my god. lol i was reading that wrong. i thought you meant do it in terminal on the device lol. yes i did it in cmd and it worked lol. dam so obvious why didn't i try that before lol

Help... I just done this command prompt...
and now they are hidden but i want to view them on my phone

e.g. on my n95 i put items in the My Videos folder and they wouldnt show up on the galley mode. I had to view them by goin into file manager.

But for the n900 they dont show in the filemanager either

I'm noob with that device, i tried to follow the leads:
1) Connected with windows and used it as mass storage
2) copied picture to device
When i tried to rename it, (.landscape) windows said: you must type a file name
what did i do wrong

@tamps I think your question is answered in an earlier post. Check page 2

How can i stop tracker on a folder on my memery card

I found this.

I edited /home/user/.config/tracker/tracker.cfg and appended to NoWatchDirectory the to be excluded directories.

anyone able 2 help me with step by step. i can get to step 5 but dont now where to edit it and what the directory of my memeory card is.

1) open x terminal and type 'sudo gainroot'
2) then type 'mc' midnight commander should open
3) go to the folder" /home/user/.config/tracker/" the "tracker.cfg" file should be there
4) finally just click on file and then edit.
5) ....

Your names not Ashely Cole by any chance is it?

ya windows will refuse to make directory with "." in the front so try this instead:

1. Open xterminal in N900
2. mkdir -p MyDocs/.vids (assuming you are in /home/user/ dir)
3. mv /path/of/video_file.ext /home/user/MyDocs/.vids/ (/path/of/ is the path of video file "video_file.ext" and ".ext" is the type of video file e.g: .avi, .mp4 etc.)

Words in italics are commands. It might prompt you asking "continue?" or something just type y for yes and n for no.

I used the edit /home/user/.config/tracker/tracker.cfg solution a while back.

It works well. You can still access the folders via the standard file manager and can start vids using that.

If you want to view images you can just move the folder (using file manager) containing the images into another folder and everything will be rescanned automatically and viewable via the image viewer as normal.

Move the image folder back into your "do not scan/watch folder" and all the images disappear immediatly from the image viewer.

Could anyone please put up exact text to enter into xterm? I'm not good at all with xterm.

excuse my ignorance, i've had a go at editing the tracker.cfg which is fine, just not sure of the syntax to use to allow me to ignore a folder on my memory card