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Photos vs. Pictures

Still trying to unravel my confusion but ...


There are photographs in my MacBook Air (12.1) Photos file that are not in the Pictures folder. Should those ‘Photos’-stored images be moved to Pictures?

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 12.1

Posted on Jan 16, 2022 3:57 PM

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Posted on Jan 16, 2022 4:01 PM

No. It is perfectly fine.

Pictures is a folder in Finder for pictures - say I had some I needed for a research project for school.

Photos, let’s you organise, search for, edit, and view your Photos, and synchronises with Photos on other Apple devices via iCloud.

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Jan 16, 2022 4:36 PM in response to SeeNat

Best of luck with your endeavours!

Always a first time for everything…


I would first drag stuff into Photos. Stuff dragged from Finder can be identified, by using the imported tab on the side. Thus any issues, and you can see what’s been imported, and remove it if necessary. Then, if I’m satisfied that the files are safe in Photos, I would then go ahead and delete from Pictures if I wanted to save storage space…

Photos vs. Pictures

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