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This is best way to hide your folders in android and you don't require a software for it.
You just have to rename the folder starting with dot (.)
For eg. to hide
My folder
just rename it as
.myfolder
isn't that easy.
no nned to use ur pc u can do it directly using ur phone/
some file managers automatically show those folders
stubborn_d0nkey said:
some file managers automatically show those folders
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E.g. root explorer , cm file manager
Gopal3 said:
This is best way to hide your folders in android and you don't require a software for it.
You just have to rename the folder starting with dot (.)
For eg. to hide
My folder
just rename it as
.myfolder
isn't that easy.
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make a new file nd rename it to ".nomedia" .. put it in any folder u want to hide its contents..
I use an app called Hide It Pro (shown as Audio Manager in app drawer). Works like a charm. Even the fake Audio Manager can be used to adjust ringer/notification volume etc. Give it a try....
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.smartanuj.hideitpro&feature=search_result
No real folder hide application on android ??
Hi !
I searched applications which could hide folder on my andorid phone incrementally. By saying this i mean that suppose i hide a folder and that folder is used by camera app. If i hide the folder then it shouldnot show on gallery but when camera is used, it can access the folder and save images in it but again if we go to gallery then it should not be shown. Eg: A camera app uses camera folder to put all the images taken. So if i hide camera folder then the camera can use it to save the folder yet not showing in the gallery. So i dont have to hide the pictures again when new are taken. Is there any app which can do this??
akash_7869 said:
Hi !
I searched applications which could hide folder on my andorid phone incrementally. By saying this i mean that suppose i hide a folder and that folder is used by camera app. If i hide the folder then it shouldnot show on gallery but when camera is used, it can access the folder and save images in it but again if we go to gallery then it should not be shown. Eg: A camera app uses camera folder to put all the images taken. So if i hide camera folder then the camera can use it to save the folder yet not showing in the gallery. So i dont have to hide the pictures again when new are taken. Is there any app which can do this??
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Use QuickPic to hide folders, but camera folder can't be hidden.
brother, This is basic things on androids.. I think you should look at this..
Basic of android
1.How to take a screenshot on my phone
2. How to format my phone (2 methods).
3. How to Hide File or Folder without application.
4. General profile mood to silent mood vice versa.
5. Start or end the Call pressing Button.
6. How to Root My Phone.
7. Track your lost phone.
8. How to Force Restart – Reboot my phone.
9. What is my Android version.
10. What to do when application doesn’t work.
[TIP/TRICK] Stop Stock Gallery From Creating .thumbnails Folder! Save SD Card Space!
First off, I'll start by saying: "I am not responsible if you brick your phone! Always make a nandroid backup before using my steps/messing with Autostarts! (It's a very powerful application!)"
If you use a 3rd party gallery app (Like QuickPic, my personal favorite...) - You are probably tired of wasting over 100mb of space on your SD card... (And waiting a long time for booting up as well...) I had no need for the /sdcard/DCIM/.thumbnails folder taking up space on my SD card, so this is how to disable the stock Gallery app from doing so!
I researched a little on how to accomplish this and came up with little information, so I thought I'd share:
What you'll need:
1.) Autostarts app (I used: Version 1.7.0)
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Steps/Directions:
1.) Run Autostarts
2.) Look for these entries: Media ejecting/mounted
3.) Choose either entry (ONLY CHOOSE ONE, IT DOES NOT MATTER WHICH! Choosing one entry will disable both entries in Media ejecting AND Media mounted!)
4.) Click on BootReceiver
5.) Choose Disable (A popup will show saying "This is a system app, are you sure? etc.)
6.) Done! Reboot. On boot, go to /sdcard/DCIM/ and look inside for the usual .thumbnails folder, it should be contained with a few (SMALL) files now!
Note: (Make sure you disable the entry BootReceiver ONCE, it should "strikeout" (as in: draw a line through) the entry BootReceiver, to show it has been disabled on boot.) - zmag
Hmm, seems I just looked in my folder and I saw the darn .thumbnails file again... If anyone knows how to disable the stock Gallery app from wasting boot time & sd space; PLEASE TELL ME!!! - zmag
Well, it looks like this is not a big issue for anyone out there - but it still annoys me.
I have since "frozen" the stock Camera and Gallery apps with Titanium Backup Pro, and still; no luck.
Now, granted when I reboot my phone and look in my DCIM folder it doesn't seem to be creating the .thumbnails folder 100% of the time. But the folder is still being created somehow, and my only guess is from a third-party app (and I can't seem to pinpoint which one) but I'm gonna test to find out which and post my results...
I wish someone out there could give me some input, I've been talking to myself here for too long. - zmag
This isn't the same, but you can create a filetype named '.nomedia' and place it at the root of the folder where you want and it will stop displaying the thumbnails in the gallery app.
http://smartadopter.wordpress.com/2...mbnails-showing-in-the-android-photo-gallery/
OK I believe I may have found the possible solution to this problem.
I was searching around on how to fix this problem as well, and tried a few things myself and believe I have found a solution, so I had to sign up for xda to share with everyone else. So please be gentle as this is my first post, although im a long time lurker.
I also got rid of the stock gallery (uninstalled with Titanium Backup) and now use Quick Pic. although I have removed the stock gallery it still builds that 60mb+ thumbnails directory on my SDcard. I was using SD Maid to delete it but it gets annoying that it kept reappearing even after the uninstall of stock gallery.
Now to start fixing,
I realized it was actually a large single file itself named ".thumbdata3-1967290299" in "sdcard/DCIM/.thumbnails/" that was taking up the 60mb+ , the smaller individual thumbnails Quick Pic created only added up to a 1mb or so.
So what I did was I just grabbed a random useless file from my SD card I didn't need anymore (an alarm clock plus backup .bak file, but I would assume the *new file" option in root explorer would do the same) and I renamed the unneeded file the same name as the file in /.thumbdata/ (the the .thumbdata3-19672902099).
Now I had a .thumbdata file that was only 1.75kb and just simply moved it to the sdcard/DCIM/.thumbnails/ folder and replaced the 60mb .thumbdata file with the smaller one.
After a few restarts of my phone, opening and browsing Quick Pic, checking my thumbnail size a few times with both SD Maid and Root Explore - I now have a much smaller 1.75kb file instead of the old 60mb file.
Hopefully this well help some of you out and solve your problem as well, as far as I can tell it is no longer making that thumbnail file expand so large on my phone.
Phone: HTC Hero CDMA
ROM: Cyanogenmod 7.1
Carrier: i-wireless/sprint
hewillmakehell said:
OK I believe I may have found the possible solution to this problem.
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i've tried both your copied file trick and making a new file with root explorer, both to no avail. ".thumbdata3--1967290299" always reverts to its old size if any app associated with the gallery is opened.
has yours really stopped reappearing?
i can't figure out where the large thumbnail data is stored, but it must be in the system somewhere...
problem solved
hey i figured out how to fixed this on my atrix. should be the same for all android phones.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28447099#post28447099
There's no "external.db" inside my "com.android.providers.media" folder.
However, I didn't even understood what I was supposed to do with this file. What he meant with "trim the thumbnails table with an sql editor"?
I quoted the post you linked below:
i found the place where the thumbnail data is stored, which was making the huge thumbnail file and crashing Entertainment Center.
it isn't storing the entire ".thumbdata3--1967290299" file (which can be hundreds of mb for some people), rather a large (tens of mb) .db database file that is being used to recreate it on demand.
/data/data/com.android.providers.media/databases
external.db
with Root Explorer i could view the file, and Speed Software also sells an sql editor which you can use to trim the thumbnails table.
*be careful: deleting entries from this file also seems to delete it from the device! i deleted all records from the thumbnails and images tables..
learn from my mistake. i thought it would regenerate, but it deleted all images from /sd card. good thing i backed up all my photos first, but better to use the filter option and trim out only the records for files that are no longer on the device.
".thumbdata3--1967290299" now reappears, but a whole lot smaller.
Gallery opens so much faster now, and Entertainment Center works again!
hope it helps!
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i bet it is hiding somewhere. maybe it's slightly different on other phones.
the issue was that i had an ever-expanding sdcard/dcim/.thumbnails/.thumbdata3--1967290299 file being recreated every time i accessed the gallery viewer, even after that thumbnails folder was erased.
my device was keeping track of ALL the media files that were ever on it, not just the ones presently on it. so the more files that passed through my device, the bigger the thumbdata file kept getting. the external.db file contains a table that lists all media files along with a bunch of attributes for each. apparently this db file is used to generate the thumbdata file. all the info for deleted files just leads to more padding inside the thumbdata file, so it keeps getting bigger.
by trimming the table i meant to delete the records in the external.db that correspond to thumbnails for media no longer on the device. that file is an SQLite file, so to open it you need a special viewer/editor. i first used the SQLite Viewer that comes with Root Explorer. with that, i could see the all the redundant thumbnail entries. to edit it, i got the SQLite Editor, though i'm sure there are other ways. then it's a matter of recognizing which files it lists that are no longer on your device, and getting rid of those rows from the table. in my case the external.db file went down from 8mb to 500kb after i did that.
screenshot 1 showing tables inside external.db, using SQLite Editor
screenshot 2 showing 'thumbnails' table
TBN FILE 2gb
hi
i have a huge thumbnail file in he sd card its almots 2GB
i have already came to opeing the list for thumbnails in the editor
but i dont know how to filter it that i can delete only the files which are not in the sd card (i.e already deleted ) plss guide me throught ,,, this and u will be a star:good:
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i bet it is hiding somewhere. maybe it's slightly different on other phones.
the issue was that i had an ever-expanding sdcard/dcim/.thumbnails/.thumbdata3--1967290299 file being recreated every time i accessed the gallery viewer, even after that thumbnails folder was erased.
my device was keeping track of ALL the media files that were ever on it, not just the ones presently on it. so the more files that passed through my device, the bigger the thumbdata file kept getting. the external.db file contains a table that lists all media files along with a bunch of attributes for each. apparently this db file is used to generate the thumbdata file. all the info for deleted files just leads to more padding inside the thumbdata file, so it keeps getting bigger.
by trimming the table i meant to delete the records in the external.db that correspond to thumbnails for media no longer on the device. that file is an SQLite file, so to open it you need a special viewer/editor. i first used the SQLite Viewer that comes with Root Explorer. with that, i could see the all the redundant thumbnail entries. to edit it, i got the SQLite Editor, though i'm sure there are other ways. then it's a matter of recognizing which files it lists that are no longer on your device, and getting rid of those rows from the table. in my case the external.db file went down from 8mb to 500kb after i did that.
screenshot 1 showing tables inside external.db, using SQLite Editor
screenshot 2 showing 'thumbnails' table
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I had the sam issue, but unfortunately your solution didn't help me. I have only a couple of pictures on my phone, but a lot of GBs of music on SDCard and I think this is he reason why .thumbdata3 file is so large on my phone.
I also tried using SDRescan as proposed here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28516079&postcount=6, but that didn't help either.
I've done some more research and found a solution here: http://www.mobilephonetalk.com/show...in-memory-card&p=311954&viewfull=1#post311954. After I deleted the .thumbdata3 file, created a blank one with Root Explorer and removed write permission to it, the file stays at 0 bytes and Camera and Gallery apps still work fine.
mihir880 said:
hi
i have a huge thumbnail file in he sd card its almots 2GB
i have already came to opeing the list for thumbnails in the editor
but i dont know how to filter it that i can delete only the files which are not in the sd card (i.e already deleted ) plss guide me throught ,,, this and u will be a star:good:
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it sure would be nice if android did that automatically
i don't know how though, sorry.. maybe there is a way, but it is surely safer to backup the media files to another drive, trim the db, then move them back if necessary.
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strom87 said:
I've done some more research and found a solution here: http://www.mobilephonetalk.com/show...in-memory-card&p=311954&viewfull=1#post311954. After I deleted the .thumbdata3 file, created a blank one with Root Explorer and removed write permission to it, the file stays at 0 bytes and Camera and Gallery apps still work fine.
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i guess that's one way of doing it. it just means all the thumbnails have to be recreated every time you open the gallery or file browser.
strom87 said:
I had the sam issue, but unfortunately your solution didn't help me. I have only a couple of pictures on my phone, but a lot of GBs of music on SDCard and I think this is he reason why .thumbdata3 file is so large on my phone.
I also tried using SDRescan as proposed here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28516079&postcount=6, but that didn't help either.
I've done some more research and found a solution here: http://www.mobilephonetalk.com/show...in-memory-card&p=311954&viewfull=1#post311954. After I deleted the .thumbdata3 file, created a blank one with Root Explorer and removed write permission to it, the file stays at 0 bytes and Camera and Gallery apps still work fine.
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How did you removed write permission from the thumbdata3 file with RootExplorer. If I try this, then I get a message, that that is not possible on the SD-Card and nothing happens!! The permissions stay !!!
Sunnymen1975 said:
How did you removed write permission from the thumbdata3 file with RootExplorer. If I try this, then I get a message, that that is not possible on the SD-Card and nothing happens!! The permissions stay !!!
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You can try creating a folder instead of a file(no need to set permissions). So far, it's working
lbrfabio said:
You can try creating a folder instead of a file(no need to set permissions). So far, it's working
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Another quick way that seems to work:
Code:
rm -rf /mnt/sdcard/DCIM/.thumbnails && touch /mnt/sdcard/DCIM/.thumbnails
rm -rf /mnt/sdcard/external_sd/DCIM/.thumbnails && touch /mnt/sdcard/external_sd/DCIM/.thumbnails
Hello, I also have this problem. Now I put another file with that name and that seems to work.
However, I came on this because my device went suddenly very slow.
Is it possible that the application that writes these .thumbnail files is still searching through the complete device, even when it cannot update the file?
And, how can I inspect what app is causing this file or slow down?
Fixed!... deleted .thumbnails folder and then created a file called .thumbnails using root explorer....thats worked for me in my THL w1..saved 1.2 gb of space!
Is there anyway to stop the stock camera from posting pics in the DCIM folder? I am somewhat ocd and would like them to be posted in a folder of my choosing.
estranged1977 said:
Fixed!... deleted .thumbnails folder and then created a file called .thumbnails using root explorer....thats worked for me in my THL w1..saved 1.2 gb of space!
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Created a file or a folder?
petrsiri said:
Created a file or a folder?
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try create folder (I do this and see no more thumbdata3-files yet two months)
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.
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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..
greg17477 said:
.. 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?
WarToilet said:
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.
psycovirus said:
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.
Hey guys. Ever since I returned to my Moto X Style and updated it to Nougat, I've wanted to go back to using the Google Camera. But it keeps giving me the error "Can't connect to camera" when I try to take a video with it. Stock Moto Camera works just fine for video recording, though.
The second issue is that I can't access the contents of DCIM on my PC. Only my Samsung SD card storage shows up, and when I navigate to the DCIM folder, all I see is this:
https://imgur.com/a/7mMl0
Some kind of weird encrypted(?) file? I don't have encryption enabled.
I can access the contents of DCIM just fine on my phone. The only way for me to transfer DCIM's contents to my PC is if I move them to another folder like Downloads and access them there.
I guess this is some weird permissions issue that Motorola forgot to resolve. Now, I've tried the following fix from this Reddit thread (https://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidQuestions/comments/451h0k/dcim_folder_shows_no_photos_on_computer/):
On your phone, using a file explorer (I used ES File Explorer, but any will do), create a new folder, e.g. DCIM2
Navigate to the DCIM folder, select all files and folders
Move everything to DCIM2
Delete the DCIM folder (or simply rename it to DCIM-old if you're paranoid, but no real need for this)
Rename DCIM2 to DCIM
Connect phone to PC via USB, enable MTP mode. Open Windows Explorer and navigate to the DCIM folder.
Bam! All photos and videos and folders are there! ...and appears to be a permanent fix!
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And it doesn't work. I still see the same weird "Camera" file even after creating and renaming a new DCIM folder. So I have no clue what's going on.
Now, as for the Google Camera crashing on the video recording screen. I've tried everything. Tried moving it from external to internal storage. Tried resetting the app, tried wiping the cache partition, tried removing all Camera permissions save for the Google Camera app, etc. The Camera app versions I tried were the May 2016 arm and September 2016 arm64 ones (4.4+ and 7.0+), as well as earlier versions. Dunno what's going on.
If it's a hardware issue, then why is the Moto camera the only app able to record video flawlessly? Did Motorola do something to the phone with the most recent update? Because I was able to record video just fine using Google Camera.
Any input?
Thanks. I'm non-rooted, bootloader-locked on stock Moto 7.0.
Maybe I'm missing some packages/core apps that are causing Google Camera to malfunction? I don't know which ones, though.
EDIT: Tried Open Camera and it works just fine. I can take videos with it and everything saves to the SD card, and I can access Open Camera's recordings and pictures from my PC. Everything Open Camera takes is saved to the DCIM folder in the Open Camera folder. But I still can't access the photos and recordings I took with the Moto Camera app.