Hiding your porn

I remember a while back there was some questions on the Maemo mailing list on how to "hide" certain images or videos from showing up in the media player or image library. Good news is that it would appear there is a bug feature in the media scanner making this possible.

I used rsync to copy my own image library to my N900. I created a directory on the memory card called images/ and the whole directory structure was copied into this directory. This resulted in a reasonably deep directory tree with directories like:

./images/Malaysia/Xmas2006

Images in the above Malaysia directory show up, while images in Xmas2006 does not. Same goes for videos. It's still possible to browse the images using a customised folder.

A bug? Yeah I reckon, but one which could have some fortunate side effects.

I now think I got the original post completely wrong.  It's not the directory depth that matters but naming.  It would appear that the tracker avoid directories named "Private".  It is however not immediately obvious why this is the case since there is no mention of this in the configuration file.  So

./images/Malaysia/Xmas2006

does indeed show up, whereas:

./images/Private/Xmas2006

does not.

There you go - still possible to "hide" private pictures from accidental view.