One thing Android does very well is indexing files and folders. This makes searching for the files not only easy, but very fast too. However, everything is indexed unless a rule is set in the particular folder. Generally, Android assumes files that begin with a period ( . ) as hidden files. But what if you want to hide other files that do not start with a period? This is what you have to do.

1. Use a file manager to access the folder containing the files that you don’t want to show.

2. Create a new text document in this folder (next to the file that you want to protect).

3. Without filling any content in the text file, rename the filename to “.nomedia” (without the apostrophes).

Thats it. Now the files that reside at the same level as this .nomedia file will not be visible to public. You can still access them using a filemanager, but other applications such as the gallery etc will not be able to access the files. This is particularly useful when you start seeing games images in your gallery or even your music album art which are ruining your personal pictures collection.

Hope that helps.

Shahz

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