Shane
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 8:44 AM, EPPack
<<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote:
Hi JoeyShabadoo! I'm answering your msg dated 08:51 AM 5/16/2011:
>Glad I could help eliminate your frustration Elaine! I don't know what
>stupid program put a .nomedia file in your root directory. How lame!
Tell me about it!! And it had to be some app, 'cause all of this
used to work just fine.
>The .nomedia file tells the operating system not to scan for media on
>the SD card in the folder which it resides. For example, image viewers
>and mp3 players won't autoload these files. Also, it works
>recursively, meaning that it applies to all subfolders as well. There
Aha! Yes, figgered that out (that it was recursive) which in itself
can be helpful at times, but not so helpful in others. While it
would be redundant, these are small files, what zero bytes? I'd
rather put one *exactly* where it's needed, in every folder if
necessary, just to avoid this problem!
>are some apps that help you manage your nomedia folders, just search
>for ".nomedia" on the app market.
Ah! I'll definitely check that out. I can always copy/paste as
needed, but a more graceful interface would be useful. <bit later>
Found "Gallery Excluder", seems to work very nicely!
Again, thanks!
elaine
>-Joey
>
>On May 13, 3:06 pm, EPPack
<<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi Joey Fisher! I'm answering your msg dated 01:52 PM 5/13/2011:
>>
>> >Folders become "hidden" from media players (and image viewers, etc.)
>> >when they contain a .nomedia file. If that is the issue then you can
>> >delete the file and they should be visible again.
>>
>> Hopefully, these little screenshots will come thru the group. If not,
>> let me know and I'll email them directly to you.
>>
>> So I hooked it up to my PC as a drive, and did a search for files
>> named .nomedia. This is all that turned up:
>>
>> Emacs!
>>
>> (the device comes in as E:, which of course is the sdcard. My images
>> are in the DCIM/100media folder, and music lives in Music:
>>
>> Emacs!
>> and
>> Emacs!
>>
>> None of these files show up in either the standard Gallery app nor in
>> any of the music apps I've tried. There's not a .nomedia file in
>> either of these locations. Is there another way they can be hidden
>> than that? Or is there a trickle down from the actual locations noted
>> above? Do note there is one at the very top level of the card. I did
>> a manual look at the actual device, too, and there's definitely not a
>> .nomedia file in the folders in question. That said, I'll try
>> deleting that top level file and see what happens :) Or at least
>> rename it, suspenders and belts :)
>>
>> <later> so I renamed the file, and just for fun, shut the phone down
>> completely, then restarted it.
>>
>> And IT WORKED!!! I see my music files!! I also see all of my
>> photos!!!! YAYAYAYAY!! I'm even seeing images from other apps in the
>> Gallery. FANTASTIC!! This has been SOOO frustrating to me, but you
>> are the ONLY person who came up with a solution :) JOEY ROCKS!!!!
>>
>> So how does that nomedia file get created, Joey? Obviously, and good
>> to know, there IS a trickle down, since the only file I killed was
>> the one at the "root" level of the card, which of course "freed" up
>> the subfolders.
>>
>> THANK YOU!!!
>>
>> elaine
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>> >On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 11:47 AM, EPPack
>> ><<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote:
>> >Looking for an app to play my music files on my HTC Evo 4G. Somehow
>> >or another it got messed up (probably my fault :) and the standard
>> >music app, plus other popular ones, including Real and Winamp,
>> >cannot find where the files are located. The files are perfectly
>> >fine, they play in Astro, for example, a file manager app, and they
>> >are in the correct folder on the device (/sdcard/music) but when I
>> >open the player apps, they all say they cannot find any music. The
>> >Astro app, of course, not being a music manager, has absolutely no
>> >bells and whistles.
>>
>> >I had the exact same problem with images that were correctly
>> >located, etc, and the Gallery app couldn't see them, but I found
>> >QuickPic, an app that actually has a setting for "Show hidden" and
>> >now I can see them just fine in a photo-specific app. The QuickPic
>> >author apparently doesn't have an audio version--I checked. I'm
>> >ass-u-ming that there should be SOME kind of music app out there
>> >that will do the same thing. Um, free is GOOD :)
>>
>> >I have no solid idea how both of those folders got essentially
>> >hidden, but unless I want to do a factory reset, I just have to live
>> >with it. I've tried to find a solution in a lot of places, now, but
>> >so far nothing has been found, so I'm trying to work with the devil
>I have :)
>>
>> >Ideas??
>>
>> >TIA
>>
>> >elaine
>>
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