App for hiding pictures??
 

Is there any app for hiding pictures?? .. there are lots for other phones.

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And what could you possibly need that for, eh?

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Yeah, especially for Android phones, right?

"That’s a place we don’t want to go, so we’re not going to go there..."

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just create a folder called "private" nothing in that folder will be picked up by gthe tracker so no embarrasing boobs popping up infront of your mother in law. doesn't actually hide the pictures from the phne browser so you can still find them easily enough when you want to.

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Yeah! Everyone knows linux gurus never watch porn, only iPhone and Android ones does that aberration. They only get stimulated looking at Tux...
Come on boy, don't be cynical!

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is porn the only thing that has to be hidden?

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@festivalnut dat waz of no use .. the pictures are in the gallery

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yeah you have to empty/restart the tracker once you've put them there to clean the gallery memory. sorry i forgot to mention that! theres an xterm command to restart it, but i cant remember it now... i'll have a look...

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i even restarted the phone bt nuffin

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YES... Homemade or pro... hidden pics are for poooooooorn (read it singing)

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try this in xterm,

tracker-processes -r

then restart phone, it might take a while indexing your media again depending how much you have. but won't list anything in private folder.

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haha interesting but itz not so in my case

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it has to be named private or .private with a dot? .. at another thread i found this but it hides the folder from file explorer too.

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lol thats what i use it for, i'm not ashamed cos i luvva da boobiez! :D

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the way you can hide pix, is by adding tags to your pix.

Filter the tags you do not want seen so they will not be displayed.

voila theyr hidden

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if you put a . it becomes totally hidden, naming the folder private just hides it from the media tracker afaik. works a treat for me.

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is there a way to hide files from other programs? like files that cant be moved location as the program would no longer work?

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for things like images in apps showing up in your gallery you mean? i use a app called trackercfg from the repositories for that, seems a little hit and miss at times though. but it may well just be me!
it lets you set which folders the tracker should monitor and which it should ignore, and lets you reset the tracker without using xterm too, but like i said sometimes i find it doesn't work quite as expected!

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i might be doing something wrong but this is not working .. renamed the folder to private using file manager .. then in xterm restarted the tracker processes .. restarted the phone it showed a message in photo gallery tht it needs sometime to refresh ... bt the precious pictures are still in the gallery

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Can you put video's in the privet folder . will they show up ? yes its for porn !

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lol yeah works for vids too. but check your spelling, its Private.

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hmmm... may be a capital letter problem. you start Private with a upper case P? and have you put it in the main memory? i'm just guessing at this point but it works perfectly for me so try again. and if it works don't be shy with the "thanks" button! ;)

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Cute explorer works fine when I want to hide pics of... work, yeah, pics of my work... ".folder", show hidden and voila!
Yes, you can't "slide" from pic gallery, you only can see one-by-one, but for... work... pics and vids it's nice for me!

... I can't... I love to be clear...THE INTERNET IS FOR POOOOOOOORN!

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If you install tracker.cfg you can set any folder on the device to don't watch, then rebuild the database, it won't index that folder anymore. dots in front of folder names only hides the folder in xterm unless you do an ls -a then you get to see them.

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"if they ever removed all the porn from the internet after a month there would be only one site left, and it would be bringbacktheporn.com"

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Private... perhaps too much stylish and elegant for me, anyway, great films!

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lol if you dedicate a whole folder to private films i bet your 32gig is straining under the weight of silicone stored on there!

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You're right... I'm a little son of *****, Harry S. Morgan (and Steve Jobs, of course) are my Gods... oooops... I wrote that???... ehhhhhmmm... only joking?

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your gods? they're my parents! :P

i'm just glad the memory usage graph doesn't have porn as a subcategory!

that said...
http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/3...0042323180.png

...plus 8gig memory card. :S

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What???
6.4 gb free????
For each gb empty of porn, god will kill a kitten!!!!!!!
Come on, fill that memory right now!

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i'm saving that 6gig for filming an impending kitten smite-a-thon!

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OMG! I'm not English-Scottish! What means "filming an impending kitten smite-a-thon"... who cares, I want one copy!

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lol sorry! it means i need space to film god killing all they kittens, it will make me smile, i'll send you the youtube link when it happens!

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... Steve Jobs and Harry S Morgan trying to catch these little kittens... who can resist?

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Above mentioned trick did not work for me :( How do you view the files which is hidden in Private folder dude?

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/usr/bin/gpg

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What can i do with it?

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Before the topic goes completely off-topic discussing kittens...

Hiding is easy but what maemo lacks is a good app for encrypting.. we already have apps like password safe which encrypt and keep a log of our passwords, it would be nice to take the idea one step more and have a better interface to quickly encrypt a file and retrieve it with a slightly modified app

Re: App for hiding pictures??
 

When i had my SE-C902, i discovered that I could hide certain pictures from being visible in the gallery or file manager. What I did was change the properties of the photo. (This is only a possible fix using windows, other OS's may work in a similar way)
select the photo you want to hide;
right click,
goto properties,
and you'll see 3 tick boxes, tick the box that says "hidden" then apply, then ok to exit. now the image itself is on the phone, but it should not be viewable in the gallery. I haven't tested this method yet on the N900 but it worked on my SE. let me know if this works for you.

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One possible use of gpg is to encrypt files.

I've had amusing uses for it.

Encrypt
$ gpg -c myfile.txt
(outputs myfile.txt.gpg. you may then wish to
$ rm myfile.txt
which deletes the original file)

Decrypt
$ gpg myfile.txt.gpg

You may also wish to rename the file after encrypting it ( $ mv myfile.txt nothingtoseehere but it may prompt for a rename of the output, you can simply press enter to keep the old/default filename)

EDIT: james174's idea is...much less secure than gpg (and don't kid yourself there either). On linux the CLI equivalent would be to rename the file or folder with a dot/period prefix, as in .documents This isn't real security and meant to keep directories "pretty".