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can i delete the photos in 'recent'

have macOS 10.15.7 with all the patches. I accidentally somehow added all my photos to RECENT album. can I just select and delete them and they are only removed from this album. NOT Permanent deleted? I had/have a smart album for all the photos which were not in any album, so I could organize them. but now it doesn't work since everything is in recent?

also anyone having problems with the Apple 'Panorama' album. I take a few panorama videos, and they do not automatically go into the 'panorama folder'. the other automatic folders seem to work ok,

like, videos, selfies, etc.. Why doesn't Panorama automatic populate.

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Jul 28, 2021 10:54 AM

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léonie

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Jul 31, 2021 3:42 AM in response to wheel64

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.

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wheel64 Author

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Jul 30, 2021 7:33 PM in response to Yer_Man

ok. I see the recently deleted again. it's back. thanks for that.

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

why the HECK is there a posting limit? the problem is still here. it's still broken.

wheel64 Author

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Jul 30, 2021 7:43 PM in response to wheel64

thanks everyone for all the help and suggestions. I appreciate it.

Yer_Man

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Jul 31, 2021 12:01 AM in response to wheel64

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.

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.
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.
Once again, terminology is important.

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léonie

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Jul 31, 2021 3:42 AM in response to wheel64

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. ??

léonie

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Jul 31, 2021 3:44 AM in response to wheel64

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why the HECK is there a posting limit? the problem is still here. it's still broken.

These forums have occasionally been flooded by SPAM messages, users posting advertisements over and over again. Limiting the number of posts per users helped to reduce the flood of spam.

Old Toad

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Jul 31, 2021 9:18 AM in response to wheel64

What are the dimensions of the photos that are not included in the panorama smart album?

See my post here.

wheel64 Author

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Jul 31, 2021 1:21 PM in response to TonyCollinet

thanks for the bug info. at least I know I'm not totally crazy. the "NOT Any" album is slowly repopulating with the newer photos from the last month. My MacBook is old, and I can't update. I hope to be getting a new MacBook Pro in the Fall when the new ones come out. and I can update to Big Sur and Monterey. !! Yea. and get the second gen Apple chip, and hopefully miniLED display. who knows. ?? I have all the latest patches that I can.

Is there any other way to find all the photos that are not assigned to an album?

finally, does anyone know what the definition of RECENT is ?? how did all my photos get into RECENT ?? I'm pretty sure they didn't use to be there.

does recent mean they were recently accessed which is what it seems. To Me, recent should be ONLY a time span that they were added to Apple Photos, or the cloud. !!! come on Apple.

Thanks.,

wheel64 Author

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Jul 31, 2021 1:31 PM in response to Old Toad

one is 8126 × 3932, 8390 × 3816, and I know that I took it in 'pano' camera mode.

there are 3 photos in the panorama album and they are 7308 × 2472, 3700 × 1179, and 10202 × 3680. they are from 2017, 2018, and 2021. so it found one picture I made this summer. but many are missing. They were put in there automatically.

that should be a internal flag for apple camera system somewhere, if that is what they are sorting by. just like portrait, or 'live' ??

I have not read your post yet, but doing it now.

thanks for your support

wheel64 Author

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Jul 31, 2021 1:35 PM in response to léonie

it I take a photo in pano mode with the camera , it seems to me it should be in the panorama library/album. isn't that what it is supposed to do. it seems to be buggy.

I don't care about how I edit aspect ratio! ( just my opinion )

wheel64 Author

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Jul 31, 2021 1:38 PM in response to Old Toad

since , unfortunately I am not using Big Sur ( I can't ) I doubt that Apple cares. I wonder what happens when I download the iCloud to a system using Big Sur or Monterey. ?

can i delete the photos in 'recent'