I trying to use organizer,and deleted folder showing up again,sometimes in double, and pictures show

Question

I tryinfg
to use organizer: deleting my old files, and saving others for  a folder called PICTURES.
Deleted fiels showing up again, sometimes in dobel.
Some saved picture show with a "?" mark in  the upper right corner. With these i can not work again. Can not be found, and not in the Finder.
Plese help,
Thank you very much.

Answer 1

The quote is meant as a humorous tag line - a deliberate paradox (or maybe false dichotomy). I don't recall where I first came across it but have been using it since around 1992. I later found it was written by American author and humourist Sam Levenson - http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/s/sam_levenson.html.
For your Organizer problem, have you ONLY used the Organizer to move the files around or did you use the Finder as well?
If you moved or deleted with the finder this would explain the '?' you see in the images. The Organizer keeps track of where they are for itself and if you use the Finder to move or delete things the Organizer is not 'aware' of that fact.
Now if you want to remove all these '?' items from your catalog, you can use Find> All Missing Files. When it has done its thing the Organizer will show all those images where the links are no longer valid. You can use Edit> Select All to select them all and press Delete. answer 'No' to the question about deleting from hard disk.
If instead you want the Organizer to try and recreate the connections use File> Reconnect> All Missing Files. This can take a long time if there are lots missing.
Once you have the '?' items sorted out you can use Find> By Visual Searches> Duplicate photos. When it has done it's thing it will show what it thinks might be duplicates and you can choose to Delete those you don't want. In this case you probably do want to delete the duplicates from the hard disk.
Cheers,
Neale
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