When I create an album, the pictures I put in an album also stay in my
iPhoto Library. My library has about 700 pictures, even though I
already divided the pictures into separate albums. But if I delete a
picture from the library it is also deleted from the album. Does this
sound right to anyone!?!

In article <b4d2623e.0408211341.12796376@posting.google.com >,
bnoss@cox.net (Arwen123) wrote:

> When I create an album, the pictures I put in an album also stay in my
> iPhoto Library. My library has about 700 pictures, even though I
> already divided the pictures into separate albums. But if I delete a
> picture from the library it is also deleted from the album. Does this
> sound right to anyone!?!

The photo is always in the library, until you delete it. When you put a
photo in an album, all you are really doing is putting a pointer or
alias of that photo in the album.

That means what you are seeing is normal behavior: When you delete a
"photo" from an album you are only deleting the alias or pointer to the
actual photo; the photo itself remains in the library (unless you tell
iPhoto to delete it).

When you delete a photo from the library, it is indeed deleted
altogether.

Another consequence of this setup is that you can put one "photo" in
several albums. This can be handy.

Bill

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