Finding and remove duplicate images

Is there a way to locate duplicate images so I can delete them from library?

There is nothing built into Aperture to do this. There are some third party applications that might help.
Google *duplicates in Aperture* for a lot of information.
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What is the best way to find and remove duplicate photos in iPhoto?

Are you seeing these duplicates in iPhoto or via the Finder? If it's in the iPhoto window then you can use one of these applications to identify and remove duplicate photos from an iPhoto Library:
iPhoto Library Manager - $29.95
Duplicate Cleaner for iPhoto - free
Duplicate Annihilator - $7.95 - only app able to detect duplicate thumbnail files or faces files when one library has been imported into another with iPhoto 8 and earlier.
PhotoSweeper - $9.95 - This app can search by comparing the image's bitmaps or histograms thus finding duplicates with different file names and dates.
I also prefer iPLM as it is more than just a dup finder. It's a the most versatile iPhoto utility available.
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Find and remove duplicates advice?

hi all,
would it be possible to get a little advice and some feedback on others' experience with finding and removing duplicates from the aperture database?
i am doing this now for scans, pdf's, images and other data on my mac book pro and on my mac pro and it would be helpful for me to know what is possible for me to get done with the aperture database.
TIA

I haven't used it myself but Duplicate Annihilator it is mentioned here often as a solution for this.

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duplicate annihaitor
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I now have iTunes ver 11.0.4.4 under Windows 7. I lost all iTunes stuff when updating to Windows 7. I have loaded thousands amd thousands of music files from backup disks, but there are many duplicates. I am attemping to re-establish my old library. I used to be able to remove duplicates quickly with the old iTunes. The new iTunes doesn't seem to offer the same service. Is there any way to remove duplicates quickly, or must I do it one by one?

When deduping use Shift > View > Show Exact Duplicate Items as this is normally a more useful selection. You need to manually select all but one of each group to remove. Sorting the list by Date Added may make it easier to select the appropriate tracks. If you have multiple entries in iTunes connected to the same file on the hard drive then don't send to the recycle bin. Use my DeDuper script if you're not sure, don't want to do it by hand, or want to preserve ratings, play counts and playlist membership. See this thread for background and please take note of the warning to backup your library before deduping.
(If you don't see the menu bar press ALT to show it temporarily or CTRL+B to keep it displayed)
See also HT2905: How to find and remove duplicate items in your iTunes library
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How can I find and remove duplicate photos from my computer?

Terence,
Yes, the duplicates appear in the iPhoto window. I have folders with same name occuring two or even three times sometimes with exactly the same set of photos (ie photos with the same ID) and sometimes with a limited set of photos. Other folders appear only once.
I normally take my MacBook with me if I'm shooting a lot of photos, such as on holiday, and then want to transfer them to my iMac when i get home. Other times I transfer the camera's memory stick directly to my iMac.
I have great difficulty transferring the photos from my MacBook to my iMac. I don't want to store my photos on my iDisk due to the length of time it takes to upload them.
Thanks again.
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Apple's official advice on duplicates is here... HT2905: How to find and remove duplicate items in your iTunes library. It is a manual process and the article fails to explain some of the potential pitfalls.
Use Shift > View > Show Exact Duplicate Items to display duplicates as this is normally a more useful selection. You need to manually select all but one of each group to remove. Sorting the list by Date Added may make it easier to select the appropriate tracks, however this works best when performed immediately after the dupes have been created. If you have multiple entries in iTunes connected to the same file on the hard drive then don't send to the recycle bin.
Use my DeDuper script if you're not sure, don't want to do it by hand, or want to preserve ratings, play counts and playlist membership. See this thread for background and please take note of the warning to backup your library before deduping.
(If you don't see the menu bar press ALT to show it temporarily or CTRL+B to keep it displayed)
Alternativey see this migrate iTunes library post, you may want to revisit the transfer method.
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As Jim said View > Show Duplicates
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Simple way to select and remove duplicate images.

As I work diligently to have Aperture manage all of my image files I have come top the realization that I have a number of duplicate image files scattered over a number of resources.
Is there a simple way to have Aperture identify the duplicates and more importantly to keep from importing duplicate images into the management library?
Thanks!

I have not heard of an automated way to accomplish this. I beleive G has given you the standard method above. Aperture does not have a programed way to do this, and there is no way to prevent importing duplicates except by being careful not to do it in the first place.
However, if you know you imported some duplicates and know approximately when you did it, you could use a Smart Album to show you the images. Click on the blue Library icon and choose menu option File>New Smart>Album. In the Smart Album Smart Settings HUD, click on the checkbox that says, "Import Session is one or more of the following," then check on one or more of the import sessions listed. Be sure to also check the checkbox "Ignore stack groupings." Once you find the duplicate import, you can delete the images from your Aperture Library.
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Find and remove duplicate photos

I recently copied or imported a large number of photos from external drives to iphoto, but the process seems to have peppered many duplicates of photos throughout my collection. Usually I iphoto asks if duplicates should be deleted, but it didn't in these instances. Is there a way for iphoto to search and identify duplicates and then delete those extras?

léonie:
Here's a more up to date list of the potential dup removal apps with the results of some of my testing:
These applications will identify and help remove duplicate photos from an iPhoto Library:
iPhoto Library Manager - $29.95
Duplicate Annihilator - $7.95 - only app able to detect duplicate thumbnail files or faces files when an iPhoto 8 or earlier library has been imported into another.
PhotoSweeper - $9.95 - This app can search by comparing the image's bitmaps or histograms thus finding duplicates with different file names and dates.
DeCloner - $19.95 - can find duplicates in iPhoto Libraries or in folders on the HD.
DupliFinder - $7 - shows which events the photos are in.
iPhoto AppleScript to Remove Duplicates - Free
PhotoDedupo - $4.99 (App Store) - this app has a "similar" search feature which is like PhotoSweeper's bitmap comparison. It found all duplicates
Duplicate Cleaner for iPhoto - free - was able to recognize the duplicated HDR and normal files from an iPhone shooting in HDR
Some users have reported that PhotoSweeper did the best in finding all of the dups in their library: iphoto has duplicated many photos, how...: Apple Support Communities.
If you have an iPhone and have it set to keep the normal photo when shooting HDR photos the two image files that are created will be duplicates in a manner of speaking (same image) but there are only twp apps that detected the iPhone HDR and normal photos as being duplicates: PhotoSweeper and Duplicate Cleaner for iPhoto. None of the other apps detected those two files as being duplicates as they look for file name as well as other attributes and the two files from the iPhone have different file names.
iPLM, however, is the best all around iPhoto utility as it can do so much more than just find duplicates. IMO it's a must have tool if using iPhoto.
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PowerShell script to find and remove duplicate items from document library

Hi Friends,
Please check this below script, It is finding the duplicate items and removing it. This script is not working to find the duplicate items from document
library and remove. Can you please let me know where it is wrong.
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Find and remove duplicates

Hi, I have a very large library of songs in Itunes. I also have thousands of duplicates and removing all the duplicates manually would not be possible. Itunes has a built in duplicate finder but it doesn't allow me to remove all the duplicates automatically. I'm looking for a plugin or application that can search, find and delete the duplicates. What do you guys use? So far I've found iDupe. Anyone have success with iDupe? Thanks

I've done it manually. I've used iTunes. I've used Dupin. Dupin's the best I've tried (so far), but there's no way I'd trust it to automatically remove everything it thought was a duplicate-- sometimes it's wrong.
I have a 18,000+ track library. Some of my stuff was imported when the CDDB was in its infancy. Some was imported before the CDDB existed... so I have dupes with slightly different tags here and there.
I guess it depends on your library, but I'd be careful before blindly trusting any software to delete all your duplicates-- if you do, please back up your library first-- just in case.
Good luck.

I'm struggling to find a way to find and delete duplicate images

Hi,
I recently upgraded to a newer iMac and Aperture 2 to handle my growing library of photos. Since I started college two years ago, I've taken close to 20,000 images. I stored and organized those as I always had with my others in iPhoto. Now when I imported my iPhoto library (~30,000 images) into Aperture, I made sure to click the "do not import duplicates" box. However, as I scrolled through the library, just checking, I came across what has to be several hundred duplicate images that were created whenever I rotated my photos in iPhoto.
Strange thing is, it didn't happen with my new images. These are all old jpeg images.
I'm not sure (and I doubt) if it has anything to do with the new photos being in RAW format, but regardless, it's taking up a lot of space.
Is there a way to search for and delete these duplicates? I noticed it made a stack for each image with the original and the rotated version, if that means anything.
Just something to enter in the search box or whatever to bring them all up and delete them would be great, because I've been trying forever and asking around and haven't found a solution.
One other small question: If I've backed up my Aperture library using Time Machine, does it make any sense to make a Vault on another (or the same) drive?
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