I am trying to remove duplicate photos in my Photo library. Is there an easy way?
iMac, iOS 11.2.5
These applications will identify and help remove duplicate photos from a Photos Library:
PowerPhotos is the iPhoto Library Manager version for Photos and is very powerful. Although more expensive I would recommend it as it has more capabilities than the others like the capability to merge Photos libraries or copy photos along with their metadata between libraries.
PhotoSweeper compares bitmaps and/or histograms so it can detect duplicate images even if they have different sizes, file names, sizes and capture dates.
Everyone I know HATES Photo app and we are not Apple geeks who are duplicating on purpose. You would think, the great Apple folks would hear us and simplify!
Also, the 'thumbnails' that duplicate and identify faces --added to the library of mess--is no help, either.
I have recently encountered the same issue with duplicated photos. In my case it seems to be limited to photos taken with iPhone. When I compare the duplicated, there is a new file extension used .heis for more recently photos and during some point of the transition some now have both .jpg and .heis extensions.... causing the duplicates.
I have not dug too deep into the issue yet... whether this was a result of my migration to a new MBP running High Sierra or an iPhone update or both....and whether this file format is a good thing.
Either manually b deleting them (select a photo you want to delete and then press command delete to move it ot the recently deleted folder then delete from there ( or wait 30 days for them to automatically be deleted) - or use a safe, tested duplicate identification program like PowerPhotos, Duplicate Annihilator for Photos or PhotoSweeper for Photos to identify then and then delete as above
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This is NOT helpful since it seems every single photo has a duplicate and there are thousands going back over my lifetime of 58 years.
I agree with you that this new program is unwieldy and not well thought out for those migrating from the old iphotos, older computers, backed-up photos, etc.
Yes, I have exactly the same problem.
Thousands of photos duplicated, but not every one of them.
Why did it happened and how to undo it?
yes, exactly the same problem here.
Regarding the actual problem I found best solution to be software called Gemini, is not for free except if found the right way...
Do you have both the iCloud Photo Library and My Photo Stream enabled?
Please state the name(s) of any such programs
How do I remove duplicate photos in Photos?
