I have >350 albums automatically generated. Nearly all of albums comes from a folder managed by Obsidian. I’m having trouble to understand why the system create an album for every folder on my device.

If I only need photos and screenshots album, How do I remove access of album creation for a specific folder?

One reason I’m asking is because I’m having trouble locating the photo album i want to backup with immich, it is really hard to locate an album in randomly ordered list of hundreds of albums

thanks a lot in advance

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This is Android’s media scanner in action.

Fortunately, you can add a .nomedia file at the root of your Obsidian files to prevent them from showing up in your galleries.

Holeheadou92984
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thanks a lot!

xcjs
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Of course! Glad it helped!

Holeheadou92984
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thanks a lot

I have added a blank file named .nomedia in the root folder and reboot my device

However those albums still exists

What else should I do to fix it?

xcjs
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Sometimes it can take the media scanner running again before they disappear. Give it a few minutes or so.

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works! thanks a lot!

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