I'm working on creating albums for my photos from the library, but after I do that I cannot delete the copy in the library. If I do, it deletes from both! How can I create albums and move photos without having to keep two copies. This seems unnecessary and takes up more space.
Thank you,
Doreen
iMac 21.5", 10.13
So we're both on the same page let me restate the issue:
1 - both albums are albums in the Photos library, correct?
2 - how are you deleting the photos from the first album? If you use just the Delete key it will delete it from the album but not from the library and thus the other album.
FWIW albums and photos added to them do not take up additional space on the hard drive. They are just pointers to the original photos. If you're familiar with iTunes albums are to Photos as Playlists are to iTunes.
So if you've deleted photos from the library you can go to the Recently Deleted album and recover them within 30 days.
The following describes how deletions are done in the library:
Deleting Photos from a Photos Library
1 - regardless of where you are in the library, i.e. Moments, Collections, albums, smart albums or projects, select the photo(s) you want to delete and use the key combination of Command+Delete to move the photos to the Recently Deleted smart album.
2 - click on the Recently Deleted smart albums in the sidebar.
NOTE 1: If you're using Photos 1.2 or earlier use the File ➙ Show Recently Deleted menu option.
3 - in the Recently Deleted album you can opt to let the photo automatically delete after the 30 day waiting period is up, delete them immediately or restore them to the library.
NOTE 2: deleting a photo from an album, slideshow, book, etc., with the Delete key only deletes the photo from that item. There is no key combination that will delete a photo from a project and move it directly to the Recently Deleted smart album.
NOTE 3: deleting a photo from a Moment or Collection (the Photos window) or the All Photos window deletes ALL occurences of that photo in the library.
So we're both on the same page let me restate the issue:
1 - both albums are albums in the Photos library, correct?
2 - how are you deleting the photos from the first album? If you use just the Delete key it will delete it from the album but not from the library and thus the other album.
FWIW albums and photos added to them do not take up additional space on the hard drive. They are just pointers to the original photos. If you're familiar with iTunes albums are to Photos as Playlists are to iTunes.
So if you've deleted photos from the library you can go to the Recently Deleted album and recover them within 30 days.
The following describes how deletions are done in the library:
Deleting Photos from a Photos Library
1 - regardless of where you are in the library, i.e. Moments, Collections, albums, smart albums or projects, select the photo(s) you want to delete and use the key combination of Command+Delete to move the photos to the Recently Deleted smart album.
2 - click on the Recently Deleted smart albums in the sidebar.
NOTE 1: If you're using Photos 1.2 or earlier use the File ➙ Show Recently Deleted menu option.
3 - in the Recently Deleted album you can opt to let the photo automatically delete after the 30 day waiting period is up, delete them immediately or restore them to the library.
NOTE 2: deleting a photo from an album, slideshow, book, etc., with the Delete key only deletes the photo from that item. There is no key combination that will delete a photo from a project and move it directly to the Recently Deleted smart album.
NOTE 3: deleting a photo from a Moment or Collection (the Photos window) or the All Photos window deletes ALL occurences of that photo in the library.
You can't. The Photos album/view is the basic view of the library and any photo deleted from it is deleted from all occurrences in the library. Any photo deleted from these albums
will be deleted entirely from the library.
Deleting a photo from any album in the My Albums folder will only be deleted from that folder if you use only the Delete key.
As I said before there's only one image file on the hard drive for any image in the library regardless of how many albums or projects it might be in.
Thank you for your willingness to help!
To answer one of your questions...
"how are you deleting the photos from the first album? If you use just the Delete key it will delete it from the album but not from the library and thus the other album."
I have tried deleting different ways and it always deletes all copies. If you're telling me that they are not actually "copies" and not taking up extra space then I'm ok with it. I was just trying to separate photos for easier access.
I've attached a screenshot of what my dilemma is.
Thank you!
Creating Albums/deleting
