Philippe:
I’ve stopped using Photos.app because I find it dreadful; that said, in Mac
Finder, holding down the ‘option’ key while dragging a file results in moving a
copy, not the original, perhaps this carries over into the Mac apps as well?
Worth a try, in any case.
Siddiq
> On Sep 13, 2015, at 22:37, ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Philippe
>
> I regret that I cannot offer a solution as I have not yet got to grips with
> Photos (because it’s not even as good as iPhoto in several respects), but
> this website should have the answer – somewhere:
>
> https://photoapps.expert <https://photoapps.expert/>
>
> Chris
>
>> On 13 Sep 15, at 10:26, Philippe <philippe.amard@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> A friend using Photo (Yosemite) wants to re-sort photos he had "catalogued"
>> in I-photo - in short moving pixies from one folder/event (A) to another one
>> (B) where they belong.
>> This can be done by selecting the previews in A and moving them to the right
>> folder B or C or D alright.
>> Yet, and this is the problem, when you "suppress" the files from the
>> original folder A, they also disappear from the new destination B.
>>
>> What I have found to work is, after moving the files, create a duplicate in
>> destination folder B, or C etc.. This of course results in two copies of the
>> file in the destination folder. I then delete the original file in folder A,
>> which results in the copy being deleted in B as well. And the duplicate
>> remains in B. Hurray!
>>
>> However, the process is (very) long and tedious, with some risks of losing
>> files by accident.
>>
>> So here is my question to experienced mac users : is there a shorter way to
>> simply get files reorganized ? kind of just moving the files as in the
>> finder …
>>
>> Thanks in anticipation for your precious help.
>
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