Windows 10: One drive deleted an album

I have deleted photos from onedrive to free space but it has taken them off my phone aswell why? These photos were in an album so separate from all the other junk. Can they be restored somehow as they are important. They are not in any recycle bin just disappeared

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Groove Shows Unknown Artist & Unknown Album


I solved it by doing the following! I'm not sure which step cracked the problem.

1. Set indexing to index the content of my music files by right clicking on the top level folder, setting the option and applying to all files and sub-folders
2. Rebuilt the index via the Control Panel Indexing options
3. Deleted the folders watched in Groove
4. Deleted the Groove database at C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.ZuneMusic_<random>\LocalState\Database
5. Started Groove
6. Reassigned the folders to watch

All songs now appear with the right artist & album but some album art was missing in Groove and Media Player despite being displayed correctly in iTunes. I manually updated the missing album art in Media Player and Groove then synchronised to match the Media Player album art.

 

Groove Shows Unknown Artist & Unknown Album

This worked! I was playing with disabling indexing since it was interfering with my backup procedures, but it caused this. (What broke it was right clicking the drives and turning off indexing for the whole drive). I'll try some other ways of limiting the indexing. Thanks kindly.

 

Is it possible to add photos to an album, then delete them from collections?

Hi jb1005

Please be careful . . .

In the Photos App you have 3 views - Collection, folders and Albums

Collection and folders are basically just a view of you files on your hard drive in the Pictures folder

Albums are a virtual structure, they do not physically exist, they are just stored as a list, so if you delete a file from collections or albums, you are deleting the only physical copy of that file