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I am a long time user of Flickr so I know most of the ins & outs and so I think the answer to this is that it is not possible, but wanted to check with the crowd for confirmation or enlightenment.

Simply put, I have a larger album of photos (say 100 photos). I decided to create a new album that is a subset of that larger album (30 of the 100). Easy. However now I would like to remove those 30 photos photos from the larger album (leaving 70) but I can not find a way to do a bulk removal. Easy to bulk add photos to an album but the opposite seems to be one at a time.

Anyone with ideas or tricks?
Posted at 3:39PM, 25 October 2023 PDT ( permalink | reply )

mag3737 says:

There's definitely no bulk-remove.

This might be faster than doing individual deletes, depending on the actual numbers involved:
1. Open the "100" album at the bottom (filmstrip) of the Organizr
2. Select the 70 via the filmstrip and make a new album containing only them. [NOTE you can do this relatively quickly via Ctrl+click (Windows) or Cmd+click (Mac)]
3. Delete the original album.

Possible downside if you have manually arranged a particular order of the 70 (within the 100): you might have to do it again in the new "70" album.
Posted 3 days ago. ( permalink | reply )

Pak T says:

mag3737:

Yeah I thought about that method but another downside is that the album gets a new unique ID and URL. So if the original album was shared, linked on a web page, or otherwise directing people to it via a web link, that link will now be invalid.

Thanks for giving it some thought. Appreciate it.
Posted 2 days ago. ( permalink | reply )

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