How do I merge albums in Photos?

I build temporary albums as I collect images. In time I like to merge albums (based on shared content or purpose of the images). I was able to do this easily in iPhoto - place one album icon over the other and they would combine. This process is not working in Photos. What is the solution?

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Apr 9, 2015 11:08 PM

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Aug 30, 2015 10:02 AM in response to BCAtl

It is better to start new threads rather than ThreadJack old threads that have nothing to do with you question - for help see


and note the about including details about your system


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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Oct 13, 2015 5:59 PM in response to enderG

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????

Jun 5, 2016 10:58 AM in response to Yer_Man

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.

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