![]() ![]() The last point was especially tricky for me because it required me to tweak the way my folders are named in Dropbox. You can’t group albums by parent folder.You can’t point to multiple folders in Dropbox and unify sub-folders (as albums) in a single view. ![]() You can’t change the cover photo for folders.However, I do have some points and suggestions to make: Unlike the official Dropbox app and other clients, this is how I want to browse my collection of photos in folders. If two layers of sub-folders are recognized in the folder you point the app to, the one in the middle will be hidden from the browsing view: in my case, my Camera Uploads > Year > Month Folder setup leads to a view that shows cover photos for Month Folders. Unbound gets Dropbox folders and sub-folders right: you point the app at a Dropbox folder where you have sub-folders for photos, and it’ll show those sub-folders as albums with cover photos and thumbnail previews. The app is built for iOS 7, and it comes with viewing and sharing features that, right now, make it my best option to browse photos I’m storing on Dropbox. Unlike recent App Store trends, it comes as separate purchases for the iPhone and iPad priced at $2.99. Unbound by Pixite is a photo viewer for people who keep their photos in Dropbox. And I’d rather not talk about my brief, emotionally intense, and ultimately sad affair with Everpix. While I’ve been happy with the uploading/organizing process of this photo backup workflow, the experience of browsing photos was never great. I’ve remained loyal to a folder structure that organizes photos in years and months ( Bradley would be proud of me) and I still use Hazel and CameraSync to upload my photos. So think of this return to Photo Viewer as a little act of defiance against Microsoft! If enough people do it, maybe they’ll take note and reinstate Photo Viewer where it belongs.I’ve been keeping my photos in Dropbox for over a year now. The fact that Windows Photo Viewer is such a faff to get working again on Windows 10 is a grim sign of Microsoft’s rather pushy policy in moving Windows users onto exactly the apps they want you to use. Select it, then tick the “Always use this app to open files” box. Now when you right-click an image file and select “Open with” and “Choose another app,” you’ll see that Windows Photo Viewer is once again there as an option (possibly after clicking “More apps”). Once saved, navigate to the new reg file in Windows Explorer, right-click it, and finally click “Merge.” Next, click “File -> Save as” and save it as a “.reg” file, similarly to how we did in the picture below. ![]() Thankfully, Tenforums user Edwin did much of the legwork here, creating the necessary code to restore Photo Viewer in the Windows context menu.Ĭlick below to see the code, then copy and paste it into a blank Notepad file. To get it back we’ll need to create a new registry file. Photo Viewer is still there on your PC, but only as a “dll” file, and not an executable. If you can’t find the executable, then it means that your Windows version never had it in the first place or that Microsoft removed it in an update. If You Don’t Have the Photo Viewer Exe File If it’s not there, click “Choose another app” from the “Open with” menu, then scroll down, click “More apps,” scroll down to the bottom again, click “Look for another app on this PC,” then navigate to “C:Program FilesWindows Photo Viewer” and select the Windows Photo Viewer executable. One option is to find a JPEG, PNG, or whatever kind of image file you want to associate with Photo Viewer, right-click it, then click “Open with” and select “Windows Photo Viewer.” If you’re running Windows 10 after upgrading from Windows 7 or 8, then good news: you should still have registry entries for Windows Photo Viewer on your PC, and it shouldn’t be a problem to set Photo Viewer as the default. With a little workaround, however, you can set it as your default photo viewing app again. These days Microsoft has made it hard to get the Photo Viewer back by removing its “exe” file altogether. ![]()
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