Neither Iphone or Macbook is identifying duplicate photos

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Neither Iphone or Macbook is identifying duplicate photos

Hi,

As a result of migrating from android to an iPhone I currently have a photo gallery with a large set of duplicate photos, many of them has the same name but with different EXIF data such as dates, locations etc. Initially the duplicate photo finder did a good job and found many of the duplicate photos but it's still missing a large chunk of them. I'm wondering if there's a good way to force the device to scan for duplicates again or if there's a good third party tool that allows for photo merging similarly to how it's done in the iOS photos app.

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MacBook Pro (M1, 2020)

Posted on Mar 23, 2023 5:21 AM

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Answer 1

Mar 23, 2023 7:17 AM in response to ChiSquared

PowerPhotos ($30) will search for duplicates, but I've been playing with PhotoSweeper ($10), and I think it works better. You can set the level of similarity, for example.

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Mar 23, 2023 7:37 AM in response to ChiSquared

They delete the chosen photo. Photos does a great job at combining the metadata, and I don't know of anything else that does. But I do spend some time copying the keywords and such between "duplicates" that Photos didn't find.

I wouldn't try to use any other 3rd Party software for duplicates in Photos libraries. Other apps will remove data that the Photos database requires, and the library will get totally messed up.

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ChiSquared Author

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Mar 23, 2023 7:22 AM in response to Richard.Taylor

Thanks for your reply.

I have stumbled across both of these softwares but i’m can’t seem to fins any information regarding if they can combine metadata from duplicatw photos or if it simply deletes one of the duplicates. The issue for me is that most of the remaining duplicates does not share dates & location. Have you had any experience with this?

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ChiSquared Author

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Mar 23, 2023 7:47 AM in response to Richard.Taylor

The apple photos functionality is impressive but I keep wondering why it just won't find the remaining duplicates since they share the same exact name, same exact histogram etc, perhaps they apply a limit to how far apart the dates can be or something. Perhaps I'll give the keywords a shot! :)

Thanks for the help! :)

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Neither Iphone or Macbook is identifying duplicate photos

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