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Sam Yadon
Sam Yadon ✭
August 1, 2021 edited August 30, 2024 in Memories

Can albums be merged?

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  • Merge Albums
  • share photos with another album
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  • Charles E Olsen
    Charles E Olsen ✭
    August 1, 2021

    I was not able to find a merge button for Albums.

    You could copy and paste the memories from one album to another and then delete the Album you did not need. That would give you the same result.

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  • Dennis J Yancey
    Dennis J Yancey ✭✭✭✭✭
    August 1, 2021 edited August 2, 2021

    not truly a direct merge

    but you can simply select all the items in one album - and select "add album" and add them to the other album

    and then delete one of the albums. (deleting albums does not delete items in the album - they will continue to exist in the gallery)

    let us know if you need more explciti help.

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  • Suzy Adams
    Suzy Adams ✭✭
    August 1, 2021 edited August 1, 2021

    @Sam Yadon

    We understand that you would like to merge 2 albums together.

    Unfortunately there is no merge functionality.

    However, you can easily do this by following these steps:

    Open the album with the least number of memories.

    Click each memory so that there is a blue check in the upper right-hand corner.

    Select Actions from the top of the screen and click Add to Album.

    Then choose the album that you would like to add them to,

    Once you verify that they are there, you can simply delete the other Album.

    If needed you can rename the remaining album by opening the album and clicking edit title.

    Hope this works for you.

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  • Dennis J Yancey
    Dennis J Yancey ✭✭✭✭✭
    August 1, 2021 edited August 1, 2021

    note you DO NOT have to click each item one by one

    You can hold down your SHIFT key - and click the first and while continuing to hold down the shift key you can click the last - and they will all then be selected for you to then go on to the next step of "add album".

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  • Dennis J Yancey
    Dennis J Yancey ✭✭✭✭✭
    August 1, 2021

    check out this post for other nice tips in processing albums and gallery items

    https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/88332/family-search-memories-how-to-use-more-efficiently

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  • Dennis J Yancey
    Dennis J Yancey ✭✭✭✭✭
    August 2, 2021

    note however in merging items from two albums - as discussed above - you can really only do a multi-select with about 100 items at a time - you can actually multi-select any number - but if you select more than 100 - the process itself you attempt will usually end up in a "stall" and you will get a looping icon forever - until you refresh your screen.

    so best to try groups of like 100 items at a time if you have a large volume.

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