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Post by Paul Whiting on Mar 7, 2019 22:48:24 GMT
I have both PSE9 and PSE13, but work mainly in 13. I'm having trouble moving photos from one album to another, all within Organizer 13. I mention 9 because in Barbara Brundage's excellent manual, she mentions dragging a photo from album A to album B in the folder pane of the Media Browser. But, she says this method does have quirks and prefers using the File -> Move -> feature instead. But I get quirks there too. Usually, but not reliably, the photo turns up in B, where it should, but it leaves a copy in A. I can delete the copy in A but next time I use Organizer the photo pops up again in A. Furthermore sometimes the photo doesn't even end up in B to begin with.
I hope I explained it well!
Paul
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Post by michelb on Mar 8, 2019 10:23:29 GMT
Paul, An album is nothing like a folder, it does not indicate a location. So 'moving' a file from another to another is nonsense. I do hate the word 'album' which is misleading.
What used to be 'collections' in older PSE versions (and which are still 'collections' in Lightroom) are not storing locations. They are simple lists of items in your catalog; they are 'playlists'.
Any photo file can be included in any number of albums/collections without anything moving. Only the list is updated.
So, what you may want to do is to include a given photo to a new album, with or without deleting the file from the old album. Remember that albums are meant to keep lists of a set of files for a given purpose: printing, showing, preparing a project, selecting files for different types of export. So it's extremely common to include the same file into different albums for different purposes. Nothing is moved or copied in the process.
Tip: Since what you really want is to include a file an album and remove it from another one (two separate actions), you can: - select (highlight) the file or group of files shown in an album. - drag and drop the new album name from the left panel to one of the highlighted files. That will add them to the destination album - right click on one of the selected files and select "remove from album".
Anyway, assigning or removing files from albums only change the listes, that does not move or delete files in your catalog or computer.
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Post by Paul Whiting on Mar 8, 2019 23:41:41 GMT
Thanks Michel,
You've helped me with a large break-through. I was not aware of the difference between albums and folders. Very key to understanding the bones of Organizer.
Thank you!
Paul
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