Downloading pictures wont save in folder by date

Anonymous
2020-12-15T17:24:21+00:00

I'm not sure what happened but usually I can download pics from sd card and they go to a folder with the date.  Now each pic is saved individually.  How can I get it back to the way it was before.

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-12-16T18:41:11+00:00

    I'm not going to presume to speak for danrobinson7. I will speak for myself though.

    I can sort them by date, that's not the issue. The issue is that Microsoft removed the feature that allows users to import photos and have them automatically put into folders by date (2020-12, 2020-11, etc.). Instead all photos are dumped into the Pictures folder and the user has to sort them.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-12-15T18:21:42+00:00

    I have the same problem. Any time I try to import photos, everything gets dumped into the Pictures folder. Prior to the last Windows update, it would sort the pics into a folder by date (e.g., 2020-09, 2020-10, 2020-11, etc.).

    I haven't changed any of the settings on my computer.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-01-02T20:15:17+00:00

    My wife had the same issue. This is something Microsoft will have to address, however, there is a back door to the problem.

    1. Open pictures. At the top in the ribbon, click New Folder. A new folder will appear normally at the bottom of the pictures

        page. Name the folder the date you are downloading the pictures, or a occasion, etc. When your done with that just close 

        the picture page to help avoid confusion. 

    1. Plug in your SD card or camera as you normally would to add pictures to your computer. The Import Items box will come 

        up. Under select, click all items or select the photo's you wish to put in the folder you previously created in the pictures

        folder. You will notice above that it says import to C://Users/17242/Picturers. Using this would dump your photos in your

        main picture folder. Click Change Destination under this. "Probably in blue letters". Clicking that will bring up your main

        pictures folder. Click on the folder you created. Now click on "Add this folder to pictures" on the picture page at the

        bottom. Now you will notice the import to reads C://Users/17242/Pictures/"the name of your created album". Click the blue

        Import items on the bottom of the Import items page. Your photo's should now be in the folder you created on the main

        pictures page. To make the new folder and do all this literally takes less than a minute once you get used to it. Hope this

        helps.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-01-03T21:39:17+00:00

    I notice the pictures are still saved in PHOTOS by folder date but no longer in Pictures.  Yes, I can work around it with time and trouble and create my own folders but why did Microsoft take away a good thing?  It is their glitch.  Please fix it.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-12-15T22:20:55+00:00

    exactly i think it had something to do with the last update also.

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