nomedia file is \Internal storage\Android\DataĪnd, that is pretty much it. On computer the correct place to put the. That is where apps on internal storage saves their data, and since this is about app data: that’s the correct place. I had before this step checked (image details) just where this images was located, and it was under an app folder that’s under \Android\Data. nomedia via dropbox or whatever you want to use. In the next step you then need to move it to the folder which is a one step above the folder(s) that you don’t want Gallery to include in it’s scans.
CREATE .NOMEDIA FILE ANDROID ZIP
Then you save it to desktop or somewhere where you remember where, tried to save directly to my M8 but that got too hard for Notepad.ĮDIT: Included a zip of it here, you can use WinZip directly on your phone to simply unzip it to the correct place. Instead of using “save as type” as “text documents you MUST select “All files”. ), and then followed directly by “nomedia”. It’s very important that you start with DOT (as in. Just create a new blank file, it’s important that it’s empty and doesn’t contain a single letter. This is actually pretty simple, and just requires the use of Notepad on computer. This you might be able to do on phone, but I think it’s MUCH easier to do it on computer.
The method used here is simply that we create and save a file into a folder, and that file will tell Gallery “don’t ever include what’s here and below (folders under that)”. So, how do you tell it to not include those? How? it surely must copy those folders to Gallery?Īctually it doesn’t, what it does is just to include those folders into the gallery view. I don’t even go into “why”, I just go into “fix it” mode. Folders that often contains images from apps etc, this on my phone was from Facebook Messenger.Īnd that is the clue that will help us solve this.