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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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there is no such "Camera upload" option. "Camera backup" only, but it's for turning on the backing up photos taken by camera only. No where you can exclude photos from gallery.
Now i even get private pictures in my windows 11 start menu !! (Your memories)
This in unnaceptable, i don't want to see my pictures everywhere.
I just called Microsoft tech support yesterday, got escalated to a supervisor, and after a frustrating fifteen minutes trying to explain I wasn't asking about sync (you get the impression none of these support people have ever used OneDrive - I had to describe the interface to her over the phone) was told this feature does not exist.
I submitted a feature request. I recommend doing the same.
Also, it's not just the OneDrive app on Android. The Photos feature on the web (photos.onedrive.com) has the same behavior.
p.s. Olivia: To further clarify we're talking about being able to exclude any folder from Gallery, including folders synced from Windows. The suggestion to look for a "camera upload" setting indicated you thought we were just talking about folders on the phone.
Add me too. Onedrive photos includes .jpg's from my desktop music folders, which are album covers. Ugh, what a pain!
Any solution?
Microsoft, we should be able exclude folders being uploaded to onedrive photos.
Okay, I fully understand your request and will submit feedback to Microsoft synchronously. Thank you for your great contribution to improving Microsoft products. I will let you know if there are any updates to this feature.
Kind regards,
Olivia