Photos Duplicate Cleaner App

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Photos Duplicate Cleaner App

Hi

Before I download and run this app, I was wondering if anyone was aware of any problems that it may cause.

I'm concerned that it may delete photo files that I don't want it to. As I understand it from the software description the app will find duplicates based on the image rather than the file name, which makes sense to me because the majority of my photos won't have specific names that I have given them. For example, I've just done a quick search and there are around 40 photo files called 008.JPG on my system, many are duplicates but about 15 are individual pictures that I want to keep. Obviously I don't want to be left with just one 008.JPG photo after running the app.

I would be grateful to hear fro anyone else who has run this app on their system.

Many thanks

Tom

Posted on Jan 9, 2016 1:29 AM

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Answer 1

Old Toad

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Jan 9, 2016 11:48 AM in response to Tom_531

Even though you've posted in the iPhoto forum you are referring to removing duplicates from a Photos library, right?

It does not delete photos automatically but will mark them automatically based on preferences you setup in its Automark preference pane:

Or you can mark them manually.

Once marked there is a Trash Marked button you can select if desired. That creates an album by the name of Duplicate Marked Photos containing those photos that were marked as duplicates. It will be up to you to actually delete them from the library.

That being said consider using PowerPhotos nstead. It's more powerful and can do what iPhoto Library Manage could for iPhoto, i.e. merge libraries, copy albums/photos between libraries with their metadata (keywords, titles, descriptions, faces, locations). IMO it's a much more worthwhile app.

In comparing the two apps on my test library PowerPhotos found 50 duplicates whereas PDC only found 25.

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Tom_531 Author

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Jan 10, 2016 5:58 AM in response to Old Toad

Many thanks, Old Toad.

In that case I think I'll download PowerPhotos and give that a go.

All the best

Tom

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