[X4U] Duplicate files

[Linda]

On 11/28/05 4:49 PM, John Baltutis wrote:

>> The files have the exact same names unless iPhoto renames without telling
>> me. But iPhoto has put them into different folders. I wouldn't have imported
>> so many photos but I thought iPhoto was supposed to check and see if you
>> were importing the same photo more than once.
> 
> Easiest would be to open both folders, click in one of them, CMD + A, and
> click and drag the selection  into the other one, selecting replace all in
> the window that pops up, effectively eliminating any duplicates in the
> other folder. No shell or applescript scripts and no CLI.

When I imported iPhotos from one disk into iPhoto on another, it imported
the singles twice (or three times if I'd removed red-eye or rotated the
image in iPhoto)! One was a low-res version and one was a high-res version
-- apparently, iPhoto read the thumbnail as an actual .jpg and showed them
both to me. The naming was different, though -- my Nikon names the high-res
"DSCN0000.jpg" which 0000 is the consecutive number (such as DSCN0926.jpg);
the thumbs had simple numbers for names, like "324" or "19". So, I had to
click on every picture, read the name in the left lower corner of iPhoto,
and delete them one by one to make sure I got the right ones.

Weird -- but sounds like what you're experiencing.

peace,
Linda