My MacBook has suddenly decided to organise my photos in albums

Thank you for replying Yer_Man.

Unfortunately I have a problem in that I am so new to this method of communication that I do not speak the language and do not know what the left hand "pane" is. I have looked at the column on the left of my screen but the word "pane" does not show. In what window/screen does it appear?

I don't know why it happened. I find this new machine extremely touch sensitive and having arthritic fingers may well have caught a wrong key by mistake.

Thank you for sending the screen shot. Unfortunately I do not get a window/screen with that configuration. At least I haven't seen one yet.

Thank you, stephcheese and Léonie

Apologies if I miss anyone out, this is all so new.

My machine is about 18 months old, has BigSur 11.4 OS

I will attempt to find out how to do a screenshot and get back to you.

Because it is all new I have been very cautious about what I use it for but until Wednesday I was able to access my photos. I simply clicked on the icon and up it came.

I did share a very old Lenovo with Windows 7 - this Mac is quite a different beastie.

Thank you all of you who have tried to help me restore my photo library.

After I sent my last message I decided to do more investigating and a help reply came up which showed me how to use a library repair system. I followed the instructions and to my surprise all was restored.

My real problem is that I have very little IT experience, I also have a degree of Aspergers, am very literal and often initially misinterpret instructions. When following a series of guidelines I often find that part way through I find that the word I was told to click is not on the page, or there is a word that has no meaning for me.

Unfortunately my situation is that I have no access to instruction except through the internet so I have a chicken and egg situation.

Should you know of any hard copy instructions dealing with these Apple machines I would be grateful to know about it.

So, thank you again; it is such a relief to have it sorted; I really appreciate your efforts to help

Joy W

oops

I think I just replied to myself. Not used to using forum and it's probably not a good idea to work so late(early)!

I decided to do more investigating and found a restore programme --- which worked.

Previous wandering lifestyle and Aspergers have so far made it impossible to find any one to one lessons on using MacBook Pro. If anyone has any information that would help I would be pleased to receive it.

Thank you all so much for your help. I really appreciate it, it is such a relief to have my photos back.

Joy W

Thank you Tony, I will take up that offer.

I was fortunate enough to come across something last night that offered a solution to the photo problem; I tried it and it worked! I was quite surprised and very relieved.

Joy W