Google-photos – How to Move Google Photos to an Album and Archive them in a single operation

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When I select multiple photos from a Google Photo album, I need to move them to an existing, or new, album, and then archive them.
Right now, it is very time-wasting to have to do it in two steps, especially since Google unselects the photos and I have to go back and re-select them just to archive them (with Shift+A).

Ideally there would be this item in the operations menu:

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Does such a thing exist, ideally without tapping into some Google API?

Best Answer

If you want all the images in the target album to be archived, then this is easy.

  1. select all the photos you wish
  2. move them to the album
  3. view the archive: https://photos.google.com/archive
  4. at the top right, choose "add photos"
  5. in the search box, type your album name and then select the album
  6. it may be easier now to select the photos from that album, especially if you could archive them all - just click the first and shift-click the last.
  7. click "done" in the top right.

The photos will be removed from the main collection but remain in the album and the archive.

If you don't wish to archive all the photos in that album then at step 2 move them to a new temporary album after step 7 move them to the real target album

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