What is the difference between Photos and All Photos

On the left hand sidebar of Photos for Mac, I have "Photos" at the top and then "All Photos" as the first item under albums.


Problem is- there is a different number of photos in each.


Photo- 24553

All photos- 25219


So any one know why the difference?

MacBook Air, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)

Posted on Jul 1, 2015 4:09 AM

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Sep 17, 2016 7:52 AM in response to léonie

My question was about the similarity of names for a human reader. "Photos" and "All Photos" are very similar names.


"All Photos" is fully clear, when on the other hand the meaning of "Photos" which any human reader will read as "some Photos" is fully ambigous.


I am convinced that the core of the problem is coming of this much too similar names of functions

when one of them stays with an ambiguous name.


I made a blind test among some of my advanced users of Photos, and none of them was able to tell me what is the use of the Photos. Moreover they weren't able to tell if it is a folder, the total library or another advanced function. In fact they never used it.

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