How to exclude folders with pics appearing in the photo gallery

i agree, privacy really is at stake, onedrive should make a distinction between folders that it can use for some features and folders it CANNOT use for certain other features.

IN this case we speak of pictures beeing showed in a gallery or pictures beeing showed in "Memories" as popups. Every features should ask if it can use some data before using it wthout user consent for every possible new feature comming out.

Or at the very least they should give an opt-out. Some folders contains sensitive data and should not be processed as others.

Right now, Microsoft seem to treat everything as public, and can be used by any of their services.

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.

Below the for you section on the right. In my screen shot it says "Pictures Folder" after filtering. Before it says filter and has the v shaped horizontal lines icon

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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