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Q: Can you delete an album and the photos it contains in a single operation?

This is a rare occurrence, but I have a hierarchy 3 about 3 levels deep of folders and albums containing pictures that I would like to delete starting at the topmost folder and iterating all the way to the bottom level so that all the folders, albums, and photos are deleted.

 

Is there I way to delete the top folder, and have Photos delete everything underneath in a single operation? Or do I need to do it the hard way, deleting photos first, then albums, and finally folders.

 

The hierarchy looks more or less like this

 

 

Folder-

          Folder

               album - photos

               album - photos

          album - photos

          album - photos

          Folder

               album - photos

               album - photos

          Folder

               album - photos

               album - photos

...

 

thanks in advance.

OS X El Capitan (10.11.2), 512GB SSD 16GB RAM

Posted on Jul 19, 2016 7:39 PM

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Q: Can you delete an album and the photos it contains in a single operation?

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  • by léonie,Solvedanswer

    léonie léonie Jul 19, 2016 10:39 PM in response to AxeBox360
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    Jul 19, 2016 10:39 PM in response to AxeBox360

    You have to delete the photos and the albums separately, because deleting an album does not delete the photos in the album, it justeremoves them from the album.

    • First select the photos in each of the albums in turn and delete them by entering ⌘D,
    • Then select the enclosing folder for the albums in the sidebar, ctrl-click it or right click it, then select "Delete Folder".
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    AxeBox360 AxeBox360 Jul 20, 2016 1:20 PM in response to léonie
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    Jul 20, 2016 1:20 PM in response to léonie

    Thanks, I figured as much. It isn't something I need to do often. I'm cleaning up the messy structure that I imported from aperture.

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    léonie léonie Jul 20, 2016 11:14 PM in response to AxeBox360
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    Jul 20, 2016 11:14 PM in response to AxeBox360

    You're welcome.   I'm still cleaning up too.  After I migrated my main Aperture library to Photos I summarily deleted the folder "iPhoto Events" and kept only a few smart albums. The Moments, Collections, Years are replacing most of my previous Aperture projects nicely.

    The worst cleaning up has been to replace Aperture's hierarchical keywords.  They are a big loss, also the star ratings.  The migration replaced the ratings by keywords, but in a way making it impossible to search for "Rating is at least ...". I renamed the rating keywords as described here: https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-8531

     

    Did you update Aperture to version 3.6, so you can view your Aperture library and the Photos Library side-by-side? I noticed, that in my library the dates and times did not come over correctly, if the photos had been taken in different timezones. I'd compare the dates and times while you still can open the original Aperture libraries.