Duplicate photos. Help!

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Duplicate photos. Help!

Hey guys. I'm using iphoto as my default photo organizer. I noticed in finder I have a photos folder with what seems to be duplicate photos. Are these truly duplicates or the actual originals? Its a bit confusing how iphoto keeps the original files and the edited ones. I'm trying to tame the beast, but I dont want to delete any photos that I cant get back. I want to preform a full backup as soon as I get these photos under control.So I guess my question is how can I figure out which photos are truly duplicates, and how can I rid myself of them. Thanks 🙂

PowerBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Sep 26, 2012 6:29 PM

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Answer 1

BDAqua

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Sep 27, 2012 10:01 AM in response to powerbookluvr2010

Hi,

In Finder do Get Infos on some duplicates, are they the same extension & Sizes?

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Answer 2

Sep 27, 2012 10:08 AM in response to BDAqua

Same size, yes. Some say original, some say thumb. I dont want to delete the wrong one and lose the file. This is going to take forever to do in finder.

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Answer 3

BDAqua

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Sep 28, 2012 10:02 AM in response to powerbookluvr2010

Well, I don't think you want to delete any, iPhoto uses thumbs to display a small version of the real ones.

There are easy ways to delete them & leave the real pics, but don't really want to tell you how. 🙂

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Answer 4

Oct 2, 2012 5:27 AM in response to BDAqua

@BDAqua- Then why did you waste your time replying, I wouldn't ask the question if I didn't need an answer.

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Answer 5

BDAqua

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Oct 2, 2012 11:11 AM in response to powerbookluvr2010

Sorry, thought I might be able to ferret out more clues so we're sure not to make things worse.

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Answer 6

Oct 2, 2012 4:27 PM in response to BDAqua

My Iphoto library has duplicates. I'm trying to weed them out to slim down my library for backup. I'm still running iphoto 4, afraid to update until I have a soild back up thats not full of duplicates. I know not to delete photos from the folders in finder because that can lead to corruption. I've checked into duplicate finding software but it either requires and intel Mac (which I do not own) or a newer version of iphoto (which I have not updated for fear of losing my photos). Any suggestions?

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Answer 7

BDAqua

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Oct 9, 2012 9:55 PM in response to powerbookluvr2010

Sorry, I've wracked my brain & exausted searches for an answer, hopefully we get more help in here. 🙂

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