HI Forum
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
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
