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How to organize my 5000 photos like you did on a PC?
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1841129" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>Welcome to the forum. As you have discovered, this is a very PG forum, so keeping the language cleaner will avoid all those asterisks. </p><p></p><p>On Photos, it is an app, not a filing system. You can create Albums, which can be handled like folders, to organize the images, but the option on the menu of "Photos" under Library in the sidebar will always show ALL of them. That is what it is for. If you remove an image from "Photos" it will disappear from everywhere else. </p><p></p><p>I'm not a Photos guru, but what you want to do may well be handled by Albums. You can create a new Album, let's say you name it "Melbourne Mayhem." Now you can drag individual or groups of images from the "Photos" page to the album on the sidebar to the left, drop them there and they will appear in "Melbourne Mayhem" until you remove them either from Photos or from the Album. You can have an image in more than one Album, so if one of the "Melbourne Mayhem" images also works for another album, one named "Melbourne friends" for example, you can drop it from Photos into that album as well.</p><p></p><p>Photos is actually a database. Every image is in the database in the general folder "Photos." You can then create new collections of those objects by opening Albums and tying the images to the Albums. Note that in doing that you are NOT creating a new copy of the image file just updating a database record to say that THIS IMAGE is now in both PHOTOS and MELBOURNE MAYHEM albums. One image, two references. Photos the application can and will suggest other organizations of the images, including what it calls "Memories" or images that seem to be associated together for some reason. I have Memories that are organized by locations, dates, people, events, objects in the images, etc. One memory is called "Together over the years" where Photos assembled all the images of my wife and me through all the years of the various pictures, no matter where or when it was taken. And once you get all of the images organized into Albums the way you want, you can just ignore the "Photos" collection in the Library on the sidebar until you import some new images and they appear there for you to sort. Shift your thinking from file/folder to repository/album and just let Photos collect in the repository to be entered into an album.</p><p></p><p>One other benefit of the way Photos works is that the original image is always in the database. If you do an edit, let's say to crop an image, then save it, what gets saved is the original, plus the edits. Edit again and the database has the original, the first edit and then the second edit. If you decide the edits are all wrong, you can go back to the original. And you don't have THREE copies of the image file, just one, with a smaller item for just the edits. The overall database doesn't grow by replicating images with edits, it just has the original image and what you did to it as you edited. When you open the image, the original is retrieved and the edits applied to show you what you expect. Magic!</p><p></p><p>So let me suggest you put away that ol' PC way of thinking and embrace how Photos works. It really does work pretty well if you use it the way it was designed.</p><p></p><p>EDIT: By the way, I currently have 10,207 images in Photos, so it is certainly capable of handing that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1841129, member: 396914"] Welcome to the forum. As you have discovered, this is a very PG forum, so keeping the language cleaner will avoid all those asterisks. On Photos, it is an app, not a filing system. You can create Albums, which can be handled like folders, to organize the images, but the option on the menu of "Photos" under Library in the sidebar will always show ALL of them. That is what it is for. If you remove an image from "Photos" it will disappear from everywhere else. I'm not a Photos guru, but what you want to do may well be handled by Albums. You can create a new Album, let's say you name it "Melbourne Mayhem." Now you can drag individual or groups of images from the "Photos" page to the album on the sidebar to the left, drop them there and they will appear in "Melbourne Mayhem" until you remove them either from Photos or from the Album. You can have an image in more than one Album, so if one of the "Melbourne Mayhem" images also works for another album, one named "Melbourne friends" for example, you can drop it from Photos into that album as well. Photos is actually a database. Every image is in the database in the general folder "Photos." You can then create new collections of those objects by opening Albums and tying the images to the Albums. Note that in doing that you are NOT creating a new copy of the image file just updating a database record to say that THIS IMAGE is now in both PHOTOS and MELBOURNE MAYHEM albums. One image, two references. Photos the application can and will suggest other organizations of the images, including what it calls "Memories" or images that seem to be associated together for some reason. I have Memories that are organized by locations, dates, people, events, objects in the images, etc. One memory is called "Together over the years" where Photos assembled all the images of my wife and me through all the years of the various pictures, no matter where or when it was taken. And once you get all of the images organized into Albums the way you want, you can just ignore the "Photos" collection in the Library on the sidebar until you import some new images and they appear there for you to sort. Shift your thinking from file/folder to repository/album and just let Photos collect in the repository to be entered into an album. One other benefit of the way Photos works is that the original image is always in the database. If you do an edit, let's say to crop an image, then save it, what gets saved is the original, plus the edits. Edit again and the database has the original, the first edit and then the second edit. If you decide the edits are all wrong, you can go back to the original. And you don't have THREE copies of the image file, just one, with a smaller item for just the edits. The overall database doesn't grow by replicating images with edits, it just has the original image and what you did to it as you edited. When you open the image, the original is retrieved and the edits applied to show you what you expect. Magic! So let me suggest you put away that ol' PC way of thinking and embrace how Photos works. It really does work pretty well if you use it the way it was designed. EDIT: By the way, I currently have 10,207 images in Photos, so it is certainly capable of handing that. [/QUOTE]
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