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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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wheel64 Author

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Jul 28, 2021 7:21 PM in response to wheel64

why doesn't the 'Panorama' album auto populate correctly ?? anyone else have this problem. ??

wheel64 Author

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Jul 30, 2021 7:24 PM in response to muguy

it was not like that until this error occurred. I think recent is some time based accessed or imported photos. Not all of them. ?

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.

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 1:38 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. ?

wheel64 Author

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Jul 28, 2021 7:50 PM in response to wheel64

ok, so technically, the 'recent' is a library, not an album. So how did all my photos get into recent library if it is a 'smart' library??

and then, if it is a library, then my smart album, 'Not in Any album", should be working properly, which it is not. Yes the most recent additions of photos show up in my smart album, But the question is,

how do I get all the photos out of 'recent' library,
how do I get them to show up in "not any album' so I can organize them properly.

I have tried rebuilding my library, and that didn't help. it finally DID put all my albums in alphabetical order, which is nice. !!

oh. either this or my other post about the same problem, said I should look in 'recently deleted' to recover a photo.

I know about the recently deleted album/library in iOS, but I DON'T see any 'recently deleted ' on macOS Catalina 10.15.7 ?

Jul 29, 2021 12:27 AM in response to wheel64

They got in there by being recent. It is an automatically generated view that displays all recent photographs.

Regarding your smart album not in any album, there is a bug in Catalina so that if you delete an album that has pictures in it, Photos still thinks they are in the album, and there is no way to change that. So "not in any" will not detect them.

I think this is resolved now in Big Sur, so you might need to update to fix this issue.

Yer_Man

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Jul 29, 2021 3:18 AM in response to wheel64

ok, so technically, the 'recent' is a library, not an album.

No, it's not. It's a Smart Album - or in other words, a list or recently accessed items. Terminology is important here because there's a heck of a difference between deleting from a list and deleting from a library.

but I DON'T see any 'recently deleted ' on macOS Catalina 10.15.7 ?

It's only visible if there is something in it.

léonie

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Jul 29, 2021 3:31 AM in response to wheel64

The Recent album should be showing you as many items as "All Photos", just sorted differently, according to the time you used them last.

Photos is trying to be helpful and presenting you the items in different ways - sorted by the date of import (in the Imports album), sorted by the capture date (in All Photos), sorted by the most recent use (in Recents). The sort order is fixed and specific for each predefined album. You can see the sort order , if you select an album and go to the view menu. You will see the predefined sort order greyed out. Other predefined albums are showing a subset of the items in your library, selected according to some rules. The Panoramic album is showing photos with an extreme aspect ratio, not necessarily photos taken in the panoramic mode.

Jul 30, 2021 7:33 PM in response to wheel64

As already stated, Recents is just a system generated view into the library. The user can not change it. I think the idea is that if you import an image with an exif date of 1,000,000 BC, it will obviously be first in the "Library-all photos" view, but will be at the end of the Recent's view.

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