Can't add folder for photo album lockscreen

I am trying to create a slideshow of images inside my Dropbox folder and it wont allow me to from the lock screen's settings menu.

I select a Dropbox folder containing all my pics (stored in the C drive BTW) and I get an error saying this:

The photo album folder isn't supported because of its location, Please choose another folder

Am not sure why it's like this?

any suggestions?

Solution 1:

I had a similar problem with Google Drive. Same error. Then it 'worked' when I put a slightly different version of the same path. Make sure you start with C:\ and then drill down to the folder. C:\Users\%username%\ I was just picking the folder path in the left-hand navigation, and for some reason it was not working. YMMV.

(And as the prev. poster mentioned, you probably need to make sure the folder is permissioned for access by SYSTEM)

Solution 2:

The top answer did not work for me, but creating a symlink did.

mklink /d c:\photos H:\Dropbox\Photos

produces: symbolic link created for c:\photos <<===>> H:\Dropbox\Photos

Now I can select 'add folder' and go to c:\photos and it works great.