Hoping I can get some help here. I'm working on a renovation project and took many pictures, which just went into the general photo album on my Samsung S24. I created a new album for those photos alone. I selected the photos, selected "Move to Album", chose the album. But they only copied the photos, I still have them in the main album. When I started to delete the ones in the main album, I discovered they were being deleted from the dedicated album as well. What gives? Doesn't "move" mean take out of one place and put in another? And shouldn't they be separate?
When you use the "Move to album" option, it generally creates a reference to the photo in the new album rather than removing the original photo from the main album. This means deleting a photo from any album will delete it from all albums, as the photo is not physically duplicated but rather referenced in multiple places.
If you want to keep the photos in the dedicated album without deleting them from the main album, you should use the "Copy to album" option instead of "Move to album". This will create a duplicate of the photos in the new album while keeping the originals in the main album.
Yes, but I don't want them in the main album. I want to clean up my space used, but if I can't remove a photo from main and put it in another album, this defeats the purpose. If making albums just ends up making copies of the photo, therefore using more space, what's the point of albums?
