Moving Photos from a project

I have put some photos in a project and now I want to move those photos to another projects album. So far I have tried to highlight all and drag them to the new album which works but it leaves me with 2 copies of the photos. How can I move these photos and delete the other project.
Mac Pro 2.6 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Hello
that's an easy one:
dragging pictures from one project to another moves the pictures (i.e pictures get removed from project A and added to project B). To do this you must move the images and drop them onto the project, not onto anything else.
Albums behave differently: because they're a collection that serves a usage purpose, not a storage purpose, albums can accept images from wherever they are. but the image are NOT ADDED to the project, even if the album is within a project.
projects are real image groups. album are virtual image groups.
so be careful not to delete images from one project when it's only been added to an album in another project, not the project itself
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