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Quick tip – How to Hide And Unhide Pictures in BlackBerry

January 15, 2010 | 1 Comment

BlackBerry Pictures You may come across a situation where you couldn’t find that amazing picture you had before on your BlackBerry media card or you have a feeling that it’s some how missing or you want to hide it for any reason so that it’s not visible when you go into Media folder. You have an option to hide and unhide pictures in BlackBerry OS same way you hide and unhide files and folders in PC. Read on this quick tip to get it done easily.


How to Hide Pictures in BlackBerry

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  1. Open the picture you want to hide
  2. Press the Menu button and select Properties
  3. Select Hidden box
  4. Select Close and you’re done

How to Unhide Pictures in BlackBerry

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  1. Go in to Media folder
  2. Press Menu button and select Explore
  3. Go into your Media Card folder and Press Menu Button
  4. Select Show Hidden
  5. Go into Picture folder and the picture names you see grayed out are hidden
  6. Open the picture you want to unhide, press Menu button, select Properties and uncheck the Hidden box
  7. Select Close and you’re done

Note: When the BlackBerry is connected to PC, you will not see those hidden files and pictures you have on your media card. Basically it works the same way as your windows file system. You can hide – unhide pictures and files you have on BlackBerry media card from Windows PC as well when the BlackBerry is connected to PC.

Other Option

Quick tip – How to Hide And Unhide Pictures in BlackBerry

If you are using a large size media card and often need to explore pictures, files or documents, use this free file explorer app called FileScout earlier knows as BBFileScout. This is one of the best must have free app available for BlackBerry which not only works great to explore files and folder but it has many other cool features related to files and folder management.

> > Download FileScout OTA link

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One Comment
  1. H3L105 on May 13, 2010 at 12:53 AM

    how do you show hidden files on os 5.0? the explore option is not available after the 5.0 upgrade.

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