how do i know which photos ARE NOT in any album or folder
I wish to organize all my photos into correct albums to be able to use them well and find easily the pictures from about several tens of thousands in the all pictures HUGE library storage
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MacBook Air 13″, macOS 15.3
ArtiZanni wrote: …How to do this smart album and is it safe to do so ;)
muguy suggested a Smart Album, because Smart Albums are one of the most powerful tools in Photos on a Mac. (And, unfortunately, they are missing on iPhones and iPads.) They don't change anything-- they collect pictures into albums based on the criteria you set. As with any album, a picture being in a Smart Album doesn't change its status with any other album or folder.
You can make a Smart Album with the menu File>New Smart Album.
I have lots of Smart Albums! Some I generate to meet specific need. But here's one that I have available all the time:
I've included a "Date Captured" requirement, because often I'm looking just for the recent pictures that I've neglected, but that's not at all necessary for you-- you can have just one condition or many, and you can find pictures that meet "all" or "any" of the conditions.
What's cool here is, when you have this Smart Album open, and you drag a picture in here to one of your regular albums, that picture immediately disappears from this Smart Album, because it no longer meets the requirement of not being in an album!
I have whole scads of Smart Albums:
I have folders of folders of Smart Albums.
You might learn more, here:
Create Smart Albums to group photos and videos automatically on Mac - Apple Support (SG)
ArtiZanni wrote: …How to do this smart album and is it safe to do so ;)
muguy suggested a Smart Album, because Smart Albums are one of the most powerful tools in Photos on a Mac. (And, unfortunately, they are missing on iPhones and iPads.) They don't change anything-- they collect pictures into albums based on the criteria you set. As with any album, a picture being in a Smart Album doesn't change its status with any other album or folder.
You can make a Smart Album with the menu File>New Smart Album.
I have lots of Smart Albums! Some I generate to meet specific need. But here's one that I have available all the time:
I've included a "Date Captured" requirement, because often I'm looking just for the recent pictures that I've neglected, but that's not at all necessary for you-- you can have just one condition or many, and you can find pictures that meet "all" or "any" of the conditions.
What's cool here is, when you have this Smart Album open, and you drag a picture in here to one of your regular albums, that picture immediately disappears from this Smart Album, because it no longer meets the requirement of not being in an album!
I have whole scads of Smart Albums:
I have folders of folders of Smart Albums.
You might learn more, here:
Create Smart Albums to group photos and videos automatically on Mac - Apple Support (SG)
Create a smart album with the condition, album is not any
"is it safe to do so "
No, because once you learn how to use them they are addicting and a giant Time Sync.
Show me all the pictures of my son and daughter together.
What pictures did I take with my Canon T6S?
What pictures did I take with my Tamron 150-600mm lens?
What pictures did I take with my Canon T6S *and* my Tamron 150-600mm lens?
What pictures have I taken at Disney parks?
What pictures did I take at Disney parks with my Canon T6S *and* my Tamron 150-600mm lens?
I need the picture of the Ammonite I took at the Los Angeles Museum of natural history in 2010.
How to do this smart album and is it safe to do so ;)
Keith Barkley wrote: "is it safe to do so "
No, because once you learn how to use them they are addicting and a giant Time Sync.
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Collateral Damage.
How do I organize all my photos into correct albums on MacBook Air?
