hi,
for the new restricted user profile, is it possible for them to read files from a folder? i added mx player to the app list but i cannot find any video files when i search for them. file explorer also cannot look into the folders.
was planing to create a kids video play list but right now cannot do it.
thanks for any advice.
i don't know too much about profiles. but what i do know, is that when you create a new profile, a new folder is created and used as their "My Documents" sorta thing.
think of it like this, your main user has a folder path of:
android/storage/users/0/
then your first new user has a path:
android/storage/users/1/
my guess is that the videos are placed in the /0/ folder, and so your user can't see it. guessing.
I agree with your assessment, mrhomiec. We just don't know the workaround... MX Player appears not to allow us to redirect to the correct folder. It seems to recognize these "profiles" should be secure and won't cross contaminate folders, but it definitely sees them.
Anyone figure this out?
Has anyone figured out how to make downloaded videos accessible in a restricted profile?
rkstoops said:
Has anyone figured out how to make downloaded videos accessible in a restricted profile?
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I have a separate partition (Webos/Touchpad), which is accesible for both.
Means I have to move content though from one to the other....
or
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2477671
or from the master account, I can run X-plore or similar rooted and move files to /data/media/10/xxx being the restricted user, but then they are still protected ...
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I've not only searched this site, but done many Google searches as well. If this information is out there, I've been unable to find it.
Does anyone have a comprehensive list of default file locations for various media on the SD card? For example, I did find out that ringtones have to go in \media\audio\ringtones. What about pictures? Videos? The Gallery app seems to have multiple folders it will search, but I have no idea what those might be.
As for songs, I've put them in the audio folder and the app finds them there, but can I use subfolders to organize the files, or will that prevent them from being found?
Thanks.
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I've not only searched this site, but done many Google searches as well. If this information is out there, I've been unable to find it.
Does anyone have a comprehensive list of default file locations for various media on the SD card? For example, I did find out that ringtones have to go in \media\audio\ringtones. What about pictures? Videos? The Gallery app seems to have multiple folders it will search, but I have no idea what those might be.
As for songs, I've put them in the audio folder and the app finds them there, but can I use subfolders to organize the files, or will that prevent them from being found?
Thanks.
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I just create folders on the sd card for music & videos and put then in there. Then android auto detects them. Sub folders should work fine.
What if you did the same things, but Android was not auto-detecting? What would you do next?
R1nZX said:
I've not only searched this site, but done many Google searches as well. If this information is out there, I've been unable to find it.
Does anyone have a comprehensive list of default file locations for various media on the SD card? For example, I did find out that ringtones have to go in \media\audio\ringtones. What about pictures? Videos? The Gallery app seems to have multiple folders it will search, but I have no idea what those might be.
As for songs, I've put them in the audio folder and the app finds them there, but can I use subfolders to organize the files, or will that prevent them from being found?
Thanks.
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I manually copied some music to the phone, and placed it in the media/music folder(I created the music folder under media). Then I used mdeia player and synced some albums to the phone. When I looked at the folders again, it had creadted a Music folder at the same level as media, so I copied the ones I manually created to the media player sync folder.
This is more android related, but I couldn't find the appropriate sub-forum to post it in. Since I have a vibrant, I figured here would be okay
I'm utilizing the android folders to help keep things organized on one of my home screens. I have a folder named Movies, and I'd like to put shortcuts to various movies I've ripped from DVD to an mp4 using Handbrake.
I'm at a loss for how to place shortcuts to the actual movie files. Let's say I open the "Family Guy" folder in my Movies folder and want to place a shortcut to each of the various episodes I've ripped within that folder. How would I go about doing that? Obviously, I've copied the ripped episodes & movies to my phone already. I can get to them by using the file explorer, but it's a bit cumbersome.
I'm rooted, if that makes any difference.
Thanks!
Ian
I've also been unable to figure out a way to create desktop shortcuts to downloaded files (PDF's, in my case); it seems they can only be moved around in the file explorer, but not moved to desktop.
I use an app called Apps Organizer, which allows you to group your apps into (pre-assigned) categories and create icon-based folders for those on the desktop. The more "advanced" version, Folder Organizer, also apparently lets you treat "bookmarks and contacts" this way; don't know if it will work with files as well?: http://sites.google.com/site/folderorganizer/
(If Android doesn't support creating shortcuts to files, then my guess is prob. not...)
Not a big compliant, but just wondering if this is fixable. I noticed that upon installation of Android some sound mp3s show up on the Music library. It really clutters up the Music library so I was wondering if there is any way to make it so the music library doesn't detect these specific sound folders/files that way they aren't detected and shown in the library. Anyone have any ideas?
do a search for ".nomedia" and you'll find the solution. easier than retyping the whole thing for you.
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do a search for ".nomedia" and you'll find the solution. easier than retyping the whole thing for you.
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BTW is there a trick so that Windows Mobile also doesn't detect these files?
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do a search for ".nomedia" and you'll find the solution. easier than retyping the whole thing for you.
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btw I can't really get this to work. I create a txt file named .nomedia on my PC to transfer onto my card. If I try to create this file on my device it says it can't because of the file name. Also, the "." in front of the folder name doesn't really do anything either.
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BTW is there a trick so that Windows Mobile also doesn't detect these files?
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Not that I know of, but then I've not booted into windows for months now lol
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btw I can't really get this to work. I create a txt file named .nomedia on my PC to transfer onto my card. If I try to create this file on my device it says it can't because of the file name. Also, the "." in front of the folder name doesn't really do anything either.
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Works perfectly fine for me, I have the blank .nomedia file in each folder I want my media player to ignore and I get none of the android mp3s in my music playlists. Remember Android creates a cache (basically a copy) of all it's notification mp3's in a folder called cache as well.
The problem I have with this is after adding the .nomedia you can no longer select them as ringtones/notifications either.
Anyone else get this?
its called "media hidden" , in the appstore , it'll do it all for ya
souljaboy said:
its called "media hidden" , in the appstore , it'll do it all for ya
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for Android or Microsoft? cuz i don't see it in either.
android market
its older name was "gallery enable" if none come up , put it in google
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Not that I know of, but then I've not booted into windows for months now lol
Works perfectly fine for me, I have the blank .nomedia file in each folder I want my media player to ignore and I get none of the android mp3s in my music playlists. Remember Android creates a cache (basically a copy) of all it's notification mp3's in a folder called cache as well.
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Did you create a text file? or does it have to be a specific type of file?
I decided to setup Bittorrent Sync to sync music to my phone's external SD card, but quickly discovered that Android 4.4+ won't let the BT Sync App write to /extSDcard/Music.
I figured: the media scanner can look in /extSDcard/Android/com.bt.sync/files/..., right? This will work, right? But it doesn't; if I put anything in /extSDcard/Music, it is picked up by DoubleTwist, etc, right away, but stuff in the part of the filesystem that the BT Sync App can write to is not found.
I looked for .nomedia files in the path, but didn't find any. The Linux guy in me wants to make a symlink from Music to the BT Sync dir, but that doesn't appear to be possible without rooting.
I use my phone for work and it is encrypted and has MobleIron, etc. on it; I think rooting is out of the question. Is there some way I can make this work?
The media scanner looks everywhere that doesn't have a .nomedia file in the folder or abovelying folder.
To my knowledge, there's a .nomedia file in /extSDcard/Android created by Android by default. It excludes all folders contained in /Android from the media scanner, as it also applies to subfolders.
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The media scanner looks everywhere that doesn't have a .nomedia file in the folder or abovelying folder.
To my knowledge, there's a .nomedia file in /extSDcard/Android created by Android by default. It excludes all folders contained in /Android from the media scanner, as it also applies to subfolders.
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I just double-checked, and I don't see any .nomedia files (with hidden file view enabled, of course) in the tree leading up to /extSDcard/Android/com.bittorrent.sync/files/music where my shares live, yet the music database shows none of the material there.
Is there way to see a log of what the media scanner is doing?
SOLVED.* Hi, all. I usually have a ton of audiobooks, seminars, etc on my sd card and I listen to them via a separate and dedicated audiobook app.
It'd be so great to start my new phone with more ease/less clutter: I'm really tired of slogging through hundreds of spoken word files when I open my music player to choose music.
Any way/any player that will let me hide tracks selectively so that only my music shows up?
Thanks in advance!
* EASY SOLUTION
Put everyday music like in separate folder. Alsoake sure player only uses that folder. For other files you need to pit a .nomedia in folder so players ignore that.
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Put everyday music like in separate folder. Alsoake sure player only uses that folder. For other files you need to pit a .nomedia in folder so players ignore that.
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Thank you -- I'd never heard of the .nomedia concept before!
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Thank you -- I'd never heard of the .nomedia concept before! Could you help out with one further thing possibly? I dunno how to make one or where to get one. Feeling kinda dumb, but if you could direct me one last time, I'd be quite grateful.
I always keep separate folders, so that's done. SD card has a folder for audiobooks, and SmartAudiobooks already knows that's the root folder for those.
I also have a music folder on the sd card, and, ideally, that'd be the only folder I want a music player to look for music.
When you mentioned the .nomedia file, I looked it up and saw that google play offered some for this purpose -- but reviews all complained that those apps were useless as the sd card was not searched. So I searched on how to make one or find one elsewhere and I guess my search skills are missing something.
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You can also place a period in front of folder name to game similar result
A .nomedia file is just a blank text file but has the filename of ".nomedia", any text editor can create a new file but make sure you save it with the .nomedia filename.
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*SOLUTION Much heartfelt thanks to repliers!
The easiest way to do this is to download a handy app called ES File Explorer from the play store, install it, then open and go to the folder whose media you wish to hide. Once there, click the upper right dotted menu, choose new, then file, then rename the file .nomedia. At this point you are asked to rechoose the folder you wish to hide. Choose it, and you're done! SmartAudiobooks still recognizes all my audiobooks but the music app blissfully ignores them.
What's best is that ES File Explorer makes the .nomedia file work on the SD folders ... after learning about .nomedia from the helpful folks on this thread, I made the file using my desktop but I could NOT get the music player to ignore it, and had a hard time making the PC allow me to name it with nothing before the dot.
The ESFE solution was a painless breeze, and I am now a happy listener
Thanks for teaching me something wonderful, you guys!