I am getting many duplicates in my library.

Why am I getting tens of duplicates of photos in my library?

How high is up?
Maybre if you told us a bit about what you are doing someone could help
The most likely wild gues based on Zero information is that you are importing an iPhoto library into another iPhoto ibrayr - you NEVER do that it does not work and creates massive duplicatition
LN

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Because I have imported photos from a number of different sources into Aperture (3.2), I now have many unwanted duplicates. Some of these are in the same "file/folder", others are not. Additionally, some of the duplicates may have different file names.
Can anyone advise me if there is a way of identifying such duplicates in Aperture so that I may later delete them? If this cannot be achieved within Aperture 3, does anyone know of a proven second-party app?
Before ending I should mention that I am reasonable competent on a computer but I am not in any way an expert. (So simple answers would be appreciated if this is possible!)
Hopefully yours, Jeremy

Jeremy -- I suggest making a complete separate copy of your Library and any Referenced Masters and keeping it for a year. "Duplicate" is, to humans, relative rather than absolute. My use of Duplicate Annihilator turned up many useful near duplicates, most of which I couldn't quickly distinguish. With a complete copy nearby, you can be slightly aggressive in your pruning, knowing that should you turn up something in ten months that you need (as an example: the full-size color file for a black & white printed shot that you thought was based on a full-size color Master but which is not), you'll have it.
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Many songs in my library appear to be duplicates. How did that happen and what do I do?

henryfromcolonial beach wrote:
A recent download - which I automatically said OK to, has somehow made every image in my library into low res. when I try to use one as a screen saver, it is low res - when I try to print one, it is low res. was this some kind of setup to get me to buy a newer version of iphoto??????
Of course not - in fact it is not something done by iPhoto - it is most likely a user error
What exactly did you do? What did you download? there is nothing in iPhoto that ever changes the resolution of any photo - in fact you can not do it if you want in iPhoto - you have to export photos to a location outside of iPhoto to change the resolution
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LN

HT204259 Many duplicates are in my Photos. Is there a way to get rid of them not deleting one by one or dozen by dozen?

Many duplicates are in my Photos. Is there a way to get rid of them not deleting one by one or dozen by dozen?

It seems, in old times we could make path to the original file from the IPhoto browser, couldn't we?
There is another question. If I succeed deleting duplicates from the Iphoto library with some third-party program, does it mean that I really free my hard disk of them? Will they disappear from Photos also?

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yea... i faced this problem many a time... have run apple sceipts to delete these songs....
you download these scripts from the link below.... jus follow thw instructions... and you are free from duplicates
http://dougscripts.com/apps/dupinapp.php
hope this helps..!

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Apple's official advice on duplicates is as above... 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, such as lost ratings or playlist membership.
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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)
tt2

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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 such as lost ratings and playlist membership.
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, this post for detailed instructions, 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.)
The most recent version of the script can tidy dead links as long as there is at least one live duplicate to merge stats and playlist membership to and should cope sensibly when the same file has been added via multiple paths.
tt2

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You can use one of these applications to identify and remove duplicate photos from an iPhoto Library:
iPhoto Library Manager
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Duplicate Annihilator
iPhoto Applescript to Remove Duplicates - free
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delete the iPhoto preference file, com.apple.iPhoto.plist, that resides in your Home/Library/Preferences folder.
delete iPhoto's cache files that are located in your Home/Library/Caches/com.apple.iPhoto folder.
reboot, launch iPhoto and try again.
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How do I delete duplicates in the library?

Although iPhoto does ask you about duplicates when importing from the camera, sometimes duplicates occur anyway. Because of recent problems with my library there are no many duplicates in my recovered and restored library. Is there an easy way to search out and delete duplicate photos once they are in the library?
The version is actually iphoto '09

I had a library on both desk top and lap top but kept them separate. Somehow the one on the lap top got messed up so I have been trying to be sure I didn't lose photos by going back to various folders where I had kept some and importing them into the library on the desk top, However, I think the dates got messed up on some and for some reason on the imports iPhoto did not catch all the duplications. I did not intentionally at least import one library into another.
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When I open my itunes it freezes and asks me to downlaod the newest version. I always check the "dont ask me again" box and it always ASKS ME AGAIN. I dont need any more duplicates in my library so how do I stop this feature from popping up?

Im tired of this feature popping up everytime I open itunes. I alwasy check the box that say dont ask again, and it cointinually pops up. I dont want to download new version of itunes so how do I stop this?

Thanks for the reply! Ill try to change the preferences as you mentioned. However, everytime Ive ugraded my itunes it adds duplicates to my library, which I then have to delete (if I have time to waste). With 10,000 songs this gets very annoying as Im sure you can imagine. Im also know that there are even software programs to delete duplicates from itunes libraries as seen here: http://www.tucows.com/preview/507304
I do thank you for your answer and apprciate the help.
Cheers~

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