Piktures
  • Welcome to Piktures
  • πŸš€Changelogs
  • πŸ†•Release note
  • πŸ†•Nouvelle version
  • πŸ“ΊVersion 2.13
  • βš™οΈVersion 2.11
  • βš™οΈVersion 2.10
  • 🀩Beta testers
  • πŸ†˜Help
  • Our principles
    • πŸ’‘Our product principles
  • The list of albums
    • πŸ“šThe album organization
    • πŸ”– The bookmarks
    • Special albums
    • πŸ”€ Sorting the list of albums
    • βž•Creating a new album
    • πŸ–ŠοΈ Renaming an album
    • πŸ—‘οΈ Delete an entire album
  • The album
    • πŸ“ΊChoosing the album display
    • πŸ”€Sorting items in an album
    • πŸ“·Taking photos
    • πŸ–ΌοΈ Changing the album cover
    • πŸ”˜Selecting large set of items
  • Managing photos
    • πŸ’ΎMoving photos to the SD card
    • πŸ–ŠοΈ Renaming an item
  • SEARCHING
    • πŸ“Location filter
    • πŸ“…Calendar view
  • HIDE & PROTECT YOUR PHOTOS
    • πŸ‘»Hide and unhide albums
    • γŠ™οΈ The Secret Space
    • γŠ™οΈ The new Secret Space
      • Migration issues
    • γŠ™οΈ Please back-up your Secret space regularly
    • γŠ™οΈ Common Secret space issues
  • EXTERNAL STORAGE
    • USB Stick & Drive
  • CLOUD ACCESS
    • How to add a cloud
    • Box
    • Dropbox
    • Google Drive
    • Microsoft OneDrive
    • Nextcloud
    • pCloud
    • Webdav
    • Yandex
  • ADVANCED FEATURES
  • πŸ”²QR Code
  • PAID FEATURES
    • Upgrade to Premium
    • πŸ’³In-app purchases
  • DATA & MEMORY USAGE
    • πŸ’ΎMemory usage
    • 🌐Data usage
  • πŸ–₯️PIKTURES MEDIA SERVER
    • πŸͺŸWindows Version
    • πŸ’»Mac version
    • πŸ†˜Help & Support
    • 3️Third party notice
  • common issues
    • 🐜Deleting file error (recycle bin)
    • 🐜Recover Secret space
    • 🐜Renaming album is not a filesystem folder renaming
    • 🐜I view too many cached folders
    • 🐜Need to reset your device?
  • HELPING US DEBUG
    • πŸ›Debug mode
  • ABOUT US
    • πŸ˜ƒWe are Diune
    • πŸ’ΆHow do we make money
    • πŸ“–Why is Piktures not open-source?
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  • Piktures mostly respects the presence of .nomedia file.
  • But there are 2 exceptions:

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  1. common issues

I view too many cached folders

When Piktures seems messy, it might be because...

Piktures mostly respects the presence of .nomedia file.

A .nomedia file is a blank file placed inside a folder. When the media scanner detects the .nomedia file, the media scanner does not scan that folder so the images in that folder don't appear in the Gallery app. It's a good way of having a folder full of images (like a skin for an app) and not have those images appear in the Gallery app. You can place a .nomedia file in any folder but the filename must begin with a period. Also, on a Linux system a "dotfile" (a file with a filename that begins with a period) is hidden from standard view, though most file managers have an option to allow viewing dotfiles. So the file is hidden from view and the images in that folder aren't cataloged in the Gallery app.

But there are 2 exceptions:

- Piktures doesn't respect .nomedia file if it is located in the / folder. Otherwise, a simple .nomedia file would make all photos invisible.

- Piktures doesn't respect .nomedia file in the /sdcard/Android/data folder because many folders are typically located there and respecting it would also make many photos invisible.

If you see too many cached images, you should exclude the /sdcard/Android/data folder. To do this, go to Settings, FOLDERS, Manage Exclude folders and exclude this /sdcard/Android/data folder.

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