How do I move photos from album to album in Photo

Ok - Then you need to tell Apple - Product Feedback - Apple - no one here can change anything as we are all users just like you and have exactly the same ability to change Apple software that you do - none

and neither image is a copy - album are not a place, they are a virtual view of photos - adding a photo to an album adds it to a list of photos to display when that album is opened - no album has any photos "in" it - the photos are in the library and any album is only one of many ways to view that photo

and of course threadjacking threads that were solved a couple of years ago is bad form and not a good way to get good answers - the purpose of the solved badge is so users can see it and read the solution - not threadjack it for other purposes - if you had bothered to read the answers you would have seen exactly how albums work

LN

Again there are no copies any place - simply views

And there is no move command so no matter what you want it does not exist - your choice is to use the method provided and tell Apple what you want or to use other software that works like you want - there is no guarantee that you get everything in life that you "want"

Agan

Ok - Then you need to tell Apple - Product Feedback - Apple - no one here can change anything as we are all users just like you and have exactly the same ability to change Apple software that you do - none

and neither image is a copy - album are not a place, they are a virtual view of photos - adding a photo to an album adds it to a list of photos to display when that album is opened - no album has any photos "in" it - the photos are in the library and any album is only one of many ways to view that photo

LN

Not being able to move images between albums without having to go back and delete the image from where it came from is a real drawback and totally illogical. So I decide that an image belongs somewhere else so now I have whack around to find and delete the first one. Is the 'first one' the 'real' image and the second one a copy? So if i move (copy I guess) from the first album to another and then go back and delete the original, does it disappear altogether or does the 'copy' become the 'real' image now.

Do you use iTunes? If so then consider albums in Photos the same as Playlists in iTunes. A photo can be in multiple albums the same way an audio track can be in multiple playlists. Exactly the same.

Strange? Not at all - it is extremely logical to treat Photos as photos not as files - what is strange is that for years photos have been treated as files which puts many strange restrictions on them like having to duplicate them prior to editing and if you edit 10 times having 10 duplicates hanging around and if you want a photo in multiple albums having to have many duplicates wasting storage and making editing impossible - with the advanced logic that Photos uses a photo can be in many places and only exist once and when you edit it the edit shows everyplace at the same time and you can go back one edit at a time or go all the way back to the original without having multiple copies wasting storage - the fact that you are stuck in a very old, out of date paradigm and do not understand he better new way of working does not make a "strange Apple Mindset" at all -

LN

That's just the problem. I DON'T want some photos in multiple albums. I do want to be able to move a photo from one album to another without leaving a copy behind because it no longer belongs there; it belongs in another album. Not having a command such as MOVE or not allowing cut and paste to another location is a big oversight by Apple. Not sure what twisted thought process they went through for that being left out. The rest of the app is pretty good even though you need Power Photos to manage top level stuff. If iTunes has the same problem, then it needs fixing as well.

Understand how Photos treats 'images'. Just pointers to where they're placed, the image is not moved from the catalog. That's not some 'advanced logic' of any sort. All modern organizers and databases do the same thing. What is strange is that in Photos you can't move a pointer from one album to another without leaving a pointer behind in the old location where you no longer wish it to be. Guess you can go back and search 2000 images for the old pointer if you can remember it and delete it but what a mess.

Photos architects most likely took a clue from real life in developing Photos and that's good. But here's the real life example where they missed the boat: I have 35 years of pictures in bound albums at the house. I find one picture in an album that I decide would be more appropriate in another album. I take the picture out and paste it onto the new album. Nothing is left behind unless I wanted it to be in which case I have to duplicate that picture. This is simply logical and exactly the opposite of what Photos now does.

And no need to talk down to folks about being stuck in old out of date paradigms.

First of all- how do I get the album to show up?

Reveal the sidebar. It will show you the albums and folders and projects. Enter the key combination option-command-S - ⌥⌘S. This combinations toggles the sidebar on and off. Then you can drag photos from the browser to projects and standard albums in the sidebar to add them to the albums or projects.

Use the "Show Sidebar" option. Expand the "Photos" and navigate to the photo you want to add to an album... select it, and holding the left button down, drag it to the Album where you want ti show up, and release the button.... Your albums show up just below your pictures listing in the sidebar.... Drag and drop!

Click on the source album to view the photos in it. Click and drag the selected photos onto the destination album in the left hand pane of Photo.

Lloyd Ite wrote:

Thanks. That works just like before.

Now try this. Try to import photos from your camera's SD Card by dragging and dropping the photos from the SD Card to an album of choice. You can't. Apple removed that simple drag and drop feature. Now you have to import the photos into oblivion, go to Last Import, select the photos from that location, and then drag and drop them to another album. Thanks Apple, you made photo management completely stupid.

Now try this. Try to import photos from your camera's SD Card by dragging and dropping the photos from the SD Card to an album of choice. You can't.

Actually you can if you drag the photos onto the albums' icon in the sidebar pane at the left or into the albums open window at the right. This

gets you this:

However, this test was for photos in a folder on the Desktop. I didn't have a memory card to test so you may have to move the pictures from the card to a folder on the Desktop and import from there.

Old Toad wrote:

However, this test was for photos in a folder on the Desktop. I didn't have a memory card to test so you may have to move the pictures from the card to a folder on the Desktop and import from there.

But that is totally stupid. Photos for OS X reads the SD card and displays the photos so you can import them. When you select all of the photos, you cannot drag and drop them anywhere. If they are all selected, and you click on one of them expecting to drag the group, Photos for OS X now de-selects the photo your mouse is hovering over. How is that photo management? That is a step backwards and makes Photos for OS X completely stupid for photo management. So now when Photos for OS X reads the SD card, I have to back out to the Finder to open the SD card and select various photos from there to drag and drop them to albums. Sorry, that is stupid when iPhoto 1.0 and up always allowed you to drag and drop photos to an album from a camera's SD card after it displayed your various photos in the app for importing.

I have deleted the Photos Library, deleted the Photos dock icon, and will continue to use iPhoto until Apple upgrades this pathetic baby app. Just like how they ruined Final Cut Pro X, iMovie, and iWork by stripping features and claiming they were better versions. I have sent feedback to Apple to explain how inefficient this change is.