My photos are scrambled after going from PC to Mac. I have multiple copies of most photos.
Any way for Mac to automatically remove duplicates of photos?
Mac mini 2018 or later
PSE can be used from within Photos to edit photos with the the 99¢ External Editors For Photos from the App Store. This user tip shows how: External Editors in Photos Are Here.
Photos can manage your imagers in the same folder (albums in Photos) organization as you have in the Finder. When you import a folder of image files into Photos select the checkbox to keep the Folder organization:
That will result in a folder containing an album with the same name as the folder on the hard drive that you imported:
The albums can be moved into folders and grouped by years or however you'd like. Here's how I have my family photos organized:
So you can simulate the folder organization that you have in the Finder but with the benefit of having a database driven digital asset management system with nondestructive editing, face recognition, etc.
As for duplicates in the library these applications will identify and help remove duplicate photos from a Photos Library:
- Duplicate Annihilator for Photos - $7.95
- PhotoSweeper - $9.99 - Demo version available.
- PowerPhotos - $29.95
- Photos Duplicate Cleaner - Free (does not work with video/movie files)
PowerPhotos is the iPhoto Library Manager version for Photos and is very powerful. Although more expensive I would recommend it as it has more capabilities than the others like the capability to merge Photos libraries or copy photos along with their metadata between libraries.
PhotoSweeper compares bitmaps and/or histograms so it can detect duplicate images even if they have different sizes, file names, sizes and capture dates.