Windows 10: The Photos app fills up the disk by downloading online-only pictures from OneDrive

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  1. sba923 Win User

    The Photos app fills up the disk by downloading online-only pictures from OneDrive


    I have a bunch of pictures stored on my OneDrive-synced Pictures folder (using "Protected folders").


    The Photos app keeps downloading all pictures to local storage, until the C: is completely full (less than 30MB free).


    The attributes for all these files is changed from "online only" to "locally available."


    Changing the attributes back to "online only" recovers some space, but then the Photos app downloads the files again...


    This is a severe problem as this makes the system essentially unusable.


    Any idea on how to stop the Photos apps from doing that until Microsoft comes up with a fix? (Feedback sent at https://aka.ms/AA398vh)

    :)
     
    sba923, Nov 20, 2018
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  2. sethix Win User

    Stop Photo-App downloading ALL Onedrive photos

    Hi,

    the Photos app has indexed all my pictures in the onedrive-Folder. OK.

    Then I made them "Online available" to safe disk space.

    Every week, onedrive begins to download all my pictures. This are 200 GB of data.

    It seems, the photos app tries to reindex all the folders again and initiates the download.

    How can I stop this?
     
    sethix, Nov 20, 2018
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  3. Arnie Est Win User
    How to make shared photo directory visible in PICTURES app in WindowsMoblie 10?

    Hello Piotr,

    Shared photos from OneDrive can only be viewed by the owner of the photos on the Photos app. The person you shared it with can only view or edit it on OneDrive. We would recommend that you send a suggestion in
    Feedback Hub app to make this feature available on Windows 10 Mobile.

    To send a suggestion, you can follow the steps below:

    • Go to All apps, search for the Feedback Hub
      app.
    • Open the menu icon at the top left side.
    • Select Feedback, then at the top right side, tap the add button (+).
    • Select Suggestion and fill up the box with the details needed.
    • Select the right category for the suggestion and then submit.

    Feel free to post back if you need further assistance.
     
    Arnie Est, Nov 20, 2018
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  4. wallace99 Win User

    The Photos app fills up the disk by downloading online-only pictures from OneDrive

    Problem with location of Pictures library after making pictures available on OneDrive

    Thanks Rhina

    I did what you suggested but it ended up making OneDrive the Pictures library. This may have something to do with the way i originally moved the Pictures folders to OneDrive. I probably should explain:

    Because there already was a (fairly empty) Pictures folder under OneDrive (automatically set up I think when transferring a few Ipad photos to PC via OneDrive) I had moved the top level Pictures folders into D/users/myname/OneDrive rather than moving
    the Pictures folder itself. This was probably a bit stupid but I subsequently moved the top level Pictures folders into that pre-existing Pictures folder on OneDrive and that's how we got to where we are today.


    To continue after that diversion. Following the restore you suggested, the pictures folder under Libraries was still wrong but it looked a lot better ie it was no longer offering me a choice of locations for Pictures folders and, instead was just showing
    me all the top level folders for what it (wrongly) thought was the Pictures folder. But it was still not appearing directly under This PC.

    My next step was to go into Properties option for Libraries/Pictures. Here I simply added the correct location D/users/myname/OneDrive/pictures and deleted the location D/users/myname/OneDrive which at that time was the current location.

    So, on the Positive side:

    • Libraries/Pictures now shows what I would expect ie my top level Pictures folders

    But, on the negative side:

    • Pictures still does not appear under This PC, unlike Documents, Videos, Music etc
    • in the Photos app, if I go to Folders option, it shows the folder as OneDrive, not OneDrive/Pictures even though, if i go into "choose where to look" it is correctly showing OneDrive/Pictures as the location. Obviously i can still get to the photos I need
      but it's an extra unnecessary step
    That's where i am currently.
     
    wallace99, Nov 20, 2018
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