EDIT: October 18 – This has been edited to reflect the Windows 8.1 and Windows RT 8.1 official RTM/GA release. I've just installed the 8.1 Preview on a desktop. EDIT: 10/17/2013-this is also true for RTM . The Photos App has changed: No longer includes the ability to show images from Facebook, Flickr, SkyDrive <10/18/2013deleted missing networked computers issue - for information on how to include content from supported Windows computers on a home network, see http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wiki/windows8_1-pictures/add-network-folders-and-display-pictures-in-the/bf3252f8-9162-4129-8387-5367e24b5609 - note that many older versions of Windows are not supported and that there is no support for Linux based NAS devices> Does have some new editing features 3. Live Tile functionality has disappeared. Edit:6/30 http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8_1_pr-pictures/possible-fix-for-photos-app-live-time-not-showing/e0eb3bb4-3e9c-4016-aa27-4a011ccc94a3 is what a possible solution is to missing Live Tile issues. Edit: 7/04 Tiles are working, but images change only 1x per day. This needs to be a shorter period. -- Barb Windows Entertainment and Connected Home MVP My Blog - http://digitalmediaphile.com/ Barb's Connected World Blog Reader Windows 8 App - http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/barbs-connected-world-blog/02f35769-52bf-461c-b1d5-06e54a58d298 Please mark as answered if this answers your question

messing around trying to get my pictures to show - app now refuses to open and stuck on icon screen. Microsoft - just use the old pictures app for the final release - don't shoot yourself in the foot again!

Any modern Windows application should be aware of libraries, and therefore the pictures app should show pictures from any folder you like, as long as you have that folder included in the pictures library. Except that, as we have all discovered in this thread, the Photos App is totally unaware of libraries and sits in a corner refusing to play. Naughty App, bad App...

unbelievable, in order to see my pictures I copied my images that I saved on skydrive in my This PC file and now it shows nothing at all! not only is this app seriously lacking in functionality its actually completely broken

Right I see, it's because the Photos app is creating the folder to wherever the default save location has been set in the Pictures library. But it will only display the folders and files if the default save location is C:\Users\myusername\Pictures And you can't change the location of C:\Users\myusername\Pictures How can a new beta version of an app be so backwards compared to it's initial version? Any modern Windows application should be aware of libraries, and therefore the pictures app should show pictures from any folder you like, as long as you have that folder included in the pictures library.

Right I see, it's because the Photos app is creating the folder to wherever the default save location has been set in the Pictures library. But it will only display the folders and files if the default save location is C:\Users\myusername\Pictures And you can't change the location of C:\Users\myusername\Pictures How can a new beta version of an app be so backwards compared to it's initial version?

Photos App in 8.1 loses most of its best features e.g. Facebook/Flickr support...

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EDIT: October 18 – This has been edited to reflect the Windows 8.1 and Windows RT 8.1 official RTM/GA release.

I've just installed the 8.1 Preview on a desktop. EDIT: 10/17/2013-this is also true for RTM. The Photos App has changed:

No longer includes the ability to show images from Facebook, Flickr, SkyDrive

<10/18/2013deleted missing networked computers issue - for information on how to include content from supported Windows computers on a home network, see http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wiki/windows8_1-pictures/add-network-folders-and-display-pictures-in-the/bf3252f8-9162-4129-8387-5367e24b5609 - note that many older versions of Windows are not supported and that there is no support for Linux based NAS devices>

Does have some new editing features

3. Live Tile functionality has disappeared.

Edit:6/30

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8_1_pr-pictures/possible-fix-for-photos-app-live-time-not-showing/e0eb3bb4-3e9c-4016-aa27-4a011ccc94a3 is what a possible solution is to missing Live Tile issues.

Edit: 7/04

Tiles are working, but images change only 1x per day. This needs to be a shorter period.

Barb

Windows Entertainment and Connected Home MVP

My Blog - http://digitalmediaphile.com/

Barb's Connected World Blog Reader Windows 8 App -

http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/barbs-connected-world-blog/02f35769-52bf-461c-b1d5-06e54a58d298

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2013-06-30T19:25:58+00:00

messing around trying to get my pictures to show - app now refuses to open and stuck on icon screen.

Microsoft - just use the old pictures app for the final release - don't shoot yourself in the foot again!
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2013-06-30T19:18:23+00:00

Any modern Windows application should be aware of libraries, and therefore the pictures app should show pictures from any folder you like, as long as you have that folder included in the pictures library.

Except that, as we have all discovered in this thread, the Photos App is totally unaware of libraries and sits in a corner refusing to play. Naughty App, bad App...
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Anonymous

2013-06-30T19:10:46+00:00

unbelievable, in order to see my pictures I copied my images that I saved on skydrive in my This PC file and now it shows nothing at all!

not only is this app seriously lacking in functionality its actually completely broken
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2013-06-30T19:07:33+00:00

Right I see, it's because the Photos app is creating the folder to wherever the default save location has been set in the Pictures library. But it will only display the folders and files if the default save location is C:\Users\myusername\Pictures

And you can't change the location of C:\Users\myusername\Pictures

How can a new beta version of an app be so backwards compared to it's initial version?

Any modern Windows application should be aware of libraries, and therefore the pictures app should show pictures from any folder you like, as long as you have that folder included in the pictures library.
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2013-06-30T18:59:25+00:00

Right I see, it's because the Photos app is creating the folder to wherever the default save location has been set in the Pictures library. But it will only display the folders and files if the default save location is C:\Users\myusername\Pictures

And you can't change the location of C:\Users\myusername\Pictures

How can a new beta version of an app be so backwards compared to it's initial version?
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