Transfer pictures from PC - External Hard Drive - MacBook = Duplicates?
Hello.
I recently bought a MacBook Pro.
So I am NEW to the whole Apple World.
I was trying to transfer pictures from a Windows PC to the MacBook via external harddrive.
I opened iPhoto, File, Import to Library. Once there I went to Devices, picked the Device which has the Photo Album, picked the Album and clicked Import.
After the Import was done, I have one Album in iPhoto, plus each picture has a File folder in which it is to more times, one small and one regular size.
Wy did that happen?
What can I do to have just the Album with the lets say 25 picture instead of 75 in iPhoto.
Like I said, I am NEW to the Mac world.
Thank you.
I have no Idea why the screenshots came out so small but maybe you'll still see what I am talking about.
On here you can see, the first one is the actual picture, the second file folder (highlighted) has two more pictures of the actual picture in the folder.
So each picture has to "copies" of it.
The first file is the actual album with I think 8 pictures in it, iPhoto shows a total of 24.
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