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If you add a file with the name .nomedia (note the period at the beginning) to the folder, the automatic media scanner will skip that folder in the future. Thus no images from there will appear in the Gallery.
You can do this by tethering to your computer or by using one of the several folder-browsing apps in the Play Store (e.g., ES File Explorer, ASTRO).
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This behaviour is not uncommon, sadly.
I use SDrescan to fix it usually.
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After some mucking around, I discovered Google (un-intuitively) changed the way you can share photos in the gallery for email and wifi. You now need to do this
Open Gallery > Select Menu button > select "Select Items" > select the share button at the top of screen. All the icons should appear now in the share dialog window.
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There is no stock option to do this.
Here's what I do, and it works pretty good, but isn't perfect.
Download Reduce Photo Size from the Play store.
When composing an email, click Add Attachment.
A choice of locations will pop up. Choose Reduce Photo Size.
Then choose either Select Image or Take a Photo.
If you click Select Image, then choose Gallery.
Once ...
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The tags are stored through the media's content provider. In layman's terms, the content-provider is a way of Android interacting with a database backing store.
The location can be found in this directory:
/data/data/com.android.providers.media/databases
Which is Sqlite3 database that has the following information stored in it, or rather, a combination ...
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This trick didn't work for me. So, I did what the system should have done with the .nomedia file present. I moved all of my photos to a hidden folder (with a . before the name) and removed the DCIM folder. Then, I looked for all instances of the .nomedia file (Root Explorer helped) and deleted them. Rebooted the phone. Started Gallery. Waited for 10 minutes. ...
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That's not duplicates. If you are the "device owner", /storage/emulated/0/ is your storage area (where your files etc. reside). /storage/emulated/legacy/ is a symbolic link, always pointing to the logged-in user's storage. That is, if you are the device owner, and you are logged in, both locations are identical. If some apps show the contained files as ...
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Though it's not the identical situation, the solution which worked out for I'm seeing duplicated images and videos on Gallery might apply here as well:
Go to Settings→Apps→Manage Apps
Select the "All Apps" tab
Find the Gallery app, open its entry, tap "clear cache"
Do the same for the Media Storage app
Have the Media Scanner running again. This ...
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You find a possible solution in many posts around here -- if you know what to look for, that is...
Responsible for files turning up in the gallery etc. is the media-scanner, so you have to keep that one from processing the directories you want to ommit. The usual approach for this is placing a file named .nomedia (note the starting dot) into all directories ...
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My work-around is connect my phone via USB mode, where it comes up as a folder (or volume for you Mac fans) that you can see contents in. Create folders you'd like to have in your gallery, like "Favorite Piks" or "Stuff I found in my pockets" - whatever. Put these in that folder.
Now use your computer to organize the images between folders within that main ...
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There is a free (as in freedom) application Send Reduced, available at the F-Droid repository of free software.
Install F-Droid, install Send Reduced, select your photos, press Share button, select Send Reduced and then select the sharing method. Your photos will be sent reduced in resolution and file size.
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PhotoSync (Sync to Picasa) might be your choice:
PhotoSync is tool for sync photos to Picasa(Google Photos). though limited, you can sync videos too.You can also sync photos among multi devices via Picasa.
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Alternatively, you might want to take a look at apps like e.g. FolderSync:
FolderSync is a application that enables simple sync to cloud based storage to and from local folders on the device memory card. It currently support multiple SkyDrive, Dropbox, SugarSync, Ubuntu One, Box.net, LiveDrive, HiDrive, Google Docs, NetDocuments, Amazon S3, FTP, FTPS, ...
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The gallery is showing the Instagram folder cause it scans the whole device and external storages and grab all folders with images. You can't sync that folder but can share once in a while with Picasa so that process will upload images on that folder to Picasa. And then Picasa will sync that folder to your rest of the devices.
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There are a couple of apps in the Playstore which permit you to view/Edit EXIF data:
Photo Image Editor - Photoshop (free) says it can View, edit, or delete EXIF data
Same promised by Photo Editor
Exif Editor and Viewer (paid) promises to remove, modify, and add individual or multiple EXIF tags
Pixelgarde even states: Edit exif metadata for several photos ...
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Is there a way I can copy media files to my phone over a network,
without them automatically getting added to the gallery?
I don't think it's possible.
After some googling I found this info:
1) Hide Album Art from Gallery
And the provided solution:
I have all of my photos named folder.jpg/jpeg (I forget which
extension) and they don't show up ...
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I would rather go with replacing the SD Card and checking if that happens again. Nowadays there are lots of cheap SD Cards which simply loose or corrupt your data with no particular reason. There have been reports of SD cards that pretend to be 4,8,16GB or even more but only have 256MB. If you have such a bad card and copy more than 256mb of data it will get ...
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Please attempt the following:
Delete the entire .thumbnails folder
Delete the /sdcard/Android/data/com.android.gallery3d folder
Go to Settings->Apps->All and select the Gallery app. Select clear data.
Go to Settings->Apps->All and select the Media Storage app. Select clear data.
Reboot your device.
This will completely erase all data from the ...
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Firstly, this is assuming you have ICS or higher (not sure if the Gallery works this way before then).
If you open an album, you should be able to long-press on a photo, and then at the top of the screen, where it says 1 selected, press that and you can say 'select all'.
Then upload them.
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Try using Aviary instead.
It's an excellent photo-editor app with even more features than the default one, and it works for me, even when I flash experimental JB roms where the camera doesn't even work.
This is a strange problem, unique to your device, and you should probably report it on the CM forums.
HTH!
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This, and any other, folder of this kind (added automatically to Gallery, without reference to local on-device folder) is always added from Picassa, even if you have never used that service. If you're using newer versions of Android (4.1+) such folders should be marked with small Picassa icon in the bottom-right corner, where you have standard folder icon ...
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.nomedia doesn't solve the problem at all! Putting that file in folder where you store music (to get rid of all covers to be listed in gallery) also excludes all the music in the media player (PlayerPro in my case).
I would suggest using a BETTER gallery, like QuickPic, where you can set which folder to INCLUDE instead of needing to exclude folders. I Still ...
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The Picfolio App from Google Play downloads Picasa photos and thumbnails to my external SDCard. In settings, you specifiy which Picasa Web albums you want to cache on your phone and where to put them, external SDCard or internal.
Display still works when both WiFi and 4G data services are turned off on my Samsung Galaxy II (Gingerbread 2.3). (You have to ...
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SDrescan is small and easy to use:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bero.sdrescan
If you happen to have a custom rom with dev tools installed, use that:
Launch "Dev Tools" => Media Provider => Scan SDcard
Both ways hide the manual steps from you and you can't delete stuff by mistake this way.
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