How do I merge albums in Photos?

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A few points

Photos in albums are not duplicates - they are simply a different view of the same photo in the library

If you right click on a photos in an album and remove from album then is does not affect anything else - if you Delete then it is gone from the library and therefore everyplace

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I opened the sidebar as you suggested and found the two events I wanted to merge. I clicked on one of the events and selected all the photos and then drug them over to the event I wanted to merge with and it copied all of the selected photos into that event. Now I'm wondering if I can delete the event I drug them from as they are showing in both places????

As Terence wrote at the top, there is no merge facility in Photos.app. There should be! (In Aperture, you could merge Events just by dropping one on the other.)

You can combine albums as many have noted here, but it's tedious. Enable the side-bar, view photos in an album, drag to target, delete source, repeat.

Photos.app has some AppleScript support; I haven't seen use of it to automate this tedious process. I don't know if there's enough scripting support.

Oh, yeah, that's correct.

I was assuming in my description that you've just imported some photos from your phone, or from files on the desktop, and they aren't in an existing album yet.

but be careful in deleting once added to new album. I tried to post a Facebook pic based on where I placed that photo, it doesn't show. GRRRRR.

Yes.

Yes.

Thank you!

This too, does NOT work as of 2017. Admin, please remove this response from Auros.

Has anyone found a simpler way? It's so many steps now when with iPhoto it used to be so simple. Really annoying. Who designed this set up because I think Steve Jobs would have hated this.😟