Windows 10: Are 'pictures' and 'Photos' separate from one another?

Good evening all, I'm just getting the hang of this new pc running Windows 10. I recently tried to download some photos from my iPhone onto my PC and wanted to store them in the Microsoft Photo App (which was already preinstalled on the pc when I bought it). Each time I tried, they went into the 'pictures' folder. Can someone please tell me how I transfer them onto the Photo App and delete them from 'pictures'? Thank you.

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Deleting duplicate photos in the Windows Photo Gallery

In my photos app (windows 10) in the sources settings, I have several source folders from different drives. Because of this I have many double and triple copies of the same picture. How can I delete these extra copies without deleting each one separately
so that in my photo app I only have one of each picture? Thanks.

Moved from Windows Essentials

 

Emailing photos from Windows 7

How do these four x-rays differ from four pictures like in My Pictures. Are they four separate pictures, or a 4 in 1 actual single photo?

 

The Photo app allows you to add folders to its albums. Which folders are added is under your control.

The Photo app is a program, the folders and files in which your photos exist are disk storage. So you can't 'transfer them onto the app' as such.




- try 'Choose where to look'

Do remember no-one's forcing you to use Photos. You can download and use your own favourite (freeware?) program, whether it's from the Store, or from the internet, as has been the case for decades.

 

Thank you very much dalchina for your swift help. I have to confess that I'm pretty ignorant about Folders within Apps and Collections and Albums and the like. All I wanted to do was collect ALL my photos on the Photos App in one long list. Is it possible to do that? Kind regards.

 

Well, Photos can create an album from pictures in whichever folders you specify.

There's the physical aspect of where the files are- that's up to you- one or many folders.
There's the logical aspect of how you organise them into Albums in Photos.

The choice is yours.
Search for
guide to using photos in Windows 10
and you find e.g.
Organizing Photos In Win 10 | Worldstarts Tech Tips And Computer Help
10 Things You Didnt Know the Windows 10 Photos App Could Do
Tips to Get the Most Out of Windows 10 Features
How to use the Windows 10 Photos app | TechRadar

 

Very many thanks for your kind guidance, it is much appreciated. Kind regards.

 

Hey Feathers,
As far as I know the Photo App itself doesn't display a list, only thumbnails. If you want to see a list, then you need to use File Explorer and change the Folder View Settings for the Picture folder.

Change Folder View Layout in Windows 10 Windows 10 Customization Tutorials