I didn't have this problem with the 3 :-\
Every time I open Google Photos I get the question to back up folders with pictures of stickers, ads etc. I don't think this is a setting but a bug?
Adding a .nomedia file helps but they keep on coming.
Anyone else noticing this?
I'm having the same issue! Very annoying when trying to organize my Google photos. I have over 8 different ad albums. Deleting only deletes some of the files.
Yes. OOS 9.0 isn't generating the .nomedia files properly for those folders. There's two ways to handle this:
1) Use the Nomedia app from Google Play to hide individual folders.
2) Use a file manager app (not all work) to create a .nomedia folder in android/data. This way is a bit more finicky and complicated, but will cover all the folders contained within.
After you do either of those steps, reboot the phone, and those folders will be hidden.
chrisliphart said:
Yes. OOS 9.0 isn't generating the .nomedia files properly for those folders. There's two ways to handle this:
1) Use the Nomedia app from Google Play to hide individual folders.
2) Use a file manager app (not all work) to create a .nomedia folder in android/data. This way is a bit more finicky and complicated, but will cover all the folders contained within.
After you do either of those steps, reboot the phone, and those folders will be hidden.
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Those will be hidden, but later we will have new ones. Hopefully there will be a bug fix [emoji106]
superiscch said:
Those will be hidden, but later we will have new ones. Hopefully there will be a bug fix [emoji106]
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If you put a .nomedia file in the android/data folder, it will cover all folders created in the future inside there as well. The only other place I had to put one was for WhatsApp stickers in WhatsApp/Media/WhatsApp Stickers.
I do agree that OP needs to do a bugfix for this, though.
chrisliphart said:
If you put a .nomedia file in the android/data folder, it will cover all folders created in the future inside there as well. The only other place I had to put one was for WhatsApp stickers in WhatsApp/Media/WhatsApp Stickers.
I do agree that OP needs to do a bugfix for this, though.
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Thanks for the tip! Works great!
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When using Gallery it shows all types of pics regardless if they are photos, Icons, Defaults, FrmStart, FrmQuick, Popups, alarms, data, etc. Is there an app that will allow you to pick/choose what is brought up and displayed? I don't want or need to see all this extra junk. Thanks in advance.
asctony said:
When using Gallery it shows all types of pics regardless if they are photos, Icons, Defaults, FrmStart, FrmQuick, Popups, alarms, data, etc. Is there an app that will allow you to pick/choose what is brought up and displayed? I don't want or need to see all this extra junk. Thanks in advance.
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The easiest "app-less" way to do this is to place a .nomedia file in the directories you want not to show up. You can also place a "." in front of the name of the directory (folder) itself, but this will cause problems if that folder is used by android or other apps.
mastajest said:
The easiest "app-less" way to do this is to place a .nomedia file in the directories you want not to show up. You can also place a "." in front of the name of the directory (folder) itself, but this will cause problems if that folder is used by android or other apps.
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I have the nomedia app. So, this also works for music and all media files, too. Thank you!
asctony said:
I have the nomedia app. So, this also works for music and all media files, too. Thank you!
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Used the Find All option for nomedia app and it only ID 5 Directories. Tried Multi-Select and it showed all directories. Picked the ones that I thought I could ID that do not contain Pics/Photos and that is most of them. However, even then I still have over 30 more items shown using Gallery that do not really contain pics/photos such as:
various apps, browser, common, controls, data, default, frmaddalarm, and other frm items, icons, etc.
So, this is not the answer to reducing items that show up in Gallery. Any other suggestions? Thanks again.
Does anyone know how to hide pictures in Honeycomb like you could with Gingerbread/Froyo and before?
You used to be able to put a period in front of a folder (.video) and it would not show up in the gallery. I've tried this and it fails.
Yes, this is partially because there is pictures that no one needs to see (girlfriend and what not), but its also because I do use it for work and have pictures of NDA projects. If I'm showing a customer pictures of their project, I can't be showing the other pictures as well.
If anyone has found a decent work around please let me know.
Try .nomedia
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Does anyone know how to hide pictures in Honeycomb like you could with Gingerbread/Froyo and before?
You used to be able to put a period in front of a folder (.video) and it would not show up in the gallery. I've tried this and it fails.
Yes, this is partially because there is pictures that no one needs to see (girlfriend and what not), but its also because I do use it for work and have pictures of NDA projects. If I'm showing a customer pictures of their project, I can't be showing the other pictures as well.
If anyone has found a decent work around please let me know.
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did you try placing a .nomedia file in the folder you want to hide? that works for me. i just made an empty text file on my desktop then renamed it .nomedia and then copied it to folders i don't want to show up in gallery
I was not aware that this worked. Thank you guys!
False alarm I suppose. Did you do this in Honeycomb? i just deposited a .nomedia file in each directory and they still show up.
Ok I found out how to get this working.
The .nomedia method still works.
But you cannot create a nomedia file in Honeycomb, you have to copy it to your Xoom from the PC.
Once you copy the nomedia file to the folders you want to be hidden, you have to REBOOT your Xoom. Yes, for some reason the method won't work straight away, you need to reboot the Xoom for the effect to take place.
Unless you know a way for the Xoom to refresh the cache or relist the internal storage files.
Would SDscan work?
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The trick is to rescan after creating the nomedia file. Rebooting is the easiest way but there are others (tools on market to force rescan.)
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Or you could use QuickPics and set the folders to hidden
I used astro (free in market) and created a new folder called .data and put pics in that do not show in gallery. I tried doing this first from the PC and it did not work.
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As the title says, my gallery folder is filled with either stickers from facebook messenger or ads from mostly i guess free games that show ads frequently, saved in a collection called "UnityAdsCache" Or "al"
I have already seen other threads about this but all i got was just to place a .nomedia into the data folder of a specific application, but whats the point if i have to guess and navigate to every single app that results in those random pictures and place manually a .nomedia folder in order to avoid them? That means that everytime i download an app that includes ads, i will have to place a .nomedia folder by myself.
Any solutions?
Yiannis75 said:
As the title says, my gallery folder is filled with either stickers from facebook messenger or ads from mostly i guess free games that show ads frequently, saved in a collection called "UnityAdsCache" Or "al"
I have already seen other threads about this but all i got was just to place a .nomedia into the data folder of a specific application, but whats the point if i have to guess and navigate to every single app that results in those random pictures and place manually a .nomedia folder in order to avoid them? That means that everytime i download an app that includes ads, i will have to place a .nomedia folder by myself.
Any solutions?
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Glad I'm not the only one with this issue.
Usually those image files are stored in the app's data folder, which is a subfolder in /storage/emulated/0/Android/data. If you put the .nomedia file in the .../Android/data folder, all of the subfolders will be hidden from a Gallery app. That should hide most of those images. This will also cover any new folders added when new apps are installed.
Are you using the stock Gallery app? I use an app called Simple Gallery Pro that makes it easy to hide folders. It'll show you the entire path to the folder where the image is stored and give you the option to hide the folder higher up the tree. It also gives you the option to temporarily show hidden folders so you can find something if needed.
A week ago I got my new OnePlus 6T 128GB/8GB in Thunder Purple and so far I love every moment of it and the design, only app that actually is letning me down is OnePlus' own Gallery app.
I want to be able to change the picture shown on the folder in Collections in the OnePlus Gallery app for personal reasons, and I cannot seem to figure out why and I hope anyone here knowns if it's possible.
If you have Tasker I would try to use that to automate file moves. If you don't, I highly recommend the app, it's extremely powerful especially if you spend some time learning about it!
Create a sub folder where you put the photos you don't want to see. Main folder illustration image will not be taken from subfolders.
My OnePlus 6T ain't rooted and I am not planning to do so.
Oki I cannot get the subfolder inside a folder to work maybe I am dum tried with the file manager.
I tried a subfolder inside the folder I want and copied a picture to it and it showed up as a regular folder ??
Add an empty file named '.nomedia' in the subfolder it will prevent media scanning (with the . at the beginning don't forget it)
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Add an empty file named '.nomedia' in the subfolder it will prevent media scanning (with the . at the beginning don't forget it)
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Hmm I want it to still be showed in the gallery just in collections I have a folder called like Walls and then a subfolder called colours or windfall.
It's just that the folder shows the newest picture in it and I am not happy about that. This is the only complain I have really.
Hi all,
If I am in the wrong subforum please help me posting this where I need to.
I have this annoying thing with my new OnePlus 6T running the OxygenOS 9.0.11 (Android 9.0 Pie) where the OnePlus Gallery shows me all icons, pics, videos and so on from the games and apps I am using so I end up deleting between 500-1000 items almost every day.
Is there a way to turn this all so the apps don't download all of this?
I know this might be to save bandwidth on cellular data but I don't need this so it would be nice to be able to turn this off.
So far I the OxygenOS on my OnePlus it's fast it's great it have a few quirks here and there or just me since I been using iPhone for 4-5 years.
Look in my signature for phone description.
puma99dk| said:
Hi all,
If I am in the wrong subforum please help me posting this where I need to.
I have this annoying thing with my new OnePlus 6T running the OxygenOS 9.0.11 (Android 9.0 Pie) where the OnePlus Gallery shows me all icons, pics, videos and so on from the games and apps I am using so I end up deleting between 500-1000 items almost every day.
Is there a way to turn this all so the apps don't download all of this?
I know this might be to save bandwidth on cellular data but I don't need this so it would be nice to be able to turn this off.
So far I the OxygenOS on my OnePlus it's fast it's great it have a few quirks here and there or just me since I been using iPhone for 4-5 years.
Look in my signature for phone description.
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I've noticed that thumb nails from game ads and things like that were being saved. Someone said to create a file and name it no. Media. But that didn't work for me
rhaneyjr said:
I've noticed that thumb nails from game ads and things like that were being saved. Someone said to create a file and name it no. Media. But that didn't work for me
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The file should be named. .nomedia
amit3880 said:
The file should be named. .nomedia
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Yeah. Sorry didn't correct that. And it still didn't work
Sorry to be a noob back on android I use to be better at this, but where should I place this file????
Is it a empty .txt file or a folder???
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Sorry to be a noob back on android I use to be better at this, but where should I place this file????
Is it a empty .txt file or a folder???
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Its nor a .txt file nor a folder
Just creat a new file without any name and only extension nomedia inside the folder which you dont want to show in gallery
The file is .nomedia
amit3880 said:
Its nor a .txt file nor a folder
Just creat a new file without any name and only extension nomedia inside the folder which you dont want to show in gallery
The file is .nomedia
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My problem is that all the icons, pics, and so on from the app gets saved into the same default folder as all my pictures from the camera so this solution doesn't do what I want then.
If I cannot stop the apps from doing this and I cannot hide them what to do then???