8/2/2023 0 Comments Photosweeper reviewsIf you could exist entirely on filesystem and folders and a tool like Photo Mechanic to store photo metadata in the filesystem, I would go all in on Photos and iCloud and hire a tool if you can’t script it yourself. Unless you’re willing to eschew Photos and syncing entirely, there aren’t better options. It’s got the goods on parsing photo metadata and wrangling libraries into shape in a safe manner. I’m a decent “shell scripter” but in the end, this tool saved me many days of trying to “yolo” it with scripts. You can scan for any duplicates with the filters that say Auto, Old or Newest files first accordingly. It is easy to install and understand for both beginners and pro users. Disk Drill is yet another amazing duplicate photo cleaner and remover for Mac. It is updated very often, super easy to use and extremely powerful. Disk Drill: Scan multiple locations and folders. You can prefer HEIC and edited or any other sort of metadata for automating which of the duplicates to select to keep and which to trash. It lets me make rules once the pre-built ones take a first pass at cleaning the easy and obvious duplicates. Dump everything into one library, clone it and then try out various passes until you’re happy, then do the culling on your main library is my advice. I use PowerPhotos for this and am super happy. in a way that is safe for my photos libraryĪn alternative might be to start over completely and use the google drive app on my desktop to download and copy all pictures that way, but i'm worried i would lose files that way too.select and delete/trash the non-edited version. where there is a matching file without the -edited.In a perfect world I would just do something like In some cases Photosweeper just doesn't seem to be sophisticated enough to find them - For example photos from a scanning service that all have the same date, or edited versions where i have rotated and changed the aspect ratio.Ĭomplicating this is the way Mac OS automatically manages photo storage on the machine, so i'm hesitant to attempt to run any scripts on underlying files that might corrupt the library. I've tried multiple automatic tools and had some luck with photosweeper but am sure that i still have a few gb of undetected duplicates hiding in there. The problem here is that the library exports originals as well as an -edited version for those files you have changed in google photos. I suspect many more will be doing this in the future as google recently announced they will no longer be doing unlimited storage for photos. I recently painstakingly migrated my photo library of 15+ years (over 100gb) from google photos to iCloud.
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