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Koiruus
2017-09-04 , 21:41
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Totally offtopic, but about a week ago my workmate asked me if I could set her Android Phone not to show all Whatsapp media in Gallery app. For people who use Whatsapp a lot, eg. many big group chats or so, the amount of transferred media is just enormous.
I did some google searching, and found three "solutions". First one is to put a file called .nomedia to Whatsapp media folders. This might have been working like years ago, but looks like it doesn't work anymore. Another "solution" is to hide Whatsapp media folders using some file browser etc, which prevents displaying any Whatsapp media in Gallery. Nevertheless, it doesn't prevent Whatsapp from
downloading
all the content, and also makes removing those media files more difficult for an average user. The last one is to disable automatic media download from Whatsapp settings. Which prevents you also to watch the media. And when you want to see them, you need also
download
them, which is not a solution at all.
Great job, Whatsapp.
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