Photos section in OneDrive for Android should default to only crawling and showing pictures in the Pictures folder not all folders
Photos currently crawls every single picture format found in my entire OneDrive account. For those of us that are syncing all User folders such as Desktop, Documents, Music and Pictures, this Photos section on OneDrive for Android is useless. It crowds up and lists every single "picture" including web design graphics, backgrounds, icons, album art, etc. into the Photos section of the app. Have the photos section only display pictures found in the Pictures folder of OneDrive.
Andre Hugo
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You can now filter the photos view to show all pictures, only the pictures folder or for Samsung Gallery Sync customers, the Samsung Gallery folder.
39 comments
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Anonymous
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This has NOT been done : please get this done on windows, android and macos, as people have been asking for 6 or more years (every one of your competitors does it - it cannot be that difficult) Thanks.
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Yannis
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It's half done. When opening the app and going to the Photos tab the default filter should be the 'Pictures folder' and not 'All folders'. Or at least let the user select which should be the default. Is that easy to fix!
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Ricky Hervey
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This is not done, the problem hasn't even been addressed. This only helps Samsung users, and only helps with photos on those devices. Microsoft can't be a serious player with photo storage and usage if they can't filter the actual photos. Fix this please!
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Anonymous
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No, it is not done-the Android app has no way to filter,yet
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Scott
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Like everyone else, it's not done. Why have you said BOOM! It's Done when it's not. Yes you can do it on the web browser, but not in the Android App. If Microsoft want people to use it's one drive instead of Google then it needs to sort this **** out. Photo's means photos. I don;t want to see my music covers, my work assets library blah blah. I want a photo section that shows me photos - period!
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Adrián
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Still cannot do it...
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Anonymous
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?? No it's not done. It still does not work. I cannot specify folders for display in the filter. In the Onedrive browser view, under "Show photos from" you can select "Pictures folder" .....
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Steve
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i just saw a "boom it's done" for a problem with onedrive photos section; many others says it's not done, I know it's not done that's why I'm here; this could be one answer as to why problems such as this one does not or take for ever to be fixed; delusionary
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Anonymous
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BTW. This is not a feature, this A level bug.
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Anonymous
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Done? wut?. Just now someone from MS pointed me here to upvote this.
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Anonymous
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No it's not done, and why the **** is this so hard? It's been years. Do I seriously need to switch to Google photos?
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Anonymous
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If it's done, can you explain how to do it?
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M
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Boom it's done? Not working mate. I am on Huawei Android EMUI 9, and I have heaps a **** in there I don't want to see....
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.
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Not working for me either. Filter for OneDrive photos shows photos from folders outside of pictures. This brings in scans from other document areas that should not be part of my picture timeline. Very frustrating. Either you use onedrive as a picture only tool, or you use it only as a business documents tool, else the pictures will all be mixed!
WHEN WILL THIS BE FIXED.
The previous post to this is spot on!
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Uwe Kraatz
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https://onedrive.uservoice.com/forums/913516-onedrive-on-android/suggestions/20554375-show-only-photos-from-photos-folder Let's hope that other shortcomings will be addressed directly. Unfortunately, OneDrive recognizes all OneDrive folders as photos. Even the music folder with all its thumbnails. Due to the missing folder selection, a photo chaos results. You can display photos with details to see when and where they were created, but... Unfortunately, it is not possible to wipe through several photos in order to view the details of several photos. The "Details" function must be called up individually for each photo. Annoying. If you scroll with this scroll bar in landscape format to a certain date, then hold the SmartPhone upright again, you'll be back to the first picture. The photo app in OneDrive Android is unusable to say the least. I don't even want to start complaining about the problems with parts, the poor video quality of online videos (which look great again when saved). The whole app, up to the file manager, has the maturity of an early version. This has nothing to do with Windows Mobile 10. Too many bugs, too cumbersome, playback problems with videos, missing and badly implemented file features... There's a **** of a lot to be done. How long has this app been around? All this can only be evaluated well if you don't have a current Windows Mobile at hand to compare.
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David Lambert
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Extremely frustrating behaviour
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Stew
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Not done for me, I was just considering whether to switch to OneDrive from Google Photos but as this feature is not present the photos view is cluttered with random images from other parts of my OneDrive so it's useless
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Anonymous
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Could you tell me where can I find this filter to configure it?
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Anonymous
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Not available on iOS. Where is the problem to put in the same function as in the web view (only images from image folder)?
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Uwe Kraatz
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So, are you kidding the users? There are 30,000 GIF images displayed here in photos. But they are located in the Music folder. And no, I don't want to see those.
Google pixels. No Samsung anything. It's so hard to just let the photo folder show up? Windows Mobile could do it. Man, man, man. I wouldn't want my head to explode.
