[SOLVED] Can not Create .Nomedia files

[Beards]

Guys,
Last night I attempted to create a .nomedia file for a folder that has Application generated pics that I want to hide from the Gallery App.
No problem in accepting the creation of the file but that's where it ends.... the .nomedia file does not display in any of my file management Apps inc My Files.

Later I then tried to copy from my Galaxy SII to the Galaxy Note over bluetooth a file named .nomedia
This time the Note refused to accept the .nomedia file

So... what is going on here?
It works fine on the SII but not on the Note!

 

[mdalacu]

Maybe it does not show hidden files. In linux any file that starts with a dot it's hidden.
You can try also in Terminal Emulator:

$cd /sdcard/desired_folder
$touch .nomedia
$ls -a #optional to check that the file is indeed created

 

[Beards]

Maybe it does not show hidden files. In linux any file that starts with a dot it's hidden.
You can try also in Terminal Emulator:

Without checking, I would agree it does not show hidden files..
I suppose the question though is WHY??? It shows them on the Galaxy SII so I would have assumed it should be the same on the Note.

If this is the case, (without rooting) I now need to get the system to show hidden files.

EDITED:
Just tried using Terminal Emulator and it says "Permission Denied".

 

[paulshields]

I can see hidden files using the "My files" app. Just need to enable "show hidden files" in settings.

 

[Beards]

I can see hidden files using the "My files" app. Just need to enable "show hidden files" in settings.

I've already got that set on my Note but it's not showing hidden files.

I've also just tried again to create a file titled .NOMEDIA and it says "Operation Failed. Please use a different name"

 

[foxmeister]

I've already got that set on my Note but it's not showing hidden files.

I've also just tried again to create a file titled .NOMEDIA and it says "Operation Failed. Please use a different name"

I'm lazy, so I use Gallery Excluder from the Market - what happens if you try with that?

Regards,

Dave

 

[Army92]

I've just created a .nomedia file.
It's working great on my SGS I9000.
I'm going to buy a Galaxy Note this afternoon, I'll test it and post my impressions.

.nomedia download

 

[paulshields]

I've already got that set on my Note but it's not showing hidden files.

I've also just tried again to create a file titled .NOMEDIA and it says "Operation Failed. Please use a different name"

That's weird. I just created a .nomedia file and it showed up fine. Let's use the Note's s-pen thingy to show what I mean .

How are you creating the .nomedia file? I just used

echo "" >.nomedia

.

 

[Beards]

I'm lazy, so I use Gallery Excluder from the Market - what happens if you try with that?

Regards,

Dave

I'll give it a go... purely to see what happens.
I don't like using additional Apps to do this ~ hence why I normally just use a .media file instead.
It will however allow me to hide the files until I sort this issue out.

EDITED: I've just come across 'Hide It Pro' which also does this and has excellent comments.

I've just created a .nomedia file.
It's working great on my SGS I9000.
I'm going to buy a Galaxy Note this afternoon, I'll test it and post my impressions.
Hope you don't have issues like me. However I think there's something strange going on with my Note.
I'm going to Factory Reset it later tonight and try again.

.nomedia download

That's weird. I just created a .nomedia file and it showed up fine. Let's use the Note's s-pen thingy to show what I mean .

How are you creating the .nomedia file? I just used

echo "" >.nomedia

.

Yes, I can see it is working for you.... As mentioned above, I'll try a Factory Reset later tonight and try again.

 

[Beards]

Well, I've done a Factory Reset and I don't know what was causing the issue but everything is now just fine.
Obviously an App had interfered with how the OS was handling hidden files.
Thankfully it happened in less than a week of running the Note.
Now I need to rebuild my App list slowly and see if any one of them recreates the problem... However, thinking about it I didn't enable show hidden files until after a few days of using the Note and I never checked after doing so that it did infact enable them. As such the problem App may have stopped hidden files from being deactivated.

 

[Psalazar9648]

I tried everything and the only thing that worked for me was to rename the folder by adding a . In front of it. So rename the folder from FolderName to .FolderName and it'll stop searching the conté. Ts in that folder