Q: Is Apple aware that Photos is duplicating hundreds of iPhoto pix?
I recently "upgraded" to Yosemite (the BIGGEST Mac mistake I've made in over 20 years of being a Mac user) and it told me that iPhoto will not work and that I have to use the new "Photos" app instead.
So I open Photos and it migrates all of my iPhotos into it and it has duplicated thousands of images! Two days ago I had about 8,000 images in iPhoto. Now I have over 14,000 images in Photos. One specific image which was dated October 20, 2000 has been duplicated over 200 times!
How do I remove all these duplicates WITHOUT spending any money?
MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3), 8 GB 1067 MHz DDR3, 500GB HD
Posted on Jun 14, 2015 7:49 PM
If I had read this thread Sunday, I might agree with people bashing OP, but I found that thread about getting iPhoto9, only to realize that I had never downloaded ANY iPhoto from the App store. No updates, either (Lion used system updates, under the apple, not the app store). Anyone just updating (downgrading, really) to Yosemite from an earlier version could be in the same boat. I looked at iPhoto 9 when it first came out, and the forum was full of people having their libraries hosed, so I didn't bother until this weekend (my drive threw smart errors, and I popped the hood and replaced my HD with an SSD with a clean Yosemite on it).
Posted on Jun 15, 2015 8:49 PM