HT206186: Use Photos on your Mac

Learn about Use Photos on your Mac
ReadingMan

Q: How do you delete an empty album in Photos?

I have deleted photos in an album. When I tried to delete the empty it would not delete using delete or comman-delete.

iMac (Intel), Mac OS X (10.6.2), MacBook (Intel)

Posted on Aug 19, 2016 8:26 PM

Close

Q: How do you delete an empty album in Photos?

  • All replies
  • Helpful answers

  • by Rysz,Solvedanswer

    Rysz Rysz Aug 21, 2016 8:31 PM in response to ReadingMan
    Level 7 (20,274 points)
    iTunes
    Aug 21, 2016 8:31 PM in response to ReadingMan

    Right-click on it, then select Delete Album.

  • by ReadingMan,

    ReadingMan ReadingMan Aug 22, 2016 7:13 AM in response to Rysz
    Level 1 (4 points)
    Mac OS X
    Aug 22, 2016 7:13 AM in response to Rysz

    Thanks. We had to figure out what right click meant on our iMac.  This worked fine with empty albums, but when we tried to delete an album with photos a message popped up saying, that the album would be deleted but the photos would be retained (somewhere).  Do we need to delete photos individually first?

  • by LarryHN,

    LarryHN LarryHN Aug 22, 2016 9:49 AM in response to ReadingMan
    Level 10 (84,217 points)
    Photos for Mac
    Aug 22, 2016 9:49 AM in response to ReadingMan

    Right click is clicking the right hand mouse button, or on a trackpad using the finger combination that you have defined as "right Click"  in the system preferences for your trackpad or holding down the control key while clicking

     

    Deleting an album does not affect the photos in the album - it simply deletes the album and the photos remain in Photo and in all other albums they may have been in

     

    You stated that you wanted to delete an empty album therefore according to you there are no photos in the album so your follow on question makes no sense

     

    If you have photos in an album that you want to delete (a new and different question) then you open the album, select the photos and hold down the command key whille pressing the delete key - this will delete the photos throughout Photos and move them to the recently deleted album where they will be deleted from yoru Mac in 30 days or when you delete them there, which ever is first

     

    LN

  • by ReadingMan,

    ReadingMan ReadingMan Aug 22, 2016 11:52 AM in response to LarryHN
    Level 1 (4 points)
    Mac OS X
    Aug 22, 2016 11:52 AM in response to LarryHN

    TThank you for your answer. I am new to the forum and didn't realize I had to ask the second question in a separate query.