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I use OneDrive's photo sync function to have my photos taken across my multiple devices be accessible in a central location.
I know it's not a very private solution, but my family has a family Office plan for Office apps, and I might as well take advantage of the 1TB of OneDrive storage space I get as part of the plan. To mitigate the privacy risks of OneDrive getting unwanted access to other files on my GOS device, I set up storage scopes for the OneDrive as follows (screenshot):
Main storage/DCIM
Main storage/Pictures/Screenshots
Main storage/Pictures/Family
In terms of app permissions, I only gave it (screenshot):
- Network
- Notifications
Importantly, the Photos and videos
permission is set to Don't allow (+ Storage Scopes)
(screenshot).
However, when I download multiple photos from OneDrive, OneDrive gives me a notification saying that a new photo folder was detected, pointing to the Main storage/Download
folder, which is not part of its storage scopes (screenshot).
This is puzzling, as I don't think OneDrive should be able to scan a folder it doesn't have access to via storage scopes for new photos. What are some possible explanations for this behavior?
The only possible explanation I can think of is that even though Main storage/Download
is not part of the storage scopes, OneDrive at least needs write access to the location to save the downloaded photos into the Main storage/Download
folder, and it's somehow able to detect the new photos during the download process.