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
    2023-06-08T06:31:45+00:00

    Where is that filter?

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-06-06T22:48:02+00:00

    Thank you. I'm using iOS app and and this filter is not here. But it's great that it's at least on the web and on Android, it means it will arrive sometime on iPhone.

    I also get an email every day with memories from that day that index all the files and folders.

    They should add an option to the settings to set photos, albums, and memories to only be indexed from the pictures folder.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-06-06T22:15:40+00:00

    I have the same filter in both cases you outline. Yes I know it is not the right solution as the index is much larger than it needs to be but at least the app is usable for me. See I. The screen shot where it says pictures folder. I have the filter on here.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-06-06T21:50:10+00:00

    Yes, I know this, it is possible to filter photos in web app and in Windows Photo app like this. But it doesn't solve the problem in the mobile app and in the memories feature that aggregates all the photos on the OneDrive in all folders.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-06-06T21:21:46+00:00

    OK, I agree with all of the posters that choosing which folders to index is the right solution. Until then, select the filter icon, under the for you section if you have not turned this off, and then select the pictures folder option. This shows me only items in my pictures folder. Yes all of the other folders are still indexed and a huge pain but at least I can actually find photos now.

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