Solved Photos App says it cand find any photos in here

I have several pictures folders in both my pictures and public pictures I also have individual photos at the roots of each directory. Windows 8 Photos app just comes up with a message "Can't find any pictures in here, make sure your pictures are in the picture library". They are!!!!! Any ideas Please?

pictures should be in desktop/libraries/pictures

mine come up fine

Your error message can have the following root causes:

- the indexing service isn't running (then the app can't query library images
- access violation in your images library

If the latter is the case, use context menu to reset your images library to default - copy some image files to image library and test whether it will run or not. Later on, you can rebuild / extend your images libraries with other folders.

Note: Hope the names are written in a right order - I have a German Win 8 here, don't know the English commands (and I'm to lazy to set up an English language account on my machine).

I thought I replied to this yesterday but must have not applied it. Thank you gborn it was because my pictures was set as excluded from indexing. It works fine now