How to delete extra photos from burst?

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How to delete extra photos from burst?

I hope this is also the forum to ask Photo's related questions ...

When I have a burst photo, I click "Make Selection", then I select one photo out of the sequence (blue check mark), then click "Done",

but how can I make Photos delete all the rest?

Effectively, I want to save space by deleting all other photos in the burst. It's fine if I can never restore the other photos from the burst.

I am using Photos 1.3 under El Captan.

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3), iPhone 4S, iOS 8.3

Posted on Jan 8, 2016 5:49 AM

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léonie

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Jan 8, 2016 2:07 PM in response to GabrielZ

The Photos for Mac Forum is here:

Photos for Mac https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os/photos_osx/content?filterID=conte ntstatus%5Bpublished%5D~objecttype~showall

It is filed under system software, because Photos is part of MacoS X.

To delete photos from a burst, use the option

Keep the selected photos and delete the others in the burst, when selecting the keepers.
Click Keep Only Selection.The selected photos appear individually in the moment and unselected photos are placed in the Recently Deleted album. The burst no longer appears in the moment or in the Burst album.

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Old Toad

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Jan 8, 2016 2:07 PM in response to GabrielZ

Click on the Bursts album in the sidebar, gain on the photos you want to make the selection from then then click on the Make Selection button:

At the bottom of the next window select the frame(s) you want to keep and click on the check circle:

You'll be given this option:

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GabrielZ Author

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Jan 8, 2016 2:07 PM in response to Old Toad

Thanks a million for the splendidly illustrated explanation.

Everything works as you show, except that I am not given the options at the end -- Photos does not ask me "Would you like to keep ..." when I clock "Done".

Another funny thing is that all the bursts seem to be gone now : I did have quite a few with my import from my iPhone a few hours back. For each burst, I had selected one of them. Afterwards, it still showed the bursts as bursts in the "Photos" album (the one that shows the Moments).

Now all bursts except one are gone ...

Could that have anything to do with different Photos versions?

(I've got 1.3)

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léonie

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Jan 8, 2016 2:18 PM in response to GabrielZ

If you used the option " Keep Only Selection" after you selected the keepers, the burst will no longer be a burst.

The panel to select the option will vanish immediately after the option has been clicked. Perhaps you simply did not notice it or it was hidden behind other windows. The panel will not be shown, if you selected all photos as keepers.

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Jun 12, 2016 11:36 AM in response to GabrielZ

I had the same problem, where the option to keep the selected photos didn't appear. This only happened with some bursts. I noted that these bursts already had a selected photo. I undid the selection, closed the burst, reselected favorites and clicked "Done". After that, I was given the option to keep only the selected photos.

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