Windows 10: pictures from my Samsung A22 go into the Onedrive photos app where they can be seen but not...

Pictures from my Samsung A22 go directly to the onedrive photos app on my Windows 10 PC where they can be viewed but not accessed from File Explorer. File explorer only shows a Onedrive personal file with pre 2019 photos. When consulting with someone who ask me for a photo I cannot proceed as file manager cannot find the Onedrive photo app where picture Is stored. I get round this by opening Onedrive photos app and then by screenshotting the relevant picture then I use File Explorer to gain access to the Photo. This can't be right can anyone help.RegardsJames

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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 -
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...m/5bdb57e1-e86c-440b-b766-23ecc2baa2d0?auth=1

Regards,

Mala.S

Microsoft Community - Moderator