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Hide / organise pictures? (Legend)?

Use Astro file manager. Put the photos you want "hidden" in their own directory and rename it with a "." in front of it. Android then sees this as a system file and won't show the images in the Photo/Gallery app.

Eg:

SDcard\Photos\set1 <- visible
SDcard\Photos\set2 <- visible
SDcard\Photos\set2\cropped <- visible
SDcard\Photos\.private\set4 <- not visible
SDcard\Photos\.private\set5 <- not visible
 
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And if I want to view the pics that are hidden?

In "Photos" will pics in Set1 be shown as an own folder and "Set2" as another folder etc?


/Jocce

Use Astro file manager. Put the photos you want "hidden" in their own directory and rename it with a "." in front of it. Android then sees this as a system file and won't show the images in the Photo/Gallery app.

Eg:

SDcard\Photos\set1 <- visible
SDcard\Photos\set2 <- visible
SDcard\Photos\set2\cropped <- visible
SDcard\Photos\.private\set4 <- not visible
SDcard\Photos\.private\set5 <- not visible
 
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And if I want to view the pics that are hidden?

In "Photos" will pics in Set1 be shown as an own folder and "Set2" as another folder etc?


/Jocce

Astro is a free app, I don't know why you can't find it. Just do a market search for "File manager". You'll need to view the hidden pics from the file manager. In "Photos", yes Set1 and and Set2 will be in their own folders.
 
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