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Oct 2, 2013 9:51 AM in response to lwebb1508by LarryHN,That is not a feature of iPhoto - suggest to Apple - iPhoto Menu ==> provide iPhoto feedback.
iPhoto Library Manager - http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/ - or Duplicate annihilator are good tools for doing this
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Oct 2, 2013 10:03 AM in response to lwebb1508by Old Toad,You can use one of these applications to identify and remove duplicate photos from an iPhoto Library:
- iPhoto Library Manager - $29.95
- Duplicate Cleaner for iPhoto - free
- Duplicate Annihilator - $7.95 - only app able to detect duplicate thumbnail files or faces files when one library has been imported into another with iPhoto 8 and earlier.
- PhotoSweeper - $9.95 - This app can search by comparing the image's bitmaps or histograms thus finding duplicates with different file names and dates.
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Jan 3, 2014 5:12 PM in response to LarryHNby AnneMack,Thanks ! I will make a suggestion for deletion of photo duplicates.
I have this problem too as I have downloaded iphone photos due to phones crashing etc., making sure we didn't lose the photos. Although they were in the icloud stream, I do like to have a backup when a device has a problem.
Solution for us now is something I read online by a blogger is to download monthly and then create monthly events then create albums from events for more organization and to help with duplication. Just have to clean up the old stuff and make those backups on external drives.
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Jan 29, 2014 6:14 PM in response to LarryHNby Kurt Triffet,iPhoto from Apple -$14.99
iPhoto Library Manager-from a third party - $29.95
Go figure ;-)
Using the free iPhoto Remove Duplicates script on mine right now.
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Jan 29, 2014 10:55 PM in response to Kurt Triffetby Terence Devlin,iPhoto from Apple is at a reduced price that is subsidised by hardware sales. It competes directly with Picasa - subsidised by advertising giant Google - which is free.
iPhoto Library Manager is not subsidised by anyone, is the work of a solo developer who has figured out a way to add value to using iPhoto.
Quite clever, really.
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Jan 30, 2014 9:08 AM in response to Terence Devlinby Kurt Triffet,It's basically a $30 fix to a big problem that hopefully Apple will one day will address. I'd even pay a couple bucks more to have the program right.
More power to the guy for being able to capitalize on Apple's oversight. :-)
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Jan 30, 2014 9:36 AM in response to Kurt Triffetby LarryHN,actually it is not a big problem - iPhoto is very good about keeping duplicates out so few people have this issue - duplicates in iPhoto are strictly caused by user actions importing things multiple times or other user errors like importing one iPhoto library into another one (which should NEVER be done)
and IMHO everyone should have IPLM around - it is a great utility for making better use of iPhoto - it is NOT a fix for duplicates although it can do that
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Jan 30, 2014 11:46 AM in response to LarryHNby Kurt Triffet,Since you cannot bulk delete images from an iPhone unless you copy them down into iPhoto and put them into a folder (at which point you are allowed to delete those originals), it's very easy to accumulate duplicates when you sync. This can snowball into a bigger problem later.
Judging from all the pages on dealing with removing duplicates that come up in a Google search, it's enough of a problem to have paid more attention to.
People should often not do a lot of things ;-), but unless effort is made to make it intuitive and easy to avoid an issue, these kinds of user problems will always occur. Apple is usually quite good at this, which is why I might give them less slack ;-)
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Jan 30, 2014 11:48 AM in response to Kurt Triffetby Terence Devlin,Since you cannot bulk delete images from an iPhone unless you copy them down into iPhoto...
Whoa there, yes you can. You can do it on the Phone and you can do it with Image Capture (in the Applications Folder)
Apple provide two ways to do it.
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Jan 30, 2014 11:58 AM in response to Terence Devlinby Kurt Triffet,Apparently not that easy to find....
http://www.chicagonow.com/still-advocating/2014/01/new-years-dilemma-what-to-do- with-1500-iphone-photos-of-your-kids-from-2013/ -
Jan 30, 2014 12:34 PM in response to Kurt Triffetby LarryHN,Humm - now that you posted that article I see clearly that your question is about how to give up photos you love of your grandkids - rather than what you originally ask of how to get rid of duplicates - My answer is simple - don't - keep them all - that is why I have 65,000 photos (more than double the grandmother's iPhoto size)
Basically to the revised question is only you can decide what to keep[ and what to get rid of - but looking thorough them to decide is fun
Enjoy
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Jan 30, 2014 12:35 PM in response to Kurt Triffetby Terence Devlin,I don't get your point? With respect, the fact that a blogger couldn't figure it out means.... a blogger couldn't figure it out. The point is that you don't need to import the images to iPhoto to delete them.
You're welcome.
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Jan 30, 2014 12:54 PM in response to Terence Devlinby Kurt Triffet,I was merely pointing out that the solution is not as obvious as you'd like to think it is.
Love a link to the solution, BTW :-)
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Jan 30, 2014 1:38 PM in response to Kurt Triffetby LarryHN,You can do it on the Phone and you can do it withImage Capture (in the Applications Folder)
and again yoru question has morphed from duplicates to photos of grandkids you shoudl give up but can't to how to delete photo on an iPhone - which does not involve iPhoto for the Mac in any way
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