The definition of a Photo - What is it - Move and not Copy out of Photos App
This has been discussed many time/places. But there seems to be two categories people discussing: 1)those who are not so familiar with technology and has problems understanding the concept of like sharing, (real)synchronizing, Photos, Album a.s.o.... and 2)Those who so strongly believe that a Photo is a Photo that they forget the real world.
Confessing; I am used to PC/Windows since some decades, and is of course always seeing all the weaknesses with Apple more clear than those who have never tried.
SO:
- On Windows, you can ALWAYS hold down the shift while moving files or photos, where the USER decide whether to MOVE or COPY. Move and Copy are two different things!
- On my MAC this seems to be different (at least I didn´t find the shortcut), so, there seems to be no way to MOVE (not COPY) pictures out from a Photos-Album and over to more like a document-like-fokused storage. (One has to do the risky/stupid/crasy to first to move and then delete as far as I have found....)
- Because: A Photo is very often thought of like a Photo! But, when I take a Photo of my car because I want to sell the car, then the Photo becomes a document describing a physical thing, helping to for example to support the price asked. Or when my cellar is full of water, the pictures I take does not belong in a Photoalbum! Or when I take films or photos to help doctors understand what kind of Epilepsy a person has, this doe NOT belong in a Photo album! Or when I take Photos to document how I disassembly a kitchen-machine or my CD-player, these are NOT Photos I like to keep in my Photo album! Or when I take photos of all the kids drawings and what they make at school, so I can throw away paper but still keep the memory, these are not Photos; This are documents and documentation that I do not want to keep on my camera roll, synchronized on all devices!
- So, most people seems so believe and think, that all pictures one take with an iPhone is a Photo, it is NOT! At least 60% of all Photos I take are documentation! And, this is really common; Yea, there are some very few people who ONLY take photos, and like post it on all kind of social media, BUT, there are a whole lot of us who is using iPhone camera to take pictures which is DOCUMENTATION. The set of documentation then consists of may other file types, AND, it is important to keep this documentation organized, like on the PC/MAC, in the cloud somewhere, on external drive or whatever..
- So, I really miss the option to fast click/mark Photos in the Photos App and be able to Move them to a different place - MOVE, NOT COPY. Copy is possible today, but I do not find any option to MOVE (by like holding down command, option, control or shift or whatever) when moving them over.
- I guess there is a financial reason behind here also, that Apple want to make people buy more storage. PS. What many also seem to forget, that is the extreme negative effect unnecessary storing on cloud has for the environment.