Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your NOMEDIA file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert NOMEDIA to another file type
To convert your NOMEDIA file to another format, you need Android OS or other System software.
Convert a file to NOMEDIA
To convert other file formats to the "Media Exclusion Marker" file type, you need software like Android OS or a similar tool.
About NOMEDIA files
A .NOMEDIA file is primarily a functional marker used by the Android Operating System to instruct media scanners to ignore specific folders. When placed inside a directory, this file effectively "hides" all contained images, videos, and audio files from Gallery apps, Music players, and standard media browsers. While typically an empty, 0-byte text file, the standard use case creates a significant issue for users attempting to backup or view mobile data on a PC, as valuable photos may appear missing or inaccessible. Additionally, specific applications like Snapchat occasionally use the .NOMEDIA extension to disguise actual cached media files (such as MP4 videos or JPG images) to prevent them from cluttering the user's main gallery. In these rare cases, the file is not empty but merely mislabeled. To restore access or view the content, users often need to identify if the file contains data. If the file has a size greater than zero, it should be converted (or renamed) to its true format - typically JPG for images or MP4 for video - to be viewable in standard software like VLC Media Player. For standard empty markers, no conversion is possible; the solution is simply deleting the file to unhide the folder's contents.
Convert.Guru analyzes your NOMEDIA file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert NOMEDIA file to TXT, PDF, DOC, DOCX, HTML, XLSX, PPT, PPTX, ZIP, RAR, JPG or JPEG, you can use Android OS or similar software from the "Android Media Scanner Exclusion" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert MP4, JPEG, MP3, HTM, GIF, DOC, DOCX, PNG, TXT, WAV, PDF or JPG files to NOMEDIA, try Android OS or another comparable tool in the "Android Media Scanner Exclusion" category.
The NOMEDIA Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our NOMEDIA converter.