Windows 10: Windows photo app - behaviour has changed when copying photos

I used to love windows photo app. Using icloud all my photos would appear in photos app. If I dragged any of those photos out to folders in explorer they would be converted from HEIC to JPG. Perfect this is exactly the behaviour I want and its been this behaviour for at least a year, this ties into my workflow well.Now when I drag photos out of photos app, they remain as HEIC. This is not the behaviour I want, when I go into a folder of HEIC photos I have dragged out, windows has to have a little think about, but besides I want them as JPEG.How do I get the old behaviour back please? As nice a

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Photos are opening with Paint instead of Photos app

Hello,

It's likely that your default application for opening photos is Paint. To change your default program in Windows 10 from
Paint to the Photo app, we suggest that you perform the following steps:

• On the Start menu, select Settings.
  
• Go to System, then go to Default apps.
  
• Select Photos or any app that you like to be the default under
  Photo viewer.

Update us if the steps above helped you in resolving your concern.

 

Photos app file behaviour

Hello everyone,

So this is the most bizarre behaviour I've ever seen. If I double-click on a photo in Explorer, the first one in the file list as sorted by name, it opens in the Windows 10 Photos app, which is great. But then as I try to scroll to the next image, it will make me scroll through all of my images twice. It's almost like it thinks there are two versions of every file.

Or it also does this: double-click on a photo in Explorer, the first one in the file list as sorted by name. Then to get to the next image I have to scroll all the way up through all of the files (Which can be a very long list sometimes) before it gets back to the first image in the list. For some reason, it thinks the first one I opened is at the bottom of the list.

Any thoughts?

Chris

 

Photos app behaviour with photos on OneDrive

Hello! So I am trying to use Photos app to arrange and view my library of photos and videos (about 30,000 files). I have windows 10 latest version, fully updated photos and onedrive app.

Behaviour of the app is erratic at best and I would like to know if someone has understood how Photos app works. Here is what I found:

- If all my photos are on my local hard drive, outside of OneDrive Photos adds them, indexes them, finds people in them etc. so it works fine. However I cannot search for tags (i.e. keywords), because photos does not seem to look into files metadata. So
far so good.

- When all my photos are in OneDrive the onedrive interface can search for tags and places. If the photos are in the main OneDrive Pictures folder Photos app in windows 10 sees them all, always regardless whether I have checked show pictures from my onedrive
folder, show pictures in the could only, or if I add or remove manually the folder from the list of folders. If the pictures are outside of the pictures folder they appear only if 'show pictures from all onedrive folders' is selected. all right.

- I use 'on demand' onedrive files: if the pictures are not downloaded, photos app does not index them at all. If they are downloaded photos app pulls some indexing from OneDrive but not all of it. So for instance if I search for 'cat' in the onedrive
web interface I get 200 results, if I search on the Windows 10 photos app I get maybe 70. In neither case photos app indexes people. People indexing seems to be reserved to photos that are on your harddrive outside of the OneDrive folder, at least for me.

So at the moment I have two identical copies of my library: one is offline on my hard drive outside of the onedrive folder and is indexed normally. The other one is in onedrive, every single file is linked as duplicate within Photos app, and this enables
me to pull albums from Onedrive.

Now my question is: why can't I just have all my library in the Pictures folder in OneDrive, keep it always available on my computer and have a fully indexed catalogue? Why do I have to keep two copies of the library to have the best of both worlds? I does
not make sense.

Also why does show my OneDrive photos default to ON everytime I restart the app?

I bet I will get an answer from a Microsoft 'technician' asking me to send a screenshot of the problem so they can understand the issue...

PS: I have reset the app, uninstalled and reinstalled it, deleted all the possible system files and started from scratch, no matter what I do this seems to be Photos default behaviour...