All my photos are stored in the “all photos” section on my MacBook is there a way that when I move them to different albums they move out of all photos or do they have to duplicate into the new album and stay in that folder as well.
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Help with photos
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When you create an album, and put a photo into it, the photo is not duplicated. As such, even if you have 5 albums with the same photo, there is still actually only 1 photo (from "All Photos"), it is just "referenced" into each of the albums. If you delete the photo from "All Photos", it will be deleted from all albums (as you have deleted the only copy of that photo). conversely if you delete a photo from an album, it will still be in "All Photos" and any other album to which you added it, as you have only deleted the reference to it in the album.
Think of an album as a collection of shortcuts to the photos stored in "All Photos".
Think of an album as a collection of shortcuts to the photos stored in "All Photos".
Thankyou for your reply. The issue I’m having and the reason I wanted it to delete was because I never remember what photos I have already sorted into other albums lol
You can set up a Smart Album with the conditions: Album; is not; Any. That will show all your pictures that aren't in any Albums, thereby showing that all the others are in Albums.