Q: Are duplicate photos automatically resolved in the iCloud Photo Library?
I have changed by System Photo Library. After I designated the new library as the System Photo Library and re-enabled iCloud, Photos has started uploading all my photos to the iCloud Photo Library (again).
I don't wish to exceed the storage limit of my iCloud plan, but essentially the new System Photo Library is a duplicate of the previous one, but it now resides on a different drive.
In the process of merging photos from my newly designated System Photo Library with those in the existing iCloud Photo Library, will duplicates be automatically resolved? Or do I need to manually delete the duplicates somehow?
iMac with Retina 5K display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.2), iCloud & Photos System Library
Posted on Jan 17, 2016 1:41 AM
Photos is merging the new system library into your iCloud Photo Library.
After the photos are uploaded they are compared to iCloud.
Open the Console.app (it is in Applications > Utilities). The Console will show you, what iCloud is doing.
You could type "photomodel" into the Console search field. Then I am seeing the process that is doing the duplicate checking:
com.apple.photomodel: Duplicate detection .....
Posted on Jan 17, 2016 2:00 AM
