How to Organize Your Photos On A Mac

The ULTIMATE guide to Organizing Your Photos On A Mac. The best part about this work-flow is if you use the iCloud Library feature on your Mac and iOS devices, all of the organization and structure we are about to create on your Mac, will sync to your iPhone and iPad.

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00:00 Introduction
01:32 Let's Talk About Albums
02:24 Delete All Your Existing Albums
03:10 Creating A "Wrong Date" Album
03:31 A Folder For Every Year
04:14 Creating A Smart Album with Custom Rules
06:28 From Smart Album to Actual Album & Marking Favorites
07:26 Cleaning "Not-So-Favorites" from the Smart Album
08:39 Dupliating Smart Albums to Save Time
10:23 Organize Your Home Movies
10:58 Remove Duplicate Photos from Mac
11:34 Regarding Known issues with "Album is not Any"

You probably have a lot of photos. Everyone does these days. Now, what the heck do you do with them? How do you find... well... anything? The answer is if you watch and follow along, it's gonna look like this:

Follow these directions and when you're done you will have a folder for every year (or group of years) in your Photo Library. All of the events that took place in that year, will be broken down and organized into Albums. This process DOES require you to use a Mac because we are going to utilize the amazingly brilliant feature known as SMART ALBUMS.

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[LiahAfshar]

This is probably the best YouTube video ever and it has changed my life.

[techguy]

Been in IT for 33 years. Never heard anyone say secondary click instead of right click. Lots of good info.

[eberlyntay]

This is really helpful. Thank you so much!

[jturcany]

I have been trying to tame first my iPhotos, and now my iCloud Photos libraries for many years, This particular YouTube video finally laid out a path for me to achieve my goal with humor and clarity that go way beyond other tutorials. You have no idea how many hours you have saved for me, which I will now be able to spend with my family instead of sorting through photos of them, bleary-eyed, hunched over a laptop. Thank you so much, David!

[LisaMillenbah]

Your explanation/tutorial is OUTSTANDING!!! So easy to follow and understand (and you covered a LOT of information in just 13 minutes). After organizing, reorganizing and starting over multiple times, with your directions, I finally had ALL 30, 000 of our photos smartly organized in warp speed!!! THANK

[Slph]

I’m so grateful to have run across your photo organization videos! I’ve spent years playing around with different techniques that just didn’t work well. This is a true game changer. Thank you!

[chirperg]

Thanks David. I have about 10'000 photos, most of which have not been sorted. This video will save me a ton of time.

[jaydabryan]

I never leave comments on videos, but this is hands down the best advice I've ever seen. THANK YOU!

[jozigirl]

Thank you David. As a windows user for 30(!) years, I would not have been able to use my Mac without your tutorials.

[akmitchell]

Superb class! Thanks for simplifying words: library, album, smart album, folder, etc. And what is deleted and what is not. Always appreciate your talent in doing this. "Pretty eyes" always helps too. Keep it up; you do a good public service.

[sydneyknutsen]

Thank u David! What a valuable and TIME SAVING tutorial.
Also your advice is spot on: Watch it once, watch it twice BEFORE u take action. There’s much to absorb.

[shellmyers]

Thank you David! Your classes are the BEST! I am scared because there is so much to do but watching your videos gives me confidence to take one step at a time. I have 20 years of photo chaos!! One step at a time, remove duplicates, merge files, organize files - I don't know if this is the correct order but I am going to try the first one and continue to watch and rewatch your videos! Thank you!!! 💝

[colm]

This is by far the best How to Video I have seen on getting my Photo Organized. Thanks David your video are the Best in class!

[chrisf]

Thank you so much. Just switch to MacBook after a lifetime user of PC, and it was very confusing. Your video was so informative and clear, with no stupid background music. Thanks a million again!

[michael_harren]

Welp... I watched this video early yesterday morning and commenced to obsessively organizing my photos from the 60's through today. I love this process and my weird ability to hyper focus on tasks like this, but I am feeling a little bleary eyed and stiff from sitting at the computer so so long though! Thanks for this! It's so nice to have some organization with what was once a black hole of images!

[nanamurf]

Just switched over to a Mac Pro because using a windows based computer just wasn’t working for me. I’m only 2 days in and I’m so happy I switched! And so glad I found your channel and subscribed. Looking forward to watching more of your videos

[ebelen]

What a great video! I spent the whole day following your technique on organizing my photos. One, worked great. Two, gives me some organization that I would not have without you. Three, got me playing with my new Mac and listening to my new Airpods so bonus. The one thing that I found from another video after doing this work is creating a smart album to find all pictures that have not been put into albums. I think if you add this to your video, you would have covered 99% of what's needed by most. This happened to me as I had many duplicates and ended up trying to delete most of them with a few that didn't quite make it.

[philipaparker]

Wow, this is such a great video. I just organized photos going back to 1998 through 2023. Not a lot of work, discovered tons of old photos and videos. Absolutely great video.

[Ostsee]

This man is a genius. Just what I've been looking for! Thank you for the easy to follow and clear instructions. Very much appreciated.

[marshiahawkins]

I've struggled for years with how to organize my large library of photos--this is truly a time AND life-saving lesson. Thank you ever-so-much!