Duplicate photos album on Ventura?

[scouser75]

Folks, I made a bit of a cock-up when importing photos to my new Mac. Please bear with me in my explanation. It's a bit complicated!

When I got my new Mac, I imported my Photos folder from my old 2009 Mac to my new MacBook Pro and all was well. Pictures and albums all imported well.

Then today, I wanted to import new photos taken recently, so I connected my iPhone to the new Mac. But, the iPhone import screen showed photos ranging back to 2013! And these are pictures which I've previously imported to my old Mac so no need to reimport.

So, in a moment of stupidity, I thought the best thing to to do would be to import all of these photos in again and then simply delete from the Imports screen. Oh how wrong I was. Doing this deletes the original photos as well!

Thankfully, Ventura is supposed to have a Duplicates folder on the Photos app... but not on my Photos app. I can't find it anywhere. And like some have mentioned here, after several hours, it's still not showing.

Other than painstakingly delete each and every one of the near 1000 duplicates, is there any thing else I can do? I also want to make sure I delete the correct duplicate as most of the duplicate are in Albums and I don't want photos going missing from Albums.

Thanks guys

 

[xgman]

I had similar problems between iphone and mac photos using icloud. had to manually delete duplicates form the iphone. hard to tell which was which or if they indeed were the same and not re-compressed. I don't really like the way icloud works between mac and iphone and haven't found a good solution yet. probably turn off icloud on mac and just use it on iphone pics. from you situation I'd be looking for a way to satrt over with one set of originals and then let it re-index to icloud. The days of self backing up solutions seemed safer quite frankly.

 

[scouser75]

I had similar problems between iphone and mac photos using icloud. had to manually delete duplicates form the iphone. hard to tell which was which or if they indeed were the same and not re-compressed. I don't really like the way icloud works between mac and iphone and haven't found a good solution yet. probably turn off icloud on mac and just use it on iphone pics. from you situation I'd be looking for a way to satrt over with one set of originals and then let it re-index to icloud. The days of self backing up solutions seemed safer quite frankly.

Thank you xgman. Thing is, I'm not using iCloud. I'm importing from iPhone to Photos app on the Mac itself and not iCloud.

Restarting sounds good to me, but how would I do this? If I delete the photos already sitting in the Imports tab on Photos, they will go missing from the Library and most likely from the albums I've put them in.

Very frustrated at myself for such silliness!

 

[xgman]

You should first back up a single copy of all photos from both locations if possible, or at least back up the whole lot and then maybe use a duplicate photo finder app on the mac. Then try to rebuild the phone vs mac with whatever sync or no sync settings you want. If I were you I'd work backwards from your backup solution and then the sync issues.

 

[scouser75]

You should first back up a single copy of all photos from both locations if possible, or at least back up the whole lot and then maybe use a duplicate photo finder app on the mac. Then try to rebuild the phone vs mac with whatever sync or no sync settings you want. If I were you I'd work backwards from your backup solution and then the sync issues.

Thank you. After a very long and late last night, I think I'm almost there. My goodness my eyes are blurry now 🤣

Now, the other problem is, when I connect my iPhone to the new Mac, I have hundreds of photos that need to be deleted from there as they show up as though they need to be imported. Is there a way from deleting straight from the Photos app and import screen rather than from the iPhone. I don't want to import them and delete that way as this will cause duplicates again.

And even worse new, my old Mac Pro has dies. It won't power up and I still have stuff on there 😭

 

[scouser75]

Well shock horror, the Duplicates folder appeared. As happily as happily can get, I deleted a whole load of duplicates. The folder then disappeared, but I thought it would reappear when I import more duplicates. Nope! It's gone again!!!