Windows 10: How to use Photos app or web interface to view OneDrive shared photos folder

I can use the Photos app on my PC or web Photos interface to view my OneDrive-based Pictures folder with no problem. However, when I send a "Share" link for that folder to my wife, access is more difficult. Although she can open the folder and view the files and pictures, we can find no way to use the Photos app on her PC, or the Microsoft 365 web interface, to view them.The Photos interface would be a lot better, and there's no problem viewing other picture on here PC. It seems there's no way to point the Photos app at that shared folder. What are we doing wrong?Please don't tell me to re

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View Shared OneDrive photos in Photos app

I have a folder shared with me by another person in my OneDrive. I have added that folder to my OneDrive in the Web interface, and that folder shows up on the Web and in the OneDrive application on my Windows 10 install. I can choose to sync folders from
that folder to my system.

However, I have not been able to view cloud-based (non-synced) photos from that folder in the Photos app.

I have the option on in the photos app to view cloud-based items. That folder does not show up in the folders in the photos app either. I've also manually added that folder in the photos app.

Is this possible?

 

Can't view shared OneDrive folders in Photos app for Windows 10

Hi,

I want to share a folder of pictures with another Microsoft account so they can view the pictures in their Photos app on their PC. The shared folder appears in their OneDrive folder when viewing through a web browser, but I cannot see the shared folder in
the Photos app.

I have shared the folder with the other user, who has added it to their OneDrive account. The other user does not want to sync the shared folder to their PC because they have limited space on their hard drive. They would like to keep the shared folder as
cloud-based content. Other cloud-based pictures are showing up in their Photos app and we have turned on the setting to "Show my cloud-only content from OneDrive" in the photos app and the collection view includes OneDrive content from all folders.

Is there a way to view cloud-based pictures in shared folders in OneDrive in the Photos app?

We are using Windows 10 version 1511 OS build 10586.36 and Photos app version 15.1208.10480.0.

Thanks!

Chris

 

Photos app behaviour with photos on OneDrive

Hello! So I am trying to use Photos app to arrange and view my library of photos and videos (about 30,000 files). I have windows 10 latest version, fully updated photos and onedrive app.

Behaviour of the app is erratic at best and I would like to know if someone has understood how Photos app works. Here is what I found:

- If all my photos are on my local hard drive, outside of OneDrive Photos adds them, indexes them, finds people in them etc. so it works fine. However I cannot search for tags (i.e. keywords), because photos does not seem to look into files metadata. So
far so good.

- When all my photos are in OneDrive the onedrive interface can search for tags and places. If the photos are in the main OneDrive Pictures folder Photos app in windows 10 sees them all, always regardless whether I have checked show pictures from my onedrive
folder, show pictures in the could only, or if I add or remove manually the folder from the list of folders. If the pictures are outside of the pictures folder they appear only if 'show pictures from all onedrive folders' is selected. all right.

- I use 'on demand' onedrive files: if the pictures are not downloaded, photos app does not index them at all. If they are downloaded photos app pulls some indexing from OneDrive but not all of it. So for instance if I search for 'cat' in the onedrive
web interface I get 200 results, if I search on the Windows 10 photos app I get maybe 70. In neither case photos app indexes people. People indexing seems to be reserved to photos that are on your harddrive outside of the OneDrive folder, at least for me.

So at the moment I have two identical copies of my library: one is offline on my hard drive outside of the onedrive folder and is indexed normally. The other one is in onedrive, every single file is linked as duplicate within Photos app, and this enables
me to pull albums from Onedrive.

Now my question is: why can't I just have all my library in the Pictures folder in OneDrive, keep it always available on my computer and have a fully indexed catalogue? Why do I have to keep two copies of the library to have the best of both worlds? I does
not make sense.

Also why does show my OneDrive photos default to ON everytime I restart the app?

I bet I will get an answer from a Microsoft 'technician' asking me to send a screenshot of the problem so they can understand the issue...

PS: I have reset the app, uninstalled and reinstalled it, deleted all the possible system files and started from scratch, no matter what I do this seems to be Photos default behaviour...