I migrated thousands of pictures from Aperture to Photos (Yosemite). In Photos, several of my pictures now appear in the "Flagged" section under "Albums" . I want to remove the flags and keep the pictures. Being new to Photos I don't know the safe steps to do this. I found nothing in "help". I am uncertain about simply deleting the pictures that appear in Albums/Flagged as this action may permanent delete the pictures from my collection?
From your post, "the flagged section of albums", it's hard to tell exactly what you are seeing/doing. You could have
(1 ) An album named Flagged
(2) A smart album named Flagged that collects photos with certain criteria, perhaps a keyword as LarryHN mentions.
It would be helpful to see a screenshot of what you are talking about.
Assuming (1), here goes:
If you have an album called Flagged, then you can safely delete the album or pictures within it. Albums contain references to pictures, not the pictures themselves. And deleting an album or the pictures in a album do not delete them from your library. In fact, for albums, the delete key maps to the menu item Image-->Remove 1 Photo from Album (with 1 replaced by a different number if you select more than one photo).
However beware a "gotcha". If you use COMMAND-DELETE rather than DELETE, you will in fact delete the picture from the Album AND from the Library. It will hang around for awhile in the Recently Deleted "view".
Beware yet another "gotcha". If the Year-Collection-Moment view, the DELETE key itself will delete the picture from the library. Apple had this behavior in Aperture and it can be dangerous. It's very easy to forget if you are in Year-Collection-Moment mode or Album mode.
One more interesting behavior. If you EDIT a picture in an Album, that picture will change everywhere, even in the Year-Collection-Moment view. I think that is a very useful workflow, but it's not consistent with the Delete behavior.
P
I learned that had a Smart Album named "Flagged". Had I more experience I would have mentioned seeing the gear symbol next to this smart album. This Smart Album showed up after my import from Aperture. I did not use smart albums in Aperture and put most of my photos in named projects. Thanks to your advice and the information from LarryHN, I simply deleted the smart album. I was not wanting to delete any original pictures. Being a newbie to Yosemite Photos I am very grateful for you help! THANK YOU.
In Photos there is no flag - your flagged photos have been assigned a keyword of flagged - you add and remove that just like any other Keyword
LN
Thank you for the information. It was most helpful.
How to Remove Flagging in Photos
