Add your local photos to Photos App using Pictures Library

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photos appYou might have seen libraries directory many times if you are using windows for quite some time, Windows assumes that you place all your digital data in the folders available in the libraries directory but in reality it is different scenario. There are many reasons for not to put your files in windows installation drive as you don’t know when you wanted to format your PC. So as of now this libraries directories were not so useful but in windows8 you have an app called “Photos”, which is one place access to all your photos from different places like Facebook,Flickr, Sky Drive, photos stored locally and from different devices. If you are using this app you might be interested to add photos to this particular folder but however windows has option to add pictures from different locations to this directory and it is almost same as adding pics to this directory. So you can add photos to pictures library without actually adding photos to this directory. Following steps show how you can do that

    • Open My Computer and right click on the pictures folder available under the Libraries directory.

Picture Library Properties

    • Click on Add button to Add the Folder where your photos are stored locally on your drive.

Add to Pictures Library

  • After you click on Add a popup window appears asking you to chose which folder to include it to the library, select a folder to include.

Include Pictures to Picture Library

  • Once you are done with this steps, Then the folder selected will be included to the library and you are ready to access your pics from the Photos App as shown in screen shot.

Photos App

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