Photo Gallery Annoyance

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brookieou

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Hello all,

Noobie here. I've been searching for some solution to this. Ever since I got my HTC Legend, one of my least favourite apps has been the default Gallery. I have a 16 GB card, which I use for a lot of things. Besides photos, there's MP3s, portable apps, work documents, etc.

The Gallery scans the entire card for images. Thus, even MP3 album covers, application icons, diagrams in work documents are all showing up. Why isn't there a way to control and restrict the Gallery to display only in specific directories, or to ignore particular directories?

Besides, I've got photos sorted in sub-folders, such as for my wife, my baby, etc. The folder names are not showing up in the Albums list, even though the photos can be seen in All Photos.

Any suggestions or pointers? If any Android developers read this, could something be done? Am I the only one feeling frustrated with the Gallery app?

Thanks.
 
Depending on what the default gallery really is (maybe Android default, maybe HTC default) you can add an empty file named ".nomedia" to a folder to prevent it from being scanned. The problem you may run into is that if you add that to prevent album covers from being imported to the gallery, the music player may skip it as well.

I know there are some decent gallery replacement apps out there, so you might want to go looking on appbrain or in the market for something else.
 
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