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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] View Photo Gallaries as Sub-Folders

I have many different pictures that I would like to view on my Droid X similar to how they would be viewed in thumbnail view in Windows. For example, on my droid I have the following folders on my SD card.
\2011
\2011\Birthday Pictures
\2011\Football Games
\2010
\2010\Christmas
\2010\Vacation Photos
\2009
You get the idea. I would like to view these folders as albums, but in order of hierarchy. If I open "2011" I would see any photos in that folder, but then could select "Football Games" and then view those as thumbnails. So far every android app I have used takes all of my folders, turns each one into an album, and throws them all together on the same page, which is cumbersome if you have a lot of pictures organized into many folders.
Any suggestions?

Are you just wanting to view them as thumbnails, or in a fancier format?
If you just want to quickly scroll through thumbnails, just use your file manager app, whether it be root explorer, stock file manager, or one of the many others available in the market
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Yeah, I tried that and it wasn't very good (using Astro). I was hoping for something a little fancier, but no more features than say QuickPic offers.

[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.

Videos showing up in Gallery app

I put some tv shows on my Nexus 5 but now they show up in the Gallery app. How do I make it so only photos show in Gallery? Under my storage settings the videos show up as Misc. storage instead of videos. I just used Android File Transfer to drop the files.

Badd_blood said:
I put some tv shows on my Nexus 5 but now they show up in the Gallery app. How do I make it so only photos show in Gallery? Under my storage settings the videos show up as Misc. storage instead of videos. I just used Android File Transfer to drop the files.
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Make sure the videos are in a different folder than your photos.
In the videos folder, create a file (I use ES File Manager, you can use a computer too) called .nomedia (just like that, starting with a period).
Restart the phone and the videos won't show up, but you can access them thru a file manager or media player etc.
edit: If any of that was confusing, I have attached a .nomedia file. Just extract the zip file and you will have the file I am talking about.
Any folder you put this file into the contents will not show up in the stock gallery app.

Badd_blood said:
I put some tv shows on my Nexus 5 but now they show up in the Gallery app. How do I make it so only photos show in Gallery? Under my storage settings the videos show up as Misc. storage instead of videos. I just used Android File Transfer to drop the files.
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This is because Gallery is the stock Android video player, so it is supposed to show videos!
My personaly recommendation is to ditch the stock Gallery and use QuickPic instead (free on store) which as well as being a far better image viewer (including immersive mode statusbar hiding!) also has the ability to hide videos from the main list, plus the ability to hide any specific folder your want from the main view.

orangekid said:
Make sure the videos are in a different folder than your photos.
In the videos folder, create a file (I use ES File Manager, you can use a computer too) called .nomedia (just like that, starting with a period).
Restart the phone and the videos won't show up, but you can access them thru a file manager or media player etc.
edit: If any of that was confusing, I have attached a .nomedia file. Just extract the zip file and you will have the file I am talking about.
Any folder you put this file into the contents will not show up in the stock gallery app.
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Thanks it seems to have worked even though no file showed up in the folder. How would I remove the .nomedia since it seems to be invisible?

Badd_blood said:
Thanks it seems to have worked even though no file showed up in the folder. How would I remove the .nomedia since it seems to be invisible?
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You can see it on a computer, also there should be a setting in ES Explorer to view hidden files.
Found it.
If you use ES File Explorer.
click on the top left, hit Tools, then near the bottom there's a "show hidden files" option.

orangekid said:
You can see it on a computer, also there should be a setting in ES Explorer to view hidden files.
Found it.
If you use ES File Explorer.
click on the top left, hit Tools, then near the bottom there's a "show hidden files" option.
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Thank you I found that setting works great now.

Badd_blood said:
Thank you I found that setting works great now.
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Awesome, glad we got that sorted.

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.