Duplicates and strange photos appearing in iPhoto '08

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Duplicates and strange photos appearing in iPhoto '08

I opened iPhoto and found that I now have 3 and sometimes 4 copies of hundreds of photos in iPhoto "Photos". Doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason as to which photos got duplicated. Also, I have blank squares instead of pictures, I have copies of forms in there too along with company logos from emails I received.

First, how and why did this happen?
Second, how do I eliminate these duplicates? I had about 6,500 original photos. Now I have almost 10,000 photos in iPhoto.

Thanks for any and all help.

JDonS

iMac 24", Mac OS X (10.5.5)

Posted on Oct 31, 2008 7:03 AM

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Answer 1

Yer_Man

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Oct 31, 2008 12:45 PM in response to JDonS

JdonS

Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the apple and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild.

Regards

TD

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JDonS Author

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Nov 3, 2008 10:09 AM in response to Yer_Man

Thanks for the info. I did a backup and then a rebuild and that helped. However, I had to acquire Duplicate Anhilator to really clean out the 3,000+ duplicates I ended up with. Don't know how it happened, and hope it doesn't occur again.
JDonS

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