Question: My hard and back up disk both failed
Question: My hard and back up disk both failed on the same day, strange but the kids were on the computer and things happen.
Running Mac OS 10.6
I paid $800 to "super geeks" to recover the pics > 30,000 (many duplicates)
I will receive a 500 gig external drive from them today via Fed Ex with the pics recovered .
My plan is to move them to my iMac (had a new HD put in) but I do not want to transfer 30,000 pics prior
to running duplicate annihilator & thumbnail annihilator on the new external drive.
Is there an easy way to do this > looking for help?
Can I run the programs on the recovered drive I will receive today prior to my transferring?
Or is there a more efficient way of doing this. I have already paid for Duplicate Annilator.
Maybe there is a different app I should use?
Hi Bill,
Reading about it, I'm guessing so if you use iPhoto to Import the photos off the external drive...
Easily find and annihilate duplicates created internally by iPhoto or during import.
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