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How to delete Albums and the photos in it completely?

I'm trying to sort out my photos on my Mac using the photos app. I have all my photos in their corresponding albums however when I try to remove an album completely I don't see an option to remove all the photos in it as well. Rather the photo will be visible in the library as it also says: "The items in this album will still be visible in your photo library and other albums that contain them."


I would like to remove the entire album with the photo completely because it will be hard to find all the photos individualy in the library. Is there a way to do that?

MacBook Pro 15″, OS X 10.11

Posted on Jun 13, 2022 8:36 PM

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Posted on Jun 13, 2022 11:18 PM

Unfortunately you can not delete an album with all photos in it in one step.


  1. Open the album
  2. Select all photos in this album by using command + A or any other method
  3. Push command + delete, now all photos in this album will be deleted Attention: System will not ask you if you really want to delete them all!
  4. Delete the album


Ralf

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Jun 13, 2022 11:18 PM in response to Aryan_m92

Unfortunately you can not delete an album with all photos in it in one step.


  1. Open the album
  2. Select all photos in this album by using command + A or any other method
  3. Push command + delete, now all photos in this album will be deleted Attention: System will not ask you if you really want to delete them all!
  4. Delete the album


Ralf

How to delete Albums and the photos in it completely?

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