Multiple versions of same photo

Same issue too, new iPad and iPhoto. Seems like duplicates are getting created every time the 'edit' button is pressed. The issue for me is the lack of 'delete' button. I've got 42 'edited' pictures in iPhoto and no way to remove them. iPhoto needs a 'delete/trash can' button. Update needed soon. Scott

I called AppleCare about this on Monday and referred them to this discussion. They bumped it up to a supervisor or whatever they call them and he's looking into it.

It might be a good idea for the rest of you to "make some noise" about it if you want to see it fixed.

I called Apple and they put me through to a senior advisor. They are well aware of this and are working on a solution, and then he emailed me, and is suppossed to call me back with an update by Friday.

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Hi Ed,

As we discussed, my contact information is below. Once I hear back from our engineers, I'll follow up with you, even if it's to let you know we're still working on a solution.

Sincerely,

Scott Holmes

Apple Senior Advisor

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He advised me to have as many people call as possible and refer them to this thread.

Thanks,

Ed

Thanks a lot, folks.

Didn't even know I had a problem until I stumbled onto this thread, lol.

Been basically experimenting w/iPhoto and Photos app in support of iMovie to determine how useful iMovie can be as a can be as a "rough cut" video tool while traveling. (pretty darned nice -- well worth the upgrde to the new iPad from original)

Stopped even looking at the photos page in iPhoto once I determined the Photos app is the only place I can actually delete photos.

Having completed my iMovie experiments satisfactorily, I was going thru all my photos and video clips culling those I determined useless. I decided to explore the delete message about photos not being removed from the library.

A forum search eventually. Fought me here, so thot I'd toss in a couple pennies worth.

What I see is all photos with many having one or two duplicates which can be explained as the original and an edit or two.

THEN, I see about 40 copies off too many photos to bother counting. All of them have been used in iMovie. Most are photos I took using the iPad. But many are photos synced via iTunes before we left on our trip. A couple are actually mp4 video clip imported in the synced folders ( which became albums on the iPad.

But most interesting of all is 40 copies of the first video I completed and "shared" to the camera roll. But Only the last version of the other three videos show up. And, yess, since it is all experimental, I have redone all of those videos at least five times to change little things.

Interesting note, tho. That first video is the only one whose project I have deleted from iMovie.

My turn to drive. Gotta go.

I've got this aswell!!!! Very irritating. What's more annoying is that I've ended up deleting a really great pic that I took with the iPad while on vaction in NY, thinking that I had duplicates. I deleted them from the 'edited' folder - (and I've got 2 'last import' folders!) thinking they'd still be on the camera roll. Now all gone!!!

Easy to delete from camera roll, but impossible to delete the synced duplicates.

I have now deleted iPhoto from the iPad. I will miss the fun editing and better slideshow options compared to the normal Photos app, (and the £2.99) but nothing else.

Yeah, I was wondering about that delete thing, when someone was lamenting the inability to delete from inside the iPhoto app Library. Since there seems be no way to tell when anything in the library was created, how do you know which of 40 copies to delete?

Did a little research on my own iPhoto iOS photo Library.

First of all, it only appeared that I had too many multi-duped photos to count. It turns out I have

15 items with 50+ copies, and one with a minuscule 20-ish copies. (out of about 300 actual photos, plus about 100 legit duplicates).

Out of the 16 multi-dupes, there are

12 on the Camera Roll, of which

9 are unedited iPad camera photos

2 were photos imported via iTunes sync and edited in iPhoto

1 is the first (3 min) completed video exported from the iMovie app

2 video clips imported via iTunes sync and edited (rotated) in iMovie app

1 photo imported via iTunes, edited in iPhoto, but not placed in Camera Roll

1 photo imported via iTunes, not edited, and never placed in Camera Roll

So, that's my story.

But, at least I figured out where the Photo Library is for the iPhoto app. Lol.

Hmmm. Occurred to me that perhaps that one photo I think was never edited or placed in the Camera Roll may have been a test edit in the photos app, and then was deleted from the camera roll as part of the experimental process. Or perhaps was edited in iPhoto and reverted to original.

But the one thing is for sure. No photos or video imported from my camera via the camera kit were involved in the mega-duping scandal.

I have reinstalled iPhoto so that (hopefully) I will get update when it arrives.

iPhoto is pretty and looks good but I think the following are better for the photo enthusiastic.

1. PhotoGene. Has main edit controls, layers, presets ( and create your own), batch export to typical services.

2. Snapspeed. iPad orientated editing and good stylising.

3. PhotoToaster. Excellent for quick fix and adding effects.

...things getting worse. Now deleted iPhoto on the iPad. Discover today that my main Mac iPhoto library has DULPICATES of all the pics that were in iPhoto on the iPad. Not in the Albums, but in the main body of photos. Given the Mac already duplicates them into Original/Modified pics, it was no wonder my main HD went from having 16GB free to just 2GB overnight. Thought something was up! Now I know why. All 1000 images on my iPad somehow got put back into my main library.. and I guess, back again to the iPad after the next sync, hence the iPad duplicates going from 2 to 4 to 6 to 8 quickly. To confirm, it's just the pics that were synced to the iPad that have gone back double - so it's just a selection within the library. Luckily I only have a few, larger bodies of pics, but it's still 1000 or so I've got to find and delete.

Thank goodness I've gotten rid of this IOS iPhoto and have asked for a refund.

Okay. I'm home with my Mac and attacked the next step of getting all the pics and videos off the iPad and onto the Mac.

I'm not particularly interested in having my pics in iPhoto on my Mac, anyway, so I used process in iPhoto help under "Share photos>With your computer>Save with iTunes"

This might be helpful for those wishing to avoid Robert's problem.

You just share the photos/album/event with iTunes inside iPhoto, hook up your iDevice to your computer, open iTunes, click on your iDevice in iTunes, find the iPhoto app under "apps" "File Sharing", click on the file(s) and pick a directory in which to save them.

Any video included in the process will only save a jpg of the fiile icon, so to get video files onto your computer, you will have to open iPhoto and choose the video files to import. I found that once in iPhoto, I can just click the video, copy, then paste into the non-iPhoto folder in which I wish them to reside.

I did not end up with any mega-dupes using this process. I did end up with copies of all the photos I had imported from my camera, synced in via iTunes originally, and, of course those photos I took with the iPad camera. But this was all an experiment, so I deleted all but the photos and video I took with the iPad camera -- which I don't anticipate using much in the future, anyway.

However, getting all those pics and video clips off the iPad and out of the iPhoto library (not necessarily the same thing, apparently) proved somewhat tedious.

And then when I thought I was all done, I ended up with a "Photo Box" album in iPhoto with every picture I had loaded onto the iPad since I started playing around with this process -- even ones I thought I had deleted initially when I started experimenting. Even tho I was able to select a range and thereby clear in a couple steps (was being careful, since photos I wanted to keep were there, too), it proved to be frustrating as well, cuz I now have a "Photo Box" album with 3 empty gray placeholders.

Of course, now that i'm all done, I can't go back and duplicate it all to provide the steps I went thru, but for the most part, I deleted them one at a time from the Photos app. But some (probably those taken with the iPad camera or imported from my camera), I was able to just delete the folders I placed them in. But of course, lots of photos were also in the Camera Roll, so those copies had to be deleted. I also went thru and reverted all the copies in the "edited" album back to original in order to get rid of that album.

And I probably could have eliminated those synced thru iTunes by just removing the folders they were in from the iTunes targeted photo folder.

But at least, as I went along, I ended up getting rid of the mega-dupes and didn't end up with any on my Mac.

Anyway. In case any of this is useful, here it is.

Is there anyway to "Shift-Click" (a la Windows) on the ipad to select a range of photos? That would make some of these clean-up tasks way easier.

Also, why doesn't Apple just let you select photos and delete them?

There is a "select multiple" option in iPhoto, which lets you select random photos out of the group, or a connected range. But that isn't always available, and even when you select multiple you never know if you will be able to actually do anything with the selections. For instance, you can select multiple, then try to share with the Camera Roll, but now all of the sudden the multiple selections you made are grayed out and you have to transfer one at a time.

Why doesn't Apple just let us select photos and delete them? Silly boy. If you accidently delete a photo you wanted to keep, you might sue Apple for allowing you to make that mistake. Actually, I don't think even Apple knows. Maybe they have faith in their users and expect every photo to be a masterpiece. I know mine all are -- aren't yours?

Interesting. After a snapped a few random photos of my walls (masterpiece unto themselves, of course) to check something out, the "Photo Box" album in iPhoto disappeared.

Interesting, part 2: Happened to check my back up to iCloud. Its telling me my next backup will be 4.0g based on 3.0g in the Camera Roll, and 754m in iPhoto. And I only have 20 photos total anywhere, and only one photo in the Camera Roll. Guess I need to jump over to a new forum.

I am having the same problem on the new iPad. I ended up with over 10,000 photos on iPhoto. I deleted the app and lost ALL my editing work since I bought the app! When I downloaded again and it updated the library I started with duplicates of multiple images. After a couple of launches I was at 5,000 photos! And no way to delete multiple ones. Is there any other solution. I am not going to restore my iPad and start over just for this app. It takes too long and is too much work to do it again. Besides from reading it doesnt seem to help either. I will be following this and hoping someone comes up with a solution. It is more than frustrating.

I deleted the original version first and then downloaded the newer one. I don't see the dulpicates upon duplicates that I used to. I figured that I would loose data like edits so I didn't really use it much until a fix came out. I'll start giving it some use and see how it goes.

I had deleted the app until I saw today that an update was available. So downloaded it again to test. Went into photos and wrote down number of photos. Then edited one and saved it and as usual it updated the library. This is where the dozens of duplicates would show up. But so far am happy to say that the number of photos increased by one instead of hundreds more! So i edited another and again only an increase of one. So for now it seems to be working. I'll keep using it and see if it continues to work normally. If not I will post again. However I have lost dozens of edited photos when I had to delete the app to get rid of the nearly 20,000 photos it had grown to. So don't trust it entirely, but will try one photo at a time.