Whatever the cause, it is very frustrating for the app not to know it has already 'seen' that photo and to re-import it every time. It seems like iPhoto itself 'adds some data' to the photographs so that it does not recognise the original as such anymore. Look up Places: Automatically, but tried many times to switch this off to no avail.PowerPhotos - 29.95 Photos Duplicate Cleaner - Free PowerPhotos is the iPhoto Library Manager version for Photos and is very powerful. Importing (Copy items to iPhoto library): No, but also tried saying yes to that These applications will identify and help remove duplicate photos from a Photos Library: Duplicate Annihilator for Photos - 7.95 PhotoSweeper - 9.99 - Demo version available.Home folder: uses FileVault, same problem when switching it off.iPhoto library location: $USER/My/Application_Data/iPhoto, same problem when using defaults.Step 5: Click 'Empty Trash' and then choose 'OK' to confirm the deletion in iPhoto. Step 4: Choose 'Trash' in the left panel. Step 3: Select 'Move to Trash' from its drop-down list. Step 2: Click 'Photos' on the top tool bar. Operating system: Snow Leopard (10.6.8) Step 1: Launch iPhoto app and choose your unwanted photos.Whenever I do that, iPhoto re-imports the whole set of photographs, unable to detect obvious duplicates.Ĭould you kindly help me fix this, please? As I take photographs, I add them to the 'MyPictures' folder every now and then I'd like to update my iPhoto library 'adding' the new photos just by 'reimporting' the 'MyPictures' folder.

I do not want iPhoto to manage my photos for me by copying them into its 'Library', I just want to use the program 'pointing' to the 'MyPictures' folder. It will scan your iPhoto library for duplicates and display them as an easy-to-manage list. I have a 'MyPictures' folder in which I keep my photos.

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