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Managing photos

When you create albums and move photos to the album, does Photos create a duplicate copy or just tag it with that album name?

Mac mini, macOS 10.15

Posted on Mar 28, 2021 10:11 AM

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Posted on Mar 28, 2021 10:32 AM

The photo just gets tagged with the album name, so you can create lots of albums without increasing the size of your library.

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Managing photos

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