[X4U] Duplicate files

[Richard Gilmore]

I'm going to give some of these tools a try, thanks to everyone who
recommended them. 

The more I work with iPhoto the less I like it. But I don't see any
alternative. Sometimes it would tell me I was importing duplicates and ask
if I wanted to import them again and I would say no but most of the time it
just imported everything.

Awhile back I lost several thousand photos I had backed up on a Linux box
(long story) anyway I've been going through several DVD backups I have and
have been finding some photos on these discs that I thought were lost so
I've been trying to bring them all together in one place and just importing
whole folders. But I've been finding many of the same photos on these DVDs
and now I've got hundreds perhaps thousands of duplicate photos with
absolutely identical file names. I thought iPhoto would screen the dupes out
but it didn't. 

I think I'd rather use a tool to find the duplicates rather than opening
numerous folders and clicking and dragging. I think it's just too many
files/folders to deal with. I just want all the dupes in the iPhoto folder
moved out to another folder that I will backup just in case then delete.

Thanx

Richard 

On 28/11/05 6:10 PM, "Linda" <XPressoBean at mac.com> wrote:

> 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
> 
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