Q: Sudden unwanted duplicates in photos
Hi,
I have just found that a whole lot of photos have been duplicated in one of my folders.
The weird thing is there are no duplicates in the "All Photos" folder. They only appear in a date range smart folder to cover a trip I was on and.
The duplicates are exactly the same as the originals but they are .JPG instead of .jpg and their size is reduced (9MB becomes 5MB).
Can anyone tell me how they appeared and, by consequence, how I can avoid this repeating?
What is the easiest way to get rid of the duplicates?
I imported these photos from my photos library on my laptop onto to my iMac. Could it be something in that process?
There are even some photos I deleted that have reappeared!
Confused!
Posted on May 11, 2016 8:05 AM
Are you using "Shared Albums" as well? If you share a photo to a shared album, it may be reduced in size. And reimporting from a Shared album will give you a smaller photo. The max dimension of photos in Shared Albums is 2048 pixels.
Your iPad will download from My Photo Stream in an optimized size. If you them import from your iPad using a USB connection, you will import smaller versions as well.
Posted on May 12, 2016 1:56 AM