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Moved One Drive Pictures folder out of One Drive and then back and the Albums in the Microsoft Photos App have nothing in them.
I am helping someone with this issue-
He was running out of space on his 256 GB SSD the computer has a 2TB Data Drive. Pictures are a majority of the data and they are local to the computer and in OneDrive/Pictures. He uses the Microsoft Photos app to make Albums with the pictures. We tried to move the pictures to the data drive. I disconnected One Drive by signing out and moved the pictures folder with the folder move button at the top of the folder window. The folder copied. When I signed back in and got the change location dialog for One Drive I realized that the whole One Drive can be relocated but not just one it’s folders, I canceled out moved the pictures folder back to OneDrive (it’s original location) and signed back in.
The issue is that now the Photos app has the album titles but not the contents of the album. The pictures still there but not the contents of the album. Is there any way to have the albums back the way they were?
He was running out of space on his 256 GB SSD the computer has a 2TB Data Drive. Pictures are a majority of the data and they are local to the computer and in OneDrive/Pictures. He uses the Microsoft Photos app to make Albums with the pictures. We tried to move the pictures to the data drive. I disconnected One Drive by signing out and moved the pictures folder with the folder move button at the top of the folder window. The folder copied. When I signed back in and got the change location dialog for One Drive I realized that the whole One Drive can be relocated but not just one it’s folders, I canceled out moved the pictures folder back to OneDrive (it’s original location) and signed back in.
The issue is that now the Photos app has the album titles but not the contents of the album. The pictures still there but not the contents of the album. Is there any way to have the albums back the way they were?
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Thanks for your response.
I looked for a reference on how to rebuild the Photos app. I was not able to find one. Could you post a link.
I looked for a reference on how to rebuild the Photos app. I was not able to find one. Could you post a link.
Not really familiar with it but open it and wait.. it can take a while to rebuild itself.
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Since you have a small SSD I'd also suggest going to the pictures folder (and others like documents/video/music and go to properties / location and change the location to your data drive.
Your pictures app will need to rebuild and your albums should recover..