Q: Deleting duplicates in Photos. I have 18,780 photos and 1,465 videos.
I have spent so much time trying to organize my photos/videos and am desperate for some help. I have gone to the apple store, researched, etc....I will list my questions below and add some pictures of my problems. Thank you in advance!
I have a Macbook Air and am using Photos for all of my pictures. I have so many pictures that it seems unreasonable to manually delete each and every picture and I cannot find the duplicates but I am certain there are a lot. I had my photos all uploaded to icloud with the "optimize storage option" but changed it yesterday to "download originals to this mac" so that PowerPhotos could actually access my pictures (Now I am wishing I would have done that first).
Here are some of my questions and things I have done to try and fix the issue:
-I have deleted the "recently deleted" photos in Photos
-I have emptied my recycling bin
-I frequently back my computer up to an external hard drive
-I pay the $2.99 a month for extra icloud space (but I have no clue if I am even utilizing the appropriate features of this storage option)
-Downloaded PowerPhotos yesterday but have not been successful in finding all the duplicates.
-I barely have any storage left on my computer and am unclear what the "other" category is under storage
-There are so many uploads from my phone into Photos that wont appear because they are unable to import for some reason. It stinks to wonder what those may have been and not know what is causing it.
-I had a very organized photo library when I was using Iphoto and now I am extremely un-organized and all my pictures are in different locations, etc. I have read so many instructions on how and I still cant figure out what the most ideal way of organizing into albums (and how specific and/or vague I should be). I know you can do keywords or titles but I cant figure out which is the best method without taking up so much time.
MACBOOK AIR (11-INCH, EARLY 2015), OS X El Capitan (10.11.5)
Posted on May 29, 2016 1:12 AM






