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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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Anonymous
2023-08-24T18:20:58+00:00 -
Anonymous
2023-08-22T15:28:09+00:00 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
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Anonymous
2023-06-08T14:57:34+00:00 lol I should have seen that
Thank you! Better than nothing I suppose.
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Anonymous
2023-06-08T06:31:45+00:00 Where is that filter?
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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.