AITA for removing my former roommate from our shared photo album after she deleted pictures?

When Mia and I lived together, we kept a shared online album called “Apartment Years.” It held birthday pictures, bad cooking experiments, moving-day photos and ordinary evenings on the balcony.

After Mia moved out, we both kept adding pictures from mutual-friend events. Then I noticed gaps. She had deleted several photos where she disliked how she looked, including one of my birthday dinner and a group picture with a friend who later moved overseas.

I restored the files from my backup and asked her not to delete shared memories. She said the pictures included her face, so she should be able to remove them from an album connected to her account.

A week later, she deleted two more.

I removed her access and changed the album owner settings. I did not download the entire album for her first. She can still see individual photos other people send, but she lost the organized collection we built together for five years.

Mia says I took a joint archive and declared myself its owner because I had the backup. She also says restoring photos after she removed them ignored her clear wish not to have those images kept in a shared space.

I have not posted the photos publicly. I want them because they contain my birthday, my friends and my home too. In several, Mia is one person among ten.

I offered to send her a copy of everything except the photos she deleted. She said that offer proves I understand she has a claim to the album while giving myself final control over what survives.

I thought I was protecting memories from being edited around one person’s current preferences. I also used administrator access to settle a disagreement that belonged to both of us.