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Imola Ghost

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Mar 21, 2009
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Looking for some app to handle photos, organizing, getting rid of duplicates. Nothing for editing anything at all.
 
Well, for a start Photos doesn't do a good job eliminating duplicates…

Native Lightroom doesn't either, however there are plugins that supposedly help with that.

It would be simpler to simply not import duplicates. If you set Photos to keep files by reference, rather than in a Photos library, you put the files you want to import in a folder. Then use a duplicate file finder, such as Find Duplicate Files, to compare your photos folder with the proposed new photos so you can remove the duplicates before importing them.
 
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