Hi...
i want a certain pics not to be shown in the public gallery. i tried moving those files to folders like others,documents etc. eventhou i move them out of the image folder they are still present in the gallery... 😡 so where shall i move them??? 😮
There are no secrets; you can't hide any pictures from the all-seeing, mighty Gallery. 😉
You can try to find some Hand Photo Safe type of app for your phone, though.
That's a pain! It's like Nokia didn't even think about how users would be using the gallery on the phone. I've got applications on my phone that have pictures and these show up in the gallery too! I also use my N73 as a media player and my TV clips/films come up in the gallery - which is pointless as the codecs I use prevent the gallery showing thumbnails of the clips.
Another thing I find that I believe is stupid is having videos and pictures lumped together in the first place. Nokia, why not seperate them (or at least give users the option)? My 6630 seperated them.
you CAN remove things from the gallery its just a little long winded...
- first attach the phone to your pc (or pop your memory card into a card reader) and locate the image you want to hide.
- Remove the _PAlbTN folder that you can see as a subfolder of the location the image is stored in
- Create a new folder within the memory card and make it hidden (right click, properties and tick the "hidden" check box does the trick in windows)
- move the files you want to hide to the new folder
- go back to gallery and hooray, no more file in gallery !
NOTE: Just making the folder that the file is in a hidden folder, even with the _PAlbTN folder removed, will NOT work but once you've established that the file you want to hide has gone from the folder you can rename the newly created folder to the same name as the folder which the file came from originally. This is perfect if your trying to remove application pictures as if you dont have the file in the location its meant to be in the app wont work but by renaming the new hidden folder to that of the name of the original folder the app will still work AND keep the file hidden
use a 3rd app file explorer (Profimail) Then move those secret videos/images to one of the hidden folders.. In my case, I use the E:\Backup folder