[Feature] Add option to move pictures from one album to another (new or existing) album

[theone11]

The feature

I have pictures in an album and would like to move them out of the existing album and into a new or another existing album.

The current method I use:

• Mark the pictures and "Copy to album" where I choose an existing album or create a new one.
• Go back to the original album, find and mark the pictures again and remove them from the original album.

What I want to do

• Mark the pictures and "Move to album" where I choose an existing album or create a new one.

Platform

• Server
• Web
• Mobile

[soana]

This feature will save me a lot of clicks in organizing my albums. Right now I move all the pictures that are not in an album to a WIP album this way when opening the album in the Web GUI I can see dates and select my pictures using the shift buttons. if I try to do that from a search window that includes only pictures not in an album there is no way to use shift to select a large group of pictures.
In photo prism the not in an album switch was present on the main page and it was easier to select and create albums than what immich has right now.

[Gorbush]

This would be especially useful if you do like me - import from different sources like AmazonPhotos, Google Photos, iCloud, and some manual backups from different phones - and all of them were imported with option create-albums - which means each picture is actually present in 5 up to 10 different albums.

So some simple Remove from all the albums or an X next to the album name would be a huge time saver.

[allamiro]

any updates on this feature?

[mkubiak402]

Yeah how is this not a thing?? I would like to organize my pics and i cant because i cant move them to different album's

[rennerocha]

This is a very useful feature for the way that I use the application. I synchronize all my photos from my mobile into a "Camera" album, then I go manually moving photos to more specific albums. Currently I need to add to the other album and then remove from the "Camera" album. It takes much more time than just moving to another album.

The current "add to album and keep it in the current album" is useful as well, so I wouldn't remove this feature anyway. I use it when I want to select some photos from different albums to share with someone or to download them for printing. But this is a process that is done less frequently than the moving one.

[solarssk]

Hey. Any updates in this topic?

[bo0tzz]

https://justinmayer.com/posts/any-updates/

[solarssk]

you know, it's such a basic software feature - that I'm shocked that it's not implemented. From here it would be enough to write whether there are any plans to do this functionality or not. The post appeared in April, we are in July - if there is a product owner (yes I know, it is open source), it would be possible to write whether you want it at all or not. ;)

[bo0tzz]

If we didn't want it, the thread would be closed.

[solarssk]

well :) and great, it means that the topic is not burned (yet) and in some future perspective you can potentially count on this functionality. Thanks.