My Iphoto on my mac contains multiple duplicates of my photos. I assume this is because of automatic syncing with my iphone,
so I have turned of the sharing until I figure it out.
But is there a way to get rid of all the duplicates quickly without going through them all??
Thanks!
MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2011), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)
I have searched & duplicate annihaliator doesn’t exist neither does other apps you referenced on the reply for questions. I would like a safe duplicate remover for my iPhone that I don’t have to pay for Crazy to have duplicates & even triples show up.
RegardsHonakai
Be very wary of buying software from companies that do no provide any street addresses on their websites, and neither Enolsoft or Cisdem do. Also, I'm always curious when people post replies to old threads, and the reply is only a link or two. Seems almost... spammy to me.
That is not a feature of iPhoto - suggest to Apple - iPhoto Menu ==> provide iPhoto feedback.
iPhoto Library Manager - http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/ - or Duplicate annihilator are good tools for doing this
LN
You can use one of these applications to identify and remove duplicate photos from an iPhoto Library:
OT
Thanks ! I will make a suggestion for deletion of photo duplicates.
I have this problem too as I have downloaded iphone photos due to phones crashing etc., making sure we didn't lose the photos. Although they were in the icloud stream, I do like to have a backup when a device has a problem.
Solution for us now is something I read online by a blogger is to download monthly and then create monthly events then create albums from events for more organization and to help with duplication. Just have to clean up the old stuff and make those backups on external drives.
iPhoto from Apple -$14.99
iPhoto Library Manager-from a third party - $29.95
Go figure ;-)
Using the free iPhoto Remove Duplicates script on mine right now.
iPhoto from Apple is at a reduced price that is subsidised by hardware sales. It competes directly with Picasa - subsidised by advertising giant Google - which is free.
iPhoto Library Manager is not subsidised by anyone, is the work of a solo developer who has figured out a way to add value to using iPhoto.
Quite clever, really.
It's basically a $30 fix to a big problem that hopefully Apple will one day will address. I'd even pay a couple bucks more to have the program right.
More power to the guy for being able to capitalize on Apple's oversight. :-)
actually it is not a big problem - iPhoto is very good about keeping duplicates out so few people have this issue - duplicates in iPhoto are strictly caused by user actions importing things multiple times or other user errors like importing one iPhoto library into another one (which should NEVER be done)
and IMHO everyone should have IPLM around - it is a great utility for making better use of iPhoto - it is NOT a fix for duplicates although it can do that
LN
Since you cannot bulk delete images from an iPhone unless you copy them down into iPhoto and put them into a folder (at which point you are allowed to delete those originals), it's very easy to accumulate duplicates when you sync. This can snowball into a bigger problem later.
Judging from all the pages on dealing with removing duplicates that come up in a Google search, it's enough of a problem to have paid more attention to.
People should often not do a lot of things ;-), but unless effort is made to make it intuitive and easy to avoid an issue, these kinds of user problems will always occur. Apple is usually quite good at this, which is why I might give them less slack ;-)
Since you cannot bulk delete images from an iPhone unless you copy them down into iPhoto...
Whoa there, yes you can. You can do it on the Phone and you can do it with Image Capture (in the Applications Folder)
Apple provide two ways to do it.
Apparently not that easy to find....
http://www.chicagonow.com/still-advocating/2014/01/new-years-dilemma-what-to-do- with-1500-iphone-photos-of-your-kids-from-2013/
Humm - now that you posted that article I see clearly that your question is about how to give up photos you love of your grandkids - rather than what you originally ask of how to get rid of duplicates - My answer is simple - don't - keep them all - that is why I have 65,000 photos (more than double the grandmother's iPhoto size)
Basically to the revised question is only you can decide what to keep[ and what to get rid of - but looking thorough them to decide is fun
Enjoy
LN
I don't get your point? With respect, the fact that a blogger couldn't figure it out means.... a blogger couldn't figure it out. The point is that you don't need to import the images to iPhoto to delete them.
You're welcome.
I was merely pointing out that the solution is not as obvious as you'd like to think it is.
Love a link to the solution, BTW :-)
How to bulk delete duplicate photos in iphoto?
