can i delete the photos in 'recent'

Your pictures in total are your library. The recents is just an organization scheme. Just like people, places, imports, etc. You will not be able to remove any pictures from recent or imports or places, etc.

But your smart album should work if you select not in any album -- My smart album shows 1100 pictures and 120 videos not in an album -- It ignores recents, imports, etc. and only considers your albums. If nothing else, delete the smart album and make it again.

Recently deleted appears on the sidebar to the left.

Hi

There is only one copy of each photo in your library, as shown in your all photos view.

The recent folder is just a list of those images which have been added recently. Just as the imports folder is just a list showing the photos added in each import.

In all cases these are just automatically generated different views of the same files in your library. No additional space is taken up, since they are all only ever showing the file that is in your all photos view. So no, you can't remove them from there without removing them completeley from your library.

Similarly when you add a photo to an album, it doesn't make a copy of that photo. It just adds the name of that photo to a list of images in that albim. When you look at that album, it just shows that list of photos that are held in the library/all photos view. In this case, you can remove the photo from the album (becuase it has been manually created). But all that happens is the name of the photo is removed from the list - no image file is deleted.

wheel64 wrote:

well, the 'selfie' has selfies, the 'Live Photo' has life photos, the 'screen shots' has screen shots, the 'video' has videos,

but the 'panorama' doesn't have panorama ? that's pretty odd. ???

I think it's buggy. ??

The question is, what is a panorama and should be recognised as a panorama. The Photos.app is recognising a panorama by the aspect ratio. If the ratio of the width to the height of a photo is extreme, it is shown in the Panoramic album. When I crop a normal photo to be 3.5 times wider than the the height, it will be shown as a panorama, even a screenshot of a document. I cannot get videos to show under Panoramic at all, even after cropping the video to an extreme aspect ratio. Panoramas is showing only photos, not videos. Even the "Showing only" filter does no longer have an entry for "Video", when the Media Types > Panoramas is selected.

If you want other items included in the Panoramas album, you may want to send feedback to Apple with a request to change the rule, how Panoramas are recognised, or at least a better documentation, what is considered to be a panorama.

See this thread for the only info that might help wiht panoramas

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8024384

All photos appear in recent and in the all photos library. Recent just orders by most recent touched (either added or modified).

However, the 'recent' is in the section labeled 'LIBRARY' not in the section called 'ALBUMS', so I think it must be a LIBRARY.

Again, it's not a Library.

1. Photos can only open one Library at a time. Do you think that All the items here are 'Libraries', in which case the heading would be Libraries not Library. Instead, the word Library means that these views (and they are all essentially, views of the ONE library - operate on the entire collection (or Library) of photos.
2. Photos can have unlimited numbers of Libraries. But you can only open one at a time. No library is aware of any other. If you open another library you'll see... exactly the same options, but limited only to the images in that library.
3. Once again, terminology is important.

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