Hidden Photo Album

I did the most recent OS upgrade and part of that is a new version of iPhoto, now Photos... My first impression is rather negative, but the problem I'm having now is that the "Hidden Photos" option is no longer present in the "View" menu. I have hundreds of hidden photos. If I click on "Photos" the hidden photos do not appear, however if I click on "Albums," there they all are. There is an "Show Hidden Photo Album" option but I've so far been unable to figure out how to create one of these "hidden photo albums." Next thing you know my nephews'll be seein' Abiela's ***...

The "Hiding" is different in Photos from iPhoto.
If you hide a photo, it will be invisible in the Photos view - in Moments, Years, Collections, but it will be visible in any album. So there is no need for a View option "Show Hidden Photos". All hidden photos are shown together in the Hidden Photos album, that you can add to the sidebar.
There is an "Show Hidden Photo Album" option but I've so far been unable to figure out how to create one of these "hidden photo albums."
You cannot create albums based on "hidden". There is only the one smart album, that will show all hidden photos.

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How do you know what the intention was, and how it "hardly seems to be the case here"?
So you're saying it was intended to show photos marked as "hidden" in albums, slideshows, and events? If so, what's the point of having specifying photos as hidden when they're clearly not being hidden very well at all?
This is not how it worked in iPhoto - hidden meant hidden from any photo display, unless you specified Show Hidden Photos in View. To intentionally change the behavior indicates the designers felt that this was a better way. I can't see how freely displaying hidden photos is an improvement, can you?
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Why do hidden photos still show up in 'all photos'?

I have been using Photos for a couple days now and I have noticed that when I hide a photo it gets hidden from 'moments', 'collections' and 'years' but not from 'All photos' under albums. Its frustrating since there is a specific folder under albums (that you can also hide from view) called 'hidden photos'. Why go through all that trouble of creating a 'hidden photos' album, that can be hidden from your folder list, to still allow all the hidden photos to be displayed under 'all photos' under albums? Seems to defeat the purpose.
Am I the only one that is having this issue?

I'm afraid that hidden photos do not work the same way that they did in iPhoto."All photos" is intended to include hidden photos. Hidden photos are only hidden from moments and collections.

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Why aren't my hidden photos in iPhoto Events hidden in Photos anymore? The whole point of hiding them is so people cannot see them anywhere without unhiding them!

The migration unhides them
Show or hide photos
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Hide photos: Select the photo or photos, choose Image > Hide [number] Photos, then click Hide Photos.The selected photos disappear from your moments, but are not deleted.
Show hidden photos: Click Albums in the toolbar, then choose View > Show Hidden Photo Album.The Hidden Photos album appears among your other albums. To unhide photos in it, select them, then choose Image > Show Photo.

Hidden photos still appear in all photos album

Hi
In the new iPhoto when I hide photos they still appear in the All Photos album and will not hide , this is very inconveinant can somebody tell me if this is a bug or intentional and if so is there a work around.
thx

Hmmm. Yeah, that's what I'm seeing to. It hides it from the "Photos" area, and the Faces and other albums, but not from the "All Photos" smart album. It might be intentional; the "all photos" smart album may be intended to show ALL photos; hidden or not.
Note if your goal is to make the photo "secret," hiding the photo isn't the right trick.

How do I get "hidden photos" back into album permanently. How di they get "hidden"?

How do I get "hidden photos" back into album permanently? How did they get "hidden"?

View -> Hidden Photos.

How do i delete a photo album sent from my pc from my iphone 5c

this website is useless, talk about being led a merry dance by apple!
All I want to know is how the **** do i delete a photo album (sent from my pc) from my iphone 5c....how hard can it be to find out??????

Cheers Chris,
I was not being disrespectful to the forum, I was however doing so to Apple and their usless customer service, technical support, website that takes you round and round in circles and total lack of contact us facility (unless you live in the US).
Everywhere I go they want me to log in AGAIN and AGAIN and then they send stupid messsages to my phone that do nothing unlike they tell me. For something so simple it has taken days and I mean days for them to even let me find how to post the message asking for help and as for my local Apple store....don't get me started as they didn't know how to do it.
It's not very well explained anywhere and I have done it by default following your reply so thanks. They go on about being a super company but ask them directly for help and nothing. In all honesty when I go to itunes it doesn't show you any way to remove such albums and all I can see is the sync thing that says what do I want to sync...I did it by syncing an empty folder from my pc, shouldn't be that hidden and un-explained.
Cheers again and apologies if you thought I was being rude.

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I've been reading all the descriptions about the difference between the "Photos" library as we were familiar with in iPhoto and the "All Photos" album that Photos has and I think I understand even if I disagree with the logic. I have a different problem. I took about 35 pictures with my DSLR today and inserted the SD card into my iMac and since I am still using iPhoto, I imported the pictures into iPhoto first and then opened Photos to import them. I went to the Photos library (at the top of the sidebar menu) and the pictures weren't there. I looked in the "All Photos" album and they were there. I also had several scans that I dragged into Photos and they appeared in both Photos and the All Photos album. When I checked the number of items in both the photos and all photos they matched but I looked through Photos and couldn't find the new pictures. They seem to be somehow hidden. What am I missing?
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The FAVOURITES and PANOS albums also sort by date and time too. So all the albums sort by time and day except the ALL PHOTOS album! Seems very strange! What's even odder is that the date range listed at the top of the ALL PHOTOS album would suggest that they are sorted by date!
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Can I still use the hide function ? "The Camera Roll and My Photo Stream album are replaced with an All Photos album"

when the All Photos Album is created, all of the previously hidden files are now un-hidden. Is there a way to hide them in the new album?

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IPhoto - Hidden Photos - Events Thumbnail Display Bug

_*iPhoto - Hidden Photos - Events Thumbnail Display Bug*_
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c) while browsing photos in an Album.
_*"Fixes" that do NOT work:*_
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_*TEMPORARY WORKAROUND:*_
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My Acrobat Pro 9 has also this bug. I am using XP SP2. I have reported this bug at Adobe web site many times. I wrote to the Adobe customer care. I wrote about this on many different forums and I was hopping an update with this bug fixed. I installed all updates till now bu the problem still exists. I do not know why Adobe is not caring about this stupid bug. It is really, really annoying. In my experience with Adobe Acrobat for about 10 years, Acrobat version 9 is the worst version I ever worked with. There are a lot of glitches and bugs in it, expecially with fonts, web version creation, password protection encryption etc etc.
If you find any fix please post back on this forum.
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Thanks.

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Why would you ever want hidden photos popping up in your slideshow?

On the face of it, your point certainly makes sense. But the point of the Quick Slideshow is to show you everything in the chosen Event (or Album) and everything includes hidden photos too. It’s quite possible that a person might forget that they have hidden photos in an Event, for instance, and this feature could help them find something thought lost.
So I can see where I might agree with you, and where I might not.
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Regards
TD

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