Why is there no Move Button in the Pictures view on OneDrive?

Scott Beatty 5 Reputation points
2025-07-26T05:57:51.95+00:00

Many MS answers to explain the missing "move" in OneDrive photos fail to state the obvious. It's not there in the PHOTOS view!

It's too "complicated" for MS to allow move as an option in the typical "photos" view because "it's an aggregate view" - which simply means... "We can't be bothered to keep track of which folder each picture is in using our aggregate view."

This is ridiculous because OneDrive PHOTOS web design makes it difficult to easily view your photos any other way. They have an icon for photos because it's a pain to look through various folders.

The ONLY WAY to MOVE pictures is to EXIT the PHOTOS icon page and go to the FOLDER view and find your images manually.

Then, good luck using the ridiculous MS way of selecting a lot pictures to move because with MS if if you don't click EXACTLY in the little circle for the check mark all your previous check marks go away!  So, you can only safely move five at a time for fear of a missed click that will negate all your selections.  (Seriously?)    In OneDrive, unlike on a Windows PC where you can click on an icon using CTRL or SHIFT for multiple images, you can only click the TINY little circles.  Any SINGLE click simply opens the image no matter how many you've already selected!  (If I wanted to open them I wouldn't be SELECTING THEM, would I?  Can't you even keep track of the fact that I've selected 20 images?  )  Why make it SO DIFFICULT to select and organize photos?   

Typical Microsoft. Their software only has to be marginally usable. Their corporate culture is to just not care. 'Good enough' (when it's not even) is their motto.

Any other company that can't rely on a worldwide monopoly has to strive to create efficient user-friendly interfaces in order to compete.   Microsoft has steered us into using a OneDrive interface that is essentially unworkable for any file organization other than lumping images into "albums" which doesn't even move those images anywhere at all.   
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