#PHOTOSWEEPER ICLOUD MANUAL#

+ I found Photosweeper very good as you can set for exact match or variables (eg accidental burst photos that are 0.1s apart but 99.99% identical) and you can then right click to view original file / image in library to manually check for duplicate (if you are paranoid like me) - there are lots of other paid apps that also do this so shop aroundĪll, I spoke to Apple support today () and they confirmed that as of today Apple Photos App has no way to identify or find duplicate photos in your photo library or icloud library.

+ I paid US$10 for 'Gemini' the duplicate finder and was a complete waste of time as did not work with 'Photos' app (this was not clear from documentation or support and when I raises this with Macpaw support they told me gemini does not support photos and told me to buy another macpaw app - I told them to go jump in a lake). If you need a photos duplicate remover that work with 'Photos' check review and stay away from any app that does not clearly and expressly state that it works with 'photos' and has been reviewed since the release of the Photos app. Watch out for apps that claim to find duplicate 'photos' and are recommended on various websites, a number of these only work with the old iphotos app not the new 'Photos' app (as I found out after paying and downloading them). I saw some documentation from apple saying that the icloud scans for duplicates in 'Photos' when in the icloud but clearly not working or it does not work if the duplicates also exist in the imac version of the 'Photos' library.

The old iPhoto application used to 'detect duplicates' when importing but the new 'Photos' app does not do this. Some other comments for those who have a duplicate problem: S o what is going on and how do I stop 10-15% of my image library being duplicate files!!! I will raise this directly with apple support as paying for the 1TB icloud service to cover my very large 'Photos' library which should probably just be a Large Photo Library!!!!

#PHOTOSWEEPER ICLOUD MANUAL#

I have checked the result of the Photosweeper scan by doing a manual visual comparison and check of original image files in iphoto library (using show location function) and confirmed these 10,000+ photos are identical duplicate images with different file names located in different parts of photo library database. All, anyone know anything about OSX/IOS 'Photos' app ability to detect and remove duplicate photo9? My 'Photos' library has 63,299 photos & 2135 videos as of May 2016 and at least 10,000 + of these photos are duplicates (based on a scan by Photosweeper).

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