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October 18, 2022
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Albums and Album categories

Have created a new Album category and created several Albums within that category.

If you are in Media view and selecting the Album category,  should you not see  the album names and structure ?  Selecting only albums shows the correct photographs ok. 

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MichelBParis
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Legend
October 18, 2022
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Have created a new Album category and created several Albums within that category.

If you are in Media view and selecting the Album category,  should you not see  the album names and structure ?  Selecting only albums shows the correct photographs ok. 


By @doug218540579wa0

Doug,

Not sure what your are expecting, but when you have chosen the 'album' view in the left panel instead of the 'folders' view, the album category is just a way to group its albums, to collapse the list or to display the list. You can't select all the files in a category in the media view, you only select the various albums in that category. Displaying the files in an album works as expected, displaying all the files in a category makes no sense, since because albums have different sort orders.

The categories are handy to avoid a list of hundreds of albums by showing groups in a shorter list.

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Greg_S.
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October 18, 2022

. . . But you can do a Search for multiple Albums and all of the photos in those Albums will be displayed in the grid.

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Participant
October 18, 2022

thanks for that tip Grep.

I have been using apple Photos, and by default it does show all the sub albums associated to the album category 

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MichelBParis
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Legend
October 18, 2022
quote

Have created a new Album category and created several Albums within that category.

If you are in Media view and selecting the Album category,  should you not see  the album names and structure ?  Selecting only albums shows the correct photographs ok. 


By @doug218540579wa0

Doug,

Not sure what your are expecting, but when you have chosen the 'album' view in the left panel instead of the 'folders' view, the album category is just a way to group its albums, to collapse the list or to display the list. You can't select all the files in a category in the media view, you only select the various albums in that category. Displaying the files in an album works as expected, displaying all the files in a category makes no sense, since because albums have different sort orders.

The categories are handy to avoid a list of hundreds of albums by showing groups in a shorter list.

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Participant
October 18, 2022
Thanks for clearing that up for me.
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