Question about 'all images' in finder

i was wondering why when i was looking in 'all images' in the finder, there were doubles of allllll of my images?

Hi GM1941,
When using Finder>All Images, the ones that you have more than one copy of are images that you do in fact have more than one of. An image stored under the same name and possibly placed in another location from its original.
A good example would be if you downloaded all your images to a pictures folder on your desktop. From there you might copy a picture of a family member in a genealogical program and not rename it. There you have two copies.
If you opened the picture in Photoshop or some other image manipulation software and saved it in a different file format (ex: Tiff, PNG, PICT, GIF) you are again able to save it again- even to the same file- with out renaming it.
When you use the Finder to search for all images, remember that you are looking for ALL images on your computer, not just the ones in iPhoto.
The files listed under today, yesterday and last week are a "search" list of documents/files you have opened during those times, not another copy. But, they are connected to the item they represent and, if you drag them to the trash they will indeed be in the trash and can be deleted from there.
Good Luck,
John

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