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Hi,
I am still using a late-2013 21.5" iMac on Catalina 10.15.7. Very std setup of 2.9GHz quad-core i5, 8gb RAM, but with the original 1Tb HDD replaced with an internal 1TB SSD installed (the original hdd is now an ext backup). Over the years I have stored about 15k of photos over several libraries stored on several ext drives. All libraries contain many different albums, some of which contain sub-albums, and, of course, more than their share of duplicates. I know its a bit late and I should have known better many years ago, but I would really like to restructure this mess more logically and remove the duplicates.
Is there an easy way to clean up my ridiculously messy structure spread over several libraries some of which have same sub-group names with a smoother structure of lbraries containing different sub groups of photos?
Could I use something like Photosweeper to remove duplicate copies of the images contained in those libraries with the same name, to a new different library set up on a separate hdd and delete the old libraries thus cleaned? Is there a faster or less cumbersome way to do this? Is there better software I should consider?
Thanks for your advice.
I am still using a late-2013 21.5" iMac on Catalina 10.15.7. Very std setup of 2.9GHz quad-core i5, 8gb RAM, but with the original 1Tb HDD replaced with an internal 1TB SSD installed (the original hdd is now an ext backup). Over the years I have stored about 15k of photos over several libraries stored on several ext drives. All libraries contain many different albums, some of which contain sub-albums, and, of course, more than their share of duplicates. I know its a bit late and I should have known better many years ago, but I would really like to restructure this mess more logically and remove the duplicates.
Is there an easy way to clean up my ridiculously messy structure spread over several libraries some of which have same sub-group names with a smoother structure of lbraries containing different sub groups of photos?
Could I use something like Photosweeper to remove duplicate copies of the images contained in those libraries with the same name, to a new different library set up on a separate hdd and delete the old libraries thus cleaned? Is there a faster or less cumbersome way to do this? Is there better software I should consider?
Thanks for your advice.