Organizing photos

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Organizing photos

I daily encounter ads for software and even smart hardware that claims to be able to help me organize my photos. I currently have over 8700 photos. I know many of them have duplicates but worse yet, I don't have an easy way of locating a specific photo . All these ads claim to delete duplicates and establish pathways and folders to get organized. I don't need to be hoodwinked or spend hours trying to learn some "system" that invariably becomes unusable. Does anyone have and recommendation for something REALLY good to help me? Thank you.

Btw, I use an iPhone 11 Pro, but I also use a Legacy iMac (mid 2010) running High Sierra

Thank you,

Glenn

Posted on Apr 9, 2020 12:32 PM

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Answer 1

tygb

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Apr 10, 2020 12:48 AM in response to Glenn Greenway1

See some articles https://support.apple.com/en-in/HT207368

https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/iphone/iphc0fc668ab/ios

While browsing generally unlimited ads rarely appear to find duplicate photos , you can see this https://support.apple.com/en-in/HT203987

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/sfri32632/12.0/mac/10.14

If these are some pop ups they can be in the form of adware / malware or some suspicious links run malwarebytes anti malware for Mac https://www.malwarebytes.com/mac/

Search photos see this article https://support.apple.com/en-in/HT207368

Using third party apps / softwares to find duplicate photos can damage photo library https://support.apple.com/en-in/HT204968

You can manually delete duplicate photos see the thread https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250983357

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Answer 2

Yer_Man

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Apr 9, 2020 1:27 PM in response to Glenn Greenway1

Photos, the Apple photo manager, is a:free and b: already on your Mac.

And frankly, 8700 is a tiny library these days.

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Old Toad

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Apr 9, 2020 5:58 PM in response to Glenn Greenway1

The post by Terence Devlin in this topic is an excellent treatise on organizing images in iPhoto or Photos: Re: Better way to organize my images? The info applies to both iPhoto and Photos.

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léonie

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Apr 10, 2020 3:42 AM in response to Glenn Greenway1

How are you storing your photos right now?

Are you using the Photos.app or are your photos stored in folders on your Mac?

Or are you organising them on your iPhone 11 Pro?

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