Help.... need to get rid of 3000 photos that have been copied/duplicated by mistake
I have 5000 photo's but it shows I have 8000 items.
A lot of my photo's have some how duplicated/copied. How can I get rid of these, apart from manually checking each one, clicking and trashing, as this will take forever as they are all over the place. Is there a quicker way to get rid of these unwanted photo's.
Where are you seeing these "duplicates"?
How did this happen?
The easiest way is to go to your backup from before it happened
Duplicate annihilator - http://www.brattoo.com/propaganda/ - is a good program to assist - as always backup prior to running
LN
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