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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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Until Microsoft "fixes" this outlook photos is nothing more than a back up of photos. Other than that the app should be ignored. They also need a way to correct the date of the photos or use the date in the metadata of the photo rather than the upload date
My friend, I do not work for Microsoft, I am a user just as you and wanted to share my work-around with other users for their benefit. So, a more thankful note would have been appreciated.
It would also be helpful if you provide a link to a suggestion for the feature we all want at Microsoft feedback forum, if we all vote for it we might push it to be
This is a new feature. But technically not a solution. It's a temporary filter for this folder and no others. It only filters in that folder that you are in, in that moment. For the purpose of finding what you are looking for, basically.
However, it is not a permanent solution. In the background it will still index everything in every folder and still display it everywhere else. This includes features like the "today last year" historic photo events, you still get work photos and webgraphics, or whatever, in there (i.e. photo album/app, historic album/photo collections).
So once more a half-baked feature that's not really a feature but like putting a plaster on a tumor so the patient shuts up.
On MyDrive website go to top right and select show photos from pictures
Same issue here. This is a problem reported over many years and MS and have still not implemented this.
We need to be able to exclude certain folders from appearing in the Photos tab in the app (I'm using the iOS app). Currently it shows everything that is stored in OneDrive which is not desired.
It's a very simple requirement.
Please can the MS bots not auto-respond with some totally unrelated MS support article and just get a Product Manager to prioritize it?