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Photos Organization

I find the predetermined photo albums to be infuriating and illogical. I want to put all of my photos into one place (the library, I assume) and be able to view them by date. I want to remove all of the other albums like “moments”, which makes absolutely no sense to me, and be able to create my own folders if I wish to. How can I simplify the system so I can make and name folders or albums the way I want them, and remove the ones I don’t want? It’s WAY too cumbersome now.

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 11.1

Posted on Oct 8, 2021 1:21 AM

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Posted on Oct 19, 2021 2:45 PM

If you want a view of all items in your Library that can be sorted by date then create the following Smart Album:



That smart album can be sorted any of these ways:



The get rid of those infuriating and illogical (really Mr. Spock") predetermined albums:



All it takes is knowing how an application works.

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Oct 19, 2021 2:45 PM in response to ShyHazel

If you want a view of all items in your Library that can be sorted by date then create the following Smart Album:



That smart album can be sorted any of these ways:



The get rid of those infuriating and illogical (really Mr. Spock") predetermined albums:



All it takes is knowing how an application works.

Photos Organization

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