Windows 10: One Drive ate my entire catalog of photos

I recently switched to a new computer new and old running Win 10 and 20 years of photos were stored on an external drive. that external drive and all of the photo files and folders were indexed in Adobe Lightroom Classic on the old machine. When I initiated the new computer, I had a lot of work to do in reconnecting the links in Lightroom to the files on the drive. Then Windows changed the drive letter and I had to fix that. Yesterday I had gotten everything into shape after days of work. Today, most of my photos are somehow in OneDrive and the links to Lightroom are broken. I have disconnec

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How do I move photos from the my photo app to the pictures folder on the C drive?

Hi,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

I understand your concern and will assist you to resolve this issue.

I suggest you to follow the steps below and check if it helps.

• 
  Open Photo App.
  
• 
  Select the photo and right click on the photo.
  
• 
  Select Open Folder.
  
• 
  From there you will be able to copy all the photos to C: drive
  

Hope this helps. If the issue remains unresolved, please get back to us and we would be happy to help.

 

Lost default photo viewer after profile rebuild

Thanks Brink. I've tried those steps before i started searching Google. After the profile rebuild i don't have the Photo app listed to choose to make it default in either the system settings for default apps or the Open With option.

I can't even find it doing a search. Seems to have been removed somehow with the profile rebuild, which doesn't make sense.

Might be helpful to list what i've done I've done the open with check, the choose default program in the system menu, tried that in device manager default programs also. I've checked the programs and features Turn windows features on/off and it's not listed there (never thought it was but that was a suggestion), searched the MS Store, it's not listed there either.

I don't like playing in the registry unless i have defined steps and haven't found anything for this yet, just the Win7 version like in my OP.

 

How do I get the edited photos from 10 Photos app to change on the hard drive?

Hi Robert,

Thank you for posting the query on Microsoft Community.

I suggest you to try the steps provided below and check the behavior:

• Go to the folder in hard drive.
• Right click on the photo you want to edit.
• Click on Open with and select
  photos (To open that particular photo in Windows 10 photos app).
• Make some changes in the photo and click on
  save.
• Now go back to the folder and check the if you see the changes you made.

Hope this helps in resolving the issue. If the issue persists, do get back to us. We will be happy to assist you.