Hiding pic's

[canenation]

sorry CANNOT send them as MMS

 

[DessoThumbs]

so i was trying to find a way to hide videos more than photos, but I've confirmed that my method works for both. This will make them easily viewed and sent, but will not appear in the gallery. All you'll need is Astro downloaded and pick two fake file extentions, one for video and one for photos...I used non for video and hah for pictures, and reference them as below.


1. create a folder through Astro (or when connected to your computer) named whatever you want. Mine is simply named Videos.

2. Within Astro, go to the preferences, and click edit file extentions. Add two new extentions, First one, for videos, would be non and the mime type is video. The second would be hah and mime type image. Leave subtype blank.

3. move all your photos/videos into that folder (if theres more than a couple, easier to use your computer for step 3 and 4)

4. Rename all photos with the .hah extension and videos with the .non.

They will not appear in gallery, but can easily be accessed within Astro. This will actually hide the pictures and videos from most non droid users even if they are computer smart. If you're worried more, than do the hide folder trick in Astro right before you hand over the phone.

hope this helps others hide there "naughty files" =)

An easier way to hide those "clothing challenged" pics and vids is to rename the folders they're in to .1* * being the name that you give the folder.

 

[canenation]

ok yes astor works for hiding the pics, but you cant attach them thru email or handscent, you have to go thru astro then find the pic then send...any suggestions?

 

[dneall7]

all i'd really like is a way for the images to NOT appear in the ALL IMAGES folder. i don't want to have to go through a hassle when i DO want to find the images. i just don't want the gallery to pop up and BAM, there's a pic of my gf naked for the world to see.

Send them over to me and I will show you how to hide them.

You beat me to it! lol:icon_ banana:

 

[Backnblack]

I never hand my phone over...no problem

 

[firegugg]

RE

Photo and Video safe both have access to SD card and full internet. If thats the case can they see your pics / vids?

 

[xtreme]

Gallery private in the market has a free version, I have tons of pix and videos hidden and its password protected

 

[Sweettooth]

Yeah no kidding my mom is comin down to visit me this month and I wanted to show her how badly the Droid owns her Blackberry but I have pictures...and video of my girlfriend and I...doing things inappropriate for a mother's eyes. I'll try the hidden folder idea as I can't see littering up my hard drive with all that stuff. Besides that, I don't really want to take it off my phone. Nothing like homemade porn on the go.

 

[k9bites]

I mounted the phone created a folder called HiddenFiles. Put anything in you want. Unmount and open Astro. Find the folder and rename it .HiddenFiles - a period(.) in front of the name will hide the object(folder, pic, etc).

Yeah, the problem with naming folders with .'s is, how do you find them in the future? Do you have to change the name and remove the .?

Don't buy any apps, just put the period in front of the folder name like mentioned above or to avoid even going into a file manager on the phone, just open Notepad (or similar on a mac or linux) and save a blank file as ".nomedia" (make sure when you save, change File Type to "All Files" instead of documents). Now drag that file into any folder and the gallery won't look there

Note: don't right click and create a new document and try to rename it because it won't let you. You have to open notepad and file save then name it .nomedia and choose "All Files" then it will save. You can copy/paste this to any folders with "special" content

Ok this worked and hid the files :icon_eek:. Now how do I view them or email them?
I have kids who love to play with my new toy, but I still need to forward all my goodies to my friends when its my turn to play.

I know this is an old thread (sorry) but bumping it up to try and find an answer. I did this (successfully made the file private) but now I can't find it anywhere. How do I find the file??
Thanks for any help!!

 

[RedBull]

I know this is an old thread (sorry) but bumping it up to try and find an answer. I did this (successfully made the file private) but now I can't find it anywhere. How do I find the file??
Thanks for any help!!

Have you downloaded Astro File Manager? That is basically your Windows Explorer for Android. That will allow you to go to your private file, I'm assuming one you named ".private" or something to that effect. You can view the files with either Astro's picture manager or the Gallery.

 

[Shibbey]

IMHO, just tell people "Back the F off my phone before I whoop you ass!"

Why not just use the lockscreen so they can't get in your phone at all? Or make you wallpaper some hideous, gross picture so they just put the phone back down. LOL

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