![]() It can hide all your phone data, be it SMS, contacts/ call log or even apps, which houses all your private info. But, the feature that takes the cake for me is that the app backs-up all your private media files to Google Drive meaning that you can access the files anywhere.Īll aforementioned apps are restricted to hiding just your media files but Vault is an all-around app which helps safeguard more than just media files. You can get access to a mini collection of beautiful themes, and fake login mode to further trick nosy people. With Hide Something, you can protect your files from inquisitive people by asking them to provide the correct PIN, password, or the fingerprint. Vaulty also can capture “mugshots” of intruders, who try to access the app but fail to enter the correct password – you will instantly know who tried to get into the app, soon after you unlock the app. ![]() ![]() You can simply jump into the app, select the media files you want to hide from the gallery and ‘password protect’ it from anyone. Vaulty is yet another photo and file-hiding app which may look a bit dated but performs its job perfectly fine. KeepSafe brings advanced security features such as fake login PINs, break-in alerts (where a selfie of the intruder, along with time and date of unsuccessful attempts is logged) etc. KeepSafe app allows you to hide all your files which can only be accessed by someone who knows your PIN, pattern, and fingerprint authentication options. Well, I have compiled a list of the 7 best photos and file-hider apps on Android: KeepSafe Photo Vault Well, if you are an Android user, you don’t have to worry, as there are several apps to hide photos and videos on Android. But, it’s possible that your phone can accidentally fall prey to someone’s hands or you may just pass it over to a friend unaware of their true intentions. We capture a multitude of photos and videos, which you may want to keep private. Depending on amount of files on the phone it can take as 10-20 minutes to rebuild the media database as the service walks the phone directories, getting meta data, creating thumbnails, etc.Our whole personal life is now wound up in the smartphone we carry along in our pockets. When you are done the files should show up with proper directory tree and be visible from the PC. Turn phone off, turn phone back on, wait for indexer service to rebuild the data. ![]() Hit 3 dot menu in top right and select Show Systemįind Media Storage, Select it, Select Storage, then Clear Dataįind External Storage, Select it, Select Storage, then Clear Data Usually the easiest way to fix the problem is to just clear the MediaStore databases to get the bad entries out of the MediaStore Database and let the system reindex the files and put into the database with the proper paths. Which means that the MTP service can't see them when you are hooked up to your PC. What is going on is that some poorly written third party apps are inserting entries into the database with the /storage/emulated/0/DCIM/Camera path instead of the proper root path to DCIM/Camera. Files in the database pointing to emulated directories aren't shown as they are assumed to be duplicates as its the same physical directory as your normal DCIM/Camera. So what you see is based on what is in that database and the path entries in the database. Its not pulling a traditional directory lists. ![]() When accessing files from your PC your are actually enumerating the MediaStorage database for files. So the files are actually in the right location you just have an app that put bad data into the MediaStore Database. So, the /storage/emulated/0/DCIM/Camera is the same folder as your normal DCIM/Camera folder. Am amazed that this problem is still showing up as it started happening as far back as Honeycomb. ![]()
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