Windows 10: Windows Photos stops auto-creating albums on a given date

Hey All,

As per the subject line, my Windows Photos app stops auto-creating albums on a given date in the past. It was always like that, since I got this PC, on various Windows 10 versions (I'm on 1803 now which works absolutely fine).

In essence: it does auto-create albums from now backwards until late Aug '12 - and then stops. There's quite a lot of pictures taken since late 90' onwards!

I am guessing it's one / few of the images from around that date that are not to app liking: when I went through the app troubleshooter the other day (yes, I've done that already) that reset the app / removed the database and restarted indexing etc., Photos app crashed on its own few times during the database re-creation. The end result is the same as before the reset.

It's a very minor but rather annoying pickle - not that I cannot live without it, obviously, but it would be good to find the culprit.

So:

Do you guys know if there are any logs available / accessible that I could browse to find the relevant details - as it should be as simple as that?

The alternative is (obviously) to remove images form that catalogue and see what happens. But that's very tiresome and I have quite a few pictures there... I actually reviewed the images from around that time where this process stops but these are not any different from the other ones, at least as far as I can say...

Any ideas appreciated.

:)

 

How to create new album and organize photos in Photos app

Hi Erin,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community, we appreciate your interest in Windows 10.

As you are facing issues with creating new album do let us know the following:

• Where exactly are you trying to create new albums?
• Are you referring to creating new albums in Photos app?
• Are you using any other application to view the photos?

If you referring to Photos app in Windows 10, I suggest you to refer to the below Microsoft article about Photos app and check if it helps.

Refer: Photos app for Windows help


(Applies to Windows 10 as well)

Hope it helps. Reply to the post with an updated status of this issue and required information to assist you further.

 

Is it possible to stop the Photos App in Windows 10 from creating albums/collections?

Microsoft apparently could never get Auto-Enhance to work properly so discontinued it. But it never changed photos, it just displayed them with corrections if you requested it.

For unknown reasons Microsoft has declined to allow people to shut off automatic album creation, necessitating the above steps if you have no use for albums and don't want them created. But most people like to create albums and so simply ignore those albums
or just delete them.