Windows 10: Onedrive Photos app runtimerbroker Pictures

There is already a good post about it but it is locked and the solution doesn't satisfy me.



Problem:

Everytime OneDrive is starting up it adds the user folder "My Pictures" to the Location in the Photos app.



The above solution was to uninstall the photos app via a powershell command, which worked - for a few hours until it was automatically installed again.

How can one remove the photos app permanently or stop OneDrive adding folder on their own choice?

And i have deactivated tagging and facedetection in Office 365 too. It should only sync them to the cloud.



The real problem is actually the RuntimeBroker.exe that is using my 7200rpm 2TB HDD to 100% and i can't do nothing anymore. And that's a chain-reaction because every time Onedrive is started (or the PC) it adds the user folder "My Pictures" to the photos app, which then calls this runtime broker.

So every time I start the PC I've to remove the pictures location in the photos app then kill all the runtimebroker.exe processes.

We need ecxclusion options, or deactivating the automated adding of user folders.



I've also searched in the Settings-Privacy-Permissions, but the Photos app is not listed there (Nice one Microsoft btw. Same as the uninstall is greyed out) I even deactivated the complete folder access. (Pictures library access for this device is off) But I guess this doesn't count for that godmode photos app.



History:

Recently my Onedrive stopped working and was for days hanging with some uploads, always started again from counting the changes - never syncronized anything.

Then i unlinked my account and re-linked again, had to keep my pc running for 4 days where i couldn't use it until the Onedrive did some sort of indexing. (OneDrive.exe using 100% of disk going through all the files)

The actual files were not moved out of Onedrive - just unlinked from Onedrive - very strange.

And then it worked a couple of days and then it started again to block my HDD, this time with runtimebroker.exe.



What's going on??



Thank you

:)

 

Problem with location of Pictures library after making pictures available on OneDrive

Thanks Rhina

I did what you suggested but it ended up making OneDrive the Pictures library. This may have something to do with the way i originally moved the Pictures folders to OneDrive. I probably should explain:

Because there already was a (fairly empty) Pictures folder under OneDrive (automatically set up I think when transferring a few Ipad photos to PC via OneDrive) I had moved the top level Pictures folders into D/users/myname/OneDrive rather than moving
the Pictures folder itself. This was probably a bit stupid but I subsequently moved the top level Pictures folders into that pre-existing Pictures folder on OneDrive and that's how we got to where we are today.

To continue after that diversion. Following the restore you suggested, the pictures folder under Libraries was still wrong but it looked a lot better ie it was no longer offering me a choice of locations for Pictures folders and, instead was just showing
me all the top level folders for what it (wrongly) thought was the Pictures folder. But it was still not appearing directly under This PC.

My next step was to go into Properties option for Libraries/Pictures. Here I simply added the correct location D/users/myname/OneDrive/pictures and deleted the location D/users/myname/OneDrive which at that time was the current location.

So, on the Positive side:

• Libraries/Pictures now shows what I would expect ie my top level Pictures folders

But, on the negative side:

• Pictures still does not appear under This PC, unlike Documents, Videos, Music etc
• in the Photos app, if I go to Folders option, it shows the folder as OneDrive, not OneDrive/Pictures even though, if i go into "choose where to look" it is correctly showing OneDrive/Pictures as the location. Obviously i can still get to the photos I need
  but it's an extra unnecessary step
  

That's where i am currently.

 

Windows 10 - OneDrive

Right click on the app and one of the properties has an option to not automatically start it. Uncheck, restart the computer, and it should stop. If you want to go another step further, find the OneDrive app in the start menu, right click on it and uninstall.

If that is still insufficient, there is a batch uninstaller for OneDrive available online. I can copy the code here if you need it.

 

WINDOWS 10 MICROSOFT PHOTO APP

Hello,

Welcome to Microsoft Community.

The Photos app brings together pictures from all your devices using OneDrive, so that you can browse them by date, album or folder. It also automatically enhances photos, and creates albums for you, to showcase your best shots.

I suggest you to follow the methods below and check if it helps:

Method 1:

I suggest you to change the Default apps in the setting app and verify the result. You may follow the steps in the below:

• Go to settings and system.
  
• Click on Default Apps and select the appropriately.
  

Method 2:

I suggest you to reinstall Photo app using the PowerShell command
and reinstall using the Windows store. Follow the below steps.

• Open the　Start　menu, type　Windows PowerShell　in the search bar.
  
• Right click on the　Windows　PowerShell　and select　Run as　administrator.
  
• Enter the below command to uninstall the Photo app.
  

• 　　get-appxpackage　　*Microsoft.Windows.Photos* | remove-appxpackage
  

More reference:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-10/photos

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

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