the album is not useful anymore, i do no not want to waste 3 minutes to browse down in the album list to find that pictures that i'm loking for...
The "hidden" option it doesn't works... too much folders to hide anyway...

The hidden option works absolutely fine on my Diamond. It's the files that have to be hidden not the folders.
if the photos are in internal storage, connect the Diamond to a pc as a USB drive and do a search for all jpeg files from the pc . Select all the search results (or just the ones that need hiding) and right-click to adjust all the properties at the same time.

Davey101 said:
The hidden option works absolutely fine on my Diamond. It's the files that have to be hidden not the folders.
if the photos are in internal storage, connect the Diamond to a pc as a USB drive and do a search for all jpeg files from the pc . Select all the search results (or just the ones that need hiding) and right-click to adjust all the properties at the same time.
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WOOOOOW !!
Davey101, that was a pretty brilliant idea!!
I thought I should hide folders, not individual files. I follow your instructions to hide all the undesired jpg files. I've seen other folders in the Album with bmp, png ad gif files, and they were also hidden.
Maybe is not the best way to definitely solve this matter, but it seems there is no other one for the moment, and the result is that now i've just have what i want in the Album list. Cool
Many thanks for your help!

Folder Seleting
Also,Dont know if you already know but every photo album folder listed from the album button has the setting to select it has your favourite.Your favourite album will then be accessed from the "photos and videos link from tf3d.Saves searching through lots of folders!

[Q] Picture viewing question

Sorry, this must be a fairly lame novice question.
I have rooted my transformer, upgraded to 3.1 and use cifsmanager to mount all my media on my linux file server. I thought that was the hard part, but it was fun&easy, thanks to XDA-developers.
But when it comes to just figuring out how to comfortably view my pictures... well, that seems more difficult.
a) I can not figure out i can get googles built-in gallery app to find/index my picture media on my mounted file system. Is that possible at all ?
b) When i use any of the file managers like Astro or Estrong, i can view pictures with their built-in picture viewers, but they are lame because they do not support multitouch to zoom in&out of the picture and have no nice animation moving between pictures. They also seem to be somewhat slower.
c) When i use Gallery from any File manager, it will only show a single picture, but not allow to view all pictures in the directory. I wonder/fear, if Gallery can display all pictures in a directory at all, or whether it first needs to have every directory be indexed through the "i have no clue how it works" method.
d) So i copied a bunch of my photos over to the transformers SD to see how gallery treats them then, and it seems that gallery has no concept of hierarchies whatsoever. My whole nice picture tree (year/{topic|month}{/subtopic}) got totally flattened out into a ridiculous long list of albums.
So, any chance to get best of both worlds ? Eg: Use Gallery to view an individual folder (with the nice thumbnails from gallery, snappy flipping between pictures and mult-touch zoom) AND to use a file manager to navigate between folders. And of course the folders are network mounted or local ?
Thanks

JustPictures is your answer, free from the market.
Use stock gallery for fancily watching your local albums if you need, use justpictures to open a pic from within file manager.
Btw, I always used Es file manager on the phone, but switched to FileManager HD on the tablet.

Thanks!
JustPictures looks good, thanks a lot for the pointer.
I still would like to understand though how android determines the "local pictures" directories and if i have a way to change them or add some other directory to that list.
JustPictures for example has a very nice browsing through the android known picture directories, which is much nicer than using any file manager - because it has thumbnails and so on. But of course that only works for those magical "local directories".

In JustPictures under Add Account you can add extra Local 'accounts' and specify a specific directory you want to include. I think this solves your problem if I understand you correctly.

BTW is there any way to achieve what you did without rooting the Transformer? I want to look at pictures on my linux box from it, but could not find a decent solution.
I can share the photos in quite a few ways (webdav, ftp, dlna/upnp, samba/smb/cifs), but could not find a decent picture viewer to handle that. The thing that came the closest is to share with dlna and use a dlna viewer like MyNet (that comes with the Transformer). But all the DLNA viewers seem to be optimized for videos and music. With pictures they don't have basic features like caching the next picture for faster viewing.
JustPictures seems to only support cloud or local locations. But LAN options are not present.

Ok, so here's a more detailed answer to both zsori and te36:
Ive just mounted my Linux' homeserver Samba share (Cifsmanager - settings - load at startup, load via insmod, create share, mount).
Then, I used FileManager HD to navigate into it (/mnt/sdcard/share in my case), then navigated to one of the dirs, switched to grid view to see the thumbnails, and tapped one of the pics. (Ihave JustPictures opening pics by default)
JustPictures opened the pic; then i pressed Back, which brought me to JustPictures folder view, essentially treating the mounted dir as local.
I think thats what both of you wanted. Clearly , you need root to use Cifsmanager, but these days rooting is a matter of seconds ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1125714 ).

I have one more concern regarding cifs besides root: In my experience linux does not handle it too nicely when a mounted network filesystem dissapears. It can cause general lag in the system and even unmounting the (not available) filesystem might block for some time.
Since I had these issues I have usually avoided to mount network file systems and tried to access them with user space solutions (like the integrated cifs support in the KDE file manager).
Does CifsManager try to solve these issues? Do you have any experience? Or could you test mounting the cifs shares and then making the shares unavailable (eg. by shutting down the PC)?
I would like to avoid rooting just to find out that this is not the ideal solution for me...

I'm also interested in a picture viewer that can access smb share without rooting my transformer.
i'm now using file manager hd and es file explorer to view shared photos but both aren't very efficient in photo managing.

I didn't have the chance to test it with SMB shares, but QuickPic is the best gallery alternative.

[Q] Image viewer/manager with directory browsing?

I'm using QuickPic and it is one of the best image viewers out there. But there is a problem when it comes to browse the photos by directory structure. QuickPic just displays any folder that has images in it (well of course some can be hidden/excluded), but they all appear on the same level, both parent folders and child folders. Is there any good image viewer that actually lets me browse the directories like a file manager? And I need to be able to view images in thumbnail mode (small or big, size of the thumbnails doesn't matter). Thanks in advance.

if i remember correctly, the miui gallery allows you to view by directory:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1158084

[Q] Any way to hide albums in the gallery?

I have a few different "Albums" (folders) that I like to be able to see in the Moto gallery app, but when I click on settings > Albums, it shows EVERY folder that has a picture or video in it. Which means every music download folder I have shows up since it has album art and every video/movie shows up that is in a different folder. So I have 100+ albums to scroll through to find the ones I want.
I tried deleting them, from within the gallery, but it deletes the actual folder on your phone/SD card....In the HTC gallery, you could use a feature called "Hide albums".......Is there anything like this for the Moto gallery?

tele_jas said:
I have a few different "Albums" (folders) that I like to be able to see in the Moto gallery app, but when I click on settings > Albums, it shows EVERY folder that has a picture or video in it. Which means every music download folder I have shows up since it has album art and every video/movie shows up that is in a different folder. So I have 100+ albums to scroll through to find the ones I want.
I tried deleting them, from within the gallery, but it deletes the actual folder on your phone/SD card....In the HTC gallery, you could use a feature called "Hide albums".......Is there anything like this for the Moto gallery?
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if your albums are in different folders you could make a file using es file app and name it .nomedia and it wont show up in your gallery app. but if all your pics are in the same folder then none of them would show up in gallery.

funtimez said:
if your albums are in different folders you could make a file using es file app and name it .nomedia and it wont show up in your gallery app. but if all your pics are in the same folder then none of them would show up in gallery.
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No, they're all different folders. I have my basic folders I want to keep: Camera, Pictures (which I keep older pics in), Screenshots, Downloads, Wallpapers, ect... Then I have 97 music albums, each in it's own folder on my external SD card and then a "Movie-TV" folder with sub-folders in it: Doctor Who, Fringe, X-Files, and other nerd titles. All of these show up in my gallery.
I'll try the .nomedia trick, but adding that to 100+ folders is going to take a few minutes.... I was hoping there was an easier way, like there is on the HTC.

tele_jas said:
No, they're all different folders. I have my basic folders I want to keep: Camera, Pictures (which I keep older pics in), Screenshots, Downloads, Wallpapers, ect... Then I have 97 music albums, each in it's own folder on my external SD card and then a "Movie-TV" folder with sub-folders in it: Doctor Who, Fringe, X-Files, and other nerd titles. All of these show up in my gallery.
I'll try the .nomedia trick, but adding that to 100+ folders is going to take a few minutes.... I was hoping there was an easier way, like there is on the HTC.
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as far as I know this is the only way

You could just use quickpic gallery? It's nice, quick and light. And allows you to hide folders in bulk. It adds a .nomedia to them.
Also... If all the folders you don't want to see are in a single folder, you could put the .nomedia at the top level to have the others ignored...

Skyerin said:
You could just use quickpic gallery? It's nice, quick and light. And allows you to hide folders in bulk. It adds a .nomedia to them.
Also... If all the folders you don't want to see are in a single folder, you could put the .nomedia at the top level to have the others ignored...
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Yeah, I've used QuicPic before and really liked it... I've heard some "bad things" about the latest update, or at least the new company that bought it?? I may give it a try anyways, I have nothing against a new company unless they introduce ads or something?
I also found the HTC Once M9 gallery and camera that works perfect on the MXP... I may just use that. The camera seems to work pretty well with our phones too, I may have it for my 2nd camera....and for when I hand my phone to someone to take a pic of me and they ask "where's the picture button"?

Creating a .nomedia file in the Music folder works.

tele_jas said:
Yeah, I've used QuicPic before and really liked it... I've heard some "bad things" about the latest update, or at least the new company that bought it?? I may give it a try anyways, I have nothing against a new company unless they introduce ads or something?
I also found the HTC Once M9 gallery and camera that works perfect on the MXP... I may just use that. The camera seems to work pretty well with our phones too, I may have it for my 2nd camera....and for when I hand my phone to someone to take a pic of me and they ask "where's the picture button"?
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Just got a used MXP last night after I broke the One Max I had been using and there weren't any good One Max's for sale. Big screen, stereo speakers, sd slot.... perfect. Had all previous HTC phones back to ppc6800.
I miss my gallery and Music HTC apps. I have 50gb of organized cd's on my sd card and I see the pictures in the gallery as all separate folders. I renamed my old sd card camera pictures folder from 100 media (htc save location) to camera (mxp save location) and it shows my camera roll with all 4,000 pictures and whatnot and adds new pics right inline. Kind of solved my gallery problem if I just stay out of the "albums" spot and just leave it on "Camera roll"... I now have camera roll, and videos as separate spots, but that doesn't help for screenshots or downloads so much. Don't use those that often I guess anyways.
The old HTC Music app would just simply be a music player and not mix in download/online material and try to sell me stuff. Its showing albums twice in my list as some are online and some are downloaded. I often go up north out of cell range for all weekend and play music in the truck and cabin the whole time. Streaming isn't an option so i'm in the minority that still buys lots of cd's (digitally) and downloads them and keeps an sd/computer/ full. Open the old music app hit one play button and it was back on the shuffle all, or a quick scroll down through all artists and whatnot to pick an album.
I know its the first day and I will get used to it. Man, I'm b*tching alot. haha.
Where did you find the camera and gallery files... and can you find the music app too?? I'm sure there are good 3rd party apps too, I just haven't had time to play with the new device yet besides setup.
Thanks!

brettokok said:
Just got a used MXP last night after I broke the One Max I had been using and there weren't any good One Max's for sale. Big screen, stereo speakers, sd slot.... perfect. Had all previous HTC phones back to ppc6800.
I miss my gallery and Music HTC apps. I have 50gb of organized cd's on my sd card and I see the pictures in the gallery as all separate folders. I renamed my old sd card camera pictures folder from 100 media (htc save location) to camera (mxp save location) and it shows my camera roll with all 4,000 pictures and whatnot and adds new pics right inline. Kind of solved my gallery problem if I just stay out of the "albums" spot and just leave it on "Camera roll"... I now have camera roll, and videos as separate spots, but that doesn't help for screenshots or downloads so much. Don't use those that often I guess anyways.
The old HTC Music app would just simply be a music player and not mix in download/online material and try to sell me stuff. Its showing albums twice in my list as some are online and some are downloaded. I often go up north out of cell range for all weekend and play music in the truck and cabin the whole time. Streaming isn't an option so i'm in the minority that still buys lots of cd's (digitally) and downloads them and keeps an sd/computer/ full. Open the old music app hit one play button and it was back on the shuffle all, or a quick scroll down through all artists and whatnot to pick an album.
I know its the first day and I will get used to it. Man, I'm b*tching alot. haha.
Where did you find the camera and gallery files... and can you find the music app too?? I'm sure there are good 3rd party apps too, I just haven't had time to play with the new device yet besides setup.
Thanks!
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Hey man, it's been about 6 months since I had my MXP (have a Nexus 6P now).. But, I believe there are some here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/htc-blinkfeed-plugins-devices-08-03-2015-t3049438
If you can't find what you want there, you can search that sub-fourm and I know there is another one or two threads of HTC apps floating around in that section.
Good luck!

tele_jas said:
Hey man, it's been about 6 months since I had my MXP (have a Nexus 6P now).. But, I believe there are some here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/htc-blinkfeed-plugins-devices-08-03-2015-t3049438
If you can't find what you want there, you can search that sub-fourm and I know there is another one or two threads of HTC apps floating around in that section.
Good luck!
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This is amazing, Thanks for the lead.
I was holding out for the new Nexus devices later this year but the One max just wouldn't make it. ha

camera and gallery

Hi,
short question.
If i open the camera and take photos etc. i can open the gallery from the camera app. but is it possible to only show photos from "DCIM" folder there?
I hate seeing every whatsapp image in the camera app.
thanks in advance

Create an empty file called ".nomedia" inside the whatsapp image folder. That file will prevent the images from showing up in your gallery app.

There are other galleries out there that are pretty good, and group the pictures in folders.
I use F-Stop as my default gallery... You can hide folders/albums by simply long-press > Hide . "QuickPic" is good, "A+ Gallery Photos & Video" is good, "Piktures" is also good.
I'm sure there are other really good ones too, but those are the ones I typically rotate between, and have for a few years. As mentioned, right now I like F-Stop the best. Some are free, some cost to unlock "features".
Or do as the post above me mentioned with the .nomedia in that particular folder.