Windows 10: OneDrive pictures folder sharing to my other OneDrive account

I just purchased Office 365 Premium for my family with 5 1T accounts, original intention was to automatically sync all pictures and videos from family (2 parents + 2 kids) iPhones and Android phones to one OneDrive account. 5th account is for family XBox to watch pictures and videos from all other 4 accounts. Point is to make syncing automatic without any manual scheduled actions.

But it doesn't seem to be as easy as I thought: I see sync possibility only for the folders created by user, but for pictures coming from smartphones I see no sync options. It seems that OneDrive creates this pictures "folder", and cannot be synced with other account. And in phones I see no option to save pictures automatically to a specific folder in OneDrive, only option is OneDrive personal. If this is true, seems like only choice to sync all to one account is to use one account for all devices. Please correct me if wrong, and help if someone already solved this*Smile.

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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

 

Multiple Windows Phones in a business and One Drive

The shared folder is synced.

I shared the camera roll folder from my primary phone in OneDrive using my PC to another phone, different account. Took two pictures using my primary phone.

Opened the OneDrive app on the other phone and the shared Camera Roll folder from my primary phone had updated and the two new pictures are there. Same thing would happen on a desktop.

That is the purpose of sharing OneDrive folders, multiple users seeing and being able to work on the same task.

 

Seems to be that there is no sync possibility, if intention to sync media streams automatically between family devices where each has own personal 1T OneDrive accounts in their devices.