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how's it going guys Davey here from bomb.com in this video I'm going to show you how to hide in apps images from throwing up in your Android gallery so I've already made a video showing you how to hide your normal albums whether they're pictures or videos by basically putting a period in front of the album name with the file manager the problem is you can't do the same thing when it comes to in apps images because for example this folder right here has 562 images none of which are actually showing up on my phone but they're related to an app called gym rat I have on my phone and if I rename it to dot images the app itself won't be able to read that file because it won't the exact file name will have changed and therefore none of these images will work with that app that's definitely not something I want but I also don't want this folder to show up in my gallery so what I'm going to do is go over to my file explorer which is ES File Explorer from Google Play for free and go to the folder that has the album itself so in this case it's images and then what you're going to do is inside of the folder that's showing up in your gallery that you don't want there any longer hit menu and then new and then create a new file and then you're going to name this file dot no media so period no media and basically this tag tells Android not to index this folder in your Android gallery so you can see I've created a dot no media file now your phone or your file manager may not show you this because it might have the hidden files disabled so just make sure that's enabled if you want to make sure that you've actually made the folder correct or the file correctly anyway I'm go ahead and go to the home screen and load up my gallery now if you have a Android 2.3 or before device this may be the only step that you need to take and you know you'd be done but in this case since I want ICS with the Galaxy Nexus it's still here so it seems that this happens more so with the tablets with 3.0 and obviously 4.0 phones and beyond so the way you get rid of it on the Galaxy Nexus is just go ahead and close out the two apps where's the I have to do with that file and go do your settings and then from here you're going to go to applications and then go to all so what you're going to want to do is clear the data out on your gallery of file so here's gallery so first I'm going to spore stop to make sure that it's not running in the background and then I'm just going to hit clear data so this cleared out your whole gallery so that way the next time you open it it'll have two reindex your whole phone so I'll hide back we're not done yet we're going to clear out one more thing which is called media storage so here it is media storage same thing for stop clear data and there you go now the next step you want to take is actually restarting your phone so I'm gonna go ahead and power my phone off and I'll just skip it to win the phone powers back on to show you what to do next okay so my phone has finished rebooting I'm just gonna go ahead and unlock it and go over to my gallery and as you can see there's nothing here but my Google+ photo so what you're going to have to wait for is for your phone to read next your whole device to find all your images so right now it's not doing anything and usually it's indicated by having a little circle spinning right over here and obviously that's not the case so we're just gonna have to wait now something I do to kind of speed it up sometimes I'm not sure if this actually helps or not is I launch the camera maybe take even a picture and then go back to the picture in your gallery and go back to your albums and and then hit menu and then refresh now obviously it didn't work right here but I don't know I feel like it helps it I'm not too sure I'll just go ahead and skip the video until the phone starts refreshing the gallery okay so it's been about a minute since I paused the video and all of a sudden this is popped up and it's starting to reindex all of my pictures and I'm just going to go ahead and skip one until it's done to show you that that file or that album with the app images no longer shows up okay so it's been about two or three minutes that I've let the phone just sit and index my phone and as you can see the little circle isn't spinning anymore and there is no album here that has dude that apps pictures and that's pretty much it this day Volcom thank you for watching the video and don't forget to visit fumble comm for more cellphone news reviews and how to's thank you