How do I avoid unintended duplicates in my Photos library? I am getting multiple duplicates for many many photos. They seem to be true duplicates with the same file number. Is this happening as a result of iCloud backup?
iMac
How to stop - stop importing the same photo multiple times
and there is no iCloud BackUp for a Mac - and a backup does not ever duplicate anything - it is just a backup in case of emergency
Since you supply no information at all one can only guess - the most common reason to have duplicates is using both MyPhotoStream and either iTunes Sync or direct import thereby importing the same photo multiple times
To get help you need to give us information - what OS are you running? What Photos software? What iCLoud services adn what setting for them?
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LN
Hey, Thank you Larry! I do have the photo streaming activated, and I'll bet that's where the duplication comes from. I will follow up on that
To answer your questions, I use a Macbook Pro retina display 15-inch, running the latest version of OS X El Capitan -- 10.11.2 and Photos Version 1.3 I have iCloud storage service, but my understanding is that it stores only what I manually feed to it. I notice that the Cloud feeds photos from my computer to my iPhone -- and probably vice versa but don't know if that means there could be some sort of loop created where photos originating on the phone get sent repeatedly the Mac.
Again, thank you for the photo streaming point. I'll try to figure that out.
I am getting multiple duplicates of photos in my library. Why? How can I avoid this?
