Photos Help How To Use It

Ive read some apps can help but turns out they can make more trouble than keeping duplicates.

Is Apple ever going to address this This is seriously a problem for many if googled.

I have approximately 7,000 photos and would expect photo app to be superior than iPhoto (as it was Apples upgrade) but appears to me and many, it is certainly not.

Please log a Photos Feature Request or Photos Enhancement Request using Apple Photos app feedback form below to help resolve this problem Apple support photos specialist confirmed following 3 Nov 2017: 1) The new Photos app and old iphoto app had a way to search for duplicates on import this does not work once the duplicate photos are imported into library (by error or otherwise) 2) Apple photos has no way to search for duplicate photos, they suggested that users manually search for duplicate photos.

Apple support do not recommend third party apps to remove photos as they can damage the library.

They acknowledged this approach is less than ideal when you have 20,000 photos (or in my case 80,000 photos) and suggested that all users who have concerns should log a new feature request using apple feedback form (URL below for IOS and OS Mac Photos feedback form).

Please log a Photos Feature Request or Photos Enhancement Request using Apple Photos app feedback form below to help resolve this problem Submit Enhancement Request using Apple IOS Photos app feedback form Submit Enhancement Request using Apple Mac OS Photos app feedback form Cheers MR HK.

It could check for duplicated during import and not import duplicated at that time.

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.

You either have to remove them manually - easiest way is in Photos view (the first one listed at the top of the sidebar) as that displays the photos in the order they were taken, not the order they were added to Photos.

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There are programs that you can try - I tried PhotoSweeper and after learning how to use it it worked pretty good.

Unfortunately it will not separate the RAWJPEG pairs when Photos imports that (if you shoot RAWJPEG in your digital camera), so I got a refund from them.

You say Photo app has same capability to detect duplicate photos at import like iPhoto did.

How When I import I do not get the photo you showed, that showed the duplicates.

Can you help me determine why I dont get such warningpicturehint of a duplicate being imported Thanks again.

How have you been importing, when you imported duplicates There is a known problem, that Photos may be importing the same photos over and over again, if you import manually using a USB connection, if you are using iCloud Photo Library on an iPad or iPhone.

If the device you are importing from, is syncing with iCloud Photo Library, you should only use iCloud for importing.

So you will invariably end up with multiple photos with camera assigned names like IMG0001 but they are different photos (with the same name).

I confirmed this with Apple Support today (Nov 6, 2017 - 10:30am PDT - James - 17:58min hold time) and theyre recommendation was to not use any 3rd party app as they will likely corrupt the Apple Photo Library.

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