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

Haven't read the entire thread, so I'm not quite sure what the exact problem is with the Photos App and Libraries, but I did just want to say that in my case, the Photos App is displaying all files and folders in my Pictures Library. In fact, this is how I got the Photos App to show my pictures that are stored in Skydrive (I simply added my Skydrive Pictures folder to the Pictures Library). Edit: The Photos App even knows that the Skydrive Pictures folder is from Skydrive, as when I select a subfolder from the Skydrive Pictures folder, the heading up top changes from "This PC" to "SkyDrive". This doesn't work on my system. SkyDrive folders have been added to the library, but nothing shows up in the Photos App apart from local files. I even tried making some SkyDrive folders available offline, and still nothing.

Yeah I tried the same and it doesn't work for me either.

This is SOOOOOO LAME !!! I hate it. I just got my Surface a couple days ago, and I LOVED that it shuffled through my Flickr photos. It was awesome to turn it on and see my kid there on the main screen. Now that is gone ? This makes me want to go back to 8.0. I HATE IT.

Haven't read the entire thread, so I'm not quite sure what the exact problem is with the Photos App and Libraries, but I did just want to say that in my case, the Photos App is displaying all files and folders in my Pictures Library. In fact, this is how I got the Photos App to show my pictures that are stored in Skydrive (I simply added my Skydrive Pictures folder to the Pictures Library). Edit: The Photos App even knows that the Skydrive Pictures folder is from Skydrive, as when I select a subfolder from the Skydrive Pictures folder, the heading up top changes from "This PC" to "SkyDrive". Would you care to post images showing this? Otherwise, I find it hard to believe since that is one of the things everyone is saying does not work. It also directly contradicts the statement from the Microsoft representative that started this firestorm of a thread.

After doing some more testing on the 8.1 photos app I`ve discovered the following All my photos which are stored on a Server 2012 Essentials network share (which is included in the pictures library) mostly will not show up in the photo`s app - with the following exceptions Most of the time, the live tile displays pictures from a network share The lock screen slideshow will also show pictures from a network share but seems to max out the CPU (on a core i-5) The folders for my (network stored) pictures have shown up in the app maybe 3 or 4 times since installation, but as soon as you try and navigate into a folder to view pictures, the app crashes. If it were not for the frankly baffling response given by an alleged microsoft program manager earlier in this thread, I`d suggest that the app is simply not feature complete.

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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2013-07-01T09:16:33+00:00

Haven't read the entire thread, so I'm not quite sure what the exact problem is with the Photos App and Libraries, but I did just want to say that in my case, the Photos App is displaying all files and folders in my Pictures Library. In fact, this is how I got the Photos App to show my pictures that are stored in Skydrive (I simply added my Skydrive Pictures folder to the Pictures Library).

Edit: The Photos App even knows that the Skydrive Pictures folder is from Skydrive, as when I select a subfolder from the Skydrive Pictures folder, the heading up top changes from "This PC" to "SkyDrive".

This doesn't work on my system. SkyDrive folders have been added to the library, but nothing shows up in the Photos App apart from local files. I even tried making some SkyDrive folders available offline, and still nothing.
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2013-07-01T13:07:14+00:00

Yeah I tried the same and it doesn't work for me either.
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2013-07-01T20:08:05+00:00

This is SOOOOOO LAME !!! I hate it. I just got my Surface a couple days ago, and I LOVED that it shuffled through my Flickr photos. It was awesome to turn it on and see my kid there on the main screen. Now that is gone ?

This makes me want to go back to 8.0. I HATE IT.
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2013-07-02T05:40:07+00:00

Haven't read the entire thread, so I'm not quite sure what the exact problem is with the Photos App and Libraries, but I did just want to say that in my case, the Photos App is displaying all files and folders in my Pictures Library. In fact, this is how I got the Photos App to show my pictures that are stored in Skydrive (I simply added my Skydrive Pictures folder to the Pictures Library).

Edit: The Photos App even knows that the Skydrive Pictures folder is from Skydrive, as when I select a subfolder from the Skydrive Pictures folder, the heading up top changes from "This PC" to "SkyDrive".

Would you care to post images showing this? Otherwise, I find it hard to believe since that is one of the things everyone is saying does not work. It also directly contradicts the statement from the Microsoft representative that started this firestorm of a thread.
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2013-07-02T07:55:31+00:00
After doing some more testing on the 8.1 photos app I`ve discovered the following

All my photos which are stored on a Server 2012 Essentials network share (which is included in the pictures library) mostly will not show up in the photo`s app - with the following exceptions
- Most of the time, the live tile displays pictures from a network share
- The lock screen slideshow will also show pictures from a network share but seems to max out the CPU (on a core i-5)
- The folders for my (network stored) pictures have shown up in the app maybe 3 or 4 times since installation, but as soon as you try and navigate into a folder to view pictures, the app crashes.
If it were not for the frankly baffling response given by an alleged microsoft program manager earlier in this thread, I`d suggest that the app is simply not feature complete.
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