Tidy Up or Duplicate Anihilator

I'm not following. Are you asking what people use to remove duplicate photos as in software or what their duplicate removal strategy is?

 

I think he means this or this as tools for such a job.

I've no clue of either.

 

When I imported my photos from iPhoto to Aperture huge numbers of duplicates somehow were generated. I spent many hours deleting them, trying not to delete the masters, etc.

It was horrible, duplicates being spawned like in some bizarre video game where I wasn't good enough to shoot them all. This was probably the worst experience I ever had with software.

I have no idea what happened except that programs were developed to deal with it, so it was a widespread problem.

BTW, thanks Apple for that. What a huge pain bug to unleash on people. Somebody evidently wanted that program sent out prematurely. I can only guess who did things like that...

Got Duplicate Annihilator and it automatically got rid of the the dups, thus saving me much time. The problem is that the first version I got also deleted some masters evidently and I spent a lot of time dumpster diving in Aperture trash to retrieve photos I wanted to keep. Now there is a newer version of the program that presumably works better.

So, that is my experience. Have fun.

 

I created a lot of duplicates while importing my existing photo collection into iPhoto. It was probably my own fault -- I may have dragged and dropped the folders more than once. To avoid such problems in the future, I wrote an app called iPhotoTagger to tag the photos with Spotlight colors so that they stand out in Finder. Less chance of multiple imports that way. I think it may be against the forum rules to post the links here. If there is enough interest, I will create a thread in the appropriate forum under MacRumors.