.nomedia in folder prevent file scan. but ended up losing files - myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

has anyone had .nomedia file causing file deletions?
happened to me twice now.
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sleepyfu said:
has anyone had .nomedia file causing file deletions?
happened to me twice now.
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i usually just rename the folder with a period in front of the name...stops media scans
example:
change "media" to ".media"
without the quotes of course

ah. great idea thanks.
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sleepyfu said:
ah. great idea thanks.
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you're welcome

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hidding video..

hello guyz i just changed my xperia x10 with samsung galaxy s today i'm so happy so far with multi touch and 16 milliyons colour .
i just have a problem now need your help
i have a program i used for long time using for hide my some videos but now its not woking with SGS it says when its inside my external sd card how do i fix this?
Delete the porn and you'll no longer worry about hiding it.
M3tic said:
Delete the porn and you'll no longer worry about hiding it.
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LOLZ funny but how about telling me how to fix it.?
Just name your folder with dot (.) at 1st letter and it will no longer get visible in gallery
For example (.movies)
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I use the app vaulty free. Awesome. It stores all pics and vids secures it with a password
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You can also copy a file called ".nomedia" in every folder that you dont want to be scanned.
Works perfect!
Donald Nice said:
You can also copy a file called ".nomedia" in every folder that you dont want to be scanned.
Works perfect!
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.nomedia works for the folder and sub-folder level.
so you can have a folder "myporn" with .nomedia
under "myporn" you can have image, video, audio, which the media scanning will skip and it won't appear in Gallery, and video player
This thread = WIN
just send your videos of your wife/gf to me and i will hide them
My problem is , i use the apps calls videovault a it only hides the video when its inside internal sd card but when i put in externat sd card then it says faild plz try again later , how can i fix this
lgkahn said:
just send your videos of your wife/gf to me and i will hide them
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i could answer u here in the way u deserve it but i will get banned so i won't..
Why dont you have a seperate folder for all your porns, and in that folder create a folder call .nomedia with a dot like that. It wont show in up in your gallery
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okpc said:
Why dont you have a seperate folder for all your porns, and in that folder create a folder call .nomedia with a dot like that. It wont show in up in your gallery
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wth is wrong with all u ppl why u ppl mind goes to porn when somebody ask this kind of question?
and thanx for replying....
Because why would you hide anything other then porn or videos that are illegal
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whoa! u guys are sick!
well i hide my videos too...no not porn but you see i dont want for my friends to see the family videos i shoot (yea due to privacy reasons ofcourse!) and yea some Katy Perry ones from my family(they r not porn but weird ) so what i do is put them all together in a folder and put a .nomedia file in it too(It prevents the media scanner from scanning it) Hope it helps
80% of mans hiding something will be always porn.. same as on my phone
if you do not agree.. you are weird then
barakoas said:
80% of mans hiding something will be always porn.. same as on my phone
if you do not agree.. you are weird then
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hehe...agreed! (on me being weird )
btw on PORN why not keep a porn SD card....insert....whack off...then get back to normal sd card hehe
this thread is getting funnier.....hahah...btw if you do have porn in your phone where will you watch it??? in the office @ class???.....not work for me....watch it in my pc/lap top is better with a bigger screen.....but anybody do something for reason right!!!!......hahaha....btw thanx for the information...it is new for me with the (dot)file....never know bout it!
barakoas said:
Just name your folder with dot (.) at 1st letter and it will no longer get visible in gallery
For example (.movies)
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I did this, by accident, it works and you save one more app running...
You can try whit app which name is ''App Protector ''.. Just mark Galery, Video Player(or messages) and use you'r password or lock pattern to open it...

Gallery 3d settings?

Is there any way to disable gallery 3d from displaying my Picassa pictures?
Thanks in advance.
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Bump?
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Nobody has any ideas at all?
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Don't sync with picasa
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my95z34 said:
Is there any way to disable gallery 3d from displaying my Picassa pictures?
Thanks in advance.
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Settings ->Sync -> you @ Gmail -> Clear check picasa...
I know you're asking about Picasa sync issues, I don't know if they are saved on your sdcard but this may help:
Drop a .nomedia file in a folder and all media files become invisible to the gallery..
A .nomedia file is just an empty text file saved with no name and the extension .nomedia
You can make the file yourself, or just copy one of the many that are already on your card and paste the copy in whatever folder you want hidden from the gallery.
There was a bug last year that caused previously indexed media to be deleted if they were subsequently hidden. I'm pretty certain it's been fixed but you might want to test on a file you don't mind losing before you wipe out your entire porn collection
edit: I'm running CM7rc0 and it appears the bug has been fixed. It's an old bug, I would guess late versions of 2.2 are fixed also. I just tried this on some junk files, rebooted and they are still on my card but not in my gallery
jsergel3 said:
Settings ->Sync -> you @ Gmail -> Clear check picasa...
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Amazing. Exactly what I needed. I never even thought to look there.
Thanks a lot!
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Media Gallery issue.

OK this is a bit annoying when viewing my photos via media-gallery, I am met with lots of pictures which are pictures of all the apps I have on my phone. Is their anyway of stopping these and only viewing my own photos as this is so annoying tjamks.?
Yes you just need to put a .nomedia file in all the folders you dont want to media scan.
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AndroHero said:
Yes you just need to put a .nomedia file in all the folders you dont want to media scan.
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Thanks for your reply can you please be more specific on how to go about doing this please.?
marvi0 said:
Thanks for your reply can you please be more specific on how to go about doing this please.?
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look in the market, there is an app called nomedia manager, it will easly put .nomedia files in the folders you want
AndroHero said:
look in the market, there is an app called nomedia manager, it will easly put .nomedia files in the folders you want
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you can also use ES File Explorer (free on market)
open it and go the the folder with the pictures/files you dont want to show then press menu, New file & save as .nomedia
App devs who don't do this by default, are just plain lazy
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stop music samples showing in google music

ok yeah so as title says im using a large amount of music samples for music creating apps on my nexus 7, now when i go to google music all the samples show up as tracks, ive moved the "samples" folder outside of "music" but still they show.
anyone know how i can set THAT folder of samples not to appear in google music?
Create a new blank file in the folder you want to be ignored by Google's media scanner named .nomedia I believe. I may have the exact name incorrect...
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gk1984 said:
Create a new blank file in the folder you want to be ignored by Google's media scanner named .nomedia I believe. I may have the exact name incorrect...
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srry can i have a little more explanation there mate, im to sure what you mean, thanx for reply
chismay said:
srry can i have a little more explanation there mate, im to sure what you mean, thanx for reply
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Either in a file explorer or with the device connected to the computer, navigate to the folder that contains the files you don't want it to see. Then create a blank file (with no file extension) and simply call it .nomedia
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done but no change?
chismay said:
done but no change?
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You rebooted, right? You might have to wipe the app's data also, because this only prevents it from finding it when it scans for new files. Or perhaps it just doesn't work with Play.
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korockinout13 said:
You rebooted, right? You might have to wipe the app's data also, because this only prevents it from finding it when it scans for new files. Or perhaps it just doesn't work with Play.
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will try now post back soon
force stopped, cleared data, and cache, rebooting
no change, as a note i did add a copy of .nomedia to every folder of samples and to the main folder holding "those" folders.,...and still no change. damnit lol

How do I get my pictures back after restoring a nandroid??

Took a few pics yesterday and I restored my nandroid from a few days ago. Now all the pictures are gone from my gallery BUT I can still see them in my file explorer. How do I get the pictures to appear again in the Gallery?! Thanks!!
Clear gallery data in settings/apps
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daniel4653 said:
Clear gallery data in settings/apps
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Didn't work :/
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try copying to different directory, it should re-find all of them.
TheAxman said:
try copying to different directory, it should re-find all of them.
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Copying, or straight up "move" them?
Joe0113 said:
Copying, or straight up "move" them?
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hehe either, you got me, I would move to another directory and see if it scans the new dir.
copy will also work, then make sure it see 's your new dir, then delete the other.
TheAxman said:
hehe either, you got me, I would move to another directory and see if it scans the new dir.
copy will also work, then make sure it see 's your new dir, then delete the other.
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Is there any way to force it to scan?
Try wiping gallery data in tibu
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miketucky350 said:
Try wiping gallery data in tibu
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That was the first thing suggested and I tried that and it didn't work! :/
PS- You don't hafta have tibu to do that, you can do it from Menu--->Manage Apps-->Gallery--->Wipe data/cache.
Joe0113 said:
Is there any way to force it to scan?
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Still hasn't found them? what the heck is going on, go into gallery settings and manually add the directory, it will force the directory to be scanned then.
The Ax says good luck and good day!
TheAxman said:
Still hasn't found them? what the heck is going on, go into gallery settings and manually add the directory, it will force the directory to be scanned then.
The Ax says good luck and good day!
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How do I manually add a directory? lol this is really starting to bug me out!!
OMG man you're gonna wanna endlessly bang your head on a bric wall... the pics werent showing up because I had re-scan media root and it DISABLED the media scan hahaha. All I did was re-enable it and bam, my pics showed up lmao.

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