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How does photos store and use images?

Hello,


I am curious how Photos stores the images/videos. If I create a new album and put images, videos, bursts etc. does Photos copy the image file to the new album or does it act like a pointer for the image?


If I have the same image, in 3 “private” albums and the same image in 3 “shared” albums is the photo now taking up 6 times the storage because it is located in 6 different albums, or are all the albums just “pointing” back to the one image file saving a bunch of space?

I guess simply, if I add a single image to multiple albums am I losing storage each time I add the image to a different album?


Thanks for the help!

Posted on Apr 6, 2020 1:40 PM

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Posted on Apr 6, 2020 2:05 PM

Having a photo in multiple albums does not make multiple copies of the photo.

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How does photos store and use images?

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