Windows 10: Why do I keep losing a Photo Folder which I have select to Always Keep on this Device?

Most of my photos I have saved on Flash Drives, but maybe 5 Photo Folders are still on my PC and I want to keep those particular ones there so I chose for each to "ALWAYS KEEP ON THIS DEVICE". But for some reason every time I Restart, I lose one of those Folders and have to copy it back from my Flash Drive. Happened again today. 2 of those Folders that did not disappear, were not checked Green to Always Stay on my device. There was a check mark but it was not solid green and in order to get it back to Always keep on this Device I had to uncheck, then re select that Always Keep. This is getting a bit old with me. At one point I lost several pictures in those Folders and had to rescan them and save them back in the Folder plus put them on Flash Drive to be sure I had them there. So I do end up with the same photo on Flash Drive, because since I have thousands on there, I don't always look to see if that particular photo is still there. I get a notice sometimes if I happen to name it the same as what I have on there, but I don't always remember what name I gave a particular photo. I like One Drive, but as I said it gets rather old having to do this all the time. So I would like Microsoft to fix that particular issue if they are able to. Thank You.


Add On: One Drive keeps photos also, but only the Photos, not the Inscription of who the photo is of, so all you get is a whole bunch of photos to see, but would be nice if the Inscription/Name of who the photo is of was there and in Alphabetical Order. Like I said, I have thousands, because I do Genealogy, have 20,000 names in my Data Base and pictures for thousands of those names. That is why I have Individual Folders for each Ancestor in our family plus each of my 13 Siblings families.

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Save photo folders

Hello Cece,

There are several ways for you to transfer your photos to your USB device. You can follow the steps provided below:

• Plug-in the USB device to your computer.
• Using File Explorer navigate to your photo folders and highlight them.
• Click Move to and choose Choose location...
  
• Then select the USB device you want to store your photo folders to.
• Or, you can drag and drop the photo folders to the removable USB device location folder and it will copy the files to the destination folder.
  

Let us know how it goes.

 

How do I move photos from the my photo app to the pictures folder on the C drive?

Hi,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

I understand your concern and will assist you to resolve this issue.

I suggest you to follow the steps below and check if it helps.

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  Open Photo App.
  
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  Select the photo and right click on the photo.
  
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  Select Open Folder.
  
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  From there you will be able to copy all the photos to C: drive
  

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

 

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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