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Help How to hide video files from photo gallery on Galaxy tab 3

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genevaguy

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I have a Galaxy Tab 3, Jellybean OS. No carrier. I have an 64GB external micro SD card with movies on it. So, of course, the media scanner puts these into the photo gallery. I am trying to figure out how to NOT have this happen

I have search the internet and have done the following:

-Made a .nomedia file on my PC (correct file, not .nomedia.txt), put it in the movies folder on the external SD card. The, the photo gallery doesn't show the movies but the video player doesn't show the movies either anymore. The movies are still on the SD card I can see them using file manager and can play them if I click on them in file manager, but the don't show up on the video player..only the message that there are "no movies"

-I have tried a number of iterations of this. Cleared the photo gallery cache, video gallery cache, media storage cache, etc....took the .nomedia file out, put it back in, etc etc etc. Re mounted the SD card...still, can't view the movies using the video player with the .nomedia file there.

-Also tried to rename the folder on the SD card and name it back made no difference.

In my search online i found one mention that on the Galaxy Tab 3, that you cannot use a .nomedia file to prevent the media scanning without preventing the scanning of the folder by the video player app.

If I delete the "photos" from the photo gallery, it deletes them from the SD card. If I hide the photos using another app, it hides them from the video gallery. If I use an app such as Storage Analyser to hide the folder, then again, the video app cannot see the movies

So..I'm at the end of my ideas....

Any help appreciated thanks
 
Both Gallery and the media players use the list of files found by Media Scanner. Media Scanner skips folders with the .nomedia file in them. So you can have the videos show in Gallery and the movie apps or not show in Gallery and the movie apps. They both use the same list, so you can't have one see the file in the list and the other not see it.

If one of the apps (Gallery or the movie player) had to scan the phone for files, it would take a long time for the app to open. (Scanning takes place during booting.)
 
There's a galley app called quickpic that had a feature called hide. It puts a .nomedia file in whatever folder you decide to hide so no app will scan that folder.
 
Hi I used .nomedia file just out of curiosity to know about it.. It worked fine.. But after deleting that file, hidden files are not reappearing in the gallery.. So what to do now.. Plz help me..
 
The ".nomedia " tells Android not to use the folder for any media. A better way to hide videos is to simply add a period before the file name using any name you'd like except 'nomedia'. This option will simply hide the file but allow it to be played manually by using your default file explorer. Just make sure while in the file explorer you enable the viewing of hidden files so that you are able to see and edit your new hidden folder.
 
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