How to avoid duplicate exports of photos from Mac Photos?

When exporting photos from the Photos app to a folder on my Mac it does not recognize that the photo already has been previously exported. Instead it creates a new file and adds "(1)" to the name of the file to distinguish it from the previously exported file.


So now there are two copies of the same photo with slightly different names.


Shouldn't Photos ask to overide or ignore if file already exists in the folder?


Is there a way to avoid creating the duplicate files?


Thanks.


MacOS 10.13.6

MacBook Pro

Posted on Aug 3, 2019 7:37 PM

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