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Removing original photos

In Photos preferences, importing is set to copy photos into library. Question is, after I import pictures into the Photos library, can I delete, move, archive or remove the original photo?


iMac (late 2013), OS Mojave 10.14.6, Photos 4.0

iMac Line (2012 and Later)

Posted on Sep 10, 2019 6:03 PM

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Posted on Sep 11, 2019 9:42 AM

Wolf Wallis wrote:

In Photos preferences, importing is set to copy photos into library. Question is, after I import pictures into the Photos library, can I delete, move, archive or remove the original photo?

Yes. You can delete the source image files once they have been copied into the library.


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Removing original photos

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