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white_ranger	2010-01-23 , 08:29
Posts: 279 \| Thanked: 34 times \| Joined on Jan 2010 @ Belgrade, Serbia	#1

Like all of you, i also have some "videos"

that i don't want everybody to see. I suppose you know what is it.

So, is there some way to make them not appear in media player? That the only way to play them is to go to file manager and find them there.

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thinh	2010-01-23 , 08:32
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lol, nope that from what i know of. You can change the extension to hide it but i doubt you can change it on the phone. But i never tired so who knows

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araavi	2010-01-23 , 08:35
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1. Open X Terminal.
2. Type : cd MyDocs/.Videos
3. Type : mv yourvideo.mp4 .yourvideo.mp4

remember the dot in front of the video name. That will hide the file.
Only problem is the file will be completely hidden (even from file manager) unless you rename it back.

Last edited by araavi; 2010-01-23 at 08:38. Reason: Update

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somekeystrokes	2010-01-23 , 08:37
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Originally Posted by white_ranger

Like all of you, i also have some "videos" that i don't want everybody to see. I suppose you know what is it. So, is there some way to make them not appear in media player? That the only way to play them is to go to file manager and find them there.

yes,.,.i want a similar way as well.! :-D

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white_ranger	2010-01-23 , 08:46
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i can't get this to work. It keeps saying no such file or directory. Here's what i did: entered X terminal, typed cd MyDocs/.Videos, typed mv fastandfurious.avi .fastandfurious.avi
The name of the file is Fast and Furious. But it's just for the example, can't write real name of the video

. I tried every possible combination like fastandfurious, FastAndFurious, Fast And Furious, fast and furious,... but it keeps saying that. pls help

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Thor	2010-01-23 , 08:52
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I've just tried adding a video with a dummy extension, but once you play the video in Media Player, it appears in Media Player from then on.

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white_ranger	2010-01-23 , 08:56
Posts: 279 \| Thanked: 34 times \| Joined on Jan 2010 @ Belgrade, Serbia	#7

that also happened to me. I made some weird way to enter the video in file manager. Like Videos/1/4/2/5/3/XXX. Those numbers are folders. And when i entered the video, after that it appeared in Media player.

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	unkno	2010-01-23 , 09:10
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Embarrassing porn collection?

Also, next time, try to search first:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=36395
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=37369
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=22964

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shyampagne	2010-01-23 , 18:23
Posts: 21 \| Thanked: 5 times \| Joined on Dec 2009 @ Bham, Uk	#9

easy easy solution. instead of saving the videos to the video folder on your phone, simply put them into the .cities folder, this folder is not monitored by the media player so the videos wont show up in the player listings. And just use file manager to access the videos.

Simples...