Split macOS Photos Album

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Split macOS Photos Album

I have many pictures in a single Photos Album that really should be split into multiple Albums.

Is there any easy way to split a Photo Album?

iMac 27″, macOS 12.4

Posted on Aug 23, 2022 3:43 PM

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Answer 1

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Kees de Wit

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Aug 24, 2022 8:59 AM in response to Nello Lucchesi

You can cut and paste between albums. So the steps would be:

Create new album
Goto full album
Select all photos you want in new album
Select "Cut" from the edit menu (command-x)
Goto new album
Select paste from the edit menu (command-v)

The selected photos are removed from the original album and added to the new one.

Create new albums as desired and repeat.

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Roo_boy

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Aug 24, 2022 2:31 AM in response to Nello Lucchesi

You could highlight the photos you want to move, right click them and chose "add to Folder" then pick "New Folder".

Unfortunately, when you go back to the original Album, they are no longer highlighted so you have to select them again to delete them from that Album.

I couldn't find a quicker way.....

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Answer 3

Aug 24, 2022 7:50 PM in response to Roo_boy

Roo_boy

Thank you for replying.

I tried something along the lines of what you suggested. Unfortunately, when I right click on the selected photos, I’m presented with the spinning pizza of death. I presume that my old iMac is simply not capable of building the very long list of existing Albums.

So, while theoretically plausible, this approach does NOT work in practice.

Thank you for the your suggestion nevertheless.

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Answer 4

Rich839

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Aug 24, 2022 8:43 AM in response to Nello Lucchesi

I suppose you could create a new album and then cut and paste the photos from your original album into the new album.

-- Rich

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