Do you know of a simple way of sorting and deleting duplicate photos on aperture

Hi , Do you know of a simple way of sorting and then deleting duplicate photos on Apeture.
Thanks Phil

There is no simple way. The best strategy really is to take care not to import duplicates.
What is your Aperture 3 version?
What kind of duplicates are you asking about?
If you imported exactly the same file multiple times, sorting your images in the Finder by filename or creation date will display them side by side.
If you have diferently sized versions of the same image, edited versions, or versions converted to a different format, then sorting by creation date will not help; you might try to sort by capture date, but that may fail, if there were different imezone settings when you imported the images.
You could also sort be filename, if you did not rename the images on import.
If you renamed your versions, adjusted the date, modified the file properties by writing to the original files, try to sort by other tages - faces, location, keywords.
There are some helper applications to scan your Aperture library and tag duplicates: (I have not really tested any of them)
Duplicate Annihilator (Mac) - Download good to detect accidentally imported thumbnails
http://photosweeper.en.softonic.com/mac : This app can actually detect edited duplicates based on statistic measures and histogram similarity.
Duplicate Cleaner for iPhoto - free

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