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

Barb Bowman 80,805 Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
2013-06-26T19:27:25+00:00

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:

  1. 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>

  1. 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.

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-06-30T22:02:33+00:00

    Microsoft should put the source for the 8.0 version into Codeplex if it's not going to support 8.1.

    guys, the problem is more dire than whether or not someone will provide an app that has all the features that the current version of the photos app has. The problem is really that if MS is de-emphasizing libraries, homegroups, etc. then we can no longer count on any app that loads or saves photos pulling from the library locations or saving the the library save location.

    This makes it much harder to deal with storing all your media in the same place on your network and having occasionally connected devices read the media only when connected and NOT have a local cache. The harddrive on a device like the surface is NOT large enough to have an offline cache of all your media if you have more than a small amount.

    If MS is really yanking library support from the built in apps, then they need to tell us what we should be doing instead. And storing the files locally or putting everything on Skydrive are NOT valid answers to that question.

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-06-30T21:43:40+00:00

    Microsoft should put the source for the 8.0 version into Codeplex if it's not going to support 8.1.

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-06-30T21:28:07+00:00

    maybe someone should set up a kickstarter!

     If they do I am in!

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-06-30T19:44:23+00:00

    Agreed... don't care about the editor functions and cant see my data.

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  5. Anonymous
    2013-06-30T19:30:28+00:00

    Any app developer out there, if you make an unofficial "copy" of the original app for final release you will make a packet lol

    actually does anyone know if one already exists?

    This is a storming idea!

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