How to Enable / Disable Network Location Indexing in Photos App on Windows

Photos app in Windows 10

This guide explains how to enable / Disable Network Location Indexing in Photos App on Windows, with clear steps, practical tips, and important checks before you begin.

Starting with the Photos application version 2020.20070.3003.0, a new indexing setting has been added, allowing you to enable or disable the indexing parts of libraries stored on network locations.

How to enable / disable network location indexing in Photos app on Windows 10

Here's how:

1. Open the Photos application.

2. Click the See more button (the 3 dot icon) in the top right corner and click on Settings.

Click the See more button (the 3 dot icon) in the top right corner and click on Settings

3. In the Indexing section, enable (default) or disable Disable indexing parts of your library stored on Network locations , depending on what you want to do.

Enable or disable Disable indexing parts of your library stored on Network locations

Hope you are succesful.