#ES FILE EXPLORER ANDROID#

This will cause Android to skip all files, folders, and sub-folders below it. Go inside the folder whose contents you want to hide from the system and, using the steps shown above, create a hidden file named “.nomedia”. But if you can’t even do that, there is another trick available. If you don’t want to or don’t have the luxury of renaming those files, you can simply put them in a hidden folder using the method above, and Android will not go through them when scanning for media files. While that may sometimes offer conveniences, it could also easily lead to clutter, as it will index anything and everything that fits into the categories of images, music, and videos. Those files then appear anywhere appropriate, like videos in a Video Player or your MP3’s in a music collection. Hide your files from Android’s eyesĪndroid has a media store function that keeps track of your media files wherever they’re stored. Of course, anyone who knows about it will also know ways around it, but they’d have to know the exact path to your stash. Not all file managers, especially stock ones, allow users to view hidden files, so this an effective way to hide them from those that don’t know about it. If you disable showing Hidden files again, which, by the way, is the default, they will disappear from view.

Once that’s done, the file will appear but will be partly transparent. Name it anything you want but be sure to put a dot at the beginning, like “.HideMe”, but without the quotes. Next, navigate to where you want to create the hidden file or folder and create such a new item. The first and most important step is to set ES File Explorer to show Hidden files, otherwise you might find yourself surprised that the file you just created suddenly disappeared. You can use this fact to create your own personal hidden stash, for whatever reason you may have. To keep it short, Linux, and therefore Android, hides any file that starts with a dot (‘.’), which has become a common convention to hide certain things that users wouldn’t normally need to care about, like app settings. Hide your files and folders from untrained eyesĪndroid is based on Linux, and that fact shows itself in how it handles files and folders.

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