duplicate media files

[gandalf]

I'm using my sd card for backups of my home folder (e.g when reinstalling or other debugging). Unfortunately both the gallery and music players pick up the duplicate files (images, movies, music). Is it possible to tell them to not pickup certain folders or ignore duplicate files?

Thanks in advance

edit: FP4 24.04-1.2

[arubislander]

@gandalf Yes there is. In the terminal, navigate to the folder you no longer want the files indexed and execute the following command:

touch .nomedia

This also works on desktop linux.

[gandalf]

@arubislander said:

@gandalf Yes there is. In the terminal, navigate to the folder you no longer want the files indexed and execute the following command:

touch .nomedia

This also works on desktop linux.

Thanks, that worked (mostly). I had to delete the data and cache for both the music player and gallery plus do a reboot. They haven't picked up the files again.