Windows 10: OneDrive "Photos" don't sync to "Picture" folder on the PC

It seems that OneDrive has a new feature called photos.onedrive.com where photos from my iphone are uploaded via the OneDrive Apps. On Windows 11 How do I get to these photos on my PC through File Explorer? I don't want to use the Photos apps and I don't want to use the Web Page for OneDrive. I want the photos from "Photos" to sync to my picture folder like they use to and be available in File Explorer. I can't find any settings that allows you to manage your pictures that are stored on photos.onedrive.com it seems to only be web based and complete useless to me.

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Unlink Pictures Folder from OneDrive

Hello LuLuLaMour, and welcome to Ten Forums. *Smile

In addition, double check the listed items below to see if one may be the culprit:

1) Automatically save screenshots I capture to OneDrive is unchecked in OneDrive settings.

2) Automatically save photos and videos to OneDrive whenever I connect a camera, phone, or other device to my PC is unchecked in OneDrive settings.

3) Pictures folder is not selected to be backed up to OneDrive.

4) Make sure the Pictures folder location is still at its default "C:\Users\<username>\Pictures" location.

Restore Default Location of Personal Folders in Windows 10

5) Afterwards, see if you are able to stop syncing the Pictures folder with OneDrive.

 

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.

 

Onedrive Photos app runtimerbroker Pictures

Hi,

Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community forum.

I understand that the Pictures folder re-adds in the Photos App settings to be synced with OneDrive and I appreciate all the research and troubleshooting that you have done.

As you have tried removing the Pictures folder from the Photos App, we can try removing the folder from the OneDrive settings.

To do this, follow the below mentioned steps:

1. Select the white or blue OneDrive cloud icon in the Windows taskbar notification area.

2. In the activity center, select More > Settings.

3. Select the Account tab, and select Choose folders.

4. In the Sync your OneDrive files to this PC dialog box, uncheck any folders you don't want to sync to your computer and select OK.

For reference, you can check choose which OneDrive folders to sync to your computer.

If the issue persists, I would suggest you to check with the OneDrive support article -
OneDrive help & learning

Regards,

Mala.S

Microsoft Community - Moderator