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The rules are good, but it is still worth going through the photos, even if you only skim and don’t spend too long. You choose the rules and they can be dragged into the order you want. The one with the oldest date, the newest date, the smaller DPI and so on, can all be auto-selected. For example, if two photos are the same, but one is smaller then the smaller one is selected for deletion. The rules used to auto-select the appropriate image to delete can be configured in the app preferences. This uses rules to automatically select one of the duplicates to keep and to automatically mark the others for deletion. There is a shortcut and at the top of the window is there is an Auto Mark button.

There are checkboxes so you can select the one to delete, but with a large Photos library, this could take hours or even days! You can go through them one by one and compare them.

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Anyway, Duplicate Photos Fixer Pro found them and it shows the sort of fuzzy matching that is possible. Another app might not have spotted these because they are not identical and they have different sizes and dates.Īfter scanning the Mac you might end up with hundreds of duplicate photos. I have no idea how that happened and it might have been someone playing with photos apps on the iPad, which then got synced to the Mac. While using this fuzzy matching I found several photos that were identical, but one was upside down. Scanning large photo libraries, we are talking tens of thousands of images, can take some time, so be patient.

This is useful if you just imported a collection of photos into iPhoto and it saves time by only checking recent photos and not the whole Photos library, which for some people is hundreds of gigabytes. There are options not scan photos only within a certain time period, such as today, yesterday, the last 7 or 15 days, last month or last year. Search options in Duplicate Photo Fixer Pro You can add your iPhoto or Photos library by clicking a button, but it is also possible to manually add photos and folders by dragging them from Finder. It shows two photo thumbnails that give you an idea of how similar the photos must be, which is very useful There is also a time interval and photos can have different times on them, but are still regarded as the same, and they may have similar, but not identical GPS coordinates. You can set the matching level, which is how similar the images must be, using a slider. The app has some great fuzzy matching rules that find photos that are similar, but not exactly the same. Most likely, your photos will be in the Mac's Photos library and it works well with this and I used it with the macOS Big Sur version of iPhoto. This app is able to search the Photos library, a folder of photos, or photos you add manually. It will find duplicates, but it will only let you delete 15 photos, so you really need the Pro version. That was a bargain because it is $19.99 these days, but you never know, maybe there will be another discount sale. I bought Duplicate Photos Fixer Pro many years ago when it was on a massive discount and it cost me just US $0.99. It is very confusing and it is hard to know which one to go for. Related: Resizing vs resampling images in Preview

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Several of them are by the same developer and Systweak Software has Duplicate Photos Fixer, Photos Duplicate Cleaner, Duplicate Photos Fixer Pro, Duplicate Cleaner for iPhoto. Search the Mac App Store for duplicate finders and there are several that can track down copies of photographs and let you remove them. Drives of 128, 256 and even 512 GB are easily filled and duplicates are a wasteful and inefficient use of the storage space. Many Mac owners cannot afford to waste space with duplicate files of images they already have elsewhere on the system.

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Some people who have very large photo collections have found that the space occupied by duplicate images runs to over a gigabyte.įinding and deleting duplicate photos might free up a lot of disk space. The more photos you have transferred to the Mac and added to the disk (SSD, disk, hybrid, whatever) and the more you have edited them, the more duplicates there will be on the system. Use this utility to find them and delete them. You might even have several gigabytes worth clogging up the system. It is easy to accidentally duplicate photos and waste space on the disk.

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