Photos App Organization

[Haust]

I want to use Apple Photos app on a MacBook Pro to organize my photos. I know how to create albums and all that, but my issue is this. The app has a main file Library that holds all of the images. I have albums created and I can drag the images into these albums to sort them. The problem is that the images in the Library don't move out or get hidden upon moving so I have no way of knowing which ones have been moved and which ones have not. The library has thousands of images. There is no way to know if any one of them have been moved. Fortunately, it won't create a duplicate, but still this is no good if I can't know what I have left to organize. Thanks for any help.

 

[cupcakes2000]

I want to use Apple Photos app on a MacBook Pro to organize my photos. I know how to create albums and all that, but my issue is this. The app has a main file Library that holds all of the images. I have albums created and I can drag the images into these albums to sort them. The problem is that the images in the Library don't move out or get hidden upon moving so I have no way of knowing which ones have been moved and which ones have not. The library has thousands of images. There is no way to know if any one of them have been moved. Fortunately, it won't create a duplicate, but still this is no good if I can't know what I have left to organize. Thanks for any help.

You could use a 3rd party app that can use star and flag ratings and use that to mark what you have sorted perhaps? You’ll still be able to use the same folders etc

 

[Ray2]

I’m having trouble understanding what you want to do. If it’s identify pics that are not in albums, create a smart album with the criteria being pics not in albums.

 

[Haust]

You could use a 3rd party app that can use star and flag ratings and use that to mark what you have sorted perhaps? You’ll still be able to use the same folders etc

I'd prefer to just stick with the app itself.

 

[Haust]

I’m having trouble understanding what you want to do. If it’s identify pics that are not in albums, create a smart album with the criteria being pics not in albums.

I'm trying to sort through a ton of images in my Library, but since the image in Library doesn't actually get moved to the new Album, there is no way for me to know which ones I have moved and which ones I haven't moved yet. The only way to know is to try moving it into the album and if it's already in the album it won't move. I have thousands of images in Library. I want to be able to filter the images into Albums and when I move them, they get moved out of Library and into the Album only. The way it is now, the image is always in the Library and a copy is in the Album. It's like there are 2 of them.

Basically as I drag the images from Library into the Album, I want the image to no longer be visible in the Library so that I will know all of the images I have left to sort.

 

[0128672]

Photos Library is always going to be the master and will contain all of your photos. @Ray2's suggestion was very good. Create a smart album with criteria like this:

Then move from that smart album to whichever album you like, and the unsorted will reflect that change.

Create Smart Albums to group photos and videos automatically on Mac

In Photos on your Mac, create Smart Albums that group photos and videos automatically based on criteria you specify.

support.apple.com

 

[Haust]

Photos Library is always going to be the master and will contain all of your photos. @Ray2's suggestion was very good. Create a smart album with criteria like this:

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Then move from that smart album to whichever album you like, and the unsorted will reflect that change.

Create Smart Albums to group photos and videos automatically on Mac

In Photos on your Mac, create Smart Albums that group photos and videos automatically based on criteria you specify.

support.apple.com

Thank you! This is exactly what I needed to know.