

It works with photos from iPhoto, Aperture and Adobe Lightroom libraries as well as photos from your hard drives and external storages. I personally use PowerPhotos (I also use this for copying images and data between libraries) Īnother suitable app recommended by experts here is PhotoSweeper (I have no personal experience of this one)īoth are paid apps. PhotoSweeper is a fast, precise, super-efficient tool to eliminate similar or duplicate photos even in huge photo collections. They will damage your photos library and likely cause loss of your photos. * or using an app designed to work with the photos library (Ie one that marks the photos or puts them in an album, and lets you review and then delete them, rather than doing the delete itself.ĭo NOT use a general file duplicate finder not designed to work with the photos library. Tried PhotoSweeper (full version) and with limited success. PhotoSweeper is a fast and powerful duplicate photo cleaner designed to help you find and delete duplicate and similar photos on your Mac. PhotoSweeper is a photo management app that helps users eliminate similar or duplicate photos in their collections. In the trial, only 10 photos can be deleted. PhotoSweeper is another intelligent duplicate finder. xxxx 1.jpg and trying to find an app to find and delete them. Find video duplicates has poor performance and does not support video previews. By default, GrandPerspective cannot be used to delete files (a wise choice), but you can flip on. By clicking on this button, you can see all of the photos youve uploaded and make sure that there are no duplicates.

There are no facilities in photos to automate finding and deleting duplicates, so either After a mass dumping of Aperture, iPhoto and Photo databases and files into one lump folder, it's a rat's nest of images, a lot of duplicates with different names ie.

So yes - if you delete a photo from the library it will no longer be available to view from the albums. When you view the album it shows all the photos that have been added to that albums "list", viewing them from the library. When you add a photo to an album it is not duplicated but the filename is effectively added to a list for that album. makes no sense to keep 2 identical images in your collection, deleting the ones.
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Photos only ever stores one photo - that is the one shown in the library. I use PhotoSweeper when working on a Mac (which I use to illustrate the.
