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.
I have a Nexus 4 running CyanogenMod 10.1. I want to hide the WhatsApp images folder. I have already tried placing a "." at the beginning of the file name and also adding a .nomedia file in to the WhatsApp images folder. Both methods hide the folder only until you receive or send an image on WhatsApp whereby the folder appears again.
Any help would be appreciated.
I don't entirely know if this would work because I haven't used whatsapp, so I don't know what their folder setup is like. You could try to put a .nomedia file in the folder above the images folders.
Eg. If the image folder is \SD-Card\Whatsapp\Images
put the .nomedia file in \SD-Card\Whatsapp\.nomedia
Thanks for your suggestion. Unfortunately this gives the same result as described in my original post. It hides the folder temporarily until an image is sent or received on WhatsApp, whereby the folder appears again.
Any other sugesstions would be welcome.
supaphreek said:
I don't entirely know if this would work because I haven't used whatsapp, so I don't know what their folder setup is like. You could try to put a .nomedia file in the folder above the images folders
Eg. If the image folder is \SD-Card\Whatsapp\Images
put the .nomedia file in \SD-Card\Whatsapp\.nomedia
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mubs123 said:
I have a Nexus 4 running CyanogenMod 10.1. I want to hide the WhatsApp images folder. I have already tried placing a "." at the beginning of the file name and also adding a .nomedia file in to the WhatsApp images folder. Both methods hide the folder only until you receive or send an image on WhatsApp whereby the folder appears again.
Any help would be appreciated.
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Download Quickpic from Play Store and hide the folder.
P.S Once you hide the folder from Quickpic, it doesn't show up on the default Gallery app as well.
Ooh, I didn't know that. And Quickpic is an awesome image viewer/gallery anyways, so I already had it installed. Thanks for the tip!
jpde said:
Ooh, I didn't know that. And Quickpic is an awesome image viewer/gallery anyways, so I already had it installed. Thanks for the tip!
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No problem. Cheers!
Didn't work for me. Whatsapp folder is still there in default gallery.
cthdesire said:
Download Quickpic from Play Store and hide the folder.
P.S Once you hide the folder from Quickpic, it doesn't show up on the default Gallery app as well.
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mubs123 said:
Didn't work for me. Whatsapp folder is still there in default gallery.
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its a stupid workaround but here.
rename the images folder to Whatsapp Images.bak
restart the phone
remove the new Whatsapp Images folder and rename the *.bak to the orignal folder name
I've tried all the methods you mention. I hided the folder in quickpic, but it doesn't work. I put a new file named .nomedia both in the whatsapp folder or in the whatsapp images folder, but it doesn't work (it hides the folder just untill you dont post or download an other images from whatsapp). I tried renaming the whatsapp images folder with the .bak but still doesn't work.
I have a new nexus 4. How can I hide this folder from my gallery?
praveenmarkandu said:
its a stupid workaround but here.
rename the images folder to Whatsapp Images.bak
restart the phone
remove the new Whatsapp Images folder and rename the *.bak to the orignal folder name
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You always make a folder named ".Pictures" or something with a ".nomedia" file in it somewhere on your phone and manually move whichever pictures you want to hide there.
EDIT: I searched "hide app" in the Play store and there's a few apps that claim they can hide pictures.
https://play.google.com/store/search?q=hide+app
This is not the point. I don't want to hide pictures in a folder. What I would like to do is to hide the "whatsapp images" folder from the gallery. All the methods you mention in this thread are not valid for the nexus 4. Other solutions?
WarToilet said:
You always make a folder named ".Pictures" or something with a ".nomedia" file in it somewhere on your phone and manually move whichever pictures you want to hide there.
EDIT: I searched "hide app" in the Play store and there's a few apps that claim they can hide picture
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sorry this is my actual message:
This is not the point. I don't want to hide pictures in a folder. What I would like to do is to hide the "whatsapp images" folder from the gallery.
All the methods are mentioned in this thread are not valid for the nexus 4.
Other solutions?
QuickPic is the way to go. The stock Gallery app should have been like it. All you have to do is to long press that folder, hit the menu button and choose exclude. Of course it only takes effect within QuickPic itself. Stock Gallery app sucks anyway.
nexus4usa said:
This is not the point. I don't want to hide pictures in a folder. What I would like to do is to hide the "whatsapp images" folder from the gallery. All the methods you mention in this thread are not valid for the nexus 4. Other solutions?
WarToilet said:
You always make a folder named ".Pictures" or something with a ".nomedia" file in it somewhere on your phone and manually move whichever pictures you want to hide there.
EDIT: I searched "hide app" in the Play store and there's a few apps that claim they can hide picture
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Use hide it pro. I use it for years and never had any problem with it.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 2
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Lexus fan said:
QuickPic is the way to go. The stock Gallery app should have been like it. All you have to do is to long press that folder, hit the menu button and choose exclude. Of course it only takes effect within QuickPic itself. Stock Gallery app sucks anyway.
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.. so how do you view your photospheres? With quickpic? I doubt that..
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.. so how do you view your photospheres? With quickpic? I doubt that..
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Yeah, QuickPic doesn't support pictures taken using Photosphere. But its other advantages still outshine Gallery
Again, the point is not to hide some pictures. The point is to hide the whatsapp images folder from the gallery. Probably I'm not clear, I don't know, you keep giving solution on how to hide pictures.
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nexus4usa said:
This is not the point. I don't want to hide pictures in a folder. What I would like to do is to hide the "whatsapp images" folder from the gallery. All the methods you mention in this thread are not valid for the nexus 4. Other solutions?
Use hide it pro. I use it for years and never had any problem with it.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 2
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nexus4usa said:
Again, the point is not to hide some pictures. The point is to hide the whatsapp images folder from the gallery. Probably I'm not clear, I don't know, you keep giving solution on how to hide pictures.
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Did you at least try it? I haven't, but I assume that the folder would be hidden after all the pictures are hidden. :S
The folder will be hidden until you will send or receive an other picture from whatsapp.
Nobody knows how to solve this problem?
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Did you at least try it? I haven't, but I assume that the folder would be hidden after all the pictures are hidden. :S
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The folder will be hidden until you will send or receive an other picture from whatsapp.
Nobody knows how to solve this problem?
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I don't think anyone knows how to solve this, but right now the only way seems to be to hide new pictures after you receive them.
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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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...