Gemini 2
Hi, I just started to use Gemini to delete the duplicated photos but I don't know how I can delete the photos in the trash. It seems that those photos are still in my photo library after I tried to delete them. Thanks
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I would be very hesitant in using Gemini 2 to remove duplicate files in a Photos library. The parent company, MacPaw, offers other apps, like CleanMyMac, that are considered akin to malware by most of the experienced contributors to these forums.
Here's what I know: you want an app that will identify the potential duplicates, put them in an album or mark them with a keyword for easy retrieval and deletion by you. You don't want one that does the deletion itself for obvious reasons.
I've run tests on the these two apps with the following results and found them to be safe to use:
PowerPhotos - $29.95
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, both original and edited versions, along with their metadata between libraries.
PhotoSweeper - $9.99 - Demo version available.
PhotoSweeper compares bitmaps and/or histograms so it can detect duplicate images even if they have different file sizes, file names, image sizes and capture dates.