{"id":472,"date":"2022-01-04T20:59:55","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T04:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icanthascheezburger.com\/wordpress\/?p=472"},"modified":"2022-01-04T20:59:55","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T04:59:55","slug":"photos-for-mac-deleting-items-from-within-a-playlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icanthascheezburger.com\/wordpress\/2022\/01\/photos-for-mac-deleting-items-from-within-a-playlist\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos for Mac: Deleting Items From Within a Playlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of my workflow for archiving downloaded videos from TikTok, I put TikTok videos into a manually created album in the Photos app so that I can drag them in one step into the Finder.<\/p>\n<p>But after I was done, I couldn&#8217;t delete the items from my photo library; the option doesn&#8217;t exist when I right-clicked the items, and the Delete key only deletes the items from that album.<\/p>\n<p>I searched the web for this, thinking maybe I&#8217;d find an iOS shortcut that does the trick. Glenn Fleishman had an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/234001\/macos-catalina-how-to-delete-images-from-manually-created-albums-in-photos.html\">article<\/a> on MacWorld that outlined a way to do it that involved tags and a smart album, but that seemed really convoluted.<\/p>\n<p>But there&#8217;s actually a really simple solution: you drag the items to Recently Deleted.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/icanthascheezburger.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/CleanShot-2022-01-04-at-18.20.19.gif\" alt=\"demonstrating dragging Photos.app items into the Recently Deleted folder\" title=\"CleanShot 2022-01-04 at 18.20.19.gif\" border=\"0\" width=\"300\" height=\"141\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes the best solutions are the simplest ones.<\/p>\n<p>It wouldn&#8217;t kill Apple to add a context menu item for deleting, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of my workflow for archiving downloaded videos from TikTok, I put TikTok videos into a manually created album in the Photos app so that I can drag them in one step into the Finder. But after I was done, I couldn&#8217;t delete the items from my photo library; the option doesn&#8217;t exist when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icanthascheezburger.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icanthascheezburger.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icanthascheezburger.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icanthascheezburger.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icanthascheezburger.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icanthascheezburger.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icanthascheezburger.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icanthascheezburger.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icanthascheezburger.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}