android automatically creates albums, how do I disable this feature (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by happeningtofry99158@lemmy.world to c/android@lemmy.ml

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I have >350 albums automatically generated. Nearly all of albums comes from a folder managed by Obsidian. I'm having trouble to understand why the system create an album for every folder on my device.

If I only need photos and screenshots album, How do I remove access of album creation for a specific folder?

One reason I'm asking is because I'm having trouble locating the photo album i want to backup with immich, it is really hard to locate an album in randomly ordered list of hundreds of albums

thanks a lot in advance

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[-] xcjs@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

This is Android's media scanner in action.

Fortunately, you can add a .nomedia file at the root of your Obsidian files to prevent them from showing up in your galleries.

[-] happeningtofry99158@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

thanks a lot

I have added a blank file named .nomedia in the root folder and reboot my device

However those albums still exists

What else should I do to fix it?

[-] xcjs@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

Sometimes it can take the media scanner running again before they disappear. Give it a few minutes or so.

[-] happeningtofry99158@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

works! thanks a lot!

[-] happeningtofry99158@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

thanks a lot!

[-] xcjs@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

Of course! Glad it helped!

[-] SheeEttin@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 months ago

Android does not have anything to do with this. It is between your camera and gallery apps.

[-] xcjs@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

It does - this is how Android's media scanner works.

[-] happeningtofry99158@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I have tried grapheneos default / aves libre / google photos, all of them have the same albums created. I think this is a system wise problem

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