Comments on: iPhoto AppleScript to Remove Duplicates

By: Derrick

Derrick — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 07:45:17 +0000

I have done this and it marks a lot of them “duplicates” but I can’t find some of those photos (searching by date) in my regular library. I hate to delete them and lose some of them. Is there some way to find the original as opposed to the duplicate?

By: Louis Hecht

Louis Hecht — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:58:08 +0000

Hi…simple question….does this script work with Aperture files – libraries?

thanks

LGH

By: Abe

Abe — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:21:45 +0000

just to clarify, it’s working until that one file, which interrupts and prevent the script from going through the library any further.

By: Abe

Abe — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:20:19 +0000

great script, seems to work unfortunately i get an error at one particular photo, seems to be looking for a photo that isn’t there anymore (i’m guessing it’s a particular photo that I either saw as a duplicate myself a while back or was pr0n). i’d restore the pic from a backup but let’s just say my external backup drive isn’t in working order at the moment. so the script is working fine until it gets to that one particular event date in iPhoto. i did the iPhoto Library rebuild already thinking that would solve the issue but i’m suspecting (though hoping not the case at all) perhaps the rebuild is what did it by pointing to a file that isn’t there anymore. help!

btw, although i’m not exactly computer illiterate, been on a mac for just over a year and a half and it’s only now that i’ve attempted dealing with issues i’ve become more accustomed to dealing with on Microsoft Windows machines, and scripting was never my forte back in college (which is almost a decade ago)

Thanks in advance.
-Abe

Mac OS X 10.7.2 on Mid-2010 MacBook, iPhoto ’09 ver 8.1.2

By: Jane

Jane — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:09:58 +0000

I started looking for duplicates yesterday using Annihilator, I have 13,000 and it is still running 22 hours later. Can this be right? I know I have a lot of duplicates in all shapes and sizes.

By: jin

jin — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 03:02:56 +0000

3 years later and still works… thanks!

By: tapout

tapout — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 22:54:49 +0000

thank you

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By: John Bainger

John Bainger — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:40:13 +0000

Hi, great downloaded without any trouble and had my duplicates mark as ‘duplicate. Now here is the but ! As I have so many duplicates how do I delete them all in one go…..

By: Karl

Karl — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:54:42 +0000

@JJ
Try selecting a smaller set of photos to remove the duplicates, say 1000 items. See if that doesn’t stop the timed out error.

If that doesn’t help, let me know.