Irritation with Google photos

System

Rumrat. One other question. Before you'd tipped me off about achieving as I go along, there are many which I placed in albums and they're still in "photos", duplicated. In a perfect world I will highlight and send to archive, but what if there are some not in albums?.

I wonder what would happen if I highlighted them to send to an album and they're already there, would I be notified that they are duplicates.

dipsomaniac

i don't create albums or label any photos as not enough hours in the day. I just let google photos do its thing as the search function is pretty good at bringing up the photos you want to view again

Andy_L

It looks like its now acting like "labels" in gmail.

Pro: you can now have one photo in multiple albums (eg your 2018 holiday photos can be in..er.."2018 Holiday" album but also in a "nameOfCountry" folder(along with previous years visits) and some in a "landscapes" folder & some in a "family" folder etc assuming you're anally retentive enough to want to categorise your pictures to that level of detail

Con: you sill have a big bag of mixed folders, #firstWorldProblems

Andy_L

Organza_Lace wrote: »

I tried creating albums for my photos but as you said, they still stay in the main album so i couldnt see the point in duplicating them cause ive got hundreds.

They aren't duplicated - there's still only 1 photo taking up storage space - its just a database search that sorts them in a different way

System

Thanks all of you. I've sat several hours today, sending a dozen or so at a time to various albums. Just noticed that in some albums, the total number is not increasing. I am hoping that it is recognising some are duplicates and as such, is not increasing, would that be right?.

PS, I think that's it. On some albums that have NOT increased, ie cyprus hols, wedding, I have deliberately sent a photo which should not be there and it has arrived and the number increased. Any comments?

PPS, I think I may be the route of problems here. There are times when I take a photo, then crop or change effects so may end up with more than one of the same photo, hence when I move them, it identifies multiple of the one photo.

RumRat

I think you have got the idea now....;) As others have suggested though, you can use the search facility to find any photos (whether in albums or not).....Give it a try, type in a location and it should find all the photos taken there, for instance.
Also note that you can unarchive any photos at any time, or add individual photos to an album from within the archive.