Spotlight Collection on 225XX

I gave up on Spotlight and went back to Bing Daily Wallpaper which is basically the same as Spotlight anyway.
Edit: Sometimes Bing Daily Wallpaper is advertised at the top of this forum. Also, Bing has an unlimited supply of pictures.

@hawkeys46,

I'm just testing the new insider features and reporting the bugs. I know there are other ways to get a picture in the background, but that is not the point, nor the purpose of insider testing. 😎

Yes, it is a bug, and we have reported it, but I don't want to wait until 1/6 or so for our next Insider Dev build, so that is why I have changed it to Bing for now. 😎👌

Hi fg,

Confirm same behavior. All was working well, never deleted any pic. Today showing same menu as you now, nothing 🤣

Hi fg,

Confirm same behavior. All was working well, never deleted any pic. Today showing same menu as you now, nothing 🤣

Hi Johnny,

Thanks for confirming.

What I noticed was that the Spotlight collection pictures for the background were stored in the same location where Windows Spotlight is storing the Lock Screen pictures. When the Windows Spotlight picture were updated for the Lock Screen the Background collection disappeared.

It looks to me that the 2 features are stepping on each other toes. 😉

When the Background Spotlight Collection was working the pictures were in the location below together with the Lock Screen pictures. They disappeared as soon as the Lock Screen pictures were updated.

C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\Assets

Hi fg,

Confirm same behavior. All was working well, never deleted any pic. Today showing same menu as you now, nothing 🤣

Hi Johnny,

Thanks for confirming.

What I noticed was that the Spotlight collection pictures for the background were stored in the same location where Windows Spotlight is storing the Lock Screen pictures. When the Windows Spotlight picture were updated for the Lock Screen the Background collection disappeared.

It looks to me that the 2 features are stepping on each other toes. 😉

When the Background Spotlight Collection was working the pictures were in the location below together with the Lock Screen pictures. They disappeared as soon as the Lock Screen pictures were updated.

C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\Assets

Hi fg,

You are welcome. Good catch on that play my friend. Enjoy your weekend. Still a good start, about time MS implemented this. Been buried deep in OS for almost a year I think, never connected back in W10 Dev. This could be a great feature if MS would implement properly. Needs a timer for slideshow, as in themes, and a back button as well, if it ever works properly.

Regards,

Here is another variation of the menu, this came up after a clean install of 22518.1012 within an hour from the installation the background picture populated and it let me switch a few times then the switch to next picture option just disappeared and only left the 2 options that you see below.

All the picture for the Background collection where still in the folder below together with the Windows Spotlight pictures of the Lock Screen.:

And another bug when clicking on one of the options. I did not type anything I just clicked on one of the options available in the menu. Go figure?

In this case all the pictures for the collection were still in the Windows spotlight Assets folder even when it went back to the default Whitehaven picture and the default menu without any option.

Looks like they have a few bugs to file off. 🤣