Want to eliminate duplicates in iphoto???

How do I eliminate duplicates in iphoto??

For dealing with duplicates in iPhoto check out iPhoto Library Manager Duplicate Annihilator Decloner or iPhoto Duplicate Cleaner 

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  • Eliminating duplicates in iPhoto

    How do I eliminate duplicates in iPhoto 08? If this has been answered before, I couldn't find it - sorry.
    I have up to 4 copies showing of hundreds and hundreds of pics. I don't relish the thought of eliminating dups one at a time. Please advise and thank you.

    Matro
    Welcome to the Apple user to user assistance forums
    back up your iPhoto library and run duplicate annihilator -http://www.brattoo.com/propaganda/
    LN

  • I want to download the "FREE" iPhoto duplicate remover software, but the download process keeps asking me for my payment information.

    I want to download the "FREE" iPhoto duplicate remover software, but the download process keeps asking me for my payment information. I have tried it several times.. But it says I cannot download this app unless I give my payment information.. So I went back and looked again and again.. and it still says it's "Free"...

    You need to contact the authors re download or payment issues - we are only users like yourself and help with iPhoto for the Mac issues
    here is Old TOad's list of potential packages including his comments
    These applications will identify and help remove duplicate photos from an iPhoto Library:
    iPhoto Library Manager - $29.95
    Duplicate Annihilator - $7.95 - only app able to detect duplicate thumbnail files or faces files when an iPhoto 8 or earlier library has been imported into another.
    PhotoSweeper - $9.95 - This app can search by comparing the image's bitmaps or histograms thus finding duplicates with different file names and dates.
    DeCloner - $19.95 - can find duplicates in iPhoto Libraries or in folders on the HD.
    DupliFinder - $7 - shows which events the photos are in.
    iPhoto AppleScript to Remove Duplicates - Free
    PhotoDedupo - $4.99 (App Store) -  this app has a "similar" search feature which is like PhotoSweeper's bitmap comparison.  It found all duplicates
    Duplicate Cleaner for iPhoto - free - was able to recognize the duplicated HDR and normal files from an iPhone shooting in HDR
    Some users have reported that PhotoSweeper did the best in finding all of the dups in their library: iphoto has duplicated many photos, how...: Apple Support Communities.
    If you have an iPhone and have it set to keep the normal photo when shooting HDR photos the two image files that are created will be duplicates in a manner of speaking (same image) but there are only twp apps that detected the iPhone HDR and normal photos as being duplicates: PhotoSweeper and Duplicate Cleaner for iPhoto.  None of the other apps detected those two files as being duplicates as they look for file name as well as other attributes and the two files from the iPhone have different file names.
    iPLM, however, is the best all around iPhoto utility as it can do so much more than just find duplicates.  IMO it's a must have tool if using iPhoto.
    LN

  • I want to use The Duplicate Finder to get rid of duplicates in iphoto. I created a library as a folder on my desktop.  Should I trash the photos in iphoto before I run the duplicate finder?

    I want to use The Duplicate Finder to get rid of duplicates in iphoto. I created a library as a folder on my desktop and droped it into Dupe Finder.  Many dupes were found.  Before I have it auto select dupes, should I trash the photos in iphoto?  Or will Dupe Finder do that for me automatically?

    1 - if you want to remove duplicates from your iPhoto library you would not be using a copy of it
    2 - don't do anything without a good, current backup
    3 - reading the Duplicate Finder web site does not tell me tha tit is safe to use on the iPhoto library - i suggest you use one of the known good and tested duplicate eliminations programs - see this discussion for links - https://discussions.apple.com/message/24363132#24363132
    4 - One cardinal rule - NEVER make any chnages to the structrure or content of the iPhoto library using any porogram (including the finder) other than iPhoto - the programs listed in the linked discussion use iPhoto to do the deleting
    LN

  • How can I detect and eliminate duplicate photos in iphoto?

    I am looking for help. I have many duplicates in iphoto and would would like to detect and eliminate them. Any suggestions?

    For dealing with duplicates in iPhoto check out Duplicate Annihilator
    There are other options. Search on the App Store or on MacUpdate

  • How do you eliminate duplicate iphoto photos?

    How do you eliminate duplicate iphoto photos?

    There are two apps, actually one app and one Applescript script, for finding and removing duplicate photos from iPhoto. They are:
    Duplicate Annihilator
    iPhoto AppleScript to Remove Duplicates
    OT

  • Eliminate duplicate photos in iphotos

    How do I eliminate duplicate photos?

    Some apps for dealing with duplicates in iPhoto
    iPhoto Library Manager
    Duplicate Annihilator
    Decloner
    iPhoto Duplicate Cleaner

  • I need to delete a lot of duplicates on iPhoto. I just bought my MacBook Pro and was so excited I downloaded my external hard drive without thinking through the process. I now realize I had my photos doubled up. So I actually have the same library twice.

    Hello All!
    I am so excited about my new computer and I didn't know that my external hard drive had so many pictures duplicated on it. So I downloaded the entire hard drive. I thought iPhoto was going to be my answer, and now after reading a lot of discussions, it seems I have royally screwed up.  Please help me fix this problem. I am a computer novice. An even more Mac novice. I need very simple directions.  I would just start over with iPhoto, but I downloaded my digital camera with brand new photos on iPhoto and also downloaded my digital camera software on my new MacBookPro.  I am afraid if I "start over" with iPhoto I will lose my digital camera pictures. I bought the Mac to finally get my pictures straight, and look at the mess I have made.  I had AVG PC cleanup and used that program last night to delete duplicates from my PC. I also used it to delete duplicates from my external hard drive. I omega. I know, I know, too late huh? But I am teachable. And I now have my external hard drive fixed. But now, my question to the community is how to fix my new Mac, and my iPhoto. 
    Thanks,

    SweetThunder73 wrote:
    When you say to remove the photos out of the iPhoto folder, then import the clean single copies, I am understanding that the "original" file that the decloner was run against is now the "clean" single copies?
    Ok, you've got iPhoto Library that you have imported everything into, you can't delete the iPhoto Library and start over because you have only one copy of some pictures in there, combined with a lot of duplicates.
    You want all the duplicates out, but it will take you ages to do it by hand.
    What you do is.
    1: Right click on the iPhoto Library and "Show Package Contents"
    2: You will see a folder called Originals, these are all your original photo's, copy this folder to a external drive someplace, it's your backup.
    3: Select the Originals folder again and from the Finder Menu > File > Duplicate.
    4: Now you will have a OriginalsCopy folder, move that OriginalsCopy folder onto the desktop area out of the iPhoto Library folder. Close the iPhoto Library folder/window.
    5: Download the Decloner software and install it, use it to find all the "real" duplicates, via it's content on the OriginalsCopy folder.
    6: From the Finder menu > New Folder, now send the duplicate files to that folder, so all that is left in the OriginalsCopy folder is 1 copy of your pictures, minus all the duplicates which are now in New Folder.
    7: Open iPhoto and remove all your pictures in there. The iPhoto Library will update to become empty.
    8: Now import the pictures from the OriginalsCopy folder, these will now have only one copy of each picture.
    9: Open your New Folder, from the Edit menu > Select All and
    10 From the Finder > File Menu > Open With > Preview.
    Now you have one copy in your iPhoto Library and the duplicates in a New Folder opened with Preview which you can compare to make sure.
    Make as many backups of your pictures as you think you need during this prcess, but eventually you only want 1 picture of all you have in the iPhoto Library.
    Some pictures may be the same thing but a little smaller etc., these obviously are not duplicates, and you can weed those out by hand in iPhoto.
    Good Luck.

  • How do I eliminate duplicate email accounts on my Mac?

    how do I eliminate duplicate email accounts on my Mac?

    Go to Mail Preferences/Accounts.  Select the Account you want to remove and hit the minus button.

  • How to eliminate duplicates from multiple subscriptions in iCal?

    Is there a way to eliminate duplicate entries created when subscribing to multiple calendars?  As an example - I have a subscription with each of my kids school calendars (one is in middle school the other elementary). I end up with several duplicates such as the following: 
    February 14, 2014
    * Valentines Day (calendar)
    * Valentines Day (elementary)
    * Valentines Day (middle school)
    Thanks for your help!
    -Curt

    Your specification can be interpreted more than one way.
    In the examples you give, "duplicate records" not only have the same EMPNO, but all the data is the same. If this is what you are trying to avoid, use DISTINCT. Instead ofFROM EMP_TEST Ewrite FROM (select distinct * from EMP_TEST) EThis will eliminate duplicates if and only if every column has the same value.
    Again, not sure if this is what you want but it would work for your sample data.
    P.S. I agree with sb92075, you should make EMPNO a primary key and avoid the problem altogether.

  • Eliminate duplicate while fetching data from source

    Hi All,
    CUSTOMER TRANSACTION
    CUST_LOC     CUT_ID          TRANSACTION_DATE     TRANSACTION_TYPE
    100          12345          01-jan-2009          CREDIT
    100          23456          15-jan-2000          CREDIT
    100          12345          01-jan-2010          DEBIT
    100          12345          01-jan-2000          DEBITNow as per my requirement, i need to fetch data from CISTOMER_TRANSACTION table for those customer which has transaction in last 10 years. In my above data, customer 12345 has transaction in last 10 years, whereas for customer 23456, does not have transaction in last 10 years so will eliminate it.
    Now, CUSTOMER_TRANSACTION table has approximately 100 million records. So, we are fectching data in batches. Batching is divided into months. Total 120 months. Below is my query.
    select *
    FROM CUSTOMER_TRANSACTION CT left outer join
    (select distinct CUST_LOC, CUT_ID FROM CUSTOMER_TRANSACTION WHERE TRANSACTION_DATE >= ADD_MONTHS(SYSDATE, -120) and TRANSACTION_DATE < ADD_MONTHS(SYSDATE, -119) CUST
    on CT.CUST_LOC = CUST.CUST_LOC and CT.CUT_ID = CUST.CUT_IDThru shell script, months number will change. -120:-119, -119:-118 ....., -1:-0.
    Now the problem is duplication of records.
    while fetching data for jan-2009, it will get cust_id 12345 and will fetch all 3 records and load it into target.
    while fetching data for jan-2010, it will get cust_id 12345 and will fetch all 3 records and load in into target.
    So instead of having only 3 records, for customer 12345 it will be having 6 records. Can someone help me on how can i eliminate duplicate records from getting in.
    As of now i have 2 ways in mind.
    1. Fetch all records at once. Which is impossible as it will give space issue.
    2. After each batch, run a procedure which will delete duplicate records based on cust_loc, cut_id and transaction_date. But again it will have performance problem.
    I want to eliminate it while fetching data from source.
    Edited by: ace_friends22 on Apr 6, 2011 10:16 AM

    You can do it this way....
    SELECT DISTINCT cust_doc,
                    cut_id
      FROM customer_transaction
    WHERE transaction_date >= ADD_MONTHS(SYSDATE, -120)
       AND transaction_date < ADD_MONTHS(SYSDATE, -119)However please note that - if want to get the transaction in a month like what you said earlier jan-2009 and jan-2010 and so on... you might need to use TRUNC...
    Your date comparison could be like this... In this example I am checking if the transaction date is in the month of jan-2009
    AND transaction_date BETWEEN ADD_MONTHS(TRUNC(SYSDATE,'MONTH'), -27)  AND LAST_DAY(ADD_MONTHS(TRUNC(SYSDATE,'MONTH'), -27)) Your modified SQL...
    SELECT *
      FROM customer_transaction 
    WHERE transaction_date BETWEEN ADD_MONTHS(TRUNC(SYSDATE,'MONTH'), -27)  AND LAST_DAY(ADD_MONTHS(TRUNC(SYSDATE,'MONTH'), -27))Testing..
    --Sample Data
    CREATE TABLE customer_transaction (
    cust_loc number,
    cut_id number,
    transaction_date date,
    transaction_type varchar2(20)
    INSERT INTO customer_transaction VALUES (100,12345,TO_DATE('01-JAN-2009','dd-MON-yyyy'),'CREDIT');
    INSERT INTO customer_transaction VALUES (100,23456,TO_DATE('15-JAN-2000','dd-MON-yyyy'),'CREDIT');
    INSERT INTO customer_transaction VALUES (100,12345,TO_DATE('01-JAN-2010','dd-MON-yyyy'),'DEBIT');
    INSERT INTO customer_transaction VALUES (100,12345,TO_DATE('01-JAN-2000','dd-MON-yyyy'),'DEBIT');
    --To have three records in the month of jan-2009
    UPDATE customer_transaction
       SET transaction_date = TO_DATE('02-JAN-2009','dd-MON-yyyy')
    WHERE cut_id = 12345
       AND transaction_date = TO_DATE('01-JAN-2010','dd-MON-yyyy');
    UPDATE customer_transaction
       SET transaction_date = TO_DATE('03-JAN-2009','dd-MON-yyyy')
    WHERE cut_id = 12345
       AND transaction_date = TO_DATE('01-JAN-2000','dd-MON-yyyy');
    commit;
    --End of sample data
    SELECT *
      FROM customer_transaction 
    WHERE transaction_date BETWEEN ADD_MONTHS(TRUNC(SYSDATE,'MONTH'), -27)  AND LAST_DAY(ADD_MONTHS(TRUNC(SYSDATE,'MONTH'), -27));Results....
    CUST_LOC     CUT_ID TRANSACTI TRANSACTION_TYPE
          100      12345 01-JAN-09 CREDIT
          100      12345 02-JAN-09 DEBIT
          100      12345 03-JAN-09 DEBITAs you can see, there are only 3 records for 12345
    Regards,
    Rakesh
    Edited by: Rakesh on Apr 6, 2011 11:48 AM

  • How to eliminate duplicate copies after doing a sort

    I did a filter/sort across 100's of folders then exported the results to a separate folder.
    I later noticed way too many duplicates in the new folder.
    Does Lightroom have a feature to automatically remove or eliminate duplicates when doing such a process??
    If not, any other ideas??

    Spaceman, you're basically correct that LR doesn't write your changes to the original file itself.  LR is a non-destructive editor, which is really a good thing. It means that if you screw up an edit, you can always go back and start over. Or if you decided to convert the image to B&W, and now want to go back and re-edit it in color, you can do that. There are, however, a couple of ways to do what you want.
    The easiest way is to use the Export dialog. This will create a copy of your image(s) with all the edits applied. Those copies can then be viewed in any image viewer program. You can export as jpeg or tiff files. Based on your question, I'm guessing you typically shoot and process jpeg files (since most image viewers won't display raw files), so LR will create new jpegs, with all your edits. You can give these files new names on export, or write them to a different folder. You can even automatically import the images into the LR catalog if you want. (I don't, as if I ever want to re-edit the images I'll start with the original file.)
    LR can also write the changes to what's called a "sidecar" file, that you can copy along with the original image file.  But I don't think very many apps know what to do with that file, either.

  • How to avoid duplicates in Iphoto 5?

    I have IPhoto 5.0.4 with Leopard on a G4. When I attach my digital camera, all the photos from my camera upload. I keep some family pics on my camera all the time, so the same ones duplicate themselves every time I upload new photos. How can this be avoided? thanks

    There is a way to do this.
    If your camera mounts on the Desktop as an external device, then use iPhoto's File > Import to Library command. Navigate to the camera, preview the photos, select just the ones you want, and import directly into iPhoto.
    If your camera does not mount on the Desktop, like most Canon models, you can place the camera card into a USB card reader. That will mount on the Desktop, and you can control your imports as described above. It also gives you the advantage of not having to worry about your camera's battery power during the import.
    Regards.

  • Remove duplicates in Iphoto

    How do I remove duplicates in Iphoto?

    I'm going to use this thread to ask a slightly related question, if that's ok..
    I'm  trying to get rid of duplicate IPhoto libraries (on various external hard drives). 
    I opened the one I want to keep , and then looked (in Finder) at each of the other libraries and dragged any photos or folders that seemed not to be in the Iphoto library I'm keeping, INTO that library . 
    I then moved into the TRASH all of those extra Iphoto libraries.   I did not yet empty the trash, because  my fear is that Iphoto doesn't actually have those photos there, and that once I empty trash, those photos will be gone.  
    I'm sure i'm confusing things I've read about the risks of incorrectly deleting photos, so I just want some reassurance that what I did will work out and I won't find that the photos were deleted when I deleted the iphoto library I dragged them from.
    thanks!!

  • ALLOWING duplicates in iPhoto?

    This might be the reverse of what everyone wants, but I am importing A LOT of photos (Gigs and years worth) into iPhoto and can't sit next to the computer for hours waiting for that box to pop up asking if I want to allow duplicates every time a duplicate shows up. Does anyone know how to allow duplicate pictures in iPhoto as a default setting?

    One method would be to use a file renaming application to batch rename the files, like adding "-a" to the end of the file names or give them entirely new file names. I use R-Name. Set the criteria to "Add Characters before Extension" and you'll get "-a" or whatever you choose to be added to the end of the file name.
    OT
    TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto (iPhoto.Library for iPhoto 5 and earlier versions) database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
    NOTE: this is not the same as routinely backing up your entire iPhoto library folder to protect your photos. It only protects the loss of your organizational efforts that the database file contains.
    I've created an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger or later), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. There are versions that are compatible with iPhoto 5, 6, 7 and 8 libraries and Tiger and Leopard. Just put the application in the Dock and click on it whenever you want to backup the dB file. iPhoto does not have to be closed to run the application, just idle. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.
    NOTE: The new rebuild option in iPhoto 09 (v. 8.0.2), Rebuild the iPhoto Library Database from automatic backup" makes this tip obsolete.

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