Root Force gallery to load new photos?

[droidpcguru]

As the title states...

Is there any way to force the Gallery app to load new photos? Half the time I take new pictures with the camera, I cannot view them in the Gallery for sometimes a day or two..even after a reboot.

Is there any fix to this very annoying problem?

 

[GorillaTheHutt]

i got an app called SDrescan:

SDrescan - Android app on AppBrain

it will scan your SD card when you run it and any new pics will be added to your gallery.

 

[bemenaker]

On stock 2.1 I noticed this happening too. When I deleted photos from my camera gallery new ones would show up 1 at a time. 1 for everyone I deleted. Thought I was hitting a picture limit.

 

[Helenoftroy08]

I was having a HORRIBLE time with this issue. To fix it, I moved all of the contents of my SD Card to my PC. I unmounted the SD card and formatted it, then remounted it. I transferred the files from my PC back to the SD Card. In my case this worked, and the gallery is blazing along fast recognizing media changes instantly. Don't know if this helped, but before I did any of the above I also cleared the gallery data under settings>applications>managae applications>all>gallery. Hope this helps!

 

[Tymanthius]

I want the opposite: I don't want all my album art to show up in the gallery. any ideas there?

 

[Helenoftroy08]

I want the opposite: I don't want all my album art to show up in the gallery. any ideas there?

From what I understand u place a .nomedia file in the folder that u dont want to show up in the gallery.

 

[JM33]

From what I understand u place a .nomedia file in the folder that u dont want to show up in the gallery.

Correct and to be more specific, it needs to be a blank .txt file. (Create in note pad on your computer and transfer, or there are some free notepad-like apps on the market). It should be named nomedia.txt (not nomedia.txt.txt).

 

[bemenaker]

Without wiping the SD card, I just cleared my gallery data and let open to gallery, let it rebuild itself. Took a test photo and it showed up in my gallery right away. No need to do sdrescan.

 

[Thrawn]

Correct and to be more specific, it needs to be a blank .txt file. (Create in note pad on your computer and transfer, or there are some free notepad-like apps on the market). It should be named nomedia.txt (not nomedia.txt.txt).

Thank you much. Can finally get the album art and cached images out of my gallery. Now my question is why apps don't do this by default? Like, I have some cached JuicePlotter graphs in my gallery.

 

[Inno]

OK, possible dumb question:

I have a folder of pics for my contacts, can I put a .nomedia file in that, and it won't show up when I go to the gallery, but can still be used to attach to the contacts? Would I need to apply them to each contact BEFORE putting the nomedia file in, if that's possible, or would the picker still "see" them even though the gallery doesn't?

 

[othgar]

Correct and to be more specific, it needs to be a blank .txt file. (Create in note pad on your computer and transfer, or there are some free notepad-like apps on the market). It should be named nomedia.txt (not nomedia.txt.txt).

I did this and the pictures still showed up in the gallery. The .txt file is supposed to be in the same folder as the pictures, correct?