Photos are just too valuable to leave it to any photo-duplicate-cleaner app, not matter if it is trustworthy or not. Now to delete them I recommend only one method: manually. Whatever the reason, make sure you change the behavior or the problem won't go away. Other times people are syncing via iCloud, or maybe Photo Stream, and then also importing manually. The Photos app warns you when this happens, but the warning can be ignored. Sometimes people import the photos from a camera, select not to delete them on the camera, and then import them again the next time. You've got to make sure if doesn't happen again. If you do see the same photo repeated more than once in your All Photos list, then the first thing you need to do is to figure out how it got that way. Albums are just a different way of viewing them. Those, of course, are not duplicates as the photos are there only once. So I haven’t used it yet.įirst, are you sure they are duplicates? I have to ask that because I get people asking me all the time about this and it turns out they are viewing the same photo in the Library (All Photos) and then in some albums. Do you think these are ghost files on the Mac? Will these duplicates slow the Mac? should I delete these one by one? Last Question: I uploaded a 3rd party app “Photos Duplicate Cleaner” but was worried I’d mess up the Photos app. I make every effort to keep my iMAC from slowing down. I have plenty of room on my iMAC but would like to remove all these extra dupes. the portfolio on my 2 iPads & iPhone are all intact. I found duplicated or tripled photos going back to 2004 on my iMAC only. Something happened recently when I offloaded the 2020 photos.

those that I keep are part of my art portfolio. I do this to keep iMaC storage reasonable yet photos accessible by year on an external drive. I don’t trust many people for support, accept YOU.Īnnually I offload some of my photos to an external drive. Best and safest way to do that would be very helpful to know. Somehow there are 3 of most of my photos. How Do I Remove Duplicate Photos From iMac?

Get rid of duplicate photos on mac