how can i put photos in folders that takes them out of the library
Can’t get photos to go from the main library when I put them into folders.
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First, vocabulary: Pictures go in Albums. Albums can go in Folders, and folders can go in Folders. But loose pictures don't go in folders. I'm guessing when you say folders you mean albums.
This applies to Photos on iPhones, iPads, and Macs, but you didn't tell us which you are are using. I'll try to be pretty general.
Library view shows all the pictures in your Library. (That's why it's called Library!) Deleting a picture from there removes it from everywhere. You don't want a picture to disappear from the Library view, because then you wouldn't be able to put it in an additional album.
The thing is, in Photos, pictures aren't exactly "in" an album. When you "put a picture into an album," its name is added to a list of pictures from the Library that display together when the album is clicked, kind of like a music playlist, but for pictures. So two albums can both have the same picture name in their lists (like two playlists with the same song,) and that picture will show up when you click either album, but there's only one picture file-- it's just on multiple lists. And when you remove a picture from an album, its name remains in the lists of other albums, and the file still remains in your Library.
Think about music playlists-- would you really want a song to disappear from your music library just because you had put it in one playlist? You need to be able to find it in the Library when you decide to put the same song in another playlist. When songs were on vinyl, they could only be in one place, but that's not necessary now. And pictures aren't pieces of paper any more.
So albums give a specific view of your pictures. The picture of "Aunt Ethel at the Grand Canyon" can be in the "Aunt Ethel" album with other pictures of Aunt Ethel, and it can also be in the "Grand Canyon" album with pictures of other people at the Grand Canyon. And it can also be in a the "September 2015" album with other things that happened then. Each album is pointing to a single file stored in the Photos Library, so having pictures in multiple albums takes up no more storage space. As you can imagine, this is very powerful in organizing pictures.
That said, in Photos we are provided with Filters,. So if you want to see the pictures that haven't yet been "put into an album," then in the Library view, if go to the bottom of the screen you can choose a Filter that shows the Library with only the pictures that are not in albums.
This shows the filters for the iPhone, and it's similar on an iPad. Since you didn't let us know what you're asking about, if you need a different device, let us know.
Does this help?
