HOW TO DELETE DUPLICATE PHOTOS in Apple Photos - IN DEPTH review of software to FIX your Duplicates!
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- Duplicate photos can cause a lot of unwanted storage usage and just overall frustration and headaches. In this in-depth overview video, I will review and recommend some options for how to fix and get rid of your duplicate photo files that have been haunting you!
00:00 | Intro & Welcome Back!
01:19 | Recognizing Duplicates by importing from SD card
04:34 | Duplicates by importing from folders
06:10 | Apple Photos FAILURE at seeing Duplicates
08:01 | Duplicates vs Similar Photos
08:57 | Find 3rd Party Apps to find photo duplicates
09:47 | Review & overview of “Duplicate Photos Finder”
10:00 | "Put Back" feature of files in Trash
12:56 | Preference for iCloud before you scan for duplicates
19:58 | Review & overview of “Photos Duplicate Cleaner”
22:01 | Review & overview of "PowerPhotos”
23:08 | Review and overview of “PhotoSweeper”
35:01 | THE MOST IMPORTANT TIP!
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Hi Joel, Love your dedication and teaching methods, your instructions are clear and precise and your videos have great production value. I really learnt a lot from this video on Duplicate Photos. Thank you for sharing and caring.
Hi @Robert Jones! Thank you so much for the kind words and appreciation! It's comments like these that push me forward!
Thanks for watching and I appreciate the support!
How do you only have 7K subscribers? You deserve many more. Thank you for all your content.
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HI Joel, Greetings from 🇬🇧 UK! Yet another great tutorial on How to Delete Duplicate Photographs. I followed your recommendations and purchased “ PhotoSweeper “ WoW excellent program! removed to trash “ 11,646” photos - Brilliant!!
Keep them coming Joel, a great teacher & very helpful topics,
Well Done. Brian, Nottingham, England.
Cheers @brianbirks1!
Thanks so much for watching and the kind kind words! It's greatly appreciated! The software really is good for the price and the intuitiveness of it! I'm happy it worked well for you!
Hope all is well on the other side of the world! Cheers!
This was wonderful! been going crazy, until now. Joel , thank you once again.
I'm happy this was helpful @Jamie Roehrig!
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I really liked this! You are a really good teacher. Timing is good!
I really appreciate your kind words @Sheila Karr!
Glad timing is good! Are you in the midst of cleaning up some photos? :-)
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Thanks so much, I have photo sweeper but could not figure out how to do just one folder, now I can sort out our holiday photos downloaded for both our cameras (phones) and make a move for friends to share. Thanks again Joel big plus from me.
Thankyou Joel.. I like your style ..very informative and to the point.. happy to subscribe your chanel
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That was very helpful. I have been scanning family history pictures for years and I have a bunch of dups. Photo Sweeper SOLVED my problem. Thank you!!
So happy to hear this was helpful @Kyle C.
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Thanks for your reply Joel, I’ll put your recommendations to good use, and I’ve purchased the photo sweeper x software to clean up my photo library. I manually cleaned up duplicate videos directly out of Photos, as their weren’t too many. Also giving the Davinci editing software a try out, looks great, thanks again for your great tutorials.👍
Nice! Happy to hear @Russell James! It's a handy tool to have in the arsenal!
How's Davinci software? Did you download and test it out? Curious to see how you like it.
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Seriously life changing. Thank you.
I'm so happy my content was helpful for you @Linda Appleby!
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Joel thanks for the video! It is very useful!
For delete a photo from an album you don't need to make a smart album just CMD + DELETE and photo or photos you select will be deleted.
Very helpful. Thank you Joel
You're very welcome! Thanks for watching and the continued support!
Good afternoon Joel, thanks for this video. My question is what would be your recommendation if the amount of gigas of photos in iCloud exceedes the capacity of storage on my Mac? This way I can not download them all to my Mac and it would take several days to download just a few.
Just what I was looking for, a comparison of software products. Thanks. You should open a tips option for grateful viewers.
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Perfect. Very helpful.
Happy to help @Martin R!
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Joel! You are helping me so much! I have photos all over, dups, libraries galore. My goal this year is to get everything organized. I want to watch all your videos. Where can I get a list?
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Thanks!
Very good video - I'd found the same software the best after trying many of them.
Thanks @Stuart Morley! It is a pretty good piece of software!
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thanks!! PhotoSweeper is so powerful and save a lot of space for me
Happy to hear that @Chun You Siu! It is a pretty decent Application!
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Hi Joel, watching all your amazing tutorials and finally getting organised after all these years. One questionI have, is, to free up space on my iPhone for shooting video etc, which can be very hungry, and at the same time being connected to the cloud, chewing up storage, what would be the best option for always having plenty of room on the phone? I have been advised to keep all original photos on my iMac.
Great question @Russell James and thank you for the kind words!
Videos, Pictures and Text messages are often the culprit of iPhone storage filling up quickly.
Video will for sure eat up any cloud storage, no matter who you go with. No matter if you're using iCloud, Google, Microsoft cloud system for Photo storage/syncing, whenever you take a pictures or video it will sync there and also stay locally. If you delete it locally it deletes it in the cloud.
So if you're not too concerned about having these files on a cloud and you just want to offload them, I'd get a simple flash drive from SanDisk iXpand to plug directly into your iPhone. I'll link it below.
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No as far as attempting to keep everything on the cloud, I would highly recommend to turn on optimizing the storage for the device your on. Specifically for Photos on an iPhone it will be located in the Settings > iCloud > iCloud Photos > "Optimize iPhone Storage". I have another video that will explain this in depth that I will link below, but essentially this allows you to not take up space on your device for items you don't view often.
Optimizing iPhone & iPad Storage - How to FREE UP SPACE on my iPhone, iPad, or Mac for photos!
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I personally tried the Easy Cleaner: Clean Storage and can confirm that it works.
@Joel Thank you for this and can You suggest a video duplicate finder delete app??💕
Hi @Renea Dooserider! Sorry for the late response as I was out traveling all last week!
Are the videos you're looking to find within Apple Photos, or are they just on your Mac in general?
This tutorial is really geared specifically to duplicate photos, however there is another really good App I'd recommend called Gemini 2: The Duplicate Finder. It's created by a company called MacPaw. Here's a link! Check it out!
macpaw.audw.net/c/2641440/284351/1733
This can do way more than just analyze photos, it can do pretty much any type of file on your Mac.
Hope this helps! Thanks so much for watching and I appreciate the support!
Hi Joel, Thank you for your tutorials. They have been very helpful and I am about to action your merge and combine info. I wondered though if you could help me as I did clean up my duplicates on an ADATA ext HDD and it seems I have lost some photos. How would I approach seeing if these can be retrieved?
Hi @Anne-Marie Andrews!
I'm happy to hear these videos are helpful!
So do you have a hard drive that is not working anymore that you're trying to recover lost files from?
My best advice is to locate all possible photos and get them into one location and weed out the duplicates and verify if truly photos are completely missing.
Do you have a backup of your computer and hard drives? If you're trying to find missing photos, you would need some reference to search by, either file name, date, location, etc...
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You are amazing. I have a question for you please. I have created several folders some of them start with years like 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021 and the rest with countries. I would like to know if there is way to order them alphabetically or by numbers please.
Hi @Samer Rustom! Thanks so much for the kind words and support!
So yes...there are some sorting options when items are in folders in Photos.
Let's say you have a Folder called Countries and inside it are 10 albums. If you "right click" on the folder, you can choose to Sort > By Name. You can also access this option from the Menu bar under the "View > Sort" when the folder is selected.
Sounds like you may travel some! Make sure to utilize the Places feature where it puts your photos on a Map!
Hope this helps!
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HI Joel, Thank you for all your insight.. I have a question for you regarding albums. I saw in the review for Power Photos that if you have a duplicate photo that is saved into another album it will recognize that it is saved and it wouldn't elect to delete a photo saved in an album. Will photo sweeper also recognize this situation? Thanks so much!
Hi @Jessica and Erik Raygor! Sorry for the delayed response! So i'm not 100% sure if it will, but heres my prediction...Any photos in any album are just referenced photos to the actual photo in the Library, so my hunch is that it would.
The nice thing about these types of software is it's just putting the so called "duplicates" in an album that you can then 100% verify if you want them to be removed, so you do have full control and it doesn't just go and delete them for you.
Hope that helps! Thanks so much for watching and I appreciate your support!
What I found that works for me is to create a smart album and the rule is "FILENAME includes (1)". Once you click done, delete the files in that folder. That should take care of some duplicates.
Great idea @Prety n Petty! Thanks for sharing! I may have to try that!
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This was exactly what I was looking for! I have old iPhoto library I want to merge with a Photos library, knowing there are at least 1500 duplicate in the old library. Why merge all that? I’d try to think up ways to do what these softwares do, but don’t know enough. I’m thrilled there are so many options, but agree with you on your favorite.
I'm happy this was helpful @hennahannnah!
Now keep in mind within the latest macOS 13 Ventura, Apple did incorporate a feature to detect duplicate files within Apple Photos, but it's nowhere near as robust as some of these options! PhotoSweeper and PowerPhotos are for sure my favorites!
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@Learn with Joel Feld now that Ventura has duplicate photo detection built in, will you be creating a new video about duplcate photos on Mac?
I certainly will be @Wandering Around AZ!
There are certainly some limitation with the built in feature, so I want to make sure I fully test it on myself, but yes, this is already on my long wish list of videos. The feedback and support on here has been amazing, so I try to keep up with it!
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Thank you Joel , Im using Cisdem Duplicate Finder but not very happy with the result , after watching your video I think I will go with PhotoSweeper it look very professional .. thanx again 👍
You're very welcome! I enjoyed it and for $10, you can't go wrong! Most users will have the impression that there's a magical button that will just find every duplicate photo, but the reality is that you still need to double check the scans of every sofware!
Thanks for the continued support! I appreciate it!
thank you for sharing! I imported photos from hard drive to photos on macbook air under albums. looks like everything is getting backed up in icloud and into the photo library. i just realized that the option for saving space on mac was checked. does this mean the photo i imported from hard drive to the photo library is at a reduced size? therefore, it is the reduced size that gets uploaded to icloud? also the same copy is also showing up under imports folder in addition to the library folder and the album folder that i created. can i delete everything in the import folder? per your video, i understand that everything is stored in library, and sorted under albums. many thanks!
Great questions @Hong Zhou!
When you turn on the option for "Optimizing Photo Storage" within the Apple Photos Preferences, it will always upload the original high quality photo to iCloud. iCloud will always store the highest quality. It only optimizes on the Mac to free up space and show you smaller qualities and then when you click on one, it will download the high quality. So you shouldn't have to worry.
I may not have clarified it in this video, but imports is kinda linked to the Library. So if you delete it in the import category, it will delete it from the Library. Where it doesn't delete is from Albums. When you have a photo in an album and you delete it, you will get a prompt to remove from album, or delete from iCloud. So you would just remove if you didn't want to delete it from everywhere.
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this was super helpful and also gave me extreme anxiety to watch 😂
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I'm happy this was helpful, but hopefully didn't create too much stress! :-)
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Hi Joel,
is it possible that the duplicate’s you are creating, when you export and import photos from the library at approx. 06:00, are modified/developed photos? Then it would make sense to not detect them as duplicated photos? The size would be different then and it depends on the information Apple compares to detect duplicates…
Regards,
Ulli
Hi @Ulli Petersen! I think you're totally correct when you say that when you export, they could be slightly different, therefore not being recognized as a true duplicate. However with that example, I dragged the same photo from the desktop in, and it still was imported, so it shouldn't have imported it the second time around.
I think in the latest version of Apple Photos Monterey it has improved a little, but still leaves me skeptical. There's some pretty robust third party software out there that detects duplicates and similar photos in the library. My fingers are crossed for Apple to incorporate these features someday!
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Man, really need some help here. I bought photosweep and did the “duplicate files” option. It deleted like 51k dupes (of almost 90k files), but not all (some I had like 9 duplicates accumulated), and my library now has seemingly all 51k files still showing as blank tiles of the original aspect ratio. It also deleted non-duplicates!
It also wiped out every album pic I had, as those were the earliest copies of the duplicated files.
I did back up the entire library to another disk so I CAN start over, but what to do differently if this is photosweep’s normal results?
TYSM for the video!!👏👏
Great video, thank you. Just got PhotoSweeper and trying to get the details before going through my large Photos library. I have a bunch of photos brought in from PhotoStream as .JPG and then reimported manually as .HEIC (since as you noted Apple doesn’t recognize these as duplicates). Almost all my photos are organized into albums in Photos. Unfortunately, sometimes it’s the jpeg and sometimes it’s the heic in the album. Any way to know which one is in the album without manually checking? Can I compare an album or albums (ie that “segment” of the library) with the rest of the library?
Hi @maisonpleine!
You could probably use Smart Albums to isolate the file type in addition to excluding certain albums and such.
Another trick could be to find all files that are .HEIC, then export as jpeg and the rescan with PhotoSweeper. I don't remember if PhotoSweeper has the option to ignore file extension or not. May be worth a peek at the settings before it scans for duplicates.
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@@Learnwithjoel Thanks so much! I actually think I figured out the straightforward answer: after clicking Compare, a pop-up asks if you want to Auto-mark. If you click on Preferences, you can set parameters for Photo Sweeper to follow. One of them is "Albums-->Mark (for deletion) if not in an album." Then you can drag that item to the top of the list (so file size, format, etc doesn't pre-empt being in an album). I'm not sure I understood your suggestion but greatly appreciate your thinking about this issue! It seems a few other people had similar questions.
I always use: “dupeGuru PE”. Check it out. Tip: when moving images with same file name (maybe from different cameras) in Finder into the same folder hold “Option key” if finder shows “Skip” as an option. This forces Finder to “Keep Both”.
I'm getting organized and combining some libraries. I have photos in two different libraries. In some cases there is the same filename in both libraries but are associated with two different images. How does that happen? How can I fix it?
Hey @Lillian Zelinski!
It's can very common to have same file name and two different images. It could have been exported with a different name. The file could be changed in the finder.
The actual file name can't be changed in Photos. You can add a Title to the photo, which is different, but you would have to either export it out to change the filename, or find the original in the Finder and change it there.
Hope that helps! Thanks!
Joel I have a question for you, I’m doing my family tree and have been loaned at lot of photos from different people,I’ve had to scan them and I’m sure I have quite a few duplicates is there anyway of being able to finding them.
Ohhhh @Barry Wood, I hate to say, but you're up for a task!
My best advice for this because I've done it before is to be very organized prior to scanning them in. Usually when items are scanned, they'll have the same titles, dates and times and really all the meta data besides the size will almost be identical.
You for sure can try some of these softwares to assist in finding similar/duplicate files, but you'll for sure be weeding through them manually after a scan. Scanning old family photos has always been a daunting task, so know that you're not alone!
Make yourself a cocktail, carve out some time and break out the work in small chunks. It's a long project, but will feel so good when it's done!
Probably not the answer you're looking for, but I hope it helps! Thanks so much for watching and I appreciate the support!
@@Learnwithjoel Thanks for the advice Joel, I had a good idea there was no way around it, I have been gradually working though them it makes it a little bit easier having them on the icloud and using two devices and two people, we’ve only got a couple of thousand to get though oh well. It’s also a good excuse to cull some of my photos at the same time my wife isn’t attached to some of my photos as I am.
Keep up the good work I enjoy your channel.
Hello Joel,After using duplicate photo finder.I have successfully deleted my photos and they have moved into the Trash folder on My Photos app.Although,I see few photos on my library blacked out and neither I couldn’t delete any of my Photos in the Trash or on the Library.Have you experienced this or any workaround would be helpful.Thanks in Advance.
Hey @Saketh Rednam!
So to clarify, some of the photos that are in your Apple Photos just have a black thumbnail and if you double click on them they're still just all black? You don't see an image at all?
Does it only show this way on the Mac? Does it show them like this on any other device or icloud.com?
One thing to try is to repair the Photos Library:
Quit out of Apple Photos, and then hold down "option" + "command" while opening it again. You should get an option to repair the library. You can try that.
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Does it also work for VIDEOS?
I have a very large library (almost 50 thousand pictures and videos) and I tried thoes apps, but it only seems to scan the first 5,000. I know for a fact that there are duplacites in the begining of the library. what do you recomend I do? (also I dont know if this matters but a good chunck of the photos are refrenced, do I have to consolidate them for this prosess to work?)
Great question @Alex A!
Here is my hunch...I would bet that the majority of software only scan what's actually in the Apple Photo Library and since you have photos referenced, those probably aren't scanned.
Depending what software you prefer, it may not be a bad idea to shoot them an email and confirm.
You can certainly consolidate and I bet that would solve the issue and then also if you want to use iCloud Photos, those pictures would then show up there too as Apple requires files to be inside the library for it to sync to the cloud.
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is it safe to use third party apps though?
take off.. like a jet.. 26:20 im crying lol
LOL @Cindy Hedelin...For real though, my Mac was struggling!
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rHi Joel Please can you help?
How can I remove duplicates in i photo app without altering albums as one of every 2 duplicates is probably linked to an album
You explain it well, but i recommend watching it x1.5 speed
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Hi there, thank you for your Video! What happens if you have 4 duplicates in three different albums and remove duplicates? Do the albums stay intact? And wich software can handle that?
Thank you!
Hi @Hannes F!
So keep in mind that if you have a photo in three different albums, they're not actual duplicates.
Anytime you add a photo to a regular Photo Album, it's just making a reference to the actual photo that lives in the Library.
Also with any of these options, your existing albums will always stay intact.
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That’s not the question. One duplicate lives in album a, another duplicate lives in album b, etc…. If you remove those duplicates the albums are screwed up. Is there software that recognizes this situation?
@@bosmanka I think the reason he tries to avoid answering these questions because this video is sponsored by Photo Sweeper and that one cannot handle this situation.
However Power Photos can cleanup in a way that the remaining photo is added to the albums where the duplicates are removed keeping the albums intact.
I can see it from that perspective @Dirk Bosman, but it there is one duplicate that lives in one album and that photo is also duplicated but in another album, Apple Photos still treats it as two different files.
With all of this software, it's scanning the Photos Library as a whole. It finds actual duplicates or similar photos and then just identifies them for you and puts them into an album so that you can then remove/delete if you want.
Existing albums will be there, but if the original photo is deleted, yes the photo will be removed from the albums. Any photos within a regular album are just references to the actual photo that lives in the library.
Hi @Durohr! I certainly don't try to avoid answering anything, even if I don't have a good answer, and It would be awesome to be sponsored by Photo Sweeper! I signed up as an affiliate just like any other person could.
Power Photos is for sure excellent and honestly I recommend users to try them all and use what fits their needs and workflow the best.
The biggest thing is that the regular albums only hold photos that are referenced to the actual file that is in the library. So you wouldn't be able to keep an album in tact if you were to eliminate and delete photos from the library. So the nice thing about all of these software option is that when it does the scan and identifies the photos as "similar" or "duplicates", it just marks them in an album for the user to then decide what to actually do with them.
Hope that helps clarify!
Thanks for the very useful tutorial which I will use to delete duplicates from my Photos Library. However I have a problem which doesn't appear on tutorials - how can I delete a photo from one Smart group when it is duplicated in two. When I try to delete from one of the groups I get a message that the deletion will delete from the Library , which is not what i'm trying to achieve
Hi @Neil Calvet!
So Smart Albums are just designed to find photos based off the parameters you set. So the Smart Album will always change depending on that criteria. The photos are not moved or copied from the library to the Smart Albums, it's more of just a reference to the actual photo that lives in the Library.
It is working as expected if you delete a photo from the Smart Album it will delete everywhere else. Unlink the regular album, which also makes a reference of the photo, you can add photos to a regular album and when you delete it, it will give you an option to just remove from the album and remain in library, or delete from everywhere.
The reason that your photo would be showing up in two different smart albums, would be because it must share some common trait to the parameters you set in the smart album.
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@@Learnwithjoel Thanks Joel for your timely response. I'll follow your guidance. I've also purchased Photosweeper and put it to work.
Really nice video, manky thanks. I will take a look in the App Store. I teach seniors, so I also need to cover Google Photos. Also, as AI gets better and more useful, I wonder if some of the limitations you mention are reducing with new versions of apple photos...
I recently tried Gemini 2, found lots of duplicates, quite inaccurate however.
Some of them are hit and miss @AnthonyRaynor!
The built in feature works pretty well now in Apple Photos, but occasionally it gets it wrong. When I use that feature, I don't accept them all at once, I merge them individually.
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Do you still use photo sweeper?
I only use photosweeper ❤️
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So I imported the photos from the corrupt library to a new one, but the new library doesn't recognize that photos on my iPhone have already been imported. It thinks all the photos on my iPhone is a new batch, and I only want to import the new photos on the phone not everything thats already in the library. Why doesn't the library recognize the already imported photos?
Hi @J DOT!
So I can totally relate! I've wondered the same thing and have always encountered some types of inconsistency with importing pictures into Photos and having mixed results. Best bet is to keep a tool in your back pocket like Photosweeper for that exact reason.
Do you use iCloud Photos, or do you just manually sync your pictures from your iPhone to the computer?
@@Learnwithjoel manually sync from iPhone to the computer. Also I think b/c of this the synced photos aren't in chronological order on the mac library as it looks on the iPhone. Do you know a fix?
How do I transfer photos from Android phone to Macbook
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So there are many different methods that you would be able to find for transferring photos via an Android device and a macbook, or any other device, and my best advice is to utilize Google Drive.
Even if you have the free version of Google, you still get 15GB of cloud storage, and Google Drive works so great on pretty much all platforms. Best thing to do would be to upload all the photos from your Android into Google Drive and then go to your Mac and either visit: drive.google.com and download them, or download their google drive app and it will auto sync too.
This is probably your best easiest option. Hope this helps and thanks so much for watching!
when you delete pictures in imports they also been deleted in your library
when you delete pictures in your library even when they are already in separate folders ...they are being deleted there too
it all doesn't make sense to me
Hey @Mario Nelson!
I hear ya...Apple and their organization and concept for how they do stuff does make you sometimes scratch your head! You're not alone.
Within Apple Photos really the only place that if you delete a photo where it doesn't delete everywhere else is within a regular Album. When deleted from there, it only removes it from the album, unless you do a keyboard shortcut or specifically tell it to delete everywhere.
If you delete a photo from Library, smart albums, imports it will delete it from every location on every device, especially if you're using iCloud photos!
@@Learnwithjoel hi I did an update in big sur and lost more than 8000 pictures ...I never use iCloud because I refuse to pay and have enough storage, but that way it feels like they force you to pay for iCloud because you only get 5 gb for free....I love all my apple products but sometimes they can frustrate me
@@Learnwithjoel thanks for the reply !
Yes sometimes it all makes me crazy ...but with windows you also have problems so nothing’s perfect not even Apple lol
link to paddle doesn't work FYI
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If "Photos" is able to recognize people and face, it should be able to avoid adding duplicate photos. Apple ought to fix this problem for everybody using their products. To delete duplicate photos is very time consuming and continuous.
Right?! There are some things that I just look at and scratch my head. This is a prime example! How is this not a better built in feature from Apple?! I mean come on!
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This is an old video. Is this still you go to app?
Great question @Edie Hahn!
This still is an excellent app. Apple did introduce their duplicate detection feature in the latest macOS Ventura, but it's not as robust as some of the software mentioned here.
Apples built in feature seems pretty promising, but as of right now I still prefer these third party options!
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There is no need to purchase or do any of that. Just delete all your photos from your Mac. (Library) Just the pics not the file. If you still have them on your phone just connect it again to your computer and download them back again. it takes just a few minutes to finish and it is all solved. Import without deleting the originals and you will be fine. They will be just like on your phone.
Every time I delete from photos .. they come back
Interesting @Billie Ann Werner...I may need a bit of more information to further help!
Where are you deleting them from? How many devices do you have?
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Sorry to hear that @Elaine & John!
I would say maybe your computer needs a reboot or perhaps try a different browser? I hope you're able to eventually watch it!
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37 minutes to demonstrate how to delete duplicates?
No disrespect dude, but anyone who has 37 minutes to waste on this are:
Either in desperate need to get a life, or
much rather do it manually and it wouldn't cost them 37 minutes.
Hi Joel! Rewatched this and love it. Do you know if I can use the side by side feature with 2 libraries?
I have tried to divide libraries - then years later, taking the advice of the same person put them back into one library. I am wondering if I should put everything back in one library duplicates and all, and then start over. Any advice anyone has would be appreciated. In addition, there are 2 of us sharing iCloud storage (not sharing photo libraries yet) We want one library stored on a local drives -- slow internet - Not sure how to get there and what steps to take! (ha, found my previous post... have been so overwhelmed still haven't gotten anywhere!) Back at it and glad you are still here!
Love seeing your photos. I think we met the same big horn sheep!
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Hey @ny6901!
Are you talking about side by side with 2 libraries viewing in Apple Photos or within a 3rd party software?
As far as Apple Photos goes, you can only have 1 library open at a time.
Is the goal to consolidate and eliminate duplicates? If so, I would for sure combine everything into one library. Now that Apple has a built in feature to merge duplicates, (which seems to work pretty well. video to come on that) I would go that route.
As far as sharing iCloud storage, are both of you using the same Apple ID, or are you doing family sharing?
I always recommend having one main library that is locally downloaded with all original images. Then you know you truly have 100% off all of your files if internet goes crazy.
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Ha...Big Horn Sheep! South Dakota was fun!
@@Learnwithjoel Yes to the Big Horn. I swear I have the same photo of them coming the same direction on the road! Hopefully you and your beautiful family spent some time at Sylvan Lake!
The content studying is paying off. I purchased Power Photos after trying photo sweeper. Seems to be working well. It does let me do many libraries at the same time. Very impressive! Big ALERT--I moved all my libraries on to a drive formatted for Mac & windows in exFAT... then later found out that Photos Libraries want to be on APFS or Mac OS Extended journaled. YIKES. I moved them back before doing too much. Too early to tell if damage was done.
When I get back to it again I will combine all my libraries. Since the 2 of us have different apple ids, I won't combine those ... until I study alot more. What I was doing was attaching his phone to my mbp to import photos. Maybe that will be the best method going forward. As for the previous photos that are only in his library, sounds like I might be able to change permissions and ??? other things I yet to learn about. I am on Monterey 12 ish and he has iOS 16. I am not sure if they still play nicely.
I like that you have older tech. Part of my issue has been bouncing between different macs of different ages. I would love to (in a month or 2) have a one on one with you about making external bootable with all the different os. Will calm my nerves about all the changes - improvements that have in the past given me headaches!
So So grateful for you and your tutorials!
Hi Joel,
I loved your describing Photo Duplicates.
I am another issue concerning Photos and was wondering if you know about the following problem or could address it. Thanks.
Ever since OS Catalina, I have had trouble moving imported photos like I used to be able to. When photos are imported to my selected album they are added to the end of the last imported photo(s). When I want to move them to a spot where others like them are located I used to use the "Drag & Drop" method and it was great. Fast and efficient. Now I can only move a photo(s) the height of my computer screen. Then I have to release the photo(s) and "Drag" to the height of the screen again and again. This morning I had to "Drag" 12 photos 21 times before being able to "Drop" them at the location I wanted them to be.
Is there a workaround to this problem. Apple Support Supervisors say my concerns have been sent to engineering for their appraisal. I have gone through 3 OS launches with no change.
Hi @spider one!
Something for sure sounds funky...regardless of where photos are in within the App, you should still be able to select more than that.
How have you been selecting them? Have you tried selecting the first one, then while holding shift click on the last one? That would select everything in between those two photos. You could also hold down "Command" on the keyboard and selectively select photos.
If you want you can always screen record a video of your screen and shoot me an email so I can fully understand the issue! learnwithjoel@icloud.com
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