How can I stop the "Photos" Live Tile from showing deleted pictures?

My Photos tile was showing several photos that I took to test my webcam. I deleted them, but the pictures are still showing up on my live tile (even after restarting my computer). How can I prevent them from showing up on the live tile?

Solution 1:

If you go to:

 %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.windowsphoto_[random characters]\LocalState\

you'll find cached copies LargeTile?.jpg and SmallTile?.jpg

Delete the images you don't want (or replace them with ones you do want) then go to the start screen, turn off the live tile then turn it back on again. Hope that helps.

Credits: Technet Answers

Sounds like an inconvenient answer but that's all I got :(

Solution 2:

Deleting the "tile" jpgs didn't work! The images must be held in some database somewhere.

The way I found to clear the tile of deleted pictures is as follows:

1. In the Start screen swipe the mouse cursor/track pad in from the right (or move it to the bottom right corner) to display the "Charms menu". (Note this MUST be done on the "menu" Start screen, as the Charms menu of the desktop brings up different settings options).
2. Click Settings (the "Cog" icon)
3. Click "Tiles"
4. Click the "Clear" button (under "Clear personal data from my tiles").

I suppose if you use the live tiles thing, this may not be the way to solve the problem as it presumably clears all the data for the other tiles as well. But on the other hand, if you haven't deleted associated files for those apps, then the data would soon be repopulated?

Solution 3:

Easy way to do this is just delete the app. Go to the store app and reinstall it. It cleared my old profile picture. Remember first to delete the pictures from Facebook first or wherever its being fetched from or the pictures will be re fetched from the source.