![]() I vaguely remembered installing a Google Photo uploader thing on my desktop at work several months ago and letting it run for a few days while it uploaded the mess of photos we had. ![]() I bought Amy a new camera (the Sony A7) and decided as part of it I was going to clean up the mess that I’d help create over the years. We constantly talked about getting our iPhones set up to share stuff in a useful way. Every few months Amy would get frustrated looking for a photo and ask if I was ever going to clean everything up. A bunch of other stuff probably happened in the background as we connected Picasa to the web, installed various Google apps on our machines, and I had a brief foray into using an Android phone. Amy would sync her digital SLR photos with Picasa and then move them around. We avoided iPhoto, but every now and then it opened up somewhere and did something. We had various applications, like Dropbox and iTunes, set up iPhone sync directories. I then installed Picasa on each computer, spent a little while with Amy figuring it out, and let time pass from there.Īmy spent a lot of time over the past few years cleaning up photos, arranging them in folders, and copying things from place to place from within Picasa. I didn’t try to organize anything then – just get them all in one place. Several years ago I created a shared Dropbox folder for me and Amy and moved all of our many folders of photos into one folder in Dropbox. That’s the power of Duplicate Photos Fixer Pro which has been probably the cleanest and most straightforward part of this whole exercise.īut – let’s start from the beginning. After several different clean up approaches, we now have about 15,000. When I started (on Christmas Day – I figured it was a one day project) Picasa said we had around 35,000 photos. It is unlikely, that you are having exact duplicates, as you should have received a warning when uploading exact duplicates.I’m three days into trying to figure out the best way to deal with our large collection of digital photos that have accumulated since 2000. Try to find out, what has created the duplicates you are seeing and find common properties of the duplicates. You will have to wait for the next update, if you are using the Photos.app with "Optimize Storage" enabled and want to use PowerPhotos to find duplicates.įor the time being you would have to disable the Optimize Storage feature and use iCloud Photos only with all original photos stored locally. But the current versions of both programs cannot yet work fully with an iCloud Photos Library, if the "Optimise Storage" feature is used. They are not modifying the Photos Library behind Photos back, but are using only the program interface of Photos. But if the file attributes are different, and the photos are just similar, for example scans of the same printed photo, made add different times, you need a tool like Photo Sweeper to compare, what the photo is showing, not just the file attributes.īoth, Photo Sweeper and PowerPhotos are safe to use. Are the dimensions (width and height) the same? Are the filename extensions and the format and the file size the same? If the photos are exact duplicates, with the same filename or capture date, PowerPhotos can identify them. Use the Photos.app on your Mac to view the photos sorted by the capture date in All Photos, so exact duplicates will appear side-by-side. Perhaps some photos are edited versions with adjustments applied, or downsized previews or files in a different format. ![]() ![]() If you are still seeing duplicates, the files are probably similar, but not exact duplicates. How did you upload the photos to iCloud? If you have been using the Photos.app and synced a local library with iCloud Photos or are using the web interface at there should not be any duplicate files in iCloud, as iCloud Photos is checking for duplicates when photos from different devices are merged into just tested again to upload the same image file twice at and received this warning: Important: Back up the Library in Photos on Mac so that all stays safe for receiver - use an external device. Important: Today, Create a Time Machine backup of your Mac(s), so that you can have something to restore your Mac(s) from, should anything go wrong with this. So, contact those developers, and see what they have to say. But being authored 5 years ago and with another operating system in the day, I suspect this would not be the same case as of this reply. Important: Three (supposedly) safe apps are listed there. See this 2017 Post's Reply: Duplicates in Photo - Apple Communities Find More on this Here: Using Third-Party Apps to Remove Duplicate Photos Might Damage your Photos for macOS Library - Apple Support Important: Avoid using Third-Party Apps as they may damage your photo library. " duplicate photos in iCloud: i tried using duplicate photos fixer pro but it only found 80." ![]()
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