Comments on: iPhoto AppleScript to Remove Duplicates

By: Karl

Karl — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:55:27 +0000

@Todd:
You may have to process them in smaller groups. That should take care of the timeout error.

I don’t know if the screen saver makes a difference, i don’t use one. But I wouldn’t hurt to turn it off momentarily while processing the photos.

By: Todd henkels

Todd henkels — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 04:23:53 +0000

Script works great. – but I keep getting a “Iphoto time out” error. When I do a large # of Photos (over 1,000). Any Idea what’s causing this. Do I have my screen saver kicking in too soon. Works if I touch the iPhoto application every once in a while.

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By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:12:38 +0000

Thanks very much for the script, appreciate the sharing.

By: Karl

Karl — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:57:11 +0000

@ocayd:
Well, I replied to panic but got nothing back. I suspect that he had iPhoto Library corruption issues before he ran this script. I have seen client’s iPhoto behave like that.

Keep in mind:
1. Backup first!
2. The script only adds a comment to duplicate photos, it doesn’t change anything else, so it’s very safe.

Quite a few people have used it and experienced no problems. If you backup, you know you are safe.

By: ocayd

ocayd — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:44:29 +0000

Your script sounds perfect, but I’m concerned about using it because there is no answer to Panic!’s question. Is there a solution for that issue?

By: Olaf

Olaf — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:36:48 +0000

Nice script! I ran it on a collection of about 17,000 items on an Intel Mac mini, which took about seven hours – just for everyone’s orientation. It found both duplicate photos and videos.

By: Panic!

Panic! — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:28:33 +0000

HELP! I ran your script on my album and now when I click on an image iPhoto only shows an empty placeholder with a question mark in it. the Thumbnails in the list looks alright though. Please tell me what to do!

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:46:42 +0000

Thank you so much for putting this up. I just reformatted my computer ,but when I reintroduced my iphoto library it duplicated itself 4x. Your script saved me a chunk of sanity.

By: TheNoze

TheNoze — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:54:34 +0000

Good scripts thanks all.
however the date usually doesn’t work especially when u have transfered and manipulated photos several times. I recomend using metadata which are not changed whatever happens. In addition, and it is important as applescript is slow, you ll reduce the nbr of tests to just this one as there are little chances are that 2 photos can have be taken at the EXACT same time – Especially is there is only one camera in the house!