Windows 10: automatically create folder 'year - month' when importing photos & videos in photo app

my system used to do this but doesn't now for some reason; the photo app just imports all files to pictures\. I can't find the setting to create a subfolder on import. Can anyone help?

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Photo app import settings, year, month and DATE

Window 7 importer set folder names by year, month and date. Photo app will not, or

How can I change it so that it will use data

 

Windows 10 Viewing photos by month & year

I have just upgraded from Windows 7 to 10 and wondered if anyone can help me with a query please ?

In Windows 7 I had all my photos of the grandchildren in one folder called 'Freddie & Anna' that was set up as follows:

• There were no sub folders for months/years within the 'Freddie & Anna' folder.
  
• When I clicked on the folder 'Freddie & Anna' the system displayed month & year 'icons' so that I could select the photos I wanted to view by clicking on the appropriate month & year 'icon'.
  
• If my memory is correct I did this by using 'Arrange by' within the 'Freddie & Anna' folder.
  

I have set up the following folder structure in Windows 10:

and all the photos of my grandchildren are in the folder 'Freddie & Anna'.

There are no sub folders for months/years within the 'Freddie & Anna' folder.

When I click on the folder 'Freddie & Anna' I want my system to do what it did in Windows 7 and display the month & year icons but it does what I don't want and displays all the photos and groups them under the headings 'Earlier This Week', 'Last Week', 'Earlier This Month', Earlier This Year', and 'A Long Time Ago'. The system does this very slowly.

In Windows 7 the system was pretty quick to display the month & year 'icons' and then to display the appropriate photos if I clicked on one of the month & year 'icons'.

I would like to set up my folders/photos in Windows 10 so they are displayed as my system did in Windows 7.

Can anyone help me to do this please?

 

Photos App

Last night I imported some video clips from my JVC camcorder to my desktop PC using the App called Photos. I did not specify any folder to download the files to. After a minute or so I got the notification that the files have been imported successfully. Then when I looked for the files I could not find them ANYWHERE in my PC. I checked the Pictures folder, Video folder, Download folder, Documents folder, everywhere. I even checked OneDrive. I also searched in Photos' Last Import folder. The imported video files were not to be found anywhere, though I knew they have to be somewhere in my computer!

This morning, Google Photos came to my rescue. I discovered the App called Backup and Sync duly backed up my video files.

My question is where does Photos save the imported files? I use Photos regularly to import photos from my camera and I always find them in my Pictures folder. This is the first time I used Photos to import video files from my camcorder (please note I DO NOT use smartphone to take photos and videos). Next time, I will try to specify the folder where I would like to import my videos - I hope Photos gives that option

Please tell me where to look for the video files I imported last night. Also, I forgot to mention I did search within Photos the Last Import folder and also used 'Search' by Date (month and year). Nothing was found. Holy Mystery!!!

Of course, I am using Windows 10 with all the automatic updates.