1000s of versions and duplicates needing major clean up + sorting, help?
Please forgive me if this question has been posted and answered before, but rather like the problem I am facing it's hard to see the wood for the trees.
Over the years I have backed up on a hard drive several thousand photos from various versions of iPhoto, the last one iPhoto 6. These are scattered in many folders in varying resolutions, some with given names, others with the camera generated names like P1009....JPG etc. Some are entire iPhoto libraries backed up at different times. Many many duplicates in many folders.
I now have a shiny new MacBook Pro with iPhoto 9 and Time Machine.
How do I sort through all these photos, get rid of duplicates and end up with one consolidated library of only the original hi res versions?
Ideally need a button that says" *"find and delete duplicates, only keep original highest res versions and then sort them in date creation order".*
Thanks in advance.
1. I noticed I have iPhoto Library Manager already bought and installed on the old PowerBook G4. Can this copied and transferred onto the new MacBook Pro?
One for the makers of iPhoto Library Manager. Drop them a line. AFAIK it should be okay. But I would download the latest version.
2. When launching and merging libraries set to avoid duplicates how will it know to keep original hi res versions and avoid lo res duplicates.
Again, as question for the iPhoto Library Manager people. But be sure the phrase it differently. If one file is Hi res and the other is Lo res, then they are not, by definition, duplicates
Any iPhoto Library will contain up to three versions of the same photo: The Original, the Modified (if the pic has been editied) and the Thumbnail used for display in the iPhoto Window. iPhoto Library Manager negotiates these versions. So, if you merge libraries it preserves the relationship between these versions.
3. Before getting your reply I came across Duplicate Annihilator. Any good, does the same job or something else?
Only useful for Duplicates in iPhoto - and very good at that. Ideally the process I outline will avoid same. But it's there as a fall-back
Regards
TD
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