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deleting multiple empty photo albums

for some reason I several hundred empty albums in photos. Is there a way to delete all or does it have to be done album by album?

MacBook Air

Posted on May 1, 2021 4:48 AM

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Posted on May 3, 2021 6:34 AM

You can select many albums at once, if you are in the Albums view in Photos then you can drag a selection rectangle around the thumbnails of the albums.

Then you can directly ctrl-click or right-click the selected set of albums and use "Delete ... albums" or drag them to the folder.


For example - dragging a selection rectangle across the albums:


Deleting all selected albums together by ctrl-clicking them:


My screenshots are from Photos 6 on macOS 11 Big Sur. Which system version do you have installed?


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May 3, 2021 6:34 AM in response to mjhanlon14

You can select many albums at once, if you are in the Albums view in Photos then you can drag a selection rectangle around the thumbnails of the albums.

Then you can directly ctrl-click or right-click the selected set of albums and use "Delete ... albums" or drag them to the folder.


For example - dragging a selection rectangle across the albums:


Deleting all selected albums together by ctrl-clicking them:


My screenshots are from Photos 6 on macOS 11 Big Sur. Which system version do you have installed?


May 4, 2021 4:32 AM in response to léonie

Thanks. Unfortunately I am trying to delete empty folders not albums and I am not able to select them using the normal shift command that you would use to select a series of items like e mails to delete. I am only able to manipulate the folders one at a time. Either delete 1 at a time or move into new folder1 at a time. I am running Catalina

deleting multiple empty photo albums

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