How to exclude folders with pics appearing in the photo gallery

Anonymous
2023-03-05T11:07:08+00:00

How do I exclude folders from appearing in the Photo Gallery of onedrive Android?

The photo gallery of onedrive Android is showing all photos in my onedrive. I believe the Photo Gallery should limit to only the photos in the Pictures folder, same as the online version, but this is not what is happening.

This means it is showing a lot unwanted pics by default in the photo gallery, such as wallpapers, documents pics or even private medical photos that should never appear in the default photo gallery.

Yes, there is a filter in the Photo Gallery to only show "Pictures folders", and this works. However the filter is not sticky, this means every time I open the app it reverts back to show everything, so if I have people around when I open the Photo Gallery, I never know what private photos are going to show up.

I have tried using the ".nomedia" file to exclude folders, but no luck.

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-08-24T18:55:36+00:00

    In my case I am going to make use of something I already have subscribed - Amazon Prime.

    So, with no added cost for me I have unlimited space using Amazon Photos (silly of me as I was not aware this was included with my Prime subscription).

    I am just sad to move away from Microsoft a second time this year (stopped using Bing do to recurrent and uncontrolled Malvertising in my personad dashboard)...

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-08-24T18:20:58+00:00

    What did you end up using?

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-08-24T18:02:29+00:00

    My solution was to remove OneDrive and use other solutions. My issue is OneDrive is synching a lot of things I don't want synchronized and there is no way to exclude them on mobile. It's all or nothing and I was hitting the wall of my subscription. So removing it resolved it and I'll use a different, non-microsoft solution for my needs.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-08-24T17:19:19+00:00

    This is a great workaround, didn't think of it. Thanks!

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-08-23T20:37:42+00:00

    I agree with everything you wrote in this thread.

    After many years paying subscriptions for the whole family, I am fed up to

    the point of spending time to look for options using other solutions.

    I favor photos to anything else. I am a paying customer and being dissatisfied for this for too long time.

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