Duplicates and strange photos appearing in iPhoto '08

I opened iPhoto and found that I now have 3 and sometimes 4 copies of hundreds of photos in iPhoto "Photos". Doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason as to which photos got duplicated. Also, I have blank squares instead of pictures, I have copies of forms in there too along with company logos from emails I received.
First, how and why did this happen?
Second, how do I eliminate these duplicates? I had about 6,500 original photos. Now I have almost 10,000 photos in iPhoto.
Thanks for any and all help.
JDonS

Thanks for the info. I did a backup and then a rebuild and that helped. However, I had to acquire Duplicate Anhilator to really clean out the 3,000+ duplicates I ended up with. Don't know how it happened, and hope it doesn't occur again.
JDonS

Similar Messages

How to sync iPhone photos with iPad and Mac without duplicates and deleted photos?

I have a MacBook Pro (OS X 10.8.5, iPhoto 9.4.3), an iPad2 (ios 6.1.3) and iPhone (ios 7.0.4). I take my pictures on the iPhone and use the iPad for viewing. I use the MBP for storage and backup. ios 7 seems to organize the photos nicely, so I no longer need iPhoto for organizing.
What is the best, easiest and most efficient way to share, save and backup photos (iCloud prefered versus plugging devices into the MBP) between the 3 devices without duplicates and deleted photos? With Photo Streaming turned on, I get duplicates and it retains photos that I have deleted.
On all three devices, I turned on Photos & Camera > My Photo Stream and Shared Photo Streams and iCloud > Photo Stream.
On the MBP, I have everything under Photo Stream EXCEPT Automatic Import (I took off recently hoping to eliminate duplicates).
If someone else already asked this question, I apologize. This is very confusing.

While waiting for a reply, you can read the documentation that was in the box your iPad came in. It's a book about a Spanish guy called Manual.
The answer is iTunes. Download it. Install it. Read the instructions. Use it.

What do you do when photos appear on iPhoto fine with preview, but show up back with an explanation point when selected?

What do you do when photos appear on iPhoto fine with preview, but show up back with an explanation point when selected?

The ! turns up when iPhoto loses the connection between the thumbnail in the iPhoto Window and the file it represents.
What version of iPhoto? Assuming 09 or later...
Option 1
Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Rebuild iPhoto Library Database from automatic backup.
If that fails:
Option 2
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums and keywords back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one. .
Regards
TD

Since upgrade no photos appear in iphoto list when trying to upload a pic to facebook. I can "share" on my own wall but not post a pic to a friend's wall.

No photos appear in the iphoto list when trying to upload a pic to facebook. I can "share" a photo on my own wall or add one to an album through iphoto directly. I cannot figure out how to post a pic to a friends wall.

Exactly how are you trying to do this and waht is the problem
The iPhoto facebook upload can only post to your account
If you are uploading using a browser your photos are accessed through the media browser in the lower left ahnd corner of the puload window under media ==> photos ==> iPhoto
Please describe what you are doing, what problem you are having and what version of iPhoto and of the OS you are using
LN

Click on thumbnail and different photo appears

this just happened yesterday...when i click on a thumbnail, a different photo appears...help! do i need to redo all of my albums?
Mac mini Mac OS X (10.4.6) library is on LaCie drive

FBSC:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. You shouldn't have to redo all your albums. Launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys depressed and follow the instructions to rebuild the library. Select the first three options regarding the thumbnails and database. That should reset the library correctly.
Do you Twango?
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.

When I tap a photo in my iPhone photo gallery, the photo appears but there is always a "this movie format not supported" alert and then the alert goes away and the photo appears. These are photos I've taken with the iPhone and aren't even movies.

It's very odd. I take photos with my iPhone and then later go to view the photos in the Photo Gallery on my iPhone. The photos to appear, but I keep getting "this movie format not supported" alerts, even though I am looking at photos taken by my iPhone. The alert appears briefly just after the photo appears and then the alert goes away and I can see the photo. They are just still photos and not movies. Why wouldn't the iPhone recognize the format of photos it is taking?

That thread helped for a time. But now it seems as though my computer is back to slow again. But, some of the jargon is over my head as well. Not sure I knew quoite everything they were talking about. But thanks a lot for that, it helped I probably just need to reread it and follow the instructions again. Thanks so much.

Editing and organizing photos outside of iphoto

Apple Tech Support tells me that iphoto only works for photos imported via digital camera hookup. I have many photos on my hard drive that were input via CD or email .jpg files. I understand I cannot edit these photos using any software that comes with the Mac, and I have to organize and store them outside of iphoto. Is there any Apple-compatible software other than Adobe Photoshop that I might buy to have more flexibility in editing and organizing all my photos? I am currently using a Mac Mini with the Panther 10.3 OS.

I understand I cannot edit these photos using any software
that comes with the Mac, and I have to organize and store them
outside of iphoto.
The first part of this statement might be accurate if your mini did not come with GraphicConverter among the bundled applications, but whoever left you with the impression that iPhoto won't accept anything but camera-generated images is misinformed. Launch iPhoto and select iPhoto Help from the Help menu. Enter the phrase "importing photos" in the search window, and have a look.

Can I make and order photo books using iPhoto on my iPad?

I would like to make photo books for family and friends, but all I have is an iPad. Will it do the same thing?

No idea - this is the iPhoto for Mac forum - read the Apple info on iPhoto for the iPad and ask questions in the iPhoto for IOS forum - https://discussions.apple.com/community/app_store/iphoto_for_ios
LN

Black and white photos for an iPhoto Book

I've scanned many old black and white photos into iPhoto and would like to create books with them, but I read that iPhoto will not work with black and white photos for books, only color photos. Is that true and are there any suggestions for how to create a book using them? Thanks.

There is a bug affecting PPC Macs with iPhoto 6.0.5 and QuickTime 7.1.3 that causes it to crash with photos that have no color profile attatched. In addition, iPhoto 6 does not work well with Grayscale. So check these scans to see if they have no color profile or if the profile is grayscale. If so, you'll need to convert them to sRGB. They'll still be black & white, but they'll have a color profile that iPhoto 6 will accept.
Old Toad created an Automator application to embed the sRGB profile into your photos. Go to his Toad's Cellar and download the "Embed wRGB Color Profile 2" App. In Finder go in your Originals folder, then drop a roll folder containing these photos onto the app.
http://homepage.mac.com/WebObjects/FileSharing.woa/wa/default?user=toad.hall&tem platefn=FileSharing7.html&xmlfn=TKDocument.7.xml&sitefn=RootSite.xml&aff=consume r&cty=US&lang=en#
Before doing anything, you might want to try inserting some of those scans into a book template and see what happens. To see how a book will print when you order it from Apple, choose Print when you are viewing the book. Allow it to assemble the file. In the Print Dialog box, click the PDF button and select Save PDF from the drop-down menu. Minimize the iPhoto window to find a little box asking you to select a location for the saved PDF. [If you don't go looking for this window you'll be stuck waiting indefinitely.] View the PDF and see how those black & white scans look.

How to delete duplicate and triple photos in photo library?

I am curious to know how to delte photos that are duplicate and triplicate in photo library? before the update it was not like it so i am just curious to know how to delte the excess photos that are not needed but only 1 each of the triplicate and duplicated ones.

Hi Alan, I noticed that my music videos were also listed just as music in the library and from there I was able to delete the dup's and trips. Thanks for your information.
Mike AKA sp

HT204264 Duplicates of edited photos appear in my iCloud Photo Library

For some reason, when I go to the iCloud website, there are duplicates of edited photos. Also some dates are wrong when imported from the Mac.

Change the password for your iCloud account. If you have not already done so, turn on two step authentication.

Unable to drag and drop photo's in iPhoto

I used to be able to drag and drop photo's in an event to reorganize them, but cannot drag and drop any photo's now.

Um, which is it
I used to be able to drag and drop photo's in an event
An Event or
The photo's are not in a Smart Album, just a regular album.
An Album?
If it's an Event then you cannot (nor ever could) manually reorder photos in one. Events are entirely automatic, manual sorting isn't available.
Manual Sorting is available in Albums.
Regards
TD

Photos appear in iPhoto, but original files have disappeared. Anything I can do to recover them?

What it says in the topic. Specifically, I sorted through and deleted roughly 90% of the photos of a particular event, saving out the 10% I wanted to keep, before emptying the iPhoto trash. I then selected "File>Reveal in Finder>Original Files" in order to move the files to a centralized folder in which I keep the master files from every month. Mind you, I have gone through this process multiple times before and it has worked as expected. This time, however, when I used the "reveal in Finder" feature the finder window I already had open appeared, but nothing else happened. After some manual searching I found that all of the original files for the photos I had deleted from that event were still there, but the files for the photos I hadn't deleted were nowhere to be found (the opposite of what I did in iPhoto and what the library there actually shows). I have tried exporting the desired photos, but I only get a prompt saying that the original files cannot be found; I also cannot individually select any of the photos (only a giant triangle with an exclamation mark in it pops up) despite that all of the thumbnails are still there. Can anyone tell me what's going on or if there's anything I can do, or have I simply lost these photos forever?

in order to move the files to a centralized folder i
That's the problem. If you moved them rather than copy them to the other folder they were removed from the library and you're getting what's expected. In the future select the photos you want to store in the other folder and use the File ➙ Export ➙ File Export menu option with the Kind = Original selected. That avoids this kind of error.
Have you emptied the Trash bin in the Dock? With iPhoto 9 and later image files are moved to the Trash bin in the Dock when the Trash bin in iPhoto is emptied. If they are there you'll have to import them again into iPhoto and then delete the problem ones from the original event.
Rather than

After restoring my photos in PHOTOSHOP 5.0 to new computer, cursor spins and no photos appear

I restored my photos to my new computer from an external HD. I updated to the 5.02. The problem I am having is that PS will not put these photos on screen in the Organizer. The cursor spins. I am using Windows 7, coming from XP. How can I get my photos to appear in PS?

I presume you are talking about Photoshop Elements 5, and not "PHOTOSHOP 5.0".
Please try this: http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb400848&sliceId=1

How do i remove vidoes and photos from iphone 4s memory once it has been synced and all photos imported to iphoto and deleted from iphone camera roll?

I have iphone 4s and imac. Have synced phone with itunes and imported all pictures and vidoes to iphoto which were then deleted from camera roll as prompted by iphoto. i have however no memeroy in iphone as 1000+ images and vidoes showing in the memory bar of iphone summary on itunes.
Must be an easy fix but I an't work out how to do it
Apple novice here so help appreciated
Stuart

In iTunes find your device and navigate to the Photos tab at the top. Uncheck 'Sync Photos from' and click Apply. Do the results change?

Duplicates and strange photos appearing in iPhoto '08

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for