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The iPhoto Diet : Removing duplicate pictures/photos/photographs from Apple iLife's iPhoto

2005-10-29

Yesterday morning I had 9599 photographs on my Apple Mac being served up by the iPhoto application. I love iPhoto, its a great application enabling me to be very creative over how I display share and manage my photographs.... ....or is it? iPhoto is rubbish on the 'duplicate' fro

Yesterday morning I had 9599 photographs on my Apple Mac being served up by the iPhoto application. I love iPhoto, its a great application enabling me to be very creative over how I display share and manage my photographs.... ....or is it? iPhoto is rubbish on the 'duplicate' front, over the years since I've migrated from 'Milhouse' to 'SuperTed' and now 'Elwood' (at Ultralab (1990-2006), we name our Macs!) with some migrations from 'Captain Birdseye' and even 'Jolly Roger' more and more of my pictures have been duplicated and imported, so in some cases, I've got the same picture three, or even four times in my iPhoto library. Most of the rogue images are from my phone camera's, where iPhoto has imported them many many times, even when I ask iPhoto not to import duplicates. Working through over 9500 images trying to identify the images which were duplicates would have been no easy task, in fact, I've been looking for a better solution for about two years, to tackle that massive library and identify and remove those rogue copies... I started by manually removing 'thumbs' which, had for some bizarre reason, in all the upgrades and system migrations, become photographs in their own ri…

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