Cleaning up imports from Mac

I have imported thousands of pics and placed into albums. Many pics in my imports are unwanted or duplicates. If I delete the wrong photo from Imports it also deletes from the album though.

How do i clean up my imports and free up storage without deleting any pics in albums?

MacBook, OS X 10.11

Posted on Nov 12, 2019 4:31 AM

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Posted on Nov 12, 2019 6:53 AM

Try to find the redundant photos using a smart album:

  • File > New smart album
  • Set the rule to "Album is not any".


This album will show only photos that are not in any album. It is working well in the earlier versions of Photos, Photos 1.0 to Photos 4.0, but problematic on macOS 10.15.1 Ctalina.



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