Every question won’t be answered, we don’t reply to email, and we cannot provide direct troubleshooting advice. If not, we’re always looking for new problems to solve! Email yours including screen captures as appropriate, and whether you want your full name used. Read our super FAQ to see if your question is covered. We’ve compiled a list of the questions we get asked most frequently along with answers and links to columns: PowerPhotos found a number of matches, and provides details about the nature of them. ![]() But it’s easy to match files, names, and other characteristics on set of images that are really just straightforward copies of each other. In some cases, duplicates are hard to find, because file formats or other characteristics vary. Once PowerPhotos has merged all the libraries, its de-duplication feature ( Library > Find Duplicates) will help find many of the extra copies. John noted he has nearly 3,000 videos and over 60,000 photos already in his Photos library. You will be shown a preview of what your merged library will look like before any modifications are done, to ensure your merged library looks how you want. So on launching Photos with the Option key held down, you should see both old. Each iPhoto Library, when opened in Photos, becomes a Photos library. ![]() With all these libraries and imports, he should first use PowerPhotos to merge all the libraries into a single massive one via Library > Merge Libraries. PowerPhotos lets you merge your libraries together while weeding out duplicate photos in the process and keeping albums and photo edits/metadata intact. This seems to be a multiplication problem. IDGįind Duplicates in PowerPhotos offers a lot of controls for refining what you consider to be a copy. He should also import any miscellaneous images and videos into his main Photos library. Photos will create a separate library for each, which is fine. Because John (and many of us) have a mix of older libraries and unsorted media, his best option is to upgrade all his iPhoto and Aperture libraries that he believes contain different media to Photos.
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