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Hi
I created a smart album and from that album I have created an album with pictures that I want to delete.
My question is how do I delete the photos from the album as well as the library. I have over 2000 pics to delete so don't want to have to delete them separately.
I am running iPhoto version 3.
Many thanks
iMac 27", macOS 10.13
There is a difference between "Removing from Album" and "deleting a photo". When you are viewing photos in a standard album, you can either delete them everywhere or remove them from the album. The default is to remove from the album.
There is a difference between "Removing from Album" and "deleting a photo". When you are viewing photos in a standard album, you can either delete them everywhere or remove them from the album. The default is to remove from the album.
Deleting Photos from a Photos Library
1 - regardless of where you are in the library, i.e. Photos, Memories, Favorites, People, Recents, Imports, albums or smart albums, select the photo(s) you want to delete and use the key combination of Command+Delete to move the photos to the Recently Deleted smart album.
2 - click on the Recently Deleted smart albums in the sidebar.
NOTE 1: If you're using Photos 1.2 or earlier use the File ➙ Show Recently Deleted menu option.
3 - in the Recently Deleted album you can opt to let the photo automatically delete after the 30 day waiting period is up, delete them immediately or restore them to the library.
NOTE 2: deleting a photo from an album, slideshow, book, etc., with the Delete key only deletes the photo from that item. There is no key combination that will delete a photo from a project and move it directly to the Recently Deleted smart album.
NOTE 3: deleting a photo from a Moment or Collection (the Photos window) or the All Photos window deletes ALL occurences of that photo in the library.
AFAIR you can go to the album, choose the desired images, and right-mouse on top of them > Delete images (or something like that -- I'm using Windows at the moment). Then empty the Photos.app trash.
Matti Haveri wrote:
AFAIR you can go to the album, choose the desired images, and right-mouse on top of them > Delete images (or something like that -- I'm using Windows at the moment). Then empty the Photos.app trash.
Your memory is right, Matti. But the menus have changed in Photos 5 on Catalina - they are only showing "Remove from Album". We have to hold down the command key ⌘ while opening a menu or contextual menu. Then "Remove from Album" will change to "Delete".
Leonie
Thank you so much for responding.
I am confused as to the difference between iPhoto and photos for Mac! I am running High sierra.
I believe I have created an album in iPhoto as that appears on all my other devices ie iPhone, iPad. When I press to delete it says delete from album, so does that mean that it deletes the photos from iPhoto as well?
Many thanks
Thanks for the note. I am still using Mojave's Photos.app 4.0 and I am only occasionally testing Catalina and its Photos.app 5.0 which indeed has some changes in several places. That delete command is very well hidden -- obviously only determined users are allowed to delete photos.
Thanks for your response but that will only delete from the album and not the library.
iphoto - Deleting Photos
