Removing duplicates from your iPhoto library
While I’m frequently called upon by friends and family to assist in cleaning up their iTunes duplicates, I was recently asked by a friend to help clean up duplicates of a different sort: an iPhoto library. At first glance, I knew this was going to be a tough job: duplicates were littered throughout my friend’s library, and there was no visible pattern to it.
So, rather than manually sifting through what was, at the time, a 10GB iPhoto library — which would’ve tested the limits and accuracy of my eyes, as well as taking me through my AARP years to complete — I decided to think different — ’cause that’s what us Mac users do. After doing some research, I stumbled upon Brattoo Propaganda’s Duplicate Annihilator (link). The end result was a 10GB iPhoto library trimmed down to 6GB.
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